Author: Hafsa Muhammad

http://urbanismseminars.cornell.edu/people/students/hafsa-muhammad/ Hafsa Noor Muhammad has recently completed her first year as an M.Arch. student at Cornell University, and a summer internship with Dull Olson Weekes Architects–IBI Group, exploring her deepening interest in educational spaces. She is interested in design morphologies and systems of urban networks as they relate to architecture, not to automate development for cities, but to develop solutions that are critically aware of their sociopolitical and temporal contexts. Her interests bridge multiple disciplines of architecture, mathematics, and poetry as they relate to urban systems. Prior to finding her path in architecture, she received her B.A. from Hunter College of City University of New York with a double major in mathematics and the Thomas Hunter Interdisciplinary Honors Curriculum. Her mathematical interests culminated in receiving departmental honors with a focus on manifolds, dynamical systems, and chaos theory. Her creative pursuits in architecture aim to understand the fissures in parametric architecture from the deterministic nature of algorithmic modeling and giving special regard to cultural dissonances in a global network of responsive, interrelated cities. She is interested in integrating the investigation of urban and global networks with that of architecture to continue to explore its virtues and vices at various scales.