Dana Čupková, Current Research

Dana Čupková is a Professor at Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture and the graduate Track Chair of the MS in Regenerative and Sustainable Design (MS-RSD) program. She directs EPIPHYTE Lab, a design and research collaborative that was recognized as the Next Progressives design practice by ARCHITECT Magazine in 2018. She is a recipient of the  2019 ACADIA Teaching Award of Excellence, the 2022 ACSA Creative Achievement, and a 2022-23 Fulbright US Scholar. Additionally, she is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Architectural Computing (IJAC).

Dana’s design work is driven by a holistic vision of the built environment, centered on the relationship between ecology and technology, and the capacity of architecture to become ecologically vibrant. Her work seeks attunement with natural processes in pursuit of the aesthetics of ecological intimacy. By folding evidence-based methods into creative design solutions, Dana’s research emphasizes the interconnectedness of architecture and landscape through the study of circularity, thermodynamics, embodied energy, bio-based processes, and advanced manufacturing. She investigates strategies for remediation and decarbonization through the use of construction waste streams.