Profile
Ian Ting is an architectural designer and researcher whose work spans computational design, robotic fabrication, and multiscalar investigations of spatial systems. His academic and professional practice explores the intersections of digital technology, material systems, and ethical frameworks for emerging construction processes. Ting’s contributions frequently engage automation and robotics as a means of reimagining form-making, assembly, and collaboration in architectural design.
Ting holds a master of architecture from Princeton University, a bachelor of science in architecture from the University of Michigan, and is pursuing doctoral studies in architectural multirobotic construction at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. His academic research has been supported by grants from the Princeton Mellon Initiative and Princeton’s Humanities Council, as well as by fellowships from the University of Michigan Energy Institute and the Architecture Student Research Program.
His scholarly work includes coauthored publications in Construction Robotics and Digital Creativity, examining robotic additive construction and human–robot collaboration. He contributed to the forthcoming volume The Spectoptricon: An Alternative Metaphysics for Architecture and served as editor for multiple issues of Pidgin, a journal of architectural thought. His teaching experience spans architectural design studios, computational methods, and engineering courses at Princeton University and the University of Michigan, where he led courses on building systems, spatial representation, and sustainable systems design.
Ting’s design and fabrication practice includes roles at Kevin Daly Architects, Adamson Associates, MPdL Studio, and Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, where he worked on large-scale commercial, institutional, and cultural projects across global contexts. He has collaborated on public installations and experimental research with RVTR, CRCL (Lab for Creative Computation), and Synecdoche Design Studio, engaging topics such as nonlinear clay printing and robotic timber assemblies.
His work has been recognized through the ACADIA 2021 Workshop for Remote Robotic Assemblies and presented in academic and professional contexts internationally. With a fluency in both analog and digital modes of production, Ting bridges speculative design with real-world prototyping to explore the future of architectural assembly and communication.
Ting is a lecturer at the Rice School of Architecture.