New York Institute of Technology, NYIT

Visualization II, “Vis II”
2006-12

This intermediate visualization course engages digital modeling as both a design strategy and a fabrication method. For most students, it serves as their first exposure to CAD. Working across platforms—AutoCAD, Rhino, and Grasshopper—they translate 2D patterns into 3D spatial constructs. My teaching foregrounds spatial thinking through formal articulation. Digital outputs are materialized via laser cutting and 3D printing, each requiring distinct strategies: reassembling sectional layers for laser-cut models and orienting forms to anticipate material behavior during additive printing. Through these workflows, students cultivate a tactile, haptic understanding of form, structure, and spatial logic.