Maya Przybylski

Maya Przybylski

Maya Przybylski is a Toronto based designer and educator. She is Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo.  Maya is a graduate of the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto (M.Arch. 2007) where she was awarded the Royal Architectural Institute Medal for her thesis work on post-oil opportunities for the Caspian Sea.  Maya previously earned a degree with a specialization in Software Engineering at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto (B.Sc.Hon. 2003).  Through her teaching, research and design work Maya is exploring the complex intersection of architectural design, data and computation. She is developing methods for achieving a more complete engagement, including sociocultural agency as well as technical capacity, with the computational components embedded within data-driven design work. 
  
Maya is the director of the DATALab research group at the School of Architecture and has collaborated with a range of design practices including: RVTR, Lateral Office, WilliamsonWilliamson, and Bruce Mau Design.  She is co-editor of  Bracket [On Farming] (Actar, 2010) and Bracket [At Extremes] (Actar 2016) and co-author of Pamphlet Architecture 30: Coupling — Strategies for Infrastructural Opportunism (Princeton Architectural Press 2009). 
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