Dr. Teddy Slowik

Biography

Teddy Slowik is the founder of Novatona, an award-winning cross-disciplinary workshop that focuses on the duality of low- and high-tech means of production in design. The firm’s work is widely exhibited and published in professional and academic mediums and encompasses a range of scales from objects to space. Slowik has extensive experience working with internationally recognized firms, including Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture in Chicago and Goettsch Partners in Chicago, as well as holding faculty positions at institutions such as California Polytechnic State University, Woodbury University, Virginia, Temple University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has served as a Visiting Scholar in robotics fabrication at the University of Porto’s Digital Fabrication Lab. At USC, Slowik teaches design studios and representation courses in both the undergraduate and graduate architecture programs, with a focus on material systems, connections, and their intrinsic relationship to structural systems and environmental performance. His courses emphasize hands-on learning with building materials to understand their properties and influence on the design process.

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