Andrew Witt

Andrew Witt is the inaugural Kavita and Krishna Bharat Professor, a role which focuses on the intersection of artificial intelligence with art, architecture, and design. It includes a joint appointment in the McKelvey School of Engineering.

Witt leads university efforts in AI and design, integrating emerging technologies into both academic and studio experiences and developing new courses and research frameworks that shape the future of design education and practice. He teaches interdisciplinary studio and seminar courses in AI, computational design, and geometry in both schools and serves as core faculty for the Sam Fox School’s Master of Design for Human-Computer Interaction and Emerging Technology.

Prior to joining WashU in January 2026, Witt was on the faculty of Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design since 2010, most recently as associate professor in practice in architecture. He was co-director of Harvard’s Master in Design Engineering and the founder and director of the school’s Geometry Lab, which explores the intersection of design and the science of shape and form. Witt’s scholarship on design and technology is internationally known, and he is the recipient of fellowships and grants from MacDowell, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, and the Graham Foundation, among others. He is the author of “Formulations: Architecture, Mathematics, Culture,” (MIT Press) and “Light Harmonies: The Rhythmic Photographs of Heinrich Heidersberger” (Hatje Kantz). His current book project, The Cyborg Home, considers the history and future of autonomous and artificially intelligent houses. He has also authored dozens of book chapters and journal articles. His recent article, “Neural Image Classifiers for Historical Building Elements and Typologies,” won a Technology | Architecture + Design Research Contribution Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.

In 2014, Witt and designer Tobias Nolte co-founded Certain Measures, a studio that bridges physical and digital spaces, experiences, and products. The studio’s work ranges from analyzing, sorting, and repurposing construction waste in a project called Mine the Scrap — now in the permanent collection of the Centre Pompidou in Paris — to developing models for reallocating water rights in the Colorado River with attention to political accountability and ecological impacts. The work of Certain Measures has been shown internationally in the Venice Biennale, the Barbican Centre, and the Museum of the Future, among many others.

Prior to his roles at Harvard and Certain Measures, Witt worked for more than a decade as director of research at Gehry Technologies (now Trimble Consulting), a firm created to harness methods from aerospace and automotive engineering and apply them to architectural projects. Additional experience includes roles at IBM Research — where his work on a multi-column user interface for managing online threaded conversations received a U.S. patent — along with Preston Scott Cohen Architects.