James studied architecture at University College Dublin and recently earned his Master’s degree in Advanced Computation for Architecture & Design from IAAC in 2023. His thesis, co-authored with Ren Rainville and guided by David Andrés León, delved into Web Graph Machine-Learning.
James has worked at esteemed firms such as Kohn Pedersen Fox in London, Julien De Smedt Architects in Copenhagen, and Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam. He’s also served as a guest critic at the University of Westminster, Oxford Brookes University, and the Architectural Association. Passionate about education, James has shared his knowledge by teaching courses in computation and fabrication at University College Dublin, various makerspaces, and for the popular engineering blog, Hackaday.
His entrepreneurial spirit led to a successful Kickstarter campaign for open-source furniture, earning him several grants thereafter that enabled the acquisition of a full-size CNC machine and other fabrication equipment. Originally from Dublin, Ireland, James spent his formative years in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and currently calls Texas, United States (GMT-5) his home.
