David Celento
Assistant Professor, Tenure Track
Architecture: Digital Fabrication
dcelento@psu.edu
219 Stuckeman Family Building
University Park, Pennsylvania 16802
814.865.3682
(this is a portfolio of my professional work) www.celentohenn.com
David Celento is particularly interested in interdisciplinary design with an emphasis on emergent opportunities for architecture resulting from digital technologies. David is a registered architect and a graduate of Carnegie Mellon and Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. He and his partner, Rebecca Henn, have operated Celento Henn Architects and Designers since 1995. Prior to his arrival at PSU, he worked at Harvard GSD, running the CAD:CAM:LAB and teaching Digital Fabrication.
Current research interests include digital fabrication, rapid prototyping, mass customization, parametric design, and multi-modal dwellings. Ongoing and recent projects include work at EKWC in The Netherlands (with Del Harrow) regarding ceramic cladding systems in architecture; open-source and mobile architectures for urban environments; collaborative design work with Pittsburgh Corning to reinvent glass block; and interdisciplinary design as a pedagogy funded by NSF.
B) The Jump Box Initiative is an exploration into a highly flexible form of architecture resulting from increasingly mobile technologies - compact, affordable, sustainable urban environments capable of rapid shipment, customizability, and technological integration enabled by open source standards and web ordering.