Based in Chicago, IL
Waylon’s work explores social and public architecture, questioning reductions categorized in our built environments. Process oriented prototyping and modeling play a crucial role in his methodology. He carries novel creativity and craft, coming from a background of artists and fine home builders.
Waylon is a multidisciplinary designer raised within the eclectic arts and music scenes of Pittsburgh, PA. With artistic parents in painting and scenic model building, he found joy at an early age in the craft of miniature arts through resourceful materials. This ethos of finding beauty and ‘second lives’ in found objects carries into his design philosophies and current curiosities. His present design drivers borrow from the musical theory of critical listening and with this lens he strives to acknowledge and respect historical context in his work.
With a background in carpentry and construction, Waylon enjoys the act of making at varying scales and sought to incorporate material experiments into his projects whenever he could throughout his graduate studies at the University of Michigan. His graduate thesis, We Need to Talk, investigates analog architectural responses that aim to counter polarizing digital forces and their looming presence. The research proposed a radiant furniture set embedded with common catalysts and social cues. The thesis was realized and implemented by the fabrication of several prototypes, enabled by the cross-disciplinary ArtsEngine Research Grant. We Need to Talk was selected for the Taubman College Super Jury panel and highlighted in the Dimensions 35 publication.
Outside of the office, Waylon continues his independent materials research on thermal conductance, resistivity, and transparency through collections of cast concrete, plaster, and glass vessels. When he’s not busy tinkering, you can find Waylon on the beach for doubles volleyball, strumming his guitar, or playing his violin at a funeral or baby shower.
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Waylon’s work explores social and public architecture, questioning reductions categorized in our built environments. Process oriented prototyping and modeling play a crucial role in his methodology. He carries novel creativity and craft, coming from a background of artists and fine home builders.
Waylon is a multidisciplinary designer raised within the eclectic arts and music scenes of Pittsburgh, PA. With artistic parents in painting and scenic model building, he found joy at an early age in the craft of miniature arts through resourceful materials. This ethos of finding beauty and ‘second lives’ in found objects carries into his design philosophies and current curiosities. His present design drivers borrow from the musical theory of critical listening and with this lens he strives to acknowledge and respect historical context in his work.
With a background in carpentry and construction, Waylon enjoys the act of making at varying scales and sought to incorporate material experiments into his projects whenever he could throughout his graduate studies at the University of Michigan. His graduate thesis, We Need to Talk, investigates analog architectural responses that aim to counter polarizing digital forces and their looming presence. The research proposed a radiant furniture set embedded with common catalysts and social cues. The thesis was realized and implemented by the fabrication of several prototypes, enabled by the cross-disciplinary ArtsEngine Research Grant. We Need to Talk was selected for the Taubman College Super Jury panel and highlighted in the Dimensions 35 publication.
Outside of the office, Waylon continues his independent materials research on thermal conductance, resistivity, and transparency through collections of cast concrete, plaster, and glass vessels. When he’s not busy tinkering, you can find Waylon on the beach for doubles volleyball, strumming his guitar, or playing his violin at a funeral or baby shower.
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2021 Masters in Architecture, University of Michigan
2017 B.A. in Architectural Studies, University of Pittsburgh