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James Heusser

M.Arch.

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Professional Summary

Architecture-focused contributor helping teams structure how design directions are developed, compared, and carried forward. Uses computational and simulation-based methods to support typology-informed transformation, clarify tradeoffs, and strengthen judgment through evaluation and development.

Core Skills

Typology & Workflow

Rhino / Grasshopper; option-development workflow design; geometry-to-analysis handoff; architecture-to-computation translation

Evaluation & Judgment

Simulation-informed design workflows; human-in-the-loop comparison; constraint and threshold framing; traceable decisions

Systems & Interfaces

Design-intent translation; interface boundary definition; schema-driven design logic; conditions for comparison and development

Selected Projects

SOMA

Private real-time interaction systems project

2025–Present

  • Designed the systems architecture for a real-time interactive media platform, coordinating authored behaviors, runtime logic, media realization, and device output across layers.
  • Developed a reusable authoring framework for spatial patterns, controller stages, physiological phase events, and bounded media behaviors, translating experiential goals into governable system logic.
  • Established interface definitions, validation boundaries, and audit-ready specifications that preserve design intent across implementation layers.

Architectural Evaluation Framework

Workflow for option development, comparison, and handoff

2026–Present

  • Designed a workflow for generating options, comparing architectural directions, and carrying selected schemes into downstream development.
  • Built an evaluation framework using variables, proxy analyses, and weighted criteria to support comparison, refinement, and selection while preserving traceability, qualitative intent, and judgment.
  • Prototyped portable Rhino / Grasshopper geometry handoffs using explicit recipes and grouped outputs, with future Revit interoperability in mind.

Teaching

STEM / Robotics Teacher

Nelson Mandela School, Berlin

2018–2025

  • Taught STEM in an international K–12 setting across mathematics, science, and problem-solving, developing robotics- and programming-based tools that made concepts concrete and adaptable.
  • Designed and led an extra-credit architectural design course for advanced students, using drawing, physical and digital modelling, and critique to develop spatial intuition and judgment through iteration.

Education

Master of Architecture, Architectural Typology

Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin)

2021

Bachelor of Architectural Science, Project Management

Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU)

2015