Masha Hupalo
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is a researcher and architect who writes and teaches in Los Angeles. Her current work focuses on the way policy and high-frequency data inform planning and design, the legal construct of territory and borders, and new forms of governance and ownership. 

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Calculative Logics: Housing and New Property Relationships
     Enriched with proprietary algorithms, data dashboards, and blockchain-powered transactions, real estate platforms determine geographies of urban investment. Within these geographies, a house becomes a logistics unit that gets subdivided, grouped, and traded. 
  • Type: Public Lecture
  • Location: MAK Center for Art and Architecture
  • Year: 2024 
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Map-able/Visible
  • The historical continuity of our cartographic culture parallels the rapid change in mapping technologies and forms of visualization. Using archival and technical research, machine vision, and intelligent agents to analyze, represent and manipulate infrastructure at the urban scale, students created a historically situated, technologically literate and data-driven representation of six areas in Los Angeles.
  • Type: Summer Program for High-School Students
  • Together with: Laure Michelon
  • Location: Design Immersion Days at SCI-Arc, Los Angeles
  • Year: 2023

SB9 Guidebook for Community Land Trusts (CLTs) in California
  • The guidebook is a product of a series of conversations with CLTs, lenders, and city planners in California that were held to learn about SB9 and how it can help CLTs grow a supply of permanently affordable housing in California. It provides visual tools to facilitate discussions about spatial opportunities of SB9, describe and clarify implementation problems, and inform potential advocacy strategies.  
  • Type: Research Project
  • Together with: California Community Land Trust Network
  • Research assistants: Benjamin Jepsky and Alyona Savelyeva
  • Location: Los Angeles, CA
  • Year: 2022-2023 
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Temporal Vectors
  • The design studio investigated infrastructural corridors of Vienna, point and linear city cores, and transit-oriented communities before bringing acquired knowledge to Soren Frichs Vej in Aarhus.  
  • Type: Graduate Design Studio
  • Together with: Jens Christian Pasgaard
  • Location: Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark
  • Year: 2017


Iduun Hylland and Mathias Rieland Kanstrup
Unruly Data and Regulated Cities
  • The course examined measurement, assessment, and calculation techniques that set off noticeable effects in the built environment. Each student created one dataset by using available digital means and one based on their on-site observation and documentation.
  • Type: Graduate Seminar
  • Location: Design of Cities Postgraduate Program at SCI-Arc, Los Angeles, CA
  • Year: 2023 
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The Carrier Bag of Tools
  • Throughout the semester, students drew previously invisible connections between different sources of information and created collections of concept tools that helped them support their theoretical and pedagogical claims. By treating a syllabus as a carrier bag of concept tools [Ursula K. Le Guin, 1986], we questioned and discussed its linear structure, itsstatic format, conventional and new parts like protocols of online behaviour, self-evaluation, and others.  
  • Type: Graduate Design Studio
  • Location: Design Theory and Pedagogy Postgraduate Program at SCI-Arc, Los Angeles, CA
  • Year: 2021 


James Piccone
Itinerant Platform
  • Two workshops with students from SCI-Arc, Abaarso Tech Univeristy in Somaliland, KADK in Copenhagen and Copenhagen University were dedicated to changing housing typologies in each respective location - Hargeisa, Los Angeles, and Copenhagen. The multimodal research investigated the evolution of dwelling patterns and preferences, conducted primary research and explored media representation of contemporary housing.
  • Type: Student Workshops
  • Togetther with: Emil Seehusen 
  • Research Assistants: Lance Arevalo, Malvin Wibowo, Artem Panchenko, Esin Karaosman, Emily Dinnerman
  • Location: Los Angeles, CA
  • Year: 2020-2021 
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The Politics of Zestimate: Merging Technology and Real Estate Industries
    The article centers the role of Zillow, an American real estate platform, and its home valuation tool, Zestimate, in the commodification of housing in the last decades. The massive amounts of data collected since 2006 have enabled Zillow to train its predictive algorithms that determine Zestimates and enter the real estate market as a house-flipper. In this update, I aim to illustrate the radical changes brought by the digitization of the housing marketplace.
  • Type:  Publication
  • Location: Radical Housing Journal, Vol 3(2): 215-219
  • Year: 2021
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Constructing Narratives
  • The seminar introduced students to narrative techniques in urban landscape projects. They explored the contemporary commodification of cities and the flattening of urban experiences before creating visual and textual fiction by mixing recognizable signs of two cities.  
  • Type: Undergraduate Seminar
  • Together with: Nacho Ruiz Allen
  • Location: Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark
  • Year: 2017


What is Cityness?
    The seminar explored a planetary-built environment and frameworks of understanding shaped by numerous factors including the formation of new border territories, extraction economies, digital platforms, and building standards.Globalization and increased mobility stand behind both – an uneven spatial development of hinterlands and a simultaneous homogenization of densely built environments. 
  • Type:  Graduate Seminar
  • Location: Design of Cities Postgraduate Program at SCI-Arc, Los Angeles
  • Year: 2018


Marine Lemarie