Associate Professor Omar Khan completed his
post-professional studies at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and his professional studies at Cornell University. His
research and practice address responsiveness and performativity in
architecture. In 1995 in collaboration with Laura Garofalo he
established Liminal Projects, a practice that has developed
performance spaces for artists, interactive and responsive
installations, domestic interiors and award winning competitions.
Their work has been exhibited at The Kitchen, NYC; The Whitney
Annex, NYC; The Urban Center, NYC; The Storefront for Art and
Architecture, NYC and The National Building Museum, Washington DC
among others. They were winners in the Architectural League of New
York's Young Architects Forum 1999. Prof. Khan has received grants
from the Rockefeller Foundation, New York State Council for the
Arts and the Department of Education and is a 2008 fellow of
the New York Foundation for the Arts. He serves on the Steering
Committee of the Association for Computing Aided Design in
Architecture (ACADIA), and the Information and Computing
Technologies Strategic Strengths Committee at UB. Prof. Khan is a
past editor for the Journal of Architectural Education (JAE) and
currently a co-editor of the Situated
Technologies Pamphlet Series published by the
Architectural League of New York. At UB he co-directs the Center for Architecture and
Situated Technologies where his research
includes transitive materials, responsive architecture and
situated technologies.
