Dr. Elizabeth Andrzejewski
Assistant Professor
eandrzejewski@marywood.edu
School of Architecture
Courses taught:
Design Studio VII ARCH-410Design Studio VIII ARCH-420
Building Technologies VI ARCH-427
Honors Senior Thesis ARCH-478B
Hybrid Representation Lab III IARC-211L
Advanced Hybrid Craft IARC-518
Dr. Lizz Andrzejewski is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Marywood University in Scranton, PA. She earned her doctorate in from The Pennsylvania State University.
Dr. Andrzejewski researches historical and contemporary architectural manufacturing and automation in construction through a dialog between theory and making. She is currently developing an Automated Building Machine, ABM as informed by a focused study of the 50+ year career of architect and engineer Konrad Wachsmann, 1901-1980. In 2018 she was a Summer Bauhaus Lab Scholar which resulted in The Art of Joining: Designing the Universal Connector. Her ongoing research on the work of Konrad Wachsmann has resulted in several publications and presentations.
As part of her hands-on research approach, Andrzejewski applies her passion for metal working and knowledge of blacksmithing, metal casting, and metal fabrication. Digital fabrication workflows with 3D printers, CNC routers, CNC plasma cutters, and Laser cutters contribute to prototypes and functional parts.
Lizz has practical experience in design and fabrication through building The Living Chapel, and through her work in the Research and Development department at Boyce Products Ltd. in Damascus PA.
“Automated Building Assembly, Developments Toward Automated Building Machines”, ASCE 2021 International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering, Elizabeth Andrzejewski, Marcus Shaffer, Esther Obonyo, 2023, Portland, Oregon
“Assembling the Assembler: Re-animating and Re-engaging the “Lost” Motion Machine of Wachsmann, Bollinger and Mendoza”, ACSA 110th Annual Meeting, Elizabeth Andrzejewski, Marcus Shaffer, Esther Obonyo, 2022, Online
“Assembling the Assembler: Re-animating and Re-engaging the “Lost” Motion Machine of Wachsmann, Bollinger and Mendoza”, Elizabeth Andrzejewski, Marcus Shaffer, Esther Obonyo. April 2022. Technology Architecture + Design. DOI:10.1080/24751448.2022.2040307
“Equitable Access to Building Construction Through Advancements in Global Building Machine Technology”, 2021 AIA/ACSA Intersections Research Conference: COMMUNITIES, Elizabeth Andrzejewski, Esther Obonyo, Marcus Shaffer, Online
The Art of Joining: Konrad Wachsmann and the Universal Connector, Andrzejewski, Elizabeth, Phillip Denny, Rhiannon Haycock, Ezgi Isbilen, Eva-Maria Offermann, Adam Przywara, Daniel Springer, and Lisi Zeininger. 2019. The Art of Joining: Designing the Universal Connector: Bauhaus Taschenbuch 23. Edited by Regina Bittner. Spector Books.
(Built Work) Inauguration of the 1st Living Chapel, 2020, Botanical Garden of Rome, Rome, Italy.
(Exhibition) “The Art of Joining: Designing the Universal Connector”, 2018, Bauhaus Lab 2012, Dessau, Germany
Dr. Andrzejewski researches historical and contemporary architectural manufacturing and automation in construction through a dialog between theory and making. She is currently developing an Automated Building Machine, ABM as informed by a focused study of the 50+ year career of architect and engineer Konrad Wachsmann, 1901-1980. In 2018 she was a Summer Bauhaus Lab Scholar which resulted in The Art of Joining: Designing the Universal Connector. Her ongoing research on the work of Konrad Wachsmann has resulted in several publications and presentations.
As part of her hands-on research approach, Andrzejewski applies her passion for metal working and knowledge of blacksmithing, metal casting, and metal fabrication. Digital fabrication workflows with 3D printers, CNC routers, CNC plasma cutters, and Laser cutters contribute to prototypes and functional parts.
Lizz has practical experience in design and fabrication through building The Living Chapel, and through her work in the Research and Development department at Boyce Products Ltd. in Damascus PA.
Presentations and Publications
Selected Presentations and Publications:“Automated Building Assembly, Developments Toward Automated Building Machines”, ASCE 2021 International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering, Elizabeth Andrzejewski, Marcus Shaffer, Esther Obonyo, 2023, Portland, Oregon
“Assembling the Assembler: Re-animating and Re-engaging the “Lost” Motion Machine of Wachsmann, Bollinger and Mendoza”, ACSA 110th Annual Meeting, Elizabeth Andrzejewski, Marcus Shaffer, Esther Obonyo, 2022, Online
“Assembling the Assembler: Re-animating and Re-engaging the “Lost” Motion Machine of Wachsmann, Bollinger and Mendoza”, Elizabeth Andrzejewski, Marcus Shaffer, Esther Obonyo. April 2022. Technology Architecture + Design. DOI:10.1080/24751448.2022.2040307
“Equitable Access to Building Construction Through Advancements in Global Building Machine Technology”, 2021 AIA/ACSA Intersections Research Conference: COMMUNITIES, Elizabeth Andrzejewski, Esther Obonyo, Marcus Shaffer, Online
The Art of Joining: Konrad Wachsmann and the Universal Connector, Andrzejewski, Elizabeth, Phillip Denny, Rhiannon Haycock, Ezgi Isbilen, Eva-Maria Offermann, Adam Przywara, Daniel Springer, and Lisi Zeininger. 2019. The Art of Joining: Designing the Universal Connector: Bauhaus Taschenbuch 23. Edited by Regina Bittner. Spector Books.
(Built Work) Inauguration of the 1st Living Chapel, 2020, Botanical Garden of Rome, Rome, Italy.
(Exhibition) “The Art of Joining: Designing the Universal Connector”, 2018, Bauhaus Lab 2012, Dessau, Germany