Noah D. Garcia is an educator, registered architect, multidisciplinary designer and researcher focused on issues relating to the environment, technology, and education. He reinforces his design sensibilities with an interest in leveraging data-driven and human-centered insights to inform design and decision making to serve the public good.
His work operates across scales, from the scale of the city to the scale of the body. He’s worked with global architecture firms including Arquitectonica, RMJM, and GW Architects to design residences, institutional campuses, civic buildings, and entire cities. Outside of the architecture office, he has engaged in a wide range of multidisciplinary collaborations including: consulting with hospitals to generate custom prosthetics and education tools (to teach ultrasonography and cardiology); building an online publication called Other Eight featuring the work that day laborers create during their free time; and hosting design technology workshops.
He is interested in educational and technological innovation to empower the public and catalyze positive social change. While attending the University of Michigan he co-developed a Massive Open Online Course in design computing using Rhino 3D and Python. While working as an urban designer and researcher at Pilot Projects Design Collective he conducted commodity trade research and kickstarted the development of a dashboard to inform city partners across the globe of their impact on the environment to support informed climate action plans. With the team, he contributed to the winning proposal for the Reimagining Brooklyn Bridge competition hosted by Van Alen Institute and the New York City Council. Currently, he is providing data science/visualization service to Miami-Dade County to inform their housing and resilience strategies.
Noah holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City, and a Master of Science degree in Human-Computer Interaction and Urban Informatics from The University of Michigan. In addition, he is an alumnus of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine where he combined his interest in art and architecture to create a series of fresco paintings. He currently serves as an Adjunct Professor at Miami Dade College and University of Florida, teaching Web Design and Web Art to artists dually enrolled in New World School of Art College.
When he is not caught up with ambitious endeavors, he finds fulfillment in observing his breathing, creating artwork, and hiking. After volunteering to restore a portion of the Appalachian Trail during his freshman year of college, he has gradually hiked sections and threatens to complete the entire journey one day.
Education:
University of Michigan — Master of Science: Human-Computer Interaction, and Urban Informatics, 2020
Deans Emeritus and Sharon A. Hogan Fellowship
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art — Bachelor of Architecture, 2010
Full-Tuition Academic Scholarship
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, 2016
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, Artist Residency, Summer 2004
Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, Colorado Springs, CO, Summer Seminar, 2004
Publications:
Forest Footprint for Cities: Methods for estimating deforestation and associated CO 2GHG emissions embodied in products consumed in cities, Scott Francisco, Noah Garcia, et al (2023)
Taking Lessons from Artificial Intelligence | by Noah Garcia | Dec, 2022 | Medium, What A.I. Can Teach Us and How We Can Use A.I. to Teach Others? On ChatGPT in the classroom (2022)
Design Computing: 3D Modeling in Rhinoceros with Python/Rhinoscript | Coursera, led By Professor Glenn Wilcox. I designed and produced assessments, guides, coding examples, and supported overall curriculum from start to launch (2020)
Office of Civic and Community Engagement (2022), Extreme Heat Policy Toolkit, https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/7b1b77a220874964a8f19bcd5a872885. I produced the data visualization and analyses.
Exhibitor in the 2021 Data Through Design, NYC Open Data week, Ground Truth Exhibition (2021)
MEDIUM article: Here's How Covid-19 Data Performs in a Statistical Polygraph Test, (2020)
Course Development Assistant for Design Computing: 3D Modeling in Rhinoceros with Python and Rhinoscript , MOOC: Coursera & Future Learn
Ochoa, S. , Segal, J. , Garcia, N. and Fischer, E. A. (2018), Three‐Dimensional Printed Cardiac Models for Focused Cardiac Ultrasound Instruction. J Ultrasound Med. . doi:10.1002/jum.14818
George Cheng, Erik Folch, Noah Garcia et al., (2017), Pulmonary Therapy, 3D printing and Personalized Airway Stents, https://doi.org/10.1007/s41030-016-0026-y
Other Eight Publication, OtherEight.com — Creative Director for this online publication featuring the extracurricular work of ambitious day laborers
Press:
8 Reasons Why New York Needs the Brooklyn Bridge Forest (globalcitizen.org), (2022) - Winning Design Competition led by Pilot Projects
Shapeway's Interview: 3-D printing trachea stents, (2015)
Boston Globe: 3-D printing offers promise of custom stents with perfect fits, Jon Christian, (2014)