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Edited Book

(2025) Yana Boeva and Vernelle A. A. Noel. Critical Computational Relations in Design, Architecture and the Built Environment (Routledge, 2025). 

 

 

 

 

Journal Paper

(2024) Noel, Vernelle A. A. 2024. “Repairing Code, Craft, and Computation.” Technology|Architecture + Design 8 (2): 187-92. https://doi.org/10.1080/24751448.2024.2405344.

 

 

 

Book contribution

(2024) Noel, Vernelle A. A. 2024. “Embodied CODEnition.” In Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation, edited by Andrew Kudless and Adam Marcus, 121–22. Applied Research & Design.

 

 

 

 

Journal Paper

(2024) Noel Vernelle A. A., Parikh Shantanu, Wilson John and Grunert Sarah. 2024. “A Mindful Body Approach to Creating Architecture: Movement, Models and Spatial Experiences.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 379 (1911): 20230153. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0153.

 

 

Book Chapter

(2024) Canizares, Galo, and Zach Cohen. 2024. “Situated Computations: An Interview with Vernelle A. A. Noel.” In Homing the Machine in Architecture. London: Routledge.

 

 

 

Conference Paper

(2023) Noel, Vernelle A A. 2023. “Carnival + AI: Heritage, Virtual Spaces and ML.” In Habits of the Anthropocene: Scarcity and Abundance in a Post-Material Economy, 1:242–45. ACADIA 2023. Denver, Colorado, USA.

 

 

 

Conference Paper

(2023) Noel, Vernelle A. A., and Hayri Dortdivanlioglu. 2023. “Text-to-Image Generators: Semiotics, Semantics, and Society.” In Habits of the Anthropocene: Scarcity and Abundance in a Post-Material Economy, 3:49–54. ACADIA 2023. Denver, Colorado, USA.

 

 

Edited Journal

(2023) Yana Boeva and Vernelle A. A. Noel, 2023. “Editorial: Critical Computational Relations in Design, Architecture and the Built Environment.” Digital Creativity Special Issue. Volume 34, Issue 2.
https://doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2023.2228296

 

 

 

Edited Proceeding

(2022) Dörfler et al. 2022. “ACADIA 2021 Realignments: Toward Critical Computation.” Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture, (October 2022).

 

 

 

 

Journal Paper

(2022) Noel, Vernelle A A. “Computational Regionalism: De-Familiarization of Tectonics in the Wire-Bending Craft.” International Journal of Architectural Computing 20, no. 2 (June 2022): 277–96. 
https://doi.org/10.1177/14780771221097685.

 

 

Conference Paper

(2022) Willkens, D. S., and V. A. A. Noel. 2022. “The Radical (Re)Construction of Memory in the American South.” In Structures and Architecture: A Viable Urban Perspective? ICSA 2022. CRC Press.

 

 

 

Journal Paper

(2021) Noel, Vernelle A A, Yana Boeva, and Hayri Dortdivanlioglu. “The Question of Access: Toward an Equitable Future of Computational Design.International Journal of Architectural Computing, (November 2021). https://doi.org/10.1177/14780771211025311.

 

 

Conference Proceeding

(2021) Noel, Vernelle A. A, Niloofar Nikookar, Jamieson Pye, ‘Karen’ Tran, and Sara Laudeman. 2021. “The Infinite Line Active Bending Pavilion: Culture, Craft and Computation.” In PROJECTIONS, Proceedings of the 26th International Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA) 2021, 1:351–60. Hong Kong. Link to presentation >>>

 

 

Book Chapter

(2021) Vernelle A. A. Noel. “Thinking-with and Making-with [Others] for Breakthroughs in Design.” In Dialogues in Design Thinking: Reconsidering the Interdisciplinary Design Studio Experiment in the School of Architecture at Georgia Tech., edited by Julie Kim, 44–45. School of Architecture, Georgia Tech, Atlanta. 

 

 

 

Journal Paper

(2020) Vernelle A. A. Noel. “Situated Computations: Bridging Craft and Computation in the Trinidad and Tobago Carnival“. Dearq, no. 27 (2020): 62-75. https://doi.org/10.18389/dearq27.2020.05

 

 

 

Conference Proceeding

(2019) Vernelle A. A. Noel. “Reviving a Craft through Architecture: Computational Making of a lightweight pavilion based on wire-bending techniques,” in Form and Force, Proceedings of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures Annual Symposium 2019 – Structural Membranes 2019 – IASS, Barcelona, Spain. (October 2019).

 

 

Conference Proceeding

(2019) Vernelle A. A. Noel. “Design Computation and Restoring Craftsmanship: The Bailey-Derek Grammar in Wire-Bending,” in Hello Culture! Proceedings of Computer Aided Architectural Design Futures Conference – CAAD Futures, (Daejeon, Korea. (June 2019): 950-969.

 

 

 

Conference Proceeding

(2017) Vernelle A. A. Noel. “From Costuming and Dancing Sculptures to Architecture: The Corporeal and Computational in Design and Fabrication of Lightweight Mobile Structures,” in Future Trajectories of Computation in Design. Proceedings of Computer Aided Architectural Design Futures Conference – CAAD Futures, Istanbul, Turkey. (June 2017): 22-41.

 

 

 

Journal Paper

(2017) Vernelle A. A. Noel. “Digitally Displaying and Interacting with Historic Artifacts of Spatial, Temporal, Corporeal, and Kinetic dimensions,” Studies in Digital Heritage (December 2017): 251-268.  https://doi.org/10.14434/sdh.v1i2.23277

 

 

 

Conference Proceeding

(2016) Vernelle A. A. Noel. “Crafting as Inquiry into Computation: Exploring wire-bending in traditional practice and design education,” in Complexity & Simplicity. Proceedings of the 34th Education and research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe Conference (eCAADe), University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, (August 2016): 311-320.

 

 

Journal Paper
(2015) Noel, Vernelle A.A. 2015. “The Bailey-Derek Grammar: Recording the Craft of Wire-Bending in the Trinidad Carnival.Leonardo 48 (4): 357–65. https://doi.org/10.1162/LEON_a_01089.
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