Bio

Professor Eastman's teaching and research is in the areas of Building Information Modeling, solids and parametric modeling, engineering databases, and product models and interoperability. He also is an active researcher in design cognition and cognitive science.

Educational Background

B. Arch, M. Arch, University of California, Berkeley
 

Fields

• Building Information Modeling
• Solids and parametric modeling
• Engineering databases and product models
• Interoperability

Previous Positions

• Previously Creator and Director of the Georgia Tech School of Architecture Digital Building Laboratory, 2010-2016
• Previously Director of the Georgia Tech Collge of Architecture PhD Program, 2000-2008
• Professor of Architecture, Director of the Center for Design and Computation, UCLA, 1987-1995
• Professor of Architecture and Computer Science, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1974-1982
• Director of the Center for Building Science and of the Computer Graphics Lab, 1978-1982
• Started the Ph.D. Program at Carnegie-Mellon, 1969
• Founder and first President, Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA)
• Co-founder and President, Formative Technologies, Inc. Pittsburgh, PA. 1982-1987