Nicholas Oren Rawlings

Nicholas is a designer, developer, and researcher exploring the intersection of architectural design and software engineering. He works as an architectural designer and BIM manager at biloba Architecture and teaches part-time at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Education

Master of Architecture
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Graduated in December 2022
Master of Science in Information Technology
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Graduated in December 2022
Concentration in human-centered design
Bachelor of Arts in Architecture
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Graduated cum laude in May 2018
Minor in software systems

Awards

ARCC King Medal for Excellence in Architectural + Environmental Research (May 2023)

Faculty Award for Excellence in Digital/Computational Design (December 2022)

Passero Associates Cornerstone Award for Outstanding Results (October 2022)

Nominee, Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award (April 2022)

Publications

Rawlings, Nicholas and Dimitris Papanikolaou. Towards optimistic version control in architecture: A high-level design for a program that implements diffing, patching, and merging for openNURBS 3D models. International Journal of Architectural Computing 21, no. 4 (2023).

Rawlings, Nicholas. Toward Optimistic Version Control in Architecture: Diffing, Patching, and Three-Way Merging for openNURBS 3D Models. Master's thesis, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2022. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing (30243033).

Elsewhere on the web