ANDRES SEVTSUK, PhD

Harvard University Graduate School of Design

48 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138
+1-857 928 0928 | [email protected]

EDUCATION

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, PhD in Urban Studies & Planning. Cambridge, US, 2010
Dissertation: “Path and Place: A Study of Urban Geometry and Retail Activity in
Cambridge and Somerville, MA”. Committee: William Wheaton, John de
Monchaux, Philip J. Steadman and William J. Mitchell.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, SMArchS in Architecture and Cambridge, US, 2006
Urbanism. Thesis: “The Self-Aware City”. Committee: William Mitchell, William
Porter, Carlo Ratti.
École d'Architecture de la Ville et des Territoires, Bachelor of Architecture. Paris, France, 2003
Estonian Academy of Arts, BArch, 1st and 2nd year studies. Tallinn, Estonia, 2001

Miina Härma Gymnasium Tartu, Estonia 1999

Albuquerque Academy (ASSIST/Soros visiting scholar) Albuquerque, NM 1997-98

EMPLOYMENT

Harvard University Graduate School of Design Cambridge, MA, 2015-

Assistant Professor of Planning. Director, City Form Lab.
Master of Urban Planning program concentration advisor for Urban Analytics.

Singapore University of Technology and Design Singapore, 2011-2015

Assistant Professor in Architecture and Planning.
University College London London, 2013 -2015
Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Department of Science, Technology,
Engineering and Public Policy
City Form Office 2011 -
Founding principal of an urban planning, design and technology consultancy.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 2010-11

Lecturer in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning and the Department
of Architecture.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 2004-10
Research Assistant (see specific labs and research projects below).

Jakob+ Macfarlane Architects Paris, France 2002 – 04

Project Architect.
COLOCO Landscape Architects Paris, France 2001
Intern.
Entec Planning & Consultation Tallinn, Estonia 2000-01
Planner / Urban Designer.
TEACHING

Harvard University Graduate School of Design Cambridge, MA

Department of Urban Planning and Design

Assistant Professor of Planning

- Future of Streets in Los Angeles. Graduate Option Studio. Spring 2019
- Applied Urban Analytics Fall 2018
- Future of Streets: Advanced Seminar in City Form. Boston and LA. Spring 2018
- Urban Planning and Design Option Studio in Tallinn, Estonia. Fall 2017
- Spatial Analytics of the Built Environment (Urban Planning core) Fall 2017
- Advanced Spatial Analysis Spring 2017
- Spatial Analysis and the Built Environment (Urban Planning core) Fall 2016
- Advanced Seminar in City Form Fall 2016
- Spatial Analytics of the Built Environment Fall 2015
- First Semester Core Urban Planning Studio (Urban Planning core) Fall 2015

Singapore University of Technology and Design Singapore

Architecture and Sustainable Design Pillar
Assistant Professor in Architecture and Planning
- 20.016 Urban Analysis (core) Spring 2015
- 20.012 Built Environment and Value (core) Fall 2014
- 4.154 - 4.154.04: MIT Circum-Transit: Surabaya in Motion Spring 2014
- 20.001 Level 1 Architecture Studio (core) Fall 2013
- 11.337, MIT Parametric Urbanism Workshop in Singapore (graduate), co- Spring 2013
taught with prof. Brent Ryan. Fall 2012
- 3.007, Introduction to Interdisciplinary Design (core). Spring 2012
- SUTD Library pavilion design workshop (optional) Fall 2012
Spring 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Urban Studies and Planning / Department of Architecture Cambridge, MA
Lecturer in Architecture and Urban Studies & Planning
- 11.306, Hong Kong Urban Design Studio (graduate). Spring 2011
- 4.242/11.331, Advanced Seminar in City Form (graduate). Fall 2010
- 11.964, Kevin Lynch Award Seminar (graduate). Fall 2010
- 11.THG-CDD, Thesis Prep. for Master of City Planning (graduate). Fall 2010

Course Collaborator 2007 – 2010

- 11.303J, Real Estate Development Studio (graduate).
- MAS.552J/4.557J, Smart Cities Workshop (undergraduate / graduate).
Teaching Assistant 2005 – 2007
- 4.242/11.331, Advanced Seminar in City Form (graduate).
- 4.112, Integrated Architecture Design Studio (undergraduate).
- 4.163/11.332, Level 3 Urban Design Studio in Kiev (graduate).
- 11.303J, Real Estate Development Studio (graduate).
Cornell University Ithaca, US
Visiting Architectural Design Critic. 2009

Estonian Academy of Arts Tallinn, Estonia

Visiting Lecturer in Architecture and Urban Studies & Planning Spring 2012
- Taught the Measuring City Form course to graduate city planning
students.

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RESEARCH

Harvard University Cambridge, MA

Director of City Form Lab 2015- present

- Future of Streets multi-year research project.
- Urban Network Analysis modelling and software development.
- Publishing a book on Street Commerce and urban retail location patterns with
Penn Press.
- Quantification of metropolitan growth patterns across US metropolitan areas.
- Developed a traveling exhibition on urbanization in Indonesia at Harvard and in
Jakarta, Indonesia.
- Grid-structures software development and prototype fabrication.
- Research on urban block sizes and walkability.

Singapore University of Technology and Design Singapore

Established in collaboration with MIT

Founding Director of City Form Lab (now at the Harvard GSD) 2011 - 2015
- Developed a new planning norm for the provision of commercial facilities by the
Singapore Housing and Development Board (HDB).
- Studied the effect of urban grid dimensions on walkability.
- Developed a TOD plan for the MRT corridor in Surabaya, Indonesia.
- Developed Urban Network Analysis software tools for urban designers and
planners.
- Conducted empirical studies of the economic effects of density in two
Singapore neighborhoods: Bugis and Punggol.
- Collaborated with the World Bank to develop urban analytic facilities in four
Indonesian cities – Surabaya, Denpasar, Palembang and Balikpapan.
- Studied the distribution of retail and food business in Singapore and Los
Angeles and Solo.
- Developed new metrics for the World Bank for tracking growth and change of
metropolitan areas in Asia from satellite imagery and remote sensing data.
- Designed and built the SUTD library gridshell pavilion (with ARUP engineers).
- Exhibited City Form Lab research at the 2012 World Cities Summit in
Singapore and the URA gallery in Singapore.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, US

Founded and led the City Form Research Group 2010 - 2011
- Developed spatial network analysis tools for GIS
- Supervised undergraduate research assistants
- Edited and published the MIT Journal of Planning Projections 10: Designing for
Growth and Change.
Researcher for the MIT-Portugal Land Use & Transportation Program 2008 – 2010
- Developed urban form and spatial accessibility models in Portugal for PhD
research.
Researcher for the SENSEable City Laboratory 2005 – 2008
- Curated and designed the MIT exhibition on “Cities, Architecture and Society”
at the 10th International Venice Architecture Biennale in 2006, leading a team
of 12 researchers.
- Managed Real-Time-Rome, a research project exhibited at the 2006 Venice
Architecture Biennale, which analyzed urban mobility dynamics using mobile
network data, leading a team of eight researchers.
- Managed the Graz Mobile Landscapes, a real-time mapping of mobile phone
movements in Graz Austria, exhibiting at the Kunsthaus Graz Oct. – Dec. 2005
and leading a team of four researchers on the project.
- Led iSPOTS, a real-time mapping of the MIT campus based on the WiFi
network usage, leading a team of five researchers on the project.
Research Assistant for the MIT Media Laboratory, Smart Cities Group 2007

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 - Analyzed the urban design & economics of a large scale one-way electric
vehicle rental system in Taiwan.
- Researched and designed the MIT City Car with prof. Mitchell and a team of
researchers.
Research Assistant for the Digital Mile Workshop in DUSP/MediaLab 2005
- Prepared base materials for an urban design studio in Zaragoza, Spain.
- Researched and developed urban design proposals for an urban regeneration
project in Zaragoza, Spain.

PUBLICATIONS

ACADEMIC BOOKS

Sevtsuk, A. 2019, “Street Commerce. The Hidden Structure of Retail Location Patterns and Vibrant
Sidewalks”. Penn Press. Upcoming.

Sevtsuk, A. 2019, “Urban Network Analysis. Tools for Modeling Pedestrian and Bicycle Trips in Cities”.
Tianjin University Press.

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES

Sevtsuk, A. 2018, “Estimating pedestrian flows on street networks: revisiting the betweenness index.”. In
peer review. Upcoming.

Amindarbari, R., Sevtsuk, A., 2018, "Measuring the Spatial Structure of American Metropolitan Areas”.
Upcoming in Landscape and Urban Planning.

Sevtsuk A., Chong, K., 2017, “Amenity Oriented Development”. In peer review. Upcoming.
Hidalgo, C. A, Castañer, E. E., Sevtsuk, A. 2017. “Amenity Mix and The Evolution of Retail and Service
Clusters”. In peer review. Upcoming.

Sevtsuk, A., Kalvo, R. 2017. Patronage of urban commercial clusters: a network-based extension of the Huff
model for balancing location and size. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science. Issue
0(0). pp. 1-21.

Sevtsuk, A. (2017). Public Space in a Polycentric Metropolis. In Jakarta: Models of Collective Space for the
Extended Metropolis. Eds.Correa, F. and Strange, C. Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2017.

Sevtsuk, A., Kalvo, R., & Ekmekci, O. (2016). Pedestrian accessibility in grid layouts: the role of block, parcel
and street dimensions. Urban Morphology, 20(2).

Sevtsuk, A., & Kalvo, R. (2016). Urban Network Analysis Toolbox for Rhinoceros 3D. Planning and
Technology Today, (issue no. 112), 4–5.

Sevtsuk, A., 2014, “Location and agglomeration: The distribution of retail and food businesses in dense urban
neighborhoods”. Journal of Planning Education and Research JPER (Accepted, July 16, 2014).

Mohsenin, M. and Sevtsuk, A., 2013, “The impact of street properties on cognitive maps” Journal of
Architecture and Urbanism Volume 37(Issue 4) 301–309.

Sevtsuk, A., Ekmekci, R., Nixon, F., Amindarbari, R., “Capturing Urban Intensity” in Evidence Based Design
Journal (EBDJ), August 2014.

Sevtsuk, A., & Mekonnen, M. 2012. “Urban Network Analysis Toolbox”. International Journal of Geomatics
and Spatial Analysis, 22(2), pp. 287–305.

Sevtsuk, A., 2012. Urban Network Analysis Simplified. Geospatial Today, Issue 11: November 2012. pp.44–
45.

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 Sevtsuk A., Ratti C. "Does urban mobility have a daily routine? Learning from the aggregate data of mobile
networks,” Journal of Urban Technology, Vol 17, No. 1, April 2010.

Reades, J., Calabrese, F., Sevtsuk, A., and Ratti, C., 2007, "Cellular Census: Explorations in Urban Data
Collection". IEEE Pervasive Computing, 6(3), 30-38. IEEE Computer Society.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Sevtsuk, A. and Davis, D. E., 2017. Future of Streets. In Mathematics of Urban Morphology, Springer 2019.

Sevtsuk, A. 2019. Impacts of automated vehicles on cities. In Automatic for the City: Designing for People in
the Age of the Driverless Car, Eds. Pavia A. and Bobisse, R. RIBA Books.

Sevtsuk, A. 2016. Bugis: A Model for Singapore 100. FCL Magazine, Special Is(Urban Breeding Grounds),
62.

Sevtsuk, A., 2012. “Analysis and Planning of Urban Networks”. In K. A. Zweig, ed. Encyclopedia on Social
Network Analysis and Mining. Springer.

Sevtsuk, A., 2013 “Networks of the built environment”, in D. Ofenhuber & C. Ratti, eds. [De]coding the Tity –
How Big Data Can Change Urbanism. Birkhäuser.

Sevtsuk A., Huang S., Calabrese F., Ratti C., 2009, "Mapping the MIT Campus in Real Time Using WiFi",
Foch, M. (Ed), Handbook of Research in Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real Time City.
IGI Global.
Mitchell W. J., Chin R., Sevtsuk A., (2008), "The Media Laboratory City Car: A New Approach to Sustainable
Urban Mobility" in Peter Droege (Ed.), “Urban Energy Transition”, Elsevier Science.
Mitchell W. J., Sevtsuk A., 2009, "Unfrozen Music: Designing & Programming Digital Water Walls." In Digital
Water Pavilion at Zaragoza's Milla Digital and Expo 2008. Electa Publishers.
Sevtsuk A., 2006, "Real-time Space Management ", in "Joint Space, Open Source on Mobile Positioning and
Urban Studies", Positium OU Publishers.

STUDIO REPORTS

Sevtsuk, A. 2018, “The Unfinished City. Envisioning 21 st Century Urban Ideals in Tallinn’s Post-Soviet
Lasnamäe Housing District”. Harvard Graduate School of Design. Link

Sevtsuk, A. 2016, “Port of Tallinn Redevelopment Strategies”. Harvard Graduate School of Design. Link

Ryan, B., Sevtsuk, A. 2015, “Parametric Urbanism”. Department of Urban Studies and Planning,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Link

Sevtsuk, A., Lee, T. 2011, “Hong Kong Urban Planning Studio”. Department of Urban Studies and
Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Link

CONFERENCE PAPERS

Sevtsuk, A., 2013. “Parametric Urbanism”. Finnish Annual Symposium of Architectural Research, Tampere
(August 2013).

Sevtsuk, A., Ekmekci, R., Nixon, F., Amindarbari, R., 2013. “Capturing Urban Intensity”. Urban Affairs
Association Annual Conference, San Francisco , CA(April 2013).

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 Sevtsuk, A., Kalvo, R., 2013. “Freeform surface fabrication method with 2D cutting”. 18th International
Conference of the Association of Computer-aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRiA 2013),
Singapore.

Sevtsuk, A., 2012, "How we shape our cities, and then they shape us", MAJA the Estonian Architectural
Review, 2-2012 (72), pp. 10-15, 2012.

Sevtsuk, A., Mekonnen, M. 2012. Urban Network Analysis: A New Toolbox for Measuring City Form in
ArcGIS. Simulation in Architecture and Urban Design (SimAUD) Conference, in Orlando, FL. Proceedings
Published in August 2012.

Sevtsuk, A., 2012. “Retail location choices in dense urban settings”. Applied Urban Modelling (AUM)
conference at Cambridge University, UK June 2012.

Sevtsuk, A., 2012. “Urban Network Analysis”, American Association of Geographers (AAG) annual meeting
in New York City, February, 2012.

Sevtsuk, A., 2012. “Urban Network Analysis Toolbox for ArcGIS”. ESRI Geodesign Summit, Redlands, CA,
January 2012.

Sevtsuk, A., 2008, "Explorations into Urban Mobility Patterns Using Aggregate Mobile Network Data", MIT
Portugal Program Working Paper # TSI-SOTUR-08-03, unpublished.

Ratti, C., Sevtsuk, A., Huang, S., Pailer, R., 2005, Mobile Landscapes: Graz in Real Time. Paper presented
at the 2005 LBS conference in Vienna, Austria.

Sevtsuk, A., Ratti, C., 2007, Mobile Surveys, in Van Schaick, J. & Van der Spek. S.C. (eds.) 2007b, Pre-
proceedings: International Expert Meeting Urbanism on Track: Expert Meeting on the Application in Urban
Design and Planning of GPS-based and other tracking-based technologies, Delft School of Design, Faculty
of Architecture, DUT.

UNPUBLISHED WORKING PAPERS

Sevtsuk, A., 2014, "Mapping the Elastic Public Realm". Presentation at the ACSA International Conference in
Seoul, Korea. June 2014. In peer review at JPER.

Sevtsuk, A., & Mekonnen, M. Kalvo, R., 2014, Redundancy Tools for Urban Network Analysis. Paper presented at
the 2014 ESRI GeoDesign Summit, in Redlands, CA in Jan 2014. In peer review in EP+B.

Sevtsuk, A., Ekmekci, O., 2014. Accessing Singapore’s Rail Corridor: From a Restricted Place to a Well-Integrated
Green Space. (Presented at the 2014 International Design Center Summit, in Singapore, Jan 2014).

Sevtsuk, A., Scoppa, M. 2014. “The spatial distribution of jobs in semi-formal settlements: The Case of Solo,
Indonesia.” (presented at the 2014 International Design Center Summit, in Singapore, Jan 2014)

Sevtsuk, A., Amindarbari, R., 2013. “Measuring Growth and Change in Metropolitan Form”. Urban Affairs
Association 43rd Conference in San Francisco, CA (April 2013).

JOURNAL EDITING

Currently Guest Editor for the Design Science Journal, Thematic Collection on Design and Mobility.
http://www.designsciencejournal.org

Edited the MIT Journal of Planning Projections 10, chose the topic “Designing for Growth & Change”. February
2011, MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning.

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 http://cityform.gsd.harvard.edu/projects/projections-10-designing-for-growth-and-change

JOURNAL REVIEWING

Environment and Planning B

Urban Morphology, the Journal of the International Seminar on Urban Form
Journal of Urban Design
Journal of Planning Education and Research

AUTHORED PRESS ARTICLES

"A smart city isn't necessarily a good city", by Andres Sevtsuk. Cover Story, China Daily (Europe, Africa and
Hong Kong), December 21, 2018. Link.

"The opening of Tartu to river Emajõgi by way of four urban design competitions", by Andres Sevtsuk. MAJA,
the Estonian Architecture Magazine. Nr 2, March, 2019.

"Tallinn's Old Harbor urban design competition", by Andres Sevtsuk. MAJA, the Estonian Architecture
Magazine. Nr 3, July 2017. Link

"Urbanization, which isolates", by Andres Sevtsuk. Project Baltija Magazine, September 2017. Link

"Tallinn's Old Harbor doesn't need a shock-effect, but balanced urban design", by Andres Sevtsuk. Eesti
Ekspress, Areen. 24 May, 2017 Link

"More decisive steps needed to support street commerce", interview with Andres Sevtsuk by Maarit Eerme.
January 20, 2017. Äripäev. Link

Sevtsuk, A. "Why cars and pedestrians struggle to get along?"Postimees, ARTER Laupäev, 8. oktoober
2016. PDF

Sevtsuk, A., 2016, "Reidi Road's big opportunity". Postimees, Arvamus. August 18, 2016. PDF

Sevtsuk, A., 2012, "How we shape our cities, and then they shape us", MAJA the Estonian Architectural
Review, 2-2012 (72), pp. 10-15, 2012. PDF / Website

Interview with James Corner," by Andres Sevtsuk. MAJA, the Estonian Architecture Magazine. Nr 3, March,
2006. October 8, 2006. Link

SELECTED PRESS ARTICLES ABOUT MY WORK

"Andres Sevtsuk and City Form Lab release new guide and software for urban modeling". GSD News. October
19, 2018. Link

"Andres Sevtsuk asks: are smaller city blocks always better?" The Harvard Gazette. January 9, 2017. Link

Sevtsuk, A., kalvo, R. "Urban Network Analysis toolbox for Rhinoceros 3D." American Planning Association
Technology Today Newsletter. Spring 2016. PDF

Peegel, M., 2016, "Harvardi ülikooli õppejõud: senine Reidi tee projekt teeks Tallinna halvemaks." Eesti
Päevaleht, Kultuur. August 2, 2016. Link

Henry Grabar, July 10, 2015. "New Mapping Tool Helps Planners Judge Pedestrians, Public Space". Science of
Cities. Next City. Link

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 Rebecca Tuhus-Durbow, 2014. “How Cities Can Crunch the Numbers and Give Business Owners What They
Need.” November 11, 2014, in Science of Cities, Next City. Link

Peegel, M., 2016, "Harvardi ülikooli õppejõud: senine Reidi tee projekt teeks Tallinna halvemaks." Eesti
Päevaleht, Kultuur. August 2, 2016. Link

Melody Zaccheus, 2014. "50 ways for cyclists to start ride along 24km Rail Corridor". Straits Times, September
13, 2014. Link

Timothy Misir, 2015. Pressed for Space, Singapore Looks Unerground for Room to Grow. May 29, 2015,
Citylab. Link

Amanda Lee Koe, 2013, “Design for Hapiness,” Interview with Andres
Sevtsuk. http://poskod.sg/Posts/2013/7/16/Designing-For-Happiness Published July 16, 2013. PDF

Catherine A. Cardno, Experimental Pavilion Joins Singapore Campus, Civil Engineering, the Magazine of the
American Society of Civil Engineers. July 2013. Link

SUTD Library Pavilion by City Form Lab, Dezeen.com. June 2013. Link

A New Toolbox for Urban Analysis" by Carolyn Y. Johnson The Boston Globe, Business Section, October 3,
2011

Sevtsuk, A., 2012, "Urban Network Analysis Simplified", Geospatial Today, November 2012. PDF

Rethiking Urban Data, Interview with Andres Sevtsuk at the Archifest Forum 2012. Singapore Architect
Magazine, SA272, December 2012. Link

Michael J. Coren, MIT’s Free Urban Planning Software Will Help Build The Cities Of The Future, Fast
Company, October 2011. Link

MIT researchers create new Urban Network Analysis toolbox, MIT Press Office, September 2011. Link

SELECTED PRESENTAIONS

Presentation on the “Future of Streets?” to the Big City Planning Directors Institute , organized annual by the
Harvard GSD and the Lincoln Land Institute. Cambridge MA, October 2018.

Presentation on “Street Commerce: the Hidden Structure of Retail Location Patterns and Vibrant Sidewalks” as
part of Open Lecture Series at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Tallinn, Estonia, December 2018.

Presentation on “Coordinated urban form, land use and transportation planning in Surabaya, Indonesia” at the
OECD International Transport Forum’s “Transport Innovations in Emerging Economies” corporate partnership
board workshop at Harvard University. Cambridge MA, October 2018.

Presentation on the “What are smart cities?” at the Urban Land Institute Fall meeting in Boston. Boston MA,
October 2018.

Keynote presentation on the “Impacts of New Mobility Technologies on Urban Infrastructure ” at the Strategic
Visioning Workshop on Autonomous Vehicles in Minnesota. Minneapolis, MN. June 2018.

Keynote presentation on the “Future of Streets” at the Creative Impact conference in Tallinn, Estonia, April
2018.

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Presentation on “Planning the Booming Market: Challenges and Opportunities in Asia”, at the Harvard Asia
Business Conference, March 2018.

Presentation on “Integrating Urban Analytics and Design” at Seoul National University. Seoul, Korea, January
2018.

Presentation on Integrating Urban Analytics and Design at Peking University. Beijing, China, January 2018.

Inaugural presentation to the Tallinn City Government’s newly established Strategy Unit. December 2017.
Tallinn, Estonia.

Keynote presentation at the Nordic Real Estate Forum. November 2017. Tallinn, Estonia.

Presentation the Summit on Data Smart Government on “Challenges and Opportunities in Transportation Data”.
Harvard Kennedy School, November 2017. Cambridge, MA. USA.

Presentation at OECD Paris on “Improving transport planning and investment through the use of accessibility
indices”. October 2017, Paris, France.

Presentation at the Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis on “Integrating Urban Analytics and Design”, October
2017. Cambridge, MA. USA.

Presentation at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning annual conference on “Integrating Urban
Analytics and Design”. October 2017, Denver, CO. USA.

Presentation on Applied Spatial Analysis to the World Bank Knowledge Days. June 2017. Washington, DC.

Presentation at the Tallinn Center Urban Forum. June 2017, Tallinn, Estonia.

Presentation at the Amazon Radical Urban Transport Salon, May 2017. Seattle, WA.

Keynote presentation at the Estonian Economics Association Annual Conference. January 2017, Tallinn, Estonia.

Open Lecture (public) on Integrating Transit and Land Use Planning for a Sustainable Urban Core in Tallinn.
December 2016, Tallinn, Estonia.

Presentation at the Workshop on Confronting Violence and Vulnerability in the Urban Century, Ford Foundation.
Pittsburg, PA.

Presentation at the Inaugural Conference on Heliomorphism by the GSD Office for Urbanization. September 2016,
Cmabridge, MA.

Presentation of newly released Urban Network Analysis tools for Rhinceros3D in various universities and urban
planning/design firms, including ETH, EPFL, MIT, Harvard, Columbia University, UCL, SOM, KPF, AECOM,
Foster and Partners, Perkins+Will, SASAKI, Sorkin Studio, KCAP, and ARUP. Spring 2015 till now.

Paper presentation at the UN Habitat Future of Places conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina. “The Perfect Grid”.
August 2014.

Paper presentation at the ACSA international conference in Seoul, Korea. “Mapping the Elastic Public Rrealm.
June 2014.

Invited presentation of Urban Spatial Analysis at the Singapore Geospatial Hackathon, June 2014.

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Invited presentation of City Form Lab research at the Department of Planning, Surabaya Institute of Technology,
March 2014.

Paper presentation at the ESRI Geodesign Summit in Redlands, CA. “Redundant Paths for Urban Network
Analysis” with Raul Kalvo and Michael Mekonnen, January 2014.

Invited speaker and panelist at the Oman Competitiveness Forum 2013, in conjunction with the World Economic
Forum. “Cities as Networks for Interaction”. Muscat, Oman, November, 2013.

Keynote Speaker at the International Real Estate Conference in Tallinn, Estonia. “Contemporary directions in
urban design and the role of the real-estate market”, Nov 2013.

Invited Keynote Speaker at the 5th Annual Symposium of Architectural Research in Tampere, Finland. “New
Frontiers in Urban Spatial Analysis”, August 2013.

Invited presenter at the 2nd Urban Sustainability R&D Congress in Singapore. “Kopi, Groceries and Haircuts: What
Makes or Breaks Amenities in High-density Neighborhoods of Singapore?”, June 2013.

TEDx Yangon: invited public presentation at TEDx Yangon on “Designing for Growth and Change”. Yangon, June
2012. https://vimeo.com/61807996

Invited Keynote Speaker at Archifest 2012 Forum in Singapore on “Reinventing Urban Data”. Singapore, October
2012.

Invited lecture at Singapore National Environment Agency’s Innovation for the Environment Series on “Capturing
Urban Intensity”. Singapore, November 2012. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhnIQpyjJoY

Invited Keynote Speaker at Nordic Look 2012, the Nordic Council of Ministers annual design and innovation
summit. “How we shape our cities and how then they shape us”. Tallinn, May 2012. https://vimeo.com/44446284

Invited lecture at the Urban Redevelopment Authority’s Challenge for the Urban and Built Environment (CUBE),
November 2012. Singapore, November, 2012.

Lecture about SUTD City Form Lab’s research at the Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), University
College London. London, November 2012.

Invited speaker at Archifest public lecture series on “Urban Prototyping”. Singapore, October 2012.

Invited speaker at Archifest public lecture series on “Reinventing Urban Design Research”. Singapore, October
2012.

Invited presentation at MIT SMART on “Destinations and Detours: A Study of Walkability in Singapore”.
Singapore, July, 2012.

Invited presentation at the ETH Future Cities Lab on “Path and Place: A Study of Urban Geometry and Retail
Activity in Cambridge and Somerville, MA”. Singapore, April 2012.

World Expo 2010, Better City, Better Life, Shanghai, China. Keynote presentation at the opening ceremony of the
Estonian Pavilion on Urban Design & Planning in the 21st century (May 2010)

ICSID World Design Congress, Singapore. Presentation on the Smart Cities Group work of the MIT MediaLab
(November 2009)

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 World Expo 2008, H2O, Zaragoza, Spain. Presented the Digital Water Wall at the opening ceremony of the Digital
Water Pavilion (June 2008)

2nd International HOLCIM Forum for Sustainable Construction: Urban Trans-Formation, Shanghai, China.
Presented urban computing research (April 2007).

10th International Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy. Opening presentation of the MIT exhibition on cities
and technology (September 2006)

M-Cities Exhibition, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria. Opening presentation at the MIT SENSEable City Lab exhibition
“Graz Mobile Landscapes” (September 2005).

FUNDED RESEARCH

Renault- Nissan – Mitsubishi Future Lab, grant for Future of Streets research. $ 50,000. PI.

Ford Smart Mobility seed grant for Future of Streets research. $ 40,000. PI.

Harvard University, Graduate School of Design. Two Dean's Research Grant Awards. $ 20,000.

Harvard University, start-up research fund at the Graduate School of Design. $ 10,000.

National Research Foundation of Singapore. Research on Future Urban Form for Singapore. In collaboration with
the LKY Center for Innovative Cities. S$ 456,000. Role: Co-investigator.

Singapore Housing Development Board. Research on Commercial Facilities in HDB towns. In collaboration with
Savills Real Estate Management (Mr. Alan Cheong) and Mrs. Belinda Yuen, SUTD. S$160,000. Role: one of three
core research team members.

National Research Foundation and Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore, Future of Urban Form in
Singapore research under the joint Future of Cities project between the Singapore and UK governments (2014-
2015). S$ 600,000. Role: Co-Investigator.

The SUTD International Design Center. City Form Lab research grant for “Urban Analysis in Indonesian cities”.
(2013-2014). S$100,000. Role: Principal Investigator.

Grant from the Singapore Ministry of Education for “Modeling Cities in China Under Complexity and Uncertainty”.
In collaboration with Prof. Haoying Han (Zhejiang University, China). (2013-2014) S$ 50,000. Role: Principal
Investigator.

The SUTD International Design Center. “City Form Lab research”. (2011-present). $660,000. Role: Principal
Investigator.

Singapore University of Technology and Design. “Start-up Research Grant for City Form Lab”, (2011-present).
$100,000. Role: Principal Investigator.

MIT-SMART. Research collaboration agreement with MIT-SMART in order to jointly investigate the factors
affecting walkability and pedestrian activity in Singapore. (2011-present) S$2,000. Role: Principal Investigator on
the SUTD side.

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SELECTED CONSULTING PROJECTS

Consultant to Ricardo Bofill Architects and the Government of China XiongAn, China 2018.
XiongAn new town development competition. XiongaAn is a top priority
secondary capital city for China that will relocate headquarters of state-owned
enterprises and top research and development institutions from Beijing.

Consultant to the City of Tallinn Tallinn, Estonia 2018.

Tallinn Main Street Redevelopment, together with Kava Kava Architects.

Consultant for the World Bank Indonesia Denpasar, Indonesia, 2014

Consulting Services for Denpasar City Government on Housing and Slums
Participatory Urban Design and Planning Workshop.

Consultant for the World Bank Indonesia Surabaya, Indonesia, 2013-

Consulting Services for Surabaya Urban Corridor on Transit Oriented 2014
Development Program.

Consultant for the World Bank Indonesia Surabaya, Denpasar,

Lead consultant for implementing urban growth, land use, and land-market Palembang, Balikpapan,
technical support facilities in four Indonesian cities – Palembang, Surabaya, Indonesia, 2013-
Denpasar and Yogyakarta.

Consultant for the World Bank DC Washington, DC, 2012

Developed metrics to quantify urban expansion in the East Asia and Pacific
regions using satellite imagery and remote sensing data.

Consultant for the Singapore Urban Programming Festival Singapore, 2011

Developed festival and exhibit contents for the first bottom-up urban software
development and Smart Cities event in Singapore.
Estonian World EXPO 2010 committee “Better City, Better Life” Shanghai, China, 2009
Developed the exhibit contents for the Estonian Pavilion at Shanghai EXPO.

World EXPO 2008 Zaragoza, Spain, 2008

Led the programming and user interface development for the Digital Water
Pavilion, built for the opening of the Expo in collaboration between MIT and C.
Ratti Associates.

ACADEMIC HONORS

Winner of the SUTD Outstanding Education Award 2014 for Excellence in Research Singapore, 2015

Winner of the 2014 President’s Design Award in Singapore Singapore, 2014

“Design of the Year” category for the SUTD library pavilion project. Together with Raul
Kalvo and ARUP engineering.

Selected as a Global Young Scientist for the Singapore Global Young Scientists Singapore, 2014
Summit 2014
The summit brings together over globally eminent speakers, ranging from Nobel
Laureates, Fields Medallists, Millennium Technology Award and Turing Award
winners, and IEEE Medal of Honor recipient.

Best Paper Award Tampa, US

Received the best paper award for the "Freeform Surface Fabrication Method with 2D 2014
Cutting" paper presented at the 2014 Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design
(SimAUD) conference in Tampa, FL, 2014.

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 Best Paper Award Orlando, US
Received the best paper award for the “Urban Network Analysis Toolbox” article 2012
presented at the Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design (SimAUD) 2012
conference.

Winner of the International Buckminster Fuller Challenge 2009 Chicago, US

Won the first prize with the Mobility-On-Demand project with a team of 5 from the MIT 2009
MediaLab.
Time Magazine Best Inventions of 2007 Time Magazine
Held key roles in two selected projects: MIT City Car and the Digital Water Pavilion. November 12, 2007
Presidential Fellow at MIT Cambridge, US
Received the fellowship for doctoral studies in Urban Studies and Planning. 2006 – 2007
Ron Brown Fellowship by the US Fulbright Commission and IIE Tallinn, Estonia
Was awarded a two-year full fellowship for Urban Design studies at MIT. 2004 – 2006
Crossroads for Ideas by the British Council London, UK
Selected as a "rising star" urban designer for an ideas exchange program in UK & 2004
Estonia.

ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING COMPETIONS AND AWARDS

International Tallinn Harbor Masterplanning Competition Tallinn, Estonia,

Shortlisted among six teams (together with Kees Crhistiaanse Architects and 2017
Planners) to prepare a Masterplan proposal for Tallinn Harbor.

President’s Design Award Singapore

Design of the Year for the SUTD Gridshell project 2014

Winner of the “Timber Structure of the Year” award (plywood category) Tallinn, Estonia,
Award given for the SUTD library pavilion that we designed at the City Form Lab, 2013
together with Raul Kalvo.

Greater Boston Affordable Housing Competition Boston, MA (2009)

Won the second prize with a team from MIT, Harvard, and BAC

ICCC & UN HABITAT International Student Design Competition Tver, Russia (2004)
Won the Caring for the Ageing Population Urban Design Competition, together with N.
Nilina.

Architectural Competition for the Parnu Athletics Indoor Arena Parnu, Estonia
Won the third prize with M. Tuur. (2004)
Architectural Competition for a new theatre hall for the City Theatre Tallinn, Estonia
Won the third prize with G. Evangelisti and M. Tuur. (2003)

Architectural Competition for a Joint Music and Ballet school Tallinn, Estonia
Won the third prize with G. Evangelisti and M. Tuur. (2003)

PATENTS

Grid-Structure Utility Patent

Publication number US9458620 B2

Publication type Grant
Application number US 14/777,244
PCT number PCT/SG2014/000132

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 Publication date Oct 4, 2016
Filing date Mar 17, 2014
Priority date Mar 15, 2013
Also published as US20160024780, WO2014142763A1
Inventors Andres Sevtsuk, Raul Kalvo
Original Assignee Singapore University Of Technology And Design
https://www.google.com/patents/US9458620

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning

Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
American Association of Geographers
American Planning Association

ADVISORY ROLES / BOARDS

Advisory Board member for the City of Tallinn Strategy Unit, Tallinn, Estonia.

AFFILIATIONS

Faculty Affiliate with the Center for Green Buildings and Cities, Harvard University.
Faculty Affiliate with the Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Urban Technologies; Urban Design and Urban Morphology; Transportation, Land Use and Urban Form;
Walkability, Computational Spatial Analysis; Location Theory; Urban Economics; Simulation Modeling; Urban
History, International Development.

LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY

Native language, Estonian. Fluent in English and French. Proficient in German and Russian. Beginner in
Spanish.

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