BIOGRAPHY

Payne is principal of Hirsuta. Committed to the synthesis of scholarship and practice, Payne ranks among the most influential designers and educators in his generation. A member of the inaugural class of Columbia University’s “Paperless Studio,” Payne’s work reflects the paradigmatic shift from traditional to digital methods and sensibilities in architectural design. His research and practice engages two problems central to discourse and scholarship in the field: 1) theorizing architectural form as it is impacted by developments in computation, and 2) advancing architecture’s capacity to absorb principles from other fields.