Shelby Elizabeth Doyle, AIA LEED AP is a registered architect and associate professor of architecture where she is the Stan G. Thurston Professor of Design Build at Iowa State University College of Design, and co-founder of the ISU Computation & Construction Lab (CCL). The CCL works to connect developments in computation to the challenges of construction: through teaching, research, and outreach. The central hypothesis of CCL and Doyle's work is that computation in architecture is a material, pedagogical, and social project; computation is both informed by and a productive of architectural cultures.
Doyle is invested in questioning the role of education and pedagogy in replicating existing technological inequities, and in pursuing the potential for technology in architecture as a space of, and for, gender equity. Her chapter “A Carrier Bag of Tools for Computational Feminism in Homing the Machine in Architecture” (2024) elaborates on this work. Doyle received a Fulbright Fellowship to Cambodia, a Master of Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and a Bachelor of Science in architecture from the University of Virginia.
At MacDowell, Doyle created drawings and 3D printed architectural models of imagined digital feminist histories of computation in architecture. This work began as a series of 2D images generated through text-to-image artificial intelligence. She treated the images, and architectural imagery within, as historic archival material worthy of analysis through architectural methods.
