Andrew Heumann

Andrew Heumann is a computational designer, software developer, and generative artist based in New York, NY. He is Chief Technology Officer at Hypar, where he builds software for the future of architectural design and space planning. His career spans the intersection of architecture, software, and computation — giving designers better tools by turning the manual, repetitive parts of design into shareable, automatable logic, and making powerful geometric and parametric techniques accessible to people who aren't programmers. Previously he was a Senior Researcher in design automation and computational design at WeWork, a Design Technology Specialist at Woods Bagot, and Design Computation Leader at NBBJ, and he has taught computational design as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University GSAPP. He holds a B.Arch from Cornell University (2012). He is best known for Human and Human UI, widely used plugins that brought richer geometry access and custom user interfaces to the Grasshopper and Rhino parametric design community, along with 20+ plugins and open-source tools for Rhino, Grasshopper, and Revit including jSwan, Telepathy, and Hypar Elements. He also makes generative, code-driven drawings with a pen-plotter line-work sensibility — the animated line art on this site is his own work.