# Andrew Heumann

> Computational designer, software developer, and generative artist based in New York, NY. I build software for the future of design — and make drawings with code on the side.

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## Who I am

I work at the intersection of architecture, software, and computation. My career has been about giving designers better tools — 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.

I'm currently CTO at **Hypar**, building software for the future of design.

## Professional background

- **Hypar** — Chief Technology Officer. Building a next-generation platform for architectural design and space planning.
- **WeWork** — Senior Researcher, design automation, design technology, computational design.
- **Woods Bagot** — Design Technology Specialist.
- **NBBJ** — Associate, Design Computation Leader.
- **Columbia University GSAPP** — Adjunct Assistant Professor (computational design).
- **Education** — B.Arch, Cornell University (2012).

## What I'm known for

- **Human** and **Human UI** — widely used plugins for Grasshopper (Rhino) that brought richer geometry access and custom user interfaces to the parametric design community.
- 20+ plugins and tools for Rhino, Grasshopper, and Revit over the years.
- Open-source tools including **jSwan** (JSON for Grasshopper), **Telepathy**, **Hypar Elements**.
- Speaking, teaching, and writing on computational design, design automation, and increasingly the role of AI in the design process.

## As an artist

I make generative and computational drawings — geometry produced and manipulated through code, often with a pen-plotter / line-work sensibility. The animated drawings on this site are an example: SVG line art rendered and animated on canvas. The same instincts that drive my software work — geometry, systems, emergent complexity from simple rules — show up in the art.

## Themes that run through my work

- Design automation and parametric/computational design.
- Making programming and geometry accessible to designers.
- Tools as a medium: I'd rather build the thing that lets a thousand people make something than make one thing myself.
- Generative art and the aesthetics of systems.
- The evolving relationship between AI and design.

## Find me

- Website: https://andrewheumann.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/andrewheumann
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-heumann-13751414/
- X / Twitter: https://x.com/andrewheumann