Portfolio
Felipe E. Harker
Computational design, architecture, and the tools built alongside them
Houston, TX fehark@gmail.com
Work
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Academic Projects
Architecture and urban design from the University of Houston: modular hillside housing in Rio de Janeiro, a new neighborhood around Greenspoint Mall, and an adaptive-reuse marketplace in Near Northside.
Architecture Urban Planning Adaptive Reuse
Academic
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Harker Ornithology Report
A record of field observations, checklists and media, built from eBird exports at compile time and published as a static site with a map of every location visited.
Next.js TypeScript eBird
Personal
Project Site
About
I graduated from the University of Houston’s Hines College of Architecture and Design in 2024 with a Bachelor of Architecture. Since then I have worked in commercial signage and architectural products — custom perforated panel systems, facades, exterior cladding — across the design, fabrication and installation pipeline, and led the effort to bring parametric and computational practice into that work.
Most of what I build is infrastructure for other people’s work: Grasshopper definitions and Python scripts that keep a model in step with a scope that keeps moving, plug-ins that standardise a process somebody was doing by hand, and reference documents that make any of it findable a year later. The ornithology report is that same instinct applied to my own material, and so is my CV, kept as a page of static HTML rather than an attachment.
Before that I spent three years as a staff photographer for the McGovern College of the Arts, covering performances, exhibitions and concerts, and edited UH: Close Up, an architecture and documentary photography page. Outside work I run, follow college football, and go birding — which is where the ornithology report came from.
Elsewhere
- Resume Education, experience and skills, on one printable page.
- GitHub Source for the software on this page, and for this site.
- LinkedIn Professional history, in the format that expects it.
- fehark@gmail.com The best way to reach me.