WKU SEAS Faculty

Postdoc, University of California Santa Barbara

PhD, Illinois Institute of Technology

MAS Arch, specialization in architectural history, ETH Zurich

MSc Arch, ETH Zurich

Experience 

Dr. Dan C. Baciu is a practicing architect and researcher, active across the United States and Europe. He has obtained his master's and PhD degrees from ETH Zurich and Illinois Institute of Technology, subsequently serving as a postdoctoral scholar in interdisciplinary humanities at UC Santa Barbara. Dr. Baciu served as a lecturer and professor, teaching and researching since 2014. He also exhibited art, produced architectural photography, and served as editor of an architectural magazine focused on adaptive reuse.

Architecture, Urbanism, and Design

Artificial Intelligence

Linear and Nonlinear Modeling

Visual Arts and Music

Urban, Architectural, and Art History

Geospatial Discovery

Dan C. Baciu. “Nonlinearity is all you need! CHOAMs for better cities” 2025.
Dan C. Baciu. “Human Touch? Acoustical Analysis of Ancient Music Reconstructs Tuning and Intonation, Elucidating Aspects of Human Behavior” Science Advances 11, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adv3101
Dan C. Baciu. “Sigfried Giedion’s Chicago School: A Midpoint in 150 Years of History, Part 1, Seen Through Giedion’s Eyes” The Journal of Architecture 2025. https://doi.org/10.1080/13602365.2025.2479716
Dan C. Baciu. “Questions of Copyright and AI, while on Fulbright and Thereafter” Fulbright Chronicles 3, 2025 https://fulbright-chronicles.com/fulbright-chronicles-volume-3-number-3-2025/questions-of-copyright-and-artificial-intelligence-ai-while-on-fulbright-and-thereafter/
Dan C. Baciu, Sunit Kajarekar, Anna Abramova. “Geospatial Discovery in Collections of Text.” DH Benelux Journal 2024. https://journal.dhbenelux.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/2_Baciu_individual.pdf 
Adrian Bejan, Umit Gunes, Giulia Grisolia, Umberto Lucia, Dan C. Baciu. “Freedom, design and evolution.” International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer 2024, 107667, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2024.107667 Dan C. Baciu. “How Changes in Urban Mobility Affect Experienced Urban Diversity: Case Study for Scenarios Wellington” SASBE 2024 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-4051-5 
Dan C. Baciu. “Causal Models, Creativity, and Diversity.” Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (2023) https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-01540-1
Alan Liu, Abigail Droge, Lindsay Thomas, Scott Kleinman, Dan C. Baciu, Jeremy Douglass. “What everyone says: Public perceptions of the humanities in the media” Daedalus The Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2022). https://doi.org/10.1162/daed_a_01926 
Dan C. Baciu, Duola Mi, Callum Birchall, Diana Della Pietra, Luca Loevezijn, Anna Nazou. “Mapping diversity: From ecology and human geography to urbanism and culture.” Springer Nature Social Sciences (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43545-022-00399-4
Dan C. Baciu. “Chicago Schools: Large-scale Dissemination and Reception.” Prometheus 2 (2019), p. 20-43 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/22v9g5mn
Dan C. Baciu. “Editor’s introduction” Prometheus 2 (2019), p. 10-11. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/923145cj
Dan C. Baciu. “Systemic Analysis of Cooperation: Architects, Urban Space and Tourism.” JETK 4 (2015), p. 27-30. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/81h50276

Royal Society, Philosophical Transactions A, “Design, Evolution and the Emerging Science of Form” Guest co-editor. 

Constructal Law Conference 2025. Co-organizer.

Prometheus, “Chicago Schools: Authors, Audiences, and History” Guest editor.

Graduate Symposium, Chicago Schools: Authors, Audiences, and History. Co-organizer.