Nicholas is a designer, developer, and researcher exploring the intersection of architectural design and software engineering. He works as an architectural designer and BIM manager at biloba Architecture and teaches part-time at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
ARCC King Medal for Excellence in Architectural + Environmental Research (May 2023)
Faculty Award for Excellence in Digital/Computational Design (December 2022)
Passero Associates Cornerstone Award for Outstanding Results (October 2022)
Nominee, Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award (April 2022)
Rawlings, Nicholas and Dimitris Papanikolaou. Towards optimistic version control in architecture: A high-level design for a program that implements diffing, patching, and merging for openNURBS 3D models. International Journal of Architectural Computing 21, no. 4 (2023).
Rawlings, Nicholas. Toward Optimistic Version Control in Architecture: Diffing, Patching, and Three-Way Merging for openNURBS 3D Models. Master's thesis, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2022. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing (30243033).