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Arnold Berleant ( Professor of Philosophy (Emeritus), Long Island University) |
Rethinking Architecture: From the Art of Building to the Art of Environmental Experience |
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Margaret Livingston ( Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School) |
What Art can tell us about the Brain |
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John Peponis (Associate Chair, Advanced Studies and Research, School of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology) |
From Space Syntax to the Generic Functions of Space |
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Madeline Schwartzman (Adjunct Professor / Associate Professor, Barnard College, Columbia University /Parsons the New School for Design) |
See yourself Sensing: Redefining Human Perception |
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Graham Jones (Assistant Professor of Anthropology, MIT) |
Designing Deception in the Magician Craft |
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Ayodh Kamath ( Partner, Kamath Design Studio, New Delhi) |
Craft and the Computer: Theory and Practice |
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Alise Upitis (Public Art Curator, MIT List Visual Arts Center) |
Chaos and Communication |
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Bill Mitchell Symposium (Nov. 10: afternoon only, Nov. 11: all day) |
Keynotes by Howard Burns + Manuel Castells + Sherry Turkle with 4 Panels |
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Ted Krueger ( Graduate Program Director / Director, PhD Program, School of Architecture, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) |
Anamnesis and Amnesia: First Remember and then Forget |
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Paul Pangaro (CTO and Founder, CyberneticLifestyles) |
Conversations for Design + Design for Conversations |
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Jeff Lieberman (Artist and Scientist / Founder, Plebian Design) |
It's Not What You Think: An Evolutionary Theory of Spiritual Enlightenment |
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Matthew Trimble (Founder, RadLab) |
Degrees of Freedom |
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+2011-04-22 | 12:30pm-2:00pm at Room 7-431 | | |
Edith Ackerman (Visiting Scientist, Design Lab, MIT) |
Emergent mindsets in the digital age: Moving between worlds |
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Lira Nikolovska (Principal Designer, Autodesk) |
Designing Software Tools at Autodesk Revit |
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Athanassios Economou (Associate Professor / Director of the Shape Comput, Georgia Institute of Technology) |
Architectural Topologies: Visual Languages and Digital Applications |
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Antoine Picon (Professor, Harvard, GSD) |
City and Maps in the Digital Age |
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+2010-11-19 | 12:30pm-2:00pm at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | information |
Timothy Prestero (CEO, Design that Matters) |
Better by Design |
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+2010-11-12 | 12:30pm-2:00pm at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | information |
Neri Oxman (Assistant Professor, Media Arts and Sciences, MIT) |
Mediated Matter |
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+2010-11-05 | 12:30pm-2:00pm at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | information |
Edouard Din (Associate Professor, Tuskegee University) |
SURFACE SYMMETRIES: The Smith House Revisited |
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+2010-10-29 | 12:30pm-2:00pm at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | information |
Jessica Rosenkrantz Jessica/Jesse Louis-Rosenberg (Co-Founders, Nervous System) |
TBA |
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+2010-10-15 | 12:30pm-2:00pm at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | information |
Phillip Anzalone (Director - Building Technology Sequence & Avery Di, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture) |
Epistemological Constructions |
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Mariana Ibanez / Simon Kim (Principal/Principal, I|K studio) |
I|K investigations |
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Alvise Simondetti (Architect, Arup) |
Built Environment Modeling in practice |
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Bob McNeel (President, Robert McNeel & Associates) |
Rhino Strategies: the development of Rhinoceros Nurbs Modeling Software |
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Achim Menges (Professor / Director , Institute for Computational Design Stuttgart University ) |
Computational Form and Material Gestalt |
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Anas Alfaris (Research Scientist , Strategic Engineering Group, Engineering Systems Division, MIT) |
Emergence through Conflict The Multi-Disciplinary Design System (MDDS) |
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Jose Duarte (Associate Professor / Visiting Scientist , Technical University of Lisbon / MIT Design Lab) |
Mass Customization: models and algorithms |
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Amanda Parkes (Research Scientist / CTO, Tangible Media Group, MIT Media Lab / Bodega Algae LLC) |
Phrases of the Kinetic: Organicism and Transformation from Robots to Biofuels |
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Jonathan Bachrach (Principal, Other Lab) |
CAD/CAM for Coded Assembly |
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Leah Buechley (Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences/Dir, MIT Media Lab) |
High-Low Tech: Rethinking Cultural and Material Contexts for Computation |
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Ziggy Drozdowski (Director of Technology , Hoberman Associates, NY) |
Constraint and Control: Towards Autonomous Behavior in the Built Environment |
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Shane Burger (Associate, Head of Computational Design Unit, GRIMSHAW Associates) |
Embedded Intelligence: Design-Driven Computation |
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Chris Williams (Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Architecture and Civil Engineering, University of Bath) |
Engineering structures: art, geometry, mathematics and materials |
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Jose Luis Gonzalez and Michael Stzivos (architects and designers, SOFTLAB, NY) |
PERFORMANCE - Customizing Design |
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David Small (Associate professor, Design Ecology, MIT Media Lab) |
Design Ecology |
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Yanni Loukissas (Visiting Lecturer, College of Architecture, Art and Planning, Cornell University) |
Conceptions of Design in a Culture of Simulation |
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Jenny E. Sabin (Director/ Lecturer, Cabin Studio/ Univ. of Pennsylvania) |
CELLNESS |
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Philippe Block (PhD Candidate, Building Technology, Dept. of Architecture, MIT) |
EXPLOITING STUCTURSL INDETERMINACY: THRUST NETWORK ANALYSIS FOR 3-D EQUILIBRIUM |
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Kiel Moe (Assistant Professor, Northeastern University, Boston) |
AUTOMATION TAKES COMMAND: THE PREHISTORY OF DIGITAL FABRICATION |
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Onur Yuce Gun (Architect Design-Computation Specialist, KPF, New York) |
SYSTEMIZED UNCLARITY |
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+2008-05-09 | 12:30pm-2:00pm at Room 3-133 | | |
Marc Simmons (Front, Inc.) |
RECENT WORK |
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Charles M. Eastman (Professor/Director-PhD Program, College of Architecture, Georgia Tech.) |
WAS ALBERTI WRONG? THE SEPARATION BETWEEN ARCHITECTURSL DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION |
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Aaron Sprecher (Partner/Assistant Professor, Open Source Architecture/Syracuse University) |
N DEGREES OF ARCHITECTURE |
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+2008-04-15 | 12:00pm-1:30pm at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | information |
Sawako Kaijima (Computational Design Consultant and Researcher, Adams Kara Taylor) |
SIMPLEXITY FIELD: INTERFACE BETWEEN CONSTRUCTION DISCIPLINES |
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Alice Upitis (PhD Canididate-Design and Computation, MIT-Architecture) |
ARCHITECTURAL PEDAGOGY AND PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING IN GREAT BRITAIN |
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William Fawcett (Chadwick Fellow in Architecture, Pembroke College, Cambridge, UK) |
ACTIVITY-SPACE RESEARCH: THE SIMPLEST POSSILE MODELS OF BUILDINGS I USE |
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Hanif Kara (Co-founder and Director, Adams Kara Taylor) |
STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING ATTITUDES |
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Phil Bernstein (VP-Industry Strategy and Relations, AEC Solutions, Autodesk, Inc.) |
NOW WHAT? RECONCEPTUALIZING ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICE IN THE DIGITAL AGE |
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+2008-02-15 | 12:30pm-2:00pm at Room 3-133 | | |
Stylianos Dritsas (Associate Principal, Computational Geometry, KPF) |
NEEDLES IN THE HAYSTACK:A DISCUSSION ON THE CHALENGES OF CONTEMPORARY DESIGN IN APPLIED RESEARCH AND PRACTICE |
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+2007-10-19 | 12:30pm - 2:00pm at Room 3-133 | | |
Xiaohua Sun (Assistant Professor of Communication and Media, Clarkson University) |
From Design and computation to Digital Arts& Sciences : An Exploration in Digital Art & education |
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+2007-10-05 | 12:30pm - 2:00pm at Room 3-133 | | |
Kostas Terzidis (Associate Professor, GSD, Harvard University) |
Algorithmic Architecture |
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+2007-05-11 | 12:30pm - 2:00pm at Room 3-133 | | |
Paul Seletsky (Digital Design Director, SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL LLP, NY) |
Digital Design Ecosystem: Toward A Pre-Rational Architecture |
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+2007-04-20 | 12:30pm - 2:00pm at Room 3-133 | | |
Elena Manferdini (Principal, Atelier Manferdini, SCI-Arc Design Faculty) |
Wearable Architecture |
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+2007-04-13 | 12:30pm - 2:00pm at Room 3-133 | | |
Fabian Scheurer (Partner, ETH Zurich, designtoproduction.com) |
Design to production |
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+2007-04-06 | 12:30pm - 2:00pm at Room 3-133 | | |
Kostas Terzidis (Associate Professor, GSD, Harvard University) |
Algorithmic Architecture |
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+2007-03-23 | 12:30pm - 2:00pm at Room 3-133 | | |
Branko Kolarevic (Irving Distinguished Visiting Professor of Archite, Ball State University) |
Surface Effects and the Craft of Digital Making |
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+2007-03-16 | 12:30pm - 2:00pm at Room 3-133 | | |
William J. Mitchell (Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and Scien, MIT Design Lab) |
Smart Cities |
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+2007-03-09 | 12:30pm - 2:00pm at Room 3-133 | | |
Mitchell Joachim (Executive Director, Terreform) |
Ecotransology: Ecology + Mobility + Space |
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+2007-03-02 | 12:30pm - 2:00pm at Room 3-133 | | |
Marcos Novak (Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara) |
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+2007-02-23 | 12:30pm - 2:00pm at Room 3-133 | | |
Evan Douglis (Chair of Undergraduate Studies, Evan Douglis Studio,Pratt Institute) |
Digital Alchemy |
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+2007-02-16 | 12:30pm - 2:00pm at Room 3-133 | | |
Donald P. Greenberg (Professor/Director, Program of Computer Graphics, Jacob Gould Schurman/Cornell University) |
Computer Graphics: Fuzzy Boundaries for Design and Engineering |
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+2006-12-08 | 12:30pm-2:00pm at Room 3-133 | | |
Henriette H. Bier (Professor, Hyperbody Research Group, TU Delft) |
Space Customizer |
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+2006-11-17 | 12:30pm - 2:00pm at Room 3-133 | | |
Lira Nikolovska (PhD, Adjunct faculty, Rhode Island School of Design, Furniture Design department) |
Poetics of Furniture: Augmenting Furniture with Technology |
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+2006-11-03 | 12:30pm - 2:00pm at Room 3-133 | | |
Jenna Didier + Oliver Hess (Materials & Applications, Architecture and Landscape Research, LA, CA) |
The Garden of Forking Paths |
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+2006-10-27 | 12:30pm - 2:00pm at Room 3-133 | | |
Carlo Ratti + Andres Sevtsuk (SENSEable City Laboratory, MIT) |
The WIKI CITY |
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+2006-10-13 | 12:30pm - 2:00pm at Room 3-133 | | |
Lars Hesselgren () |
Space(s) for Mankind: Where goes Architecture in the Computational Design Age? |
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+2006-09-15 | 12:30pm - 2:30pm at Room 3-133 | | |
Christian Derix (Advanced Modeling Group at AEDAS) |
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+2006-04-28 | 12:00pm - 1:30 pm at Room 3-133 | | |
Kimberle Koile (Research Scientist, MIT CSAIL (Computer Science and AI Lab)) |
Formalizing Abstract Characteristics of Style |
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+2006-03-24 | 12:00pm - 1:30 pm at Room 3-133 | | |
Philippe Morel (EZCT Architecture & Design Research) |
A Few Remarks on Epistemology and Computational Design |
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+2006-03-10 | 12:00pm - 1:30 pm at Room 3-133 | | |
Lars Hesselgren (Senior Associate Partner/Director and Secretary, KPF Research/Smart Geometry Ltd) |
Geometry as a design driver |
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+2006-02-17 | 12:00pm - 1:30 pm at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | |
Axel Killian (Postdoctoral associate, TU Delft) |
Design exploration through bidirectional modeling of constraints |
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+2005-11-29 | 12:00pm - 2:00pm at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | |
Kimberle Koile (Research Scientist, MIT CSAIL (Computer Science and AI Lab)) |
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+2005-11-15 | 12:00pm - 2:00pm at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | |
Allen Sayegh+Edith Ackermann (Lecturer in Architecture/Visiting Scientist, Harvard GSD/ MIT,Architecture) |
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+2005-11-01 | 12:00pm - 2:00pm at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | |
Neil Katz (Associate, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP) |
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+2005-10-25 | 12:00pm - 2:00pm at Bartos Theater | | |
Stephen Wolfram (President, Wolfram Research) |
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+2005-10-18 | 12:00pm - 2:00pm at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | |
George Stiny+Antoine Picon (Professors in Architecture, MIT/Harvard) |
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+2005-09-29 | 12:00am - 2:00pm at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | |
Neil Leach (Visiting Professor, Cornnell University) |
CAMOUFLAGE |
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+2005-04-26 | 12:00pm - 1:30pm at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | |
Chris Yessios (Co-founder and CEO, Auto-des-sys, Developer of Form Z) |
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+2005-04-15 | 12:00pm - 1:30pm at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | |
Paul Keel (Research Scientist, CSAIL, MIT) |
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+2005-04-01 | 12:00pm - 1:30pm at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | |
Simon Greenwold (Lecturer, School of Architecture, Yale University) |
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+2005-03-15 | 12:00pm - 1:30pm at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | |
Malcolm McCullough (Associate Professor, Taubman College of Architecture and Planning, University of Michigan) |
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+2005-03-01 | 12:00pm - 1:30pm at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | |
Michael Fox (Visiting Professor, SCI-Arc, Interactive Design Art Center, College of Design / Founder and Principal, Fox Lin Inc.) |
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+2004-11-30 | 11:30am - 1:00pm at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | |
Natalie Jeremijenko (Design Engineer and Technoartist, ) |
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+2004-11-23 | 11:30am - 1:00pm at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | |
Bill Porter (Professor Emeritus, School of Architecture and Planning, MIT) |
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+2004-11-16 | 11:30am - 1:00pm at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | |
Tuba Kocaturk (Researcher, Delft University of?Technology, Faculty of Architecture) |
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+2004-10-19 | 11:30am - 1:00pm at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | |
Simon Greenwold (Lecturer, School of Architecture, Yale University) |
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+2004-10-05 | 11:30am - 1:00pm at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | |
Fredo Durand (Assistant Professor, Computer Graphics Group, CSAIL. MIT) |
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+2004-09-29 | 11:30am - 1:00pm at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | |
Michael Leyton (Professor, Center for Discrete Mathematics &Theoretical Computer Science, Rutgers University) |
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+2004-04-29 | 5:00pm - 6:30pm at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | |
Lars Spuybroek (VP, Professor of Architecture and CAAD, ETH Zurich) |
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+2004-04-23 | 6:30pm - 8:00pm at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | |
Gerhard Schmitt (Principal/Visiting Professor, NOX/Columbia University) |
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+2004-04-16 | 11:30am - 1:00pm at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | |
Joao Rocha (Assistant Professor, Minho University, Portugal) |
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+2004-04-09 | 11:30am - 1:00pm at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | |
Mok Oh (Founder, Mok3 (3D graphics firm)) |
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+2004-03-19 | 11:30am - 1:00pm at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | |
FredericMigayrou + Mark Goulthorpe (Department of Architecture & Design/Pompidou Center) |
Architectures, non-standard |
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+2004-03-05 | 11:30am - 1:00pm at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | |
William Mitchell (Professor and Head, ) |
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+2004-02-13 | 11:30am - 1:00pm at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | |
Cynthia Breazeal (Assistant Professor, MIT Media Lab) |
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+2003-12-12 | 11:00am at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | |
Kostas Terzidis (Assistant Professor, UCLA and Visiting Lecturer, GSD) |
EXPRESSIVE FORM: A CONCEPTUAL APPROACH TO COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN |
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+2003-11-21 | 11:00am at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | |
Una-May O'Reilly (Research Scientist, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) |
BEYOND CAD |
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+2003-11-07 | 11:00am at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | |
David Serero (Principal, dZO Architecture) |
EVOLVING PATTERNS |
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+2003-10-27 | 12:00pm at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | |
Chris Walker (Head, Geometry Group, Arup Partners) |
ADVANCED GEOMETRY |
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+2003-10-24 | 11:00am at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | |
George Stiny (Professor of Design and Computation, MIT) |
SUPERSTAR CALCULATION |
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+2003-10-17 | 11:00am at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | |
Chris Csikszentmihalyi (Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT) |
EDGY PRODUCTS |
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+2003-09-19 | 11:00am at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | |
Mike Skura (Vice President, CTEK) |
FORM FOLLOWS |
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+2003-05-15 | 11:30am- 1:00pm at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | |
HUGH WHITEHEAD (Project Director/Specialist Modeling Group, Foster and Partners, London) |
EXPLORING SOLUTION SPACE |
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+2003-05-09 | 11:30am- 1:00pm at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | |
PIERRE LECLERCQ (Professor of Architecture, University of Liege/Director of the Lucid Group, Liege) |
DIGITAL SKETCHING FOR SMART DESIGN |
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+2003-04-11 | 11:30am- 1:00pm at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | |
FLAVIA SPARACINO (Principal, Sensing Places interactive architecture firm) |
NARRATIVE SPACES: BRIDGING ARCHITECTURE AND ENTERTAINMENT VIA INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGY |
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+2003-04-04 | 11:30am- 1:00pm at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | |
JEF HUANG + MURIEL WALDVOGEL (Harvard GSD/Convergeo) |
DIGITAL AGORA |
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+2003-03-14 | 11:30am- 1:00pm at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | |
BRANKO KOLAREVIC (Associate Professor of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania) |
FROM CLICKS TO BRICKS: DIGITAL TECTONICS & NEW SYNERGIES |
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+2003-03-07 | 11:30am- 1:00pm at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | |
TOD MACHOVER (Professor of Music and Media, MIT Media Lab) |
MUSIC TOYS FOR KIDS OF ALL AGES |
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+2003-03-04 | 11:30am- 1:00pm at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | |
MARK BURRY (Professor of Innovation, School of Architecture and Design, RMIT University, Melbourne) |
AFTER GAUDI: RATIONALISM IN A NON-RATIONAL AGE |
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+2003-02-28 | 11:30am- 1:00pm at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | |
PETER DAVIDSON + DONALD BATES (Directors, Lab architecture studio, Melbourne) |
THE BLACK SWAN OF TRESPASS |
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+2002-12-03 | 11:30am - 1:00pm at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | |
SHIRO MATSUSHIMA (Doctor of Design, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University) |
COLLABORATION IN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN |
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+2002-11-12 | 11:30am - 1:00pm at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | |
ATHANASSIOS ECONOMOU (Assistant Professor, College of Architectur, Georgia Institute of Technology) |
+AESTHETICS3 |
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+2002-11-05 | 11:30am - 1:00pm at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | |
BILL BUXTON (Chief Scientist, Alias/Wavefront) |
A SENSE OF PLACE / A SENSE OF TIME: A SOCIAL AND ARCHITECTURAL PERSPECTIVE ON UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING |
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+2002-10-22 | 11:30am - 1:00pm at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | |
JOHN MAEDA (Associate Professor, Aesthetics and Computation Group, Media Lab, MIT) |
POST DIGITAL DESIGN |
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+2002-09-19 | 3:00am - 4:30pm at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | |
FIONA RABY + ANTHONY DUNNE (Dunne & Raby) |
DESIGN NOIR |
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+2002-09-10 | 11:30am - 1:00pm at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | |
NEIL LEACH (Professor of Architectural Theory, University of Bath, England) |
SWARM TECTONICS |
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+2002-05-16 | 11:30am - 1:00pm at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | |
JUDIT KIMPIAN (FOSTER AND PARTNERS) |
PNEUMATIC STR! UCTURES IN THE DIGITAL WORLD: CURVED SPACES, TRANSIENT VOLUMES! , DYNAMI C STRUCTURES |
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+2002-05-14 | 11:30am - 1:00pm at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | |
KRISTINA SHEA (Lecturer, Department of Engineering, Cambridge University) |
PERFORMANCE-BASED GENERATIVE DESIGN |
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+2002-04-30 | 11:30am - 1:00pm at Room 4-237 | | |
JOHN GERO (Professor of Design Science, Faculty of Architecture, University of Sydney) |
DESIGN THEORY AND SITUATED COGNITION AND COMPUTATION |
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+2002-04-25 | 11:30am - 1:00pm at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | |
MAR LOU MAHER (Professor of Design Computing, Faculty of Architecture, University of Sydney) |
DESIGNING VIRTUAL WORLDS AS ARCHITECTURE |
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+2002-04-25 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm at Room 7-431 (AVT) | | |
FEDERICO CASALEGNO + MARCO SUSANI (Dept. of Architecture, MIT / Advanced Concepts Group, Motorola) |
INHABITED PLACES OF KNOWLEDGE: HOW INNOVATIVE SOCIAL STRUCTURES CAN GROW IN DIGITAL/PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS |
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+2002-04-24 | 11:30am - 1:00pm at Room 5-217 | | |
DENNIS SHELDEN (Director of Computing, Gehry Partners, LLP.) |
GEOMETRY AND CONSTRUCTABILITY: DIGITAL REPRESENTATION IN GEHRY'S BUILDING PROCESS |
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