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Media + Publications
PROJECTiONE Featured on Dwell.com
PROJECTiONE’s “LIGHTFORMS” project featured on Dwell.com. PROJECTiONE is a design collective composed of four Ball State Architecture thesis students and last year’s i.M.A.D.E Graduate Student Fellows.
Architect Magazine Rankings
Ball State’s College of Architecture and Planning is one of three schools identified for excellence in Digital Design and Fabrication by Architect Magazine.
Manufacturing Material Effects Book
Manufacturing Material Effects: Rethinking Design and Making in Architecture, edited by Branko Kolarevic and Kevin R. Klinger and published by Routledge. Designers are becoming more directly involved in the fabrication process from the earliest stages of design. This book showcases the design and research work by some of the leading designers, makers and thinkers today. This highly illustrated text brings together a wealth of information and numerous examples from practice which will appeal to both students and practitioners.
ACADIA 2009
Mahesh Senagala and Joshua Vermillion present their paper entitled “An Inconvenient Studio” at the 2009 ACADIA Conference in Chicago.
i.M.A.D.E mentioned in The Architectural Review
i.M.A.D.E Director, Kevin Klinger, was quoted in the September 2009 issue of The Architectural Review. The article, written by Karin Templin, recounts the work on display at the Beyond Media Festival in Florence, Italy (July 2009).
Projects featured in AD: Interior Atmospheres
Calibration Channel and Digital Exchange Exhibition featured in “Affecting Data” article in “Interior Atmospheres” issue of AD. The article, written by Julieanne Preston, describes the increasingly important role of information in driving collaborative exchanges in the design and production process.
ACADIA 2008 Conference: Silicon + Skin
Michael Gibson, Kevin Klinger, and Joshua Vermillion presented a paper about the Construction Information seminar entitled, “Constructing Information: Towards a Feedback Ecology in Digital Design and Fabrication”, at the 2008 ACADIA Conference.
Gibson, Michael; Kevin Klinger; Joshua Vermillion (2008). “Constructing Information: Towards a Feedback Ecology in Digital Design and Fabrication”, ACADIA International Conference 2008 Silicon + Skin: [...]
Paper : ARCC 2009 Annual Conference
Joshua Vermillion presented a paper (with co-author Glenn Sweitzer) at the Architectural Research Centers Consortium 2009 Annual Conference. The paper was entitled “Distance Daylighting and Digital Fabrication”
Sweitzer, Glenn; Joshua Vermillion (2009). “Distance Daylighting and Digital Fabrication”, ARCC 2009 Conference: Leadership in Architectural Research, Between Academia and the Profession, San Antonio, Texas, 15-18 April 2009.
Michael Speaks Podcast
In this podcast, recorded in August 2008, Michael Speaks discusses the shift in design knowledge creation, both in practice and academia. For innovative architecture, “design intelligence” is a way to affect, not only architectural projects, but the architecture of ideas, processes, techniques, and materials, while managing and negotiating the complexities of design in a connected [...]
Design Management in Architecture Conference
Joshua Vermillion and Kevin Klinger present a paper at a Design Management in Architecture 2008 Conference at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Vermillion, Joshua; Kevin Klinger; Brian Pace (2008). “Managing the Design-Fabrication Feedback Loop: Visualizing Collaborative Digital Exchanges between Industry and the Academy”, Design Management in the Architectural Engineering and Construction Sector 2008 Conference, CIB [...]
Phillip Anzalone, Columbia University
Phillip Anzalone from Columbia University delivered a lecture at Ball State University. Phillip is an adjunct assistant professor at the GSAPP and is the Director of the Avery Digital Fabrication Lab, as well as an Associate Director of Building Technologies. Phillip presented a selection of full-scale digital design and fabrication research projects from Columbia.
Mark Cabrinha Podcast
In this podcast, Mark Cabrinha, an i.M.A.D.E Research Fellow and Phd candidate at Rennsalear Polytehnic University, discusses a ”materials first” approach–the primary goal being to look at how materials can take shape prior to cutting shape from material. Additionally, while visiting i.M.A.D.E, Cabrinha gave brief lectures/presentations on his Phd research, introducing the historical precedent of the spline [...]
Paper: Thermal Performance of the Exterior Envelopes of Whole Buildings X Conference
Joshua Vermillion presents a paper with co-author Glenn Sweitzer at the tenth international conference on Thermal Performance of the Exterior Envelopes of Whole Buildings in Clearwater, Florida. The paper was entitled, “Digital Fabrication of Exterior Envelope Daylighting Elements: Scale Model vs Full-Scale”.
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MMFX Reviewed in Architectural Review Australia
The Manufacturing Material Effects Symposium was reviewed in Architectural Review Australia by Greg More and Andrew Maher of RMIT.
Architectural Review Australia, Issue 101
MMFX Promoted in Architectural Record
Manufacturing Material Effects: Rethinking Design + Making in Architecture
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Paper and Exhibition Entries: ACADIA 2006 Conference
Kevin Klinger publishes a forward in the ACADIA Proceedings entitled “ACADIA: past 15 years reflections in the mirror are closer than they appear”. Streams projects were also shown at the Digital Exchange Exhibition at ACADIA 2006.
Achim Menges Podcast
Achim Menges is an architect and partner in OCEAN NORTH and the Emergence and Design Group. He studied at the Technical University Darmstadt and graduated from the Architectural Association with Honours. He has taught at the AA since 2002 as Studio Master of the Emergent Technologies and Design Master Program and as Unit Master of [...]
Branko Kolarevic Lecture
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Branko Kolarevic gives a lecture, “Digital Fabrication: From Digital to Material,” at Ball State.
Branko Kolarevic is the Irving Distinguished Visiting Professor at Ball State University in Indiana. He has taught architecture at several universities in North America, most recently at the University of Pennsylvania, and in Asia, in Hong Kong. He has lectured worldwide [...]
Frank Barkow Podcast
In 1993 Frank Barkow and Regine Leibinger founded their German-American office in Berlin. Since then projects in Germany and abroad have been published in numerous publications and honored with international awards. Their ongoing successful participation in national and international competitions contributes to the reputation of this office which employs an average of 35 people. Frank [...]
International Journal of Architectural Computing
Kevin Klinger and Joshua Vermillion publish “Visualizing the Operative and Analytic: Representing the Digital Fabrication Feedback Loop and Managing the Digital Exchange” in the International Journal of Architectural Computing.
Chris Sharples (SHoP) Lecture
Chris Sharples, partner and co-founder of SHoP, delivers a lecture at Ball State. Following the lecture, Chris spoke at a round table discussion with the students from the “Streams” studio.
SIGraDi Conference Paper
Kevin Klinger and Joshua Vermillion presented a paper entitled “Visualizing Revisions: Representation Implications of Digital Fabrication” at the SIGraDi 2005 Conference in Lima, Peru. The paper was awarded a certificate for the “Best Published Conference Paper” at the conference.
Digital Fabrication: Focus on Indiana Videos
i.M.A.D.E is pleased to announce that streaming video from the Digital Fabrication ATAIN symposium is available at the Indiana Innovation Network website. The video includes all speaker sessions including David McLean’s (Thornton-Tomasetti Group Chicago) and Tony Birchler’s (A.Zahner Metals) keynotes.
Blueprints magazine
Kevin Klinger publishes the article “Retooling the Architecture Machine: Innovations of Digitally-driven Architecture” in the National Building Museum’s Blueprints magazine.