i.M.A.D.E is pleased to announce that Adam Buente and Kyle Perry, of PROJECTiONE, will be Institute Research Fellows during the 2010 fall semester at Ball State. Recent Ball State Architecture and i.M.A.D.E graduates, PROJECTiONE just received a Citation for their BitMaps project in Architect Magazine’s R+D Awards. In addition to conducting their research, Buente and Perry will serve in an advisory role for the Institute’s operations, conduct CNC production workshops, and participate as critics in design juries.

PROJECTiONE Bios:
Adam Buente is a recent graduate architect and holds a Bachelor of Science in Architecture and a Master of Architecture with a Concentration in Fabrication from Ball State University’s College of Architecture and Planning. He has maintained a strong interest in full scale design/fabrication, focused on innovative assemblies and techniques. Much of this has come out of a partnership with the Institute for Digital Fabrication and previous experience in design and construction with firms including Browning Day Mullins Dierdorf Architects and VPS Architecture.
Kyle Perry is a recent graduate architect and holds a Bachelor of Science in Architecture and a Master of Architecture with a Concentration in Fabrication from Ball State University’s College of Architecture and Planning. His previous work experience was completely outside the realm of architecture as a raft guide for many of his undergraduate summers. He has worked for a number of years for the Institute for Digital Fabrication as a Research Fellow and is interested in the changing pedagogy/practices of architecture, uncommon processes of design to fabrication, and graphic design.
Perry and Buente are two members of PROJECTiONE [n. proj-ekt wuhn], a collective started last year as a collaborative thesis, focused on the contemporary relationships between digital and analog processes in design and fabrication. PROJECTiONE defines itself through new understanding of tools, processes, and methods that reveal innovative solutions to design problems and expressions of craft.
Currently, Perry and Buente are pursuing the focus of PROJECTiONE through a new venture, starting up a design company based around the potentials investigated through there time as graduate students. They hope to keep up the momentum of PROJECTiONE, pushing towards an interesting new practice and future projects.

Ball State’s College of Architecture and Planning is one of three schools identified for excellence in Digital Design and Fabrication by Architect Magazine.

Book Released:
Manufacturing Material Effects: Rethinking Design and Making in Architecture
Edited by Branko Kolarevic and Kevin R. Klinger; Published by Routledge.

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About the Book:
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.

Book Contributors:
Branko Kolarevic and Kevin Klinger / Ball State University (Muncie, USA)
Brett Steele / Architectural Association (London, UK)
Jeanne Gang / Studio Gang Architects (Chicago, USA)
Shohei Shigematsu / OMA-AMO (New York, USA)
Donald Bates / LAB Architecture (Melbourne, Australia / London, UK)
David J. Lewis / LTL Architects (New York, USA)
David Erdman / servo (Los Angeles, USA)
Mark Goulthorpe / dECOi & MIT (Cambridge, USA)
Marta Malé-Alemany & José Pedro Sousa / ReD (Barcelona, Spain & Porto, Portugal)
Achim Menges / Ocean North & AA (London, UK)
Fabio Gramazio & Matthias Kohler / Gramazio/Kohler & ETH (Zurich, Switz.)
Chris Sharples / SHoP (New York, USA)
Makai Smith / Bentley Systems (Exton, USA)
Fabian Scheurer / designtoproduction & ETH (Zurich, Switzerland)
Frank Barkow / Barkow Leibinger (Berlin, Germany)
William Zahner / Zahner Architectural Metals (Kansas City, USA)
Ruben Suare / 3form (Salt Lake City, USA)
Marc Simmons / Front Inc. (New York, USA)
Mick Eekhout / Octatube & TU Delft (Delft, Netherlands)
Phil Bernstein / Autodesk & Yale University (New Haven, USA)

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 some of the work on display at the Beyond Media Festival in Florence, Italy (July 2009):

“In the ‘Spot on Schools’ forum, while many participating universities concentrated on the use of programmes to create abstract forms, the most interesting insight came from Ball State University’s Kevin Klinger. He highlighted a project in which students work hands-on in the workshops of local Indiana limestone and hardwood manufacturers. They aim to develop new processes to carve and shape the materials through digital programming. Klinger’s view is that ‘digital fabrication should bring us back to handcraft, not take us away’.”

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.

Gibson, Michael; Kevin Klinger; Joshua Vermillion (2008). “Constructing Information: Towards a Feedback Ecology in Digital Design and Fabrication”, ACADIA International Conference 2008 Silicon + Skin: Biological Processes and Computation, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 2008.

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 world.

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