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Philip Beesley : Workshop + Lecture
Philip Beesley from Waterloo Architecture/Philip Beesley Architect Inc. visited Ball State along with Brad Rothenberg of Pratt Institute to conduct a physical computing workshop for An Inconvenient Studio. The resulting installation from this four-day workshop is a kinetic mesh system entitled Arcus Animus.
The hanging, layered meshwork composed of impact-resistant acrylic, bamboo, and mylar components reacts to human [...]
Stephen Deters (UCLA) : Deterskraft Workshop
Stephen Deters from UCLA visited i.M.A.D.E as a research fellow to conduct a 3-day studio workshop to examine the performative capacities of materials–specifically, $20,000 worth of donated hardwood veneer. The resulting Bodhi Tree is comprised of laser-cut veneer components created specifically for curving, twisting, and layering in order to negotiate structural capacity with aesthetic sensibilities of lightness, [...]
CASE Design
i.M.A.D.E wishes to thank CASE Design founders David Fano, Federico Negro, and Steve Sanderson for each personally visiting Ball State to lead workshops and roundtable discussions, critique student work, and advise us on future projects and curriculum offerings. Dave, Fed, and Steve have smart ideas and run a smart business, and we look forward to [...]
Gregg Pasquarelli : Lecture
Gregg Pasquarelli from SHoP delivers a lecture at Ball State University.
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 [...]
William Massie : Lecture
William Massie delivers a lecture at Ball State entitled “Experimentation versus Speculation: The Construction of Ideas”.
William E. Massie received a Bachelor of Fine Art in Architectural Studies from Parsons School of Design, New York, NY. He subsequently received a Master of Architecture from Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture. Upon graduation he worked for Robertson + McAnulty Architects and [...]
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.
Workshop Series: Mark Cabrinha
Mark Cabrinha, an i.M.A.D.E Research Fellow and Phd candidate at Rennsalear Polytehnic University, conducted two workshops at Ball State. Cabrinha focused on a “materials first” approach–the primary goal was to look at how materials can take shape prior to cutting shape from material. Digital fabrication was introduced as a necessity to extend / expand these [...]
RMIT Faculty Visit and Consult with i.M.A.D.E
Andrew Maher and Gregory More, research fellows in the Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology visited i.M.A.D.E as consultants to help prepare research strategies for the Graham Foundation sponsored SmartScrap project.
SmartScrap is the digital cataloguing of waste products from the building industry -specifically the Indiana limestone industry- and developing computational means to [...]
Andrew Kudless Lecture + Rhino Scripting Workshop
Andrew Kudless of MATSYS conducted two Rhino scripting workshops and delivered a lecture at Ball State. Andrew’s presentations framed scripting as a means to develop and automate procedural design and production techniques which could be directly applied to the students’ design work. Throughout the workshops, Kudless presented examples of scripting techniques from contemporary architecture practices [...]
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 [...]
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.