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Michael Speaks Podcast

admin — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 12:00:43 +0000

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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Phillip Anzalone, Columbia University

admin — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:49:17 +0000

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.

In this podcast, Phillip describes his views on the role of academia in preparing professionals that bring value to practices through digitally-led innovations.

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Mark Cabrinha Podcast

admin — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:21:01 +0000

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 in the 18th Century from which Pierre Bezier and others abstracted into NURBS.

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Achim Menges Podcast

admin — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:49:39 +0000

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 the Diploma Unit 4 Morpho-Ecologies Program. He has been a visiting professor at Rice University School of Architecture, Houston. Since 2005 he is also Professor of Form Generation and Materialization at the HfG Offenbach University for Art and Design in Germany. Achim Menges research focuses on the development of integral design processes at the intersection of evolutionary computation, parametric design, biomimetic engineering and computer aided manufacturing.

Achim Menges recently received the FEIDAD (Far Eastern International Digital Architectural Design) Outstanding Design Award in 2002, the FEIDAD Design Merit Award in 2003, the Archiprix International Award 2003, RIBA Tutor Price 2004 and the International Bentley Educator of the Year Award 2005. Recent publications include Emergence: Morphogenetic Design Strategies [AD Wiley, London, 2004], Techniques and Technologies in Morphogenetic Design [AD Wiley, London, 2006] and Morpho-Ecologies [AA Publications, London, 2006].

In this podcast, Achim Menges discusses some of the fundamental changes to the design process by engaging computation design tools. Menges describes a “process of materialization”, which privileges the rigorous interrogation of performative material capacities as a catalyst for the generation of form. Parametric design software, procedural scripting, and performance analysis tools enable the management and crafting of information in service of a bottom-up negotiation of design constraints and performative opportunities.

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Frank Barkow Podcast

admin — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:00:49 +0000

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 Barkow and Regine Leibinger’s approach to architecture is formed by the continuous interaction of practice, research, and teaching. This interdisciplinary, discursive attitude allows their work to expand and respond to advancing knowledge.

Collaborations with consulting structural and energy engineers, landscape architects and artists offer dynamic opportunities that inform and direct their work. The identity of every project is based on a distinct and appropriate concept based on a direct reaction to the task at-hand. Their response to a project rejects style or signature in favor of a process that is opportunistic, exploitive and reacts to site, local and global technologies, materials and techniques, and continuous dialogue with a client. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Therefore a practice is defined as more than a chronological sequence of all its work. Individual projects, undogmatic and distinct, contribute to a consistent yet continually emerging body of work. This demonstrates how changing circumstances affect and inform the work, and reciprocally how the work has its own internal logic. This autonomy allows a distinct and singular work that can be sublime and sensual while responding to the realities of place, program, scale and function.

In this podcast, Frank Barkow discusses the importance of “making” in his design office, the benefits of having direct access to the German machine tool industry, and an independent research lab to apply material and production logics towards design opportunities in the office.

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