Manufacturing Material Effects/ Indianapolis

Just finished the first day of the MMFX Fab Symposium in Indianapolis. The conversations regarding fabrication are starting to shift into a more critical tone, beyond mere technique. This is a very healthy development, especially when Marc Goulthorpe (dEcoi) expresses

Radical Simplicity

Santiago Perez delivered a lecture titled RADICAL SIMPLICITY, as part of the DIGITAL FABRICATION SYMPOSIUM at the University of Houston College of Architecture. The lecture lineup included David Erdman & Scott Marble, in addition to local presenters. The presentation by

ACADIA 2006: Synthetic Landscapes

The conference in Louisville was very inspirational, particularly with regard with new soon to be built “NON_STANDARD” praxis work, informed by parametric modeling. The most interesting, in my view was the work of Thom Faulder’s BEIGE DESIGN. Several of the

PolyForm: Biomimetic Surfaces

PolyForm: Biomimetic Surfaces was presented at the 2006 ACADIA Synthetic Landscapes conference this October in Louisville, Kentucky. The paper has been published in the conference proceedings. I’ll be posting an online version soon. The essay built upon an earlier paper