Over the course of two days, the workshops in San Antonio saw the biggest sessions ever for TEX-FAB. With over 85 attendees in four sections of Parametric Design, Python Design, Revit Design and 3D Modeling, attendees from 5 regional universities, local practices and international offices Gensler, HKS and 5G Studio drew from the tremendous knowledge base of the workshop instructors.
Gil Akos and Ronnie Parsons from New York based Studio Mode, covered complex geometric generation in Grasshopper through list management while also tapping the potential of Weaverbird. Marc Fornes, the TEX-FAB 3.0 Keynote and veteran of 3 events, continued to inspire attendees with the potential of code through meticulous demystification. David Fano, in his first event, led novices and Revit pros through the paces of novel techniques in the BIM industry standard. Finally Travis McCarra, coding artist, began with simple modelling techniques and finished with advanced Grasshopper tutorials giving them a broad set of creative tools.
















Marc Fornes TEX-FAB 3.0 Keynote
Marc Fornes, Keynote speaker for the TEX-FAB 3.0 APPLIED: Research through Fabrication conference, answered questions after his 80 minute talk on Prototypical Geometries lecture. Covering his now vast number of projects from design research based computational methods driving speculative formal explorations to realized protocol driven projects for the FRAC and Pompidou Centre in Paris, the lecture was tremendously well received. People traveled from all over the region to see the Keynote lecture. In conclusion Marc’s topic and presentation sparked a lively debate with questions and in depth answers spanning his approach to material integration and projective concepts.