Kevin Patrick McClellan presented his AA DRL team thesis and TEX-FAB at the AA Visiting Schools Programme at the Universidad Iberoamericana School of Architecture on October 11th. The lecture topic, ‘Emergent Effects: Form and Organization’ was one of several presentations throughout the day that covered the work being produced by ex-AA graduates while there and afterwards.
Below is a clip from the website:
SYMPOSIUM
A one-day event of lectures-presentations given by staff and alumni of the Architectural Association will be organized as a preface of the AA visiting school in Mexico City in January 2010, within the Architectural Week organized by the Universidad Iberoamericana School of Architecture In October 2010.
It will be an opportunity to show and present the work and research methodologies being developed at the Architectural Association, Graduate School with AA graduates.
The Mexico city Visiting school will using the Landscape Urbanism methodology develop at the AA, and lecturers invited to the symposium will share and comments upon their own research thesis and the use of these methodologies in the work carried out outside the school within each individual practice and teaching experiences. This way the symposium will intend to contribute to the exchange of ideas and will confront the leading issues shaping architecture, design and urban culture at the outset of the twenty first century.
Link to the Mexico City AA Visiting School:
COLLABORATION Conference
Brad Bell will introduce the Digital Fabrication Alliance to the audience at the McGraw Hill Auditorium in New York, NY at the Architect’s Newspaper Metals in Construction Facades Conference.
Andrew Vrana will moderate a roundtable discussion:
Facade Innovation: Performance, Optimization and Integration
The ability of computational technology to inform facade design from novel geometries and enhanced environmental performance to rationalized component optimization and digital fabrication is creating new possibilities in the development of intelligent building skins. The confluence of visible forces (structural, functional and physical) and invisible forces (cultural, political and temporal) can now be measured, managed and realized through the integration of enhanced information processing, cross-disciplinary material organization and computer assisted manufacturing ingenuity. From a broad spectrum of expertise representing the professional, academic, applied research and engineering consultation community, the speakers participating in this discussion present a series of façade design case studies that articulate these forces of innovation in practice and lead the speculative dialogue on where this trend will head in the future.
Performative facade systems
Anna Dyson, CASE
Case Study: Helioptix
Optimization of facade systems
Erik Verboon, Buro Happold
Case Study: King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture
Integration of facade systems
Phillip Anzalone, Columbia University GSAPP
Case Study: Columbia University Building Intelligence Project