TEX-FAB HOUSTON KEYNOTE
Thursday 02/10/11, 5:00PM UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON COA AUDITORIUM
Thursday 02/10/11, 5:00PM UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON COA AUDITORIUM
Branko Kolarevic holds the Chair in Integrated Design and co-directs the Laboratory for Integrative Design (LID). Prior to his appointment at the University of Calgary, he was 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 on the use of digital technologies in design and production and has authored, edited or co-edited several books, including the recently published “Manufacturing Material Effects: Rethinking Design and Making in Architecture” (with Kevin Klinger), “Performative Architecture: Beyond Instrumentality” (with Ali Malkawi) and “Architecture in the Digital Age: Design and Manufacturing.” He is the past president of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) and is the recipient of the ACADIA 2007 Award for Innovative Research.
Patrick Hood-Daniel
Build Your Own CNC
Build Your Own CNC
FUNDAMENTALS OF CNC
Friday 02/11/11, 2:00PM UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON COA AUDITORIUM
Friday 02/11/11, 2:00PM UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON COA AUDITORIUM
Patrick Hood-Daniel is an Urban Designer, a cross between an architect and a city planner that designs at a larger scale with public’s input, trained as an architect from the University of Miami with honors with reception of the Henry Adams Medal and went on to get a Graduate degree at the University of California, Berkeley for a Masters of Urban Design. Prior to that Patrick was a computer programmer for about 10 years working in the field of rotating machinery to determine problems through their vibration. As a part of his computer programming business, Patrick has experience in Novell Networks (physical and administrative), and programming for client server applications. Currently, Patrick shares his time teaching college level technical, mechanical and architectural courses, works part time as the director of Planning, Urban Design and Devleopment for Downtown Houston and runs this website as the means of his sole passion and desire to create a resource for spreading the knowledge of automated fabrication.
Joe Meppelink + Andrew Vrana
METALAB / University of Houston
METALAB / University of Houston
APPLIED DIGITAL FABRICATION
Friday 02/11/11, 3:30PM UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON COA AUDITORIUM
Friday 02/11/11, 3:30PM UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON COA AUDITORIUM
METALAB is a licensed architectural practice with previous experience as metal fabricators and project managers. With extensive and practical knowledge of materials, processes and methods of construction we offer an array of professional services from design to delivery and management of projects.
Joe Meppelink is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Houston, co-teaching courses in digital fabrication with Metalab partner Andrew Vrana. Joe also serves as Faculty Research Coordinator at the College of Architecture, where professional and academic efforts coincide in the development of Green Building components and products, such as the SPACE. Andrew Vrana is an Architect who has structured his practice around design enhanced by advanced computation and parametric digital design. He has worked in the office of Renzo Piano Building Workshop and now is applying his interests and experiences professionally with Joe Meppelink at Metalab and in academia as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Houston.
Joe Meppelink is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Houston, co-teaching courses in digital fabrication with Metalab partner Andrew Vrana. Joe also serves as Faculty Research Coordinator at the College of Architecture, where professional and academic efforts coincide in the development of Green Building components and products, such as the SPACE. Andrew Vrana is an Architect who has structured his practice around design enhanced by advanced computation and parametric digital design. He has worked in the office of Renzo Piano Building Workshop and now is applying his interests and experiences professionally with Joe Meppelink at Metalab and in academia as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Houston.
