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HOUSTON
SATURDAY, 02/12/11 THROUGH SUNDAY, 02/13/11  -  University of Houston College of Architecture

EARLY REGISTRATION
08/16/10 – 01/01/11
$95/SESSIONPRO/FACULTY
$35/SESSIONSTUDENT
(Fee assessed on all sessions)
LATE REGISTRATION
01/01/11 – 02/12/11
$125/SESSIONPRO/FACULTY
$45/SESSIONSTUDENT
(Fee assessed on all sessions)
REFUND POLICY
100%BEFORE01/14/11
50%BEFORE01/28/11
25%BEFORE02/04/11
0%AFTER02/14/11
Disbursing after 02/14
REGISTRATION POLICY
Registrants must pay in advance for their desired workshop. Any payment which is declined or returned unpaid is invalid and cancels the registration. Falsifying personal data or unauthorized use of a credit card will cancel the registration. Concurrent enrollment in multiple sessions is not allowed. Attendees are encouraged to contact TEX-FAB with any questions at: info@tex-fab.net
PROGRESSIVE WORKSHOPS
TEX-FAB Houston will present four distinct workshop sequences that begin with basic skill building and progress with each session till the attendee gains a broad understanding of the topics presented. It is strongly encouraged that you register for all the sessions in one topic area to gain the broadest understanding of that topic.
COMPUTING POLICY
Attendees for the 3D MODELING workshop have access to workstations which will be preloaded with the required software. Attendees for all the other workshops are expected to bring their own hardware. No desktops. We recommend you bring a laptop, power cord with sufficient length, and a mouse. You are free to bring any other device necessary for you to follow the session leader. No video recording equipment is allowed. Software requirements: Rhino 3D, Grasshopper, Paneling Tools, Monkey Editor
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS
SESSION 1
SESSION 2
SESSION 3

3D MODELINGBRAD BELL / KEVIN PATRICK MCCLELLAN
From basic modeling techniques to encompassing the development of complex forms geared toward fabrication, over two sessions attendees will gain a solid background in Rhinoceros.

INTRO TO 3D MODELING
SATURDAY, 9:00 – 1:00PM
ADVANCED 3D MODELING
SATURDAY, 2:00 – 6:00PM

SCRIPTED DESIGNMARC FORNES
Will explore the potentials of RhinoScript starting from the fundamentals (operators and functions, conditions, arrays) to the final analysis, description, reconstruction and tessellation of NURBS surfaces.

INTRO TO SCRIPTED DESIGN
SATURDAY, 9:00 – 1:00PM
ADVANCED SCRIPTED DESIGN
SATURDAY, 2:00 – 6:00PM
APPLIED SCRIPTED DESIGN
SUNDAY, 2:00 – 6:00PM

ALGORITHMIC DESIGNCHRIS LASCH
These three workshops build from fundamental algorithmic design concepts to advanced techniques concentrating on how the formal and organizational potentials emerge from complex self-organized systems.

INTRO TO ALGORITHMIC DESIGN
SATURDAY, 9:00 – 1:00PM
ADVANCED ALGORITHMIC DESIGN
SATURDAY, 2:00 – 6:00PM
APPLIED ALGORITHMIC DESIGN
SUNDAY, 9:00 – 1:00PM

PARAMETRIC DESIGNGIL AKOS / RONNIE PARSONS
This workshop will introduce participants to the cultural, technological, and tectonic domain of parametric design and digital fabriaction in a three session hands-on learning environment.

INTRO TO PARAMETRIC DESIGN
SATURDAY, 9:00 – 1:00PM
ADVANCED PARAMETRIC DESIGN
SATURDAY, 2:00 – 6:00PM
APPLIED PARAMETRIC DESIGN
SUNDAY, 2:00 – 6:00PM
SESSION LEADERS

Chris Lasch
ARANDA\LASCH

Established in 2003 by Benjamin Aranda and Chris Lasch, Aranda\Lasch is a New York-based studio engaged in both experimental research and innovative building. Winners of the Young Architects Award from the Architecture League and United States Artists Fellowship in 2007, their design work from buildings to installations to objects has garnered international recognition. Their early architectural projects were the subject of the critically acclaimed book, Tooling, published by Princeton Architectural Press. Aranda/Lasch has exhibited their work internationally in galleries and institutions dealing with design and architecture. In 2008 they were commissioned by the MoMA in New York to produce a large-scale installation in the museum. They also collaborated with artist Matthew Ritchie on a pavilion sized work, “The Morning Line,” initially installed at the 2008 Venice Biennial and then fully realized at the Seville Biennial in October. In addition to commercial and residential projects in New York, Aranda\Lasch recently completed a 42,000 square foot temporary structure for Design Miami in December. Objects and furniture designed by Aranda\Lasch are represented by Johnson Trading Gallery in New York.

Marc Fornes

Marc Fornes
THEVERYMANY

MARC FORNES (registered Architect DPLG) is the founder and principal of THEVERYMANY™ – www.theverymany.net – a design studio and collaborative research forum engaging the field of architecture via what he qualifies as “Explicit and Encoded protocols”.

In 2004 he graduated with a Master of Architecture and Urbanism from the Design Research Lab of the Architectural Association in London after having previously studied in France and Sweden (KTH). Marc’s professional work experience in La Reunion, France, UK and the US includes SOM, Ross Lovegrove and Zaha Hadid Architects. Marc – together with Francois Roche (R&Sie(n)) – has been co-teaching “(n)Certainties” – a graduate studio hosted three times at Columbia University (NYC), once at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles) and once at Die Angewandte (Vienna) as its Cross Over studio. Marc also taught studio at University of Michigan (Spring 09) and at Harvard/GSD (Spring 10). He has previously led many workshops and appeared as a guest critic at the Architectural Association, The Royal College of Art, Columbia University, Pratt Institute, the University of Pennsylvania, Ball State University, in Chile, etc… In 2007 he produced & curated Scriptedbypurpose.

Gil Akos / Ronnie Parsons
Studio Mode

Studio Mode/modeLab is a Brooklyn-based design studio and research collective founded by Ronnie Parsons and Gil Akos. As a studio committed to design as a form of applied research, Mode engages in practices that have a requisite and deep connection to material and the processes by which it is formed and informed.

Studio Mode has completed and collaborated on a number of projects, varying in scale and complexity from interactive installations to stadia design. Mode has exhibited throughout North America and Europe in shows that most recently include System:System by Random Number and Spontaneous Schooling at the Nous Gallery. Ronnie and Gil currently teach at Pratt Institute and have previously taught studios, seminars, and workshops at institutions such as California College of the Arts, University of Minnesota, University of Toronto, and University of Kentucky as well as Yale, Princeton, and Columbia Universities.