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CONFERENCE LOCATIONS
PANEL DISCUSSIONS
WORKSHOPS
HACKATHON
EXHIBITION
2014 PUBLICATIONS
ACADIA ORGANIZATION
VOLUNTEERS
SPONSORS
Monday
Tuesday
20/10/14
Wednesday
21/10/14
Thursday
22/10/14
Friday
23/10/14
Saturday
24/10/14
Sunday
25/10/14
26/10/14
8:00am
9:00am
10:00am
Workshops Introduction
Openning Remarks
Workshops Session 05
Workshops Session 03
Workshops Session 01
11:00am
Acadia Session 1:
Design Agency
Session Chair:
Roland Snooks
Acadia Session 2:
Parametric Agency
Session Chair:
Kris Mun
7 speakers + roundtable
7 speakers + roundtable
Acadia Session 3:
Material Agency
Session Chair:
Alisa Andrasek
Acadia Session 5:
Temporal Agency
Session Chair:
Neil Leach
Acadia Session 6:
Data Agency
Session Chair:
Kyle Steinfeld
7 speakers + roundtable
7 speakers + roundtable
7 speakers + roundtable
Acadia Hackathon
Hosted by Annenberg Innovation Lab
12:00am
A
1:00pm
2:00pm
Lunch
Lunch
Lunch
Lunch
Workshops Session 02
Workshops Session 04
Workshops Session 06
Talk:
Jordan Brandt
Acadia Session 1:
Design Agency
Session Chair:
Roland Snooks
Acadia Session 2:
Parametric Agency
Session Chair:
Kris Mun
7 speakers + roundtable
7 speakers + roundtable
3:00pm
4:00pm
Acadia Session 4:
Fabrication Agency
Session Chair:
Matias del Campo
Lunch
7 speakers + roundtable
6:00pm
Acadia Session 5:
Temporal Agency
Session Chair:
Neil Leach
Acadia Session 6:
Data Agency
Session Chair:
Kyle Steinfeld
7 speakers + roundtable
7 speakers + roundtable
Evening Keynote:
Hosted by Sci-Arc
Greg Otto
7:00pm
Evening Keynote:
Hosted by USC School of Architecture
Marc Fornes
Evening Keynote:
Hosted by USC
Will Wright
Evening Keynote:
Hosted by USC Visions and Voices
Zaha Hadid
8:00pm
Catered Dinner provided by ACADIA
9:00pm
Exhibition Openning
Evening Keynote:
Hosted by USC
Casey Reas
I
U
Lunch
Acadia Hackathon
Hosted by Annenberg Innovation Lab
5:00pm
A
Sci-Arc
9:00AM
9:00AM
9:30AM
9:30AM
DESIGN AGENCY
9:40AM
SPEAKER 1:
PARAMETRIC AGENCY
9:40AM
SPEAKER 1:
SPEAKER 2:
Satoru Sugihara
9:55AM
SPEAKER 2:
10:10AM
SPEAKER 4:
SPEAKER 3:
Renee Puusepp
10:25AM
Illustrated Programming
9:55AM
10:10AM
10:25AM
SPEAKER 4:
Metal-Printed Nodes
10:40AM
10:40AM
11:00AM
BREAK
11:00AM
BREAK
11:30AM
SPEAKER 5:
11:30AM
SPEAKER 5:
SPEAKER 6:
Mesh Agency
SPEAKER 7:
SPEAKER 8:
SPEAKER 6:
Fabrication
SPEAKER 7:
Mark Cabrinha
Paul Nicholas
1:00PM
11:45AM
design
12:30PM
Daniel Richards
Martyn Amos
12:15PM
Euclids Wedge
Mark Ericson
12:00PM
Jeff Ponitz
12:15PM
SPEAKER 8:
Martin Tamke
Iain Maxwell
Jacob Riiber
David Pigram
Ole Egholm-Pedersen
12:30PM
1:00PM
LUNCH BREAK
LUNCH BREAK
2:00PM
2:00PM
3:00PM
SPEAKER 1:
DESIGN AGENCY
3:00PM
PARAMETRIC AGENCY
3:05PM
SPEAKER 1:
BIM
Maher Elkhaldi
Robert Woodbury
3:20PM
3:35PM
SPEAKER 2:
SPEAKER 3:
Danelle Briscoe
Configurations of Intensity
3:20PM
4:10PM
BREAK
4:40PM
SPEAKER 4:
3:35PM
SPEAKER 6:
3:50PM
4:10PM
BREAK
4:40PM
SPEAKER 4:
Everyone is an Architect
SPEAKER 5:
SPEAKER 7:
5:10PM
Neil Leach
5:40PM
6:30PM
SPEAKER 6:
5:25PM
6:30PM
KEYNOTE
8:00PM
8:00PM
DINNER
KEYNOTE
Jose Sanchez
5:25PM
Carlos Sandoval
Claudia Otten
5:10PM
Reverberating Across the Divide: Bridging virtual and physical contexts in digital design and fabrication
Kyle Steinfeld
SPEAKER 5:
SPEAKER 3:
Madeline Gannon
4:55PM
3:50PM
SPEAKER 2:
Mirco Becker
Alexander Webb
DINNER
Dinner provided by ACADIA
9:00AM
SPEAKER 1:
MATERIAL AGENCY
2:00PM
FABRICATION AGENCY
2:10PM
2:25PM
SPEAKER 4:
10:10AM
10:30AM
BREAK
11:00AM
SPEAKER 5:
2:40PM
SPEAKER 3:
2:55PM
SPEAKER 4:
Round Table
3:10PM
3:30PM
BREAK
4:00PM
SPEAKER 5:
SPEAKER 7:
SPEAKER 6:
SPEAKER 8:
Justin Diles
4:45PM
SPEAKER 8:
AWARD TALK
1:00PM
LUNCH BREAK
Post-forming Composite Morphologies: Materialization and design methods for inducing form through textile material behavior
Sean Ahlquist
12:20PM
5:00PM
Loker Conference Center @
SPEAKER 7:
Nazareth Ekmekjian
Skylar Tibbits - Carrie McKnelly - Carlos Olguin - Shai Hirsch Daniel Di
12:00PM
Integrative computational design methodologies for modular architectural fiber composite morphologies
Composites
11:45PM
Daniel Rhomberg
11:30AM
Kory Bieg
SPEAKER 2:
Brian Peters
9:55AM
Adam Marcus
Rhett Russo
SPEAKER 3:
SPEAKER 1:
Craft
Ceramics.
9:40AM
5:30PM
6:30PM
7:00PM
9:00AM
SPEAKER 1:
TEMPORAL AGENCY
9:10AM
SPEAKER 1:
Guvenc Ozel
SPEAKER 2:
9:25AM
9:40AM
Matthew Parker
SPEAKER 3:
10:30AM
BREAK
9:55AM
SPEAKER 4:
10:10AM
ROUNDTABLE
10:30AM
BREAK
11:00AM
SPEAKER 5:
11:15AM
SPEAKER 6:
11:00AM
SPEAKER 5:
SPEAKER 6:
SPEAKER 7:
11:30AM
SPEAKER 7:
SPEAKER 8:
12:20PM
AWARD TALK
1:00PM
LUNCH BREAK
Kamil Sharaidin
12:00PM
Surfaces
11:45PM
Henri Achten.
ROUNDTABLE
Joshua Bard - Madeline Gannon - Zachary Jacobson-Weaver Michael Jeffers - Brian Smith - Mauricio Contreras
10:10AM
SPEAKER 3:
SPEAKER 4:
SPEAKER 2:
Jason Johnson
9:40AM
9:25AM
9:55AM
9:00AM
12:00PM
ROUNDTABLE
12:20PM
TALK
1:00PM
LUNCH BREAK
Round Table
Talk TBD
2:00PM
3:00PM
TEMPORAL AGENCY
3:05PM
3:20PM
SPEAKER 1:
SPEAKER 2:
DATA AGENCY
3:05PM
SPEAKER 3:
SPEAKER 4:
Philip Speranza
3:20PM
4:05PM
BREAK
SPEAKER 5:
SPEAKER 6:
SPEAKER 3:
3:50PM
USC Ronald Tutor Center
Grand Ballroom - Room B
SPEAKER 4:
BREAK
4:25PM
SPEAKER 5:
4:40PM
SPEAKER 6:
4:55PM
6:45PM
KEYNOTE
8:00PM
BANQUET
SPEAKER 7:
applications
5:45PM
Elizabeth Boone
Selective Interference: Emergent complexity informed by programmatic, social and performative criteria
4:55PM
Christoph Klemmt
4:40PM
SPEAKER 2:
Pierre Cutellic
Google Earth
USC Ronald Tutor Center
Display
3:50PM
SPEAKER 1:
Manuel Kretzer
Designs.
3:35PM
3:00PM
5:45PM
6:45PM
KEYNOTE
8:00PM
BANQUET
PATHS - SUNDAY 26
www.djgerber.com
David Ross Scheer brings a broad background in practice, teaching and research to his work on the effects of digital technologies
on architecture. He has been a member of the national advisory
group of the AIA Technology in Architectural Practice Knowledge
Community (TAP) since 2006 and was its Chair in 2012. Through
industry. His interest in digital design tools has not lessened Mr.
Scheers strong affinity for the tradition of architectural drawing in which he was trained. This led him to write a book titled
The Death of Drawing: Architecture in the Age of Simulation
Moderator:
Andrew Heumann leads NBBJs Design Computation team, overseeing strategy, development, and implementation of computational tools for diverse projects and applications.
their effectiveness.
WORKSHOPS
by Roland Snooks
by Marc Fornes
by Daniel Piker
by Autodesk
by Autodesk
by SOM Sebastian Claussnitzer, Neil Katz, Matthew Shaxted, Sejung Kat Park, Robert Yori
HACKATHON
PUBLICATIONS
Will Hosikian
Benjamin Dillenburger
Igor Pantic
while we will give prizes to the best outputs at the end of the day,
Soomeen Hahm
Michail Desyllas
Alexandr Kalachev
Tudor Cosmatu
Olga Kavrikova
VicenteSoler
Trevor Patt
Nathaniel Zuelzke
Maiden Llaguno
PARADIGMS IN COMPUTING
The Editors of the Paradigms and Computing Making Machines
and Models for Design Agency in Architecture along with our
publishers will host a panel discussion amongst the editors
and contributors. The event is our launch of the book and an
opportunity for continuing, and evoking, the discussion we
instigated.
CARET 6
PROJECT 3XLP
SOFT-MODELLING
Nicholas Bruscia
Shajay Bhooshan
Asbjorn Sondergaard
Chikara Inamura
Joshua Zabel
Mustafa El-Sayed
Kory Bieg
EXTREME ASSEMBLAGES
ROBOTIC INFILTRATIONS
Andrei Gheorghe
APERTURES
Scott Uriu
Herwig Baumgartner
MODULAR VARIATIONS
Adam Marcus
(URBANNETWORK)
RETHINKING URBAN PUBLIC ENVIRONMENTS
THROUGH GLOBAL INTERACTION
Andrew Wit
Mahesh Daas
Monica Tiulescu
Alexandra Neyman
CENTENNIAL CHROMAGRAPH
Adam Marcus
HELIX
Marcella Del Signore
Giuseppe Morando
Elena Del Signore
Caylon Beville
Shannon Buchanan
A(G)NTENSE
Adam Dally
Christopher Romano
EIGENFORMS
buckled stereotomic assemblies
VITALIZED GEOMETRY
Justin Diles
Kristine Mun
STOICHEIA
Teslas Apotheosis, Architecture and Sound
F. Myles Sciotto
Jean-Michel Crettaz
VERTEX.3D
Brian Peters
structure
WHITEOUT
Satoru Sugihara
RESONANT SURFACE 01
Christine Yogiaman
Kenneth Joseph Tracy
DOT/O
Biayna Bogosian
Jose Sanchez
Aaron Sprecher
Eran Neuman
Iason Pantazis
Jason F. Carlow
GEOWEAVER
CENTRIPETAL
Jeffrey Maeshiro
Ming Tang
POLYOMINO
Colin Klimesh
Jose Sanchez
Simon Kim
Mariana Ibaez
FLIGHT PATTERN
FRP BUILDING
VERTIGUOUS INTERIORS
David Freeland
Weiguo Xu
Patrick Tighe
Marta Piaseczynska
Brennan Buck
Xiaoan Li
John V. Mutlow
Rangel Karaivanov
Jrgen Strohmayer
Tom Wiscombe
STUDENT PROJECTS
BREATHING WALL
CRYSTAL CLOUD
RHEOLOGICAL TRANSLATIONS
Ulla Hell
AmirReza Mirmotahari
Nikita Troufanov
Holger Kehne
Joanna Theodosiou
Brennen Huller
Alexander Robinson
Peter Pichler
DISTORTION
WOVEN CLAY
F. Myles Sciotto
Volkan Alkanoglu
Jared Friedman
David Gerber
Rodrigo Shiordia Lopez
LAMELLAR FLOWS
Behnaz Farahi
TEX-FAB
Heamin Kim
PRACTICE PROJECTS
Olga Mesa
Julia Koerner
Marie Boltenstern
ROBOFOAM
Kais Al-Rawi
Elina Christou
SELFRIDGES
Jan Dierckx
Marc Fornes
Yayoi Kusama
Andrew Vrana
Nikola Papic
Joe Meppelink
CHROMATAE
Marc Fornes
CHELSEA WORKSPACE
Alvin Huang
Ben Nicholson
Ahmed Hosny
Amanda Lee
Shane Burger
SCATTERED SOLID
MAY/SEPTEMBER
Minjae Ko
Jie-Eun Hwang
Rob Ley
Yuan Yao
Chris Knapp
Jonathan Nelson
Michael Parsons
Adam Vukmanov
Tadeas Klaban
Ondrej Michalek
PUFFD COMPOSITES
Brennen Huller
Nels Long
Nikita Troufanov
PLASTIC STEREOTOMY
TOWARD AN ARCHITECTURE OF LAMINAR POCH
Justin Diles
VISCOPLASTY
Sofia Bennani
Alexandra Singer-Bieder
Agathe Michel
CONFERENCE CHAIRS
and edited over 40 articles, books and proceedings and has held
Europe, India and Asia including for Zaha Hadid Architects, Gehry
Architects, and his own practice. Dr. Gerber has been a board
level advisor, and an executive officer for design technology com-
form of video games, speculating on modes of intelligence augmentation, combinatorics and open systems as a design medium.
His cross disciplinary research involves education, data-mining,
simulation and design, positioning video games as a medium for
collaboration and systems thinking.
He is the co-creator of the BLOOM project. BLOOM was the winner of the WONDER SERIES hosted by the City of London for the
exhibited all over the world with highlights in The 9th Archilab
the SCIArc, and has taught at UCLA, the AA, the EPFL, Stanford
University, the Tecnologico de Monterrey Mexico and at Tsinghua
University Beijing.
is linked to Biothing with Alisa Andrasek, were he was a principal designer in numerous projects and exhibitions since 2009.
Southern California.
Design Studies, and his PhD (Doctor of Design) from the Harvard
and design free online initiatives and has a large active commu-
and China.
www.djgerber.com
www.synthesis-dna.com
www.plethora-project.com
KEYNOTE
KEYNOTE
Will Wright
Casey Reas
University of California, Los Angeles
Co-Creator of Processing
visual systems.
software.
KEYNOTE
KEYNOTE
Marc Fornes
Greg Otto
Walter P Moore
THEVERYMANY
Princeton University and Harvard GSD
Marc Fornes is a registered Architect DPLG and founder of
and the Managing Director of its Los Angeles office. Mr. Otto
Pompidou, the FRAC Centre and the CNAP. He has been exhibited
void) and sold work at Art Basel Miami/GGG, Art Paris, Phillips de
working and innovation. For our firm, his academic ties, desire
Pompidou, the FRAC Centre and the CNAP. He has been exhibited
Alexander Calder (2012). His pop up store for Louis Vuitton & Yayoi
void) and sold work at Art Basel Miami/GGG, Art Paris, Phillips de
well as the 40th Annual Interior Design Award by the IIDA. His
Alexander Calder (2012). His pop up store for Louis Vuitton & Yayoi
Kusama is the very first carbon fiber self-supported shell structure
practice was also awarded New Practices New York by the AIA
(2012), the Architectural League Prize (2013), Design Vanguard by
well as the 40th Annual Interior Design Award by the IIDA. His
practice was also awarded New Practices New York by the AIA
engineering.
Zaha Hadid
University of California, Los Angeles
Co-Creator of Processing
Image credit: Hufton and Crow
and tower in Milan; the Grand Theatre in Rabat and the New
Image credit: Jacopo Spilimbergo
AWARD
Neil Gershenfeld
Director of MITs Center for Bits and Atoms
tum computations, using nuclear spins in molecules; microfluProf. Neil Gershenfeld is the Director of MITs Center for Bits
and Atoms. His unique laboratory is breaking down boundaries
between the digital and physical worlds, from creating molecular quantum computers to virtuosic musical instruments.
Technology from his lab has been seen and used in settings
including New Yorks Museum of Modern Art and rural Indian
Image credit: Iwan Baan
Hes played the bassoon, ski patrolled and raced, and swam
competitively.
AWARD
AWARD
Jenny Sabin
Cornell University
and teaching. She studies how tools and approaches shape the
computation.
heat and glare while using the suns movement to create dy-
the AIA Henry Adams first prize medal and the Arthur Spayd
Center.
she graduated with honors from Yale University, and then re-
AWARD
AWARD
Martin Bechthold
Scott R. Marble
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DESIGN AGENCY
The ACADIA2014: DESIGN AGENCY conference will be held in Los Angeles,
California at the USC School of Architecture on October 23-25, 2014.
DESIGN AGENCY will bring together the spectrum of research and creative
practice currently occurring within the ACADIA community through the
combined support of the research networks of the University of Southern
California, University of California Los Angeles and Souther erted or an end
is achieved.
ACADIA is an international network of digital design researchers and
professionals. ACADIA supports critical investigations into the role of
computation in architecture, planning, and building science, encouraging
innovation in design creativity, sustainability, and education.
of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture