A graduate of TUDelft Architecture and Urbanism faculties. Worked for Robert McNeel & Associates since 2006 on several programs, the most important of which is the Grasshopper visual programming environment for Rhinoceros 3D.
Robert McNeel & Associates, Seattle, WA, US, Lead Grasshopper development
I've been working on the Grasshopper code-base for Robert McNeel & Associates for the past 6 years or so. This is an on-going project.
The leBihan Partnership, Turku, FI, Junior developer
Development on several projects, including (but not limited to):
* Monkey (VBScript editor for Rhino)
* Grasshopper (Visual programming for Rhino)
* RhinoScript 101 (introduction and tutorial for RhinoScript programming)
Technische Universiteit Delft (TU Delft), Delft, NL, Masters, Architecture/Urbanism
ACADIA innovative research award 2012, 1st Place
From the ACADIA website:
"The selection of David Rutten for the award in Innovative Research recognizes his profound impact to architecture and computation as the developer of the Logical Modeling plug-in, Grasshopper, for the Rhinoceros 3D CAD application. Grasshopper has been pivotal to the transformation of parametric design practices over the past five-plus years."