2024-11-21T13:13:51-05:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/44893160/smartgeometry-2012-in-troy-new-york Terri Peters 2012-04-15T18:27:00-04:00 >2012-10-17T17:29:36-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/vp/vpfdchmvlkko72um.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p> <em>Text and photos by Terri Peters </em></p> <p> <a href="http://www.smartgeometry.org" target="_blank">SmartGeometry</a> is an international community of academics and professionals who hold annual workshops and conference days at academic institutions around the world. Now in its ninth year, this year&acute;s theme was Material Intensities and both the four-day workshop and conference day was held at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute&rsquo;s <a href="http://empac.rpi.edu" target="_blank">Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center</a> in Troy, New York. Sponsored by software company Bentley, the next event will be held in London in 2013. Previous Archinect features reported on <a href="http://archinect.com/features/article/88029/reviewed-smartgeometry-2009" target="_blank">SmartGeometry 2009 in San Francisco</a> and <a href="http://archinect.com/features/article/2112195/smartgeometry-2011-copenhagen-denmark" target="_blank">SmartGeometry 2011 in Copenhagen</a>.</p> https://archinect.com/features/article/2112195/smartgeometry-2011-copenhagen-denmark Terri Peters 2011-04-07T14:50:52-04:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/xe/xe2q12i1vc7lak4r.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p> SmartGeometry was established in 2001 as an international group of academics and professional architects, engineers, computer scientists and designers interested in the potentials of parametric design and computational tools. Each year, a four-day workshop precedes a conference day with invited speakers, and each year explores a different theme.&nbsp;</p>