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Immersion in robotic design keeps ACADIA workshops true to 'Posthuman Frontiers' theme

2016-11-10T13:17:00-05:00

The ACADIA (The Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture) conference is a yearly, highly anticipated event for many architecture practitioners, researchers, educators, and inventers around the world. It is a chance for architects to come together and reach into the work that they have been starting or contributing to over the last year. This year ACADIA was hosted at The Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan, chaired and organized by accomplished and celebrated faculty members from Taubman College. The theme for the ACADIA 2016 conference is “Posthuman Frontiers: Data, Designers, and Cognitive Machines”; an elusive title meant to question certain fundamental conventional methods in architecture.

The workshop series: immersive, full-service learning

Every year, the workshop series is an integral part of a successful ACADIA conference. This year, there was a total of seven workshops that spanned across three intensive days in intim...

ACADIA's 'Wooden Structures' workshop takes a hack at automated fabrication of multi-species structures

2016-11-02T13:26:00-04:00

There is a misleading myth that “architecture is just architecture”, that assumes that architecture is a form of knowledge that neither research definitions, nor processes applied in other disciplines, can be applied to architecture research. It is a myth that has been used enduringly as an excuse to avoid further forms of research, claiming that other disciplines do not have the capacity to comprehend the nature of the field and the kind of work it entails. While part of these claims might be true, these claims have led to the severance between architecture and other disciplines, thus marginalizing architecture. Furthermore, it has made architecture seek authority from other disciplines such as art and science.

In the last decade there has been a tremendous change in the way architecture is perceived, which came along with the growing awareness of the importance of research in architecture, initiating interdisciplinary research, and removing all the intellectual paradigm boundaries ...

Rub elbows with experts at ACADIA's conference workshops

2016-10-24T20:14:00-04:00

The Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) conference is considered a premiere venue for the dissemination of cutting-edge work focusing on advanced computation and digital fabrication techniques, and Archinect is proud to be a media sponsor for the workshop portion of the event. A yearly event that attracts top-tier instructors and participants from around the globe, the 2016 workshops will take place from October 24-26th at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Organized around the conference title “Posthuman Frontiers: Data, Designers and Cognitive Machines”, seven workshops will spend three days exploring design philosophies in which computation, fabrication, material science, and sensory feedback are integrated into cohesive processes that exert their agency in the physical realm.

As part of its coverage of the ACADIA workshops Archinect has invited students from Taubman College to share their experience as parti...

One-to-One #42 with ACADIA workshop co-chairs Catie Newell and Wes McGee

2016-10-17T17:25:00-04:00

Aside from their role as workshop co-chairs for the ACADIA conference, this week's One-to-One guests are both architects who work and teach at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. Their focus on fabrication led them to their roles at ACADIA, with McGee directing Taubman's FABLab and Newell serving as Director of the Master of Science in Material Systems and Digital Technologies.

ACADIA stands for the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture, and this year's conference, "Posthuman Frontiers: Data, Designers and Cognitive Machines" (October 27-29) attests to the extreme collaborative depths humans and machines have come to in architecture. I spoke with Catie and Wes about what they have planned for the conference workshops, taking place October 24-26, and just how close architects are to achieving the singularity.

You can see our coverage of prior ACADIA conferences here.

Listen to One-to-One #42 with Catie Newell and Wes McGee:

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Generative Design and the Future of Architecture: Workshopping with Zaha Hadid: Code

2014-10-30T15:41:00-04:00

Zaha Hadid: Code is the programming arm of the renowned Zaha Hadid Architecture, a firm known for it's sleek, futuristic designs. During the ACADIA workshop, the designers chose to focus on the task of developing unique, computationally derived models to 3D print within the tight three day timeframe of the workshop. For architecture firms like Zaha Hadid, these workshops serve as playgrounds and testbeds for technologies.

A Chat with the Architect who Invented the Hoverboard: Episode 4 of Archinect Sessions out now!

2014-10-30T11:08:00-04:00

This week, Paul, Amelia, Donna and Ken speak with architect Greg Henderson about his hoverboarding technology, and its potential applications in architecture. Greg's architectural background led us to discuss the history of Working Out of the Box, and what may come next for the series, now that employers have more jobs than there are architects to fill them.

We also consider the problematics of the Helsinki Guggenheim's Stage One entries, and whether Gehry's bird flipping makes him into a crotchety old man or defiant punk.

Listen to episode four of the Archinect Sessions podcast, "A Chat with the Architect Who Invented the Hoverboard":

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Zaha Hadid joins keynote speaker lineup at ACADIA 2014: DESIGN AGENCY – Registration now open

2014-08-19T20:54:00-04:00

If you're in the Los Angeles area this fall, make sure not to miss this top notch event: the ACADIA 2014 Design Agency Conference, to be held at the USC School of Architecture October 23-25, just confirmed that Pritzker Prize winner Zaha Hadid will join the roster of high profile keynote speakers, including game designer Will Wright (creator of SimCity), programmer Casey Reas (creator of Processing), computational architect Marc Fornes (Principal of TheVeryMany) and structural engineer Greg Otto (Principal of Walter P. Moore).

Archinect and our sister site Bustler are proud to be media partners of ACADIA 2014, so be sure to learn more right here.

Read on for more details from the organizers.

"Co-chaired by Dr. David Jason Gerber (USC School of Architecture), Alvin Huang, AIA (Synthesis Design + Architecture/USC School of Architecture) and Jose Sanchez (Plethora Project/USC School of Architecture), this highly anticipated event will bring an international audience of innovative design e...

UPDATE: ACADIA 2014 Call for Papers deadline extended to April 22

2014-04-15T13:55:00-04:00

UPDATE: The Call For Papers deadline has been extended to April 22nd 12AM PDT.

Due to popular demand, the final deadline to submit papers for the ACADIA 2014 | Design Agency conference has been updated to April 22 at 12 a.m. PDT.

Submissions are welcome from specialized researchers, practitioners, students, and others interested in computational design of architecture. Submissions can include the disciplines of science and art, engineering, fabrication, computer science, construction and design.

This year's conference -- including workshops and tour -- will be held at the University of Southern California campus in Los Angeles this October.

Conference: October 23-25, 2014
Workshops and Tour: October 20-22 & 26, 2014.

Submission details
Submit a paper
ACADIA 2014 Consent to Publish form

You can find more details about the conference here.

Last reminder! ACADIA 2014 Call for Papers deadline is April 1 (UPDATE: April 22!)

2014-03-28T18:07:00-04:00

UPDATE: The Call For Papers deadline has been extended to April 22nd 12AM PDT.

Just a heads up that the deadline to submit papers for the ACADIA 2014 | Design Agency conference is April 22 (UPDATED!)!

This year's conference will be held at the University of Southern California campus in Los Angeles on Oct. 20-25, 2014.

More details below:

"The conference theme is intended to highlight experimental research and projects that exhibit and explore new paradigms of computing in architecture. The theme is a purposeful instigation of work that looks at re-defining the term "Agency" through the lens of computational design strategies such as simulation, fabrication, robotics, and novel integrations from science and the media arts...

3xLP wins SKIN Digital Fabrication Competition

2013-11-05T20:56:00-05:00

3xLP by Christopher Romano and Nicholas Bruscia has been announced as the winner of SKIN, the international digital fabrication competition from the TEX-FAB Digital Fabrication Alliance. The competition began with 68 entries from 14 countries from which four finalists and four honorable mentions were selected by the First Round Jury back in July. Out of the four finalist entries, which were all exhibited at the ACADIA Adaptive Architecture conference, the Second Round Jury decided on 3xLP.

Previously: SKIN Digital Fabrication Competition Announces Four Finalists

ACADIA 2013: Adaptive Architecture conference to present the latest in computational design

2013-09-27T13:46:00-04:00

Mark your calendar for the upcoming ACADIA 2013: Adaptive Architecture conference that will be held at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada on Oct. 24-26. Now in its 36th year, the international conference will present an array of current research and creative design happening in the ACADIA community, an international group of digital designers and researchers dedicated to supporting critical research in computational design.

FLATCUT-ACADIA Digital Fabrication Winners Announced

2011-07-18T14:48:29-04:00

The Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA), in collaboration with Brooklyn-based fabrication house FLATCUT_ have announced winners of this year’s ACADIA 2011 Design + Fabrication Competition.