The William Cooper Mack Thesis Fellowship Lecture: Digital Materiality in Architecture is presented in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Fellowship. The William Cooper Mack Thesis Fellowship program was established in 2008 by John and Harriet Mack at The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture in memory of their son William Cooper Mack, class of 2006.
Fabio Gramazio is an architect with multi-disciplinary interests ranging from computational design and robotic fabrication to material innovation. In 2000, he founded the architecture practice Gramazio & Kohler in conjunction with his partner Matthias Kohler, where numerous award-wining designs have been realized. Current projects include the design of the Empa NEST research platform, a future living and working laboratory for sustainable building construction. Having opened the world’s first architectural robotic laboratory at ETH Zurich, Gramazio & Kohler’s research has been formative in the field of digital architecture, setting precedence and de facto creating a new research field merging advanced architectural design and additive fabrication processes through the customized use of industrial robots.
J. Meejin Yoon is an architect, designer, and educator. Yoon is the co-founder of Höweler + Yoon Architecture LLP and MY Studio. Her design work and research investigate intersections between architecture, technology, and public space. Yoon has been widely recognized for her innovative and interdisciplinary teaching and work. She received numerous teaching and design awards including the ACADIA Teaching Award in 2016, the New Generation Design Leadership Award by Architectural Record in 2015, the Irwin Sizer Award for Most Significant Improvement (and Innovation) to Education at MIT in 2013, the United States Artist Award in Architecture and Design in 2008, and the Rome Prize in Design in 2005. Yoon will begin her appointment as Dean of Cornell’s College of Architecture, Art, and Planning in 2019.
The lecture is moderated by Nader Tehrani and Michael Young.
This lecture is free and open to the public, and presented in conjunction with the exhibition, Archive and Artifact: The Virtual and the Physical, currently on display in the Arthur A. Houghton Gallery.
