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Date
1/26/2004
Time
4:00 PM
Venue
Architecture Building
AB 100
AB 100
Cost
Free
Audience
General Audience
Additional Information
Digital generative processes are opening up new territories for conceptual, formal, and tectonic exploration, articulating an architectural topology and morphology focused on emergent and adaptive properties of form. New materials are offering unprecedented thinness, dynamically changing properties, functionally gradient composition, and an incredible repertoire of new surface effects. The technologies of digital fabrication are radically reconfiguring the relationship between conception and production, creating a direct link between what can be conceived and what can be constructed.
The lecture will survey current digitally-driven developments in architectural design, fabrication, and construction and explore their implications for the established understandings of design and production processes and their social and technological constraints. A wide range of themes will be covered and illustrated with numerous examples from contemporary practice.
Kolarevic¹s recent book Architecture in the Digital Age addresses contemporary architectural practice in which digital technologies are radically changing how the buildings are conceived, designed and produced. It discusses the digitally-driven changes, their origins, and their effects by grounding them in actual practices already taking place, while simultaneously speculating about their wider implications for the future. The contents of the book brings together some of the leading international practitioners with the aim of providing informed views of what is seen as a critical juncture in architecture's evolving relationship to its wider cultural and technological context.
Branko Kolarevic is an associate professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches design and digital media and directs Penn¹s Digital Design Research Laboratory (DDRL). He has taught and lectured worldwide and is the author or editor of several books, including the recently published Architecture in the Digital Age: Design and Manufacturing. He is the past president of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA). He holds degrees in design from Harvard University and in architecture from the University of Belgrade.
The lecture will survey current digitally-driven developments in architectural design, fabrication, and construction and explore their implications for the established understandings of design and production processes and their social and technological constraints. A wide range of themes will be covered and illustrated with numerous examples from contemporary practice.
Kolarevic¹s recent book Architecture in the Digital Age addresses contemporary architectural practice in which digital technologies are radically changing how the buildings are conceived, designed and produced. It discusses the digitally-driven changes, their origins, and their effects by grounding them in actual practices already taking place, while simultaneously speculating about their wider implications for the future. The contents of the book brings together some of the leading international practitioners with the aim of providing informed views of what is seen as a critical juncture in architecture's evolving relationship to its wider cultural and technological context.
Branko Kolarevic is an associate professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches design and digital media and directs Penn¹s Digital Design Research Laboratory (DDRL). He has taught and lectured worldwide and is the author or editor of several books, including the recently published Architecture in the Digital Age: Design and Manufacturing. He is the past president of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA). He holds degrees in design from Harvard University and in architecture from the University of Belgrade.
