Lecture's IaaC

Ignacio Fernández is a façade specialist, currently leading the façade group of Ove Arup & Partners SA in Spain. Before joining Arup he specialized in façade technology since 1991, first as member of a cladding company (Robertson Cupples, with projects as Torres Kio in Madrid, 1992-94), and later for a façade systems supplier (Hydro-Technal Group). surveys. Karsten Jurkait is a senior mechanical engineer, currently working as a project co-ordinator for Ove Arup & Partners SA (Madrid, Spain). During the his professional career with Ove Arup & Partners he has gathered a broad experience in the mechanical engineering aspects of multidisciplinary design of buildings, from first concept through scheme and detail design to tender documentation and site supervision and site supervision and surveys.

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‘The Digital Divide’ is a term most often used to describe the gap between the ‘haves and have-nots’ of technology provision – the chasm that still looms large between the ‘developed and developing worlds’. But for many, that divide is a physical one, and is located much closer to home. Whether it is the empty IT cupboard at a local school or community centre, or the view from the cameras rigged atop the Olympic site viewing tower, there is not yet anything like an even and accessible ‘ramp’ between rich and poor, privilege, ability and access.

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Mario Biselli finished his studies in 1985 at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanity, Universidad Presbiteriana Mackenzie. Two years later, Mario Biselli, collaborated with his colleague Artur Katchborian and created ¨Biselli Katchborian¨. Together they have developed important projects, such as the Sport Centre in Barurei, SP, the Caritas School in Sao Paolo, the San Cristóbal Station in Río de Janeiro and the urban intervention in Mauá, Sp. He created the International Passenjers\' Terminal Florianópolis, altogether with Guillerme Motta, one of the most emphasizing projects along all his professional career. In 2005 he won the 1st Prize in the National Public Competition for the Natal Theater, that will be built in Río Grande del Norte. He is a teacher in the Projects department of Fine Arts Faculty in Sao Paulo as well as in FAU Mackenzie. He describes Brazillian architecture brilliant, expressive. \"In Brazil it is very important the structure development, in order to resolve any type of project..\"

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ecoLogicStudio was co-founded in London in 2004 by two architects/engineers, Marco Poletto and Claudia Pasquero. Both graduated at Turin Polytechnic and at the AA in London (MA environment and energy), they joined their experiences as designers and environmental consultants to propose a new formula of environmental design practice. ecoLogicStudio is, in fact, committed to develop an innovative approach to architecture and design whereas the designed product is thought and developed as a system, whose behavior is defined via a set of multiple relationship with the surrounding environment. In the last years we have been researching and working to structure a design methodology which allows the systemic approach to be consistently implemented. We have been recently applying this logic to a wide range of projects worldwide and we have been developing a specific palette of tools which support our work in different circumstances (urban scale, building scale, component scale). The innovative nature of our work has allowed us to practice internationally and to cooperate with other teams of different nature. This attitude is part of our plan to develop a network of connected practices, working at different levels and in different sectors, and enabling innovative and competent design to be produced in any occasion. So far our list of client/partners includes architects, engineers, private and public sector, manufacturers and developers.

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Bernhard Franken is an architect and engineer pursuing a medial concept featuring a coherent digital process from design to production. Starting out on a creative idea both form and realization are developed digitally. Bernhard Franken´s independent architectural language and philosophy has solicited broad interest in various international exhibitions – amongst them at the Deutsche Architektur Museum in Frankfurt and the Nederlands Architecture Institute (NAI), Rotterdam – and obtained several renowned awards. He has been Assistant Professor at the TU Darmstadt and visiting Professor at Kassel University and SciArc / Los Angeles. Currently he is teaching at the Zollverein School of Management and Design in Essen. His architectural firm franken architekten develops design concepts through digital parametric design, ensuring both consistency and perfection in all phases of the project. The exhibition pavilions he designed for BMW group over the past several years demonstrate the synergies resulting from digital design and manufacturing.

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Brett directs the Architectural Association School of Architecture, and AA Pubicationsl. He is the former founder and Director of the AADRL Design Research Lab, the innovative team-based post-professional March programme at the Architectural Association. He is the creator of AADRL.net, which contains more than 15,000 image, model, scripting, video and other files related to the work of the AADRL. He is a Partner of DAL, desArchLab, an architectural office in London, and has taught and lectured at schools throughout the US, Europe, Mexico, Hong Kong, China and Japan. He is the editor of ‘Negotiate My Boundary’ (London 2002), ‘Corporate Fields’ (London 2005), ‘D[R]L Research’ (Beijing 2005), and ‘DRL R&D: Open Sources’ (forthcoming, 2008), and Series Editor of AA Words; Critical Thinking in Contemporary Architecture. Brett’s articles, interviews & lectures on contemporary architecture, urbanism and design teaching have appeared in Arch+, AD, Architecture Review, A+U, Archis, AA Files, Harvard Design Magazine, Hunch, World Architecture, Log, Japan Architect, Icon Magazine, Daidalos, and other journals. A selection of his writings are online at www.resarch.net.

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IaaC continues the lecture series 2006_07 with a multi-disciplinary team of lecturers debating on conception of sustainability in urban, building and component scale through dynamic mapping, energy strategies, digital fabrication… Among them, Axel Kilian and Bernhard Franken whose lectures are part of the program of Digital Tectonics.

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The lecture will give an overview of a number of projects of Axel Kilian\'s PhD addressing the challenge of design exploration using computational design approaches. The projects include fabrication studies of a free form chair of all curved plywood parts, concept car design studies with the media lab and the use of programming for form finding in architectural design. In addition some full scale prototype explore the use of digital fabrication driven by parametric models. Axel Kilian recently completed a PhD and subsequent Post Doctoral position in the Computation Group in the Department of Architecture at MIT. He came to MIT on a Fulbright scholarship after completing his professional architecture degree at the University of the Arts in Berlin, Germany. During his stay he also completed his Master of Science in Architectural Studies at MIT. His PhD research centered on design exploration in the context of architecture and design processes using computational processes, namely programming and parametric design in combination with fabrication. Recent projects range from architectural form finding applications, collaboration on concept car designs with the media lab, to a number of full scale installations. Axel Kilian has been teaching courses and workshops in computation in academia and in collaboration with the smart geometry group in the UK since 2003. He has lectured in the US, Central America, and Europe among others at GSD, UPENN, Columbia, GATech, MIT, AA, UFM Guatemala City, TU Prague, IST Lisbon, TU Stuttgart.

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Dimitris Papalexopoulos is an architect, Professor at the School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens. His post - graduate course on “Architecture and Information Technology” (www.ntua.gr/archtech) won at 1998 the 3d Price of the ACADIA international competition on “Libraries on the Information Age” and participated in international exhibitions and conferences. Co-organization of international symposiums on architecture and I.T. (A2B – Mobility / Immobility, Basel) and on intelligent environments (2nd International I.E.T. Conference). Researches on interaction design and building knowledge management. Member of the 2006 EC expert group for the elaboration and evaluation of the Digital Territories concept. Author of articles on architecture and I.T. Recently, co-author (with Eleni Kalafati) of Takis Zenetos, Visioni digitali, architetture construite, EdilStampa. Archsign, his architectural firm (www.archsign.gr ), develops building design concepts for evolving space activities through I.T.. His design practice since 1980 includes renovations and new buildings projects in the private and public sector. Recent architectural works refer to the integration of space and information technology and intelligent buildings. A Mediterranean redefinition of locality through I.T. is researched.

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Peter was born in Pincehely, Hungary in 1976. Lives and works in Barcelona since 2000, working as free lance architect, media designer, candymaker. In 2001 together with Adam Somlai-Fischer and Anita Pozna he founded aether architecture. Aether’s work has been recently exhibited both at ISEA 2004 in Helsinki and at the Venice Biennale of Architecture and published in European design magazines including the upcoming special issue, 4DSpace, focusing on interactive architecture by Architectural Design, UK. Christian is Barcelona based architect. Had been working for EMBT as architect and coordinator of the model making workshop between 2001-2005. Recently he is dedicated to develop projects and designs with recycled material.

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