Lecture's IaaC - IaaC Lecture Series 2008-2009 > Michael Silver

16_03_09 “Projects+Technologies: MP3s, Supercomputers and Fiber Placed Composites” Michael Silver This lecture covers new research into contemporary technologies and their effect on architecture. It attempts to push the boundaries of theory and practice through the application of new materials, computer codes and methods of fabrication. The talk will explore the shift from the appropriation of software to the creation of homemade tools, and investigate the implications of increasing speed and power in the move towards ‘supercomputing’. In order to promote socially responsible research the project as a whole examines these systems in relationship to a sustainable design process. Michael Silver is a LeFevre’ 29 Research Fellow at Knowlton School of Architecture in Ohio, and Sanders Fellow at University of Michigan. He was Director of Digital Media at Yale and has taught at Harvard. He directs a multidisciplinary design laboratory in New York and continues research in digital mapping, advanced composite manufacturing and software development. He is author of Pamphlet Architecture #19 Reading / Drawing / Building, AD’s Mapping in the Age of Digital Media and Programming Cultures (Wiley and Sons).