Lecture's IaaC - IaaC Lecture Series 2008 > Kevin Klinger

Kevin R. Klinger is Director of the Institute for Digital Fabrication with the Center for Media Design at Ball State University and Associate Professor of Architecture in the College of Architecture and Planning. He has served as a two-term President (03-05) and a two-term Vice-President (05-07) of the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) an international organization devoted to studying the advances in architecture resulting from influences of digital technology. Klinger leads research, teaching, and service in digital design and digital fabrication. Kevin R. Klinger encourages explorations in digitally-driven design evolved by techniques of digital fabrication. Design processes incorporating digital fabrication are informed by the direct association between design and production and the critical deployment of a range of software and advanced machining procedures. The digital exchange of information in this inventive process has led to new forms of architectural production that bring designers deeper into the complexities of making, assembly, and material formulation. Digital fabrication techniques encourage new forms of collaboration with industry, challenge conventional methodologies, and suggest a future in which designers are much more engaged in the total process of architecture. As such, the Institute for Digital Fabrication is devoted to advancing ideas and opportunities that result from the intersection of emerging technology with students, industry, and research collaborators. Lecture: \"Manufacturing Material Effects: Rethinking Design and Making in Architecture.\" The lecture will focus on work prepared for the forthcoming book from Routledge (late summer 2008) with Co-editor Branko Kolarevic, which features the recent international symposium entitled: ³Manufacturing Material Effects: Rethinking Design and Making in Architecture.² The symposium, held at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, assembled leading thinkers, designers, and makers from around the world to discuss experimental processes of material exploration through examining various levels of engagement and new forms of architectural production that bring designers deeper into the complexities of making, assembly, and material formulation. for more information please visit: www.bsu.edu/imade/mmfx.