Guest Lecturers

ACADIA 2010 will feature a series of guest lecturers who will share with the ACADIA community new trends in information technologies and theories applied to architecture and related fields.

Current confirmed guests:

Martin Bressani                 
Associate Professor, McGill University

Christian Derix                 
AEDAS                                                     
Head of Computational Design and Research

Alberto T. Estévez
Director Biogenetic Architecture, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona.

David Gersten
Professor, Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union

Mark Linder
Professor, Syracuse University

Scott Marble
Director, Avery Digital Fabrication Lab Columbia University, New York

Alexis Meier                 
Assistant Professor, University of Strasbourg

Alessandra Ponte                 
Associate Professor, University of Montreal

Ingeborg Rocker                 
Assistant Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Design

Jenny Sabin                 
Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania

Antonino Saggio                 
Professor, University La Sapienza, Rome

Mohamed Sharif                 
Associate Professor, OTIS College of Art and Design

Nader Tehrani              
Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

David Theodore                 
Harvard Graduate School of Design

 

 

   


 

Welcome

The ACADIA 2010 conference will focus on the changing nature of information and its impact on architectural education, research and practice. With the ever-increasing integration of information technologies in the design laboratory, the discipline of architecture has changed profoundly in recent years. The emerging fields of digital fabrication, generative and evolutionary modeling among others, are now at the core of investigations in a growing community of digital design practitioners and researchers.

ACADIA 2010 will explore the ways designers, architects, engineers and scientists collect, analyze and assemble information through computational systems that redefine the notions of design performance and optimization, evolutionary and responsive models. These notions are today inherently related to the possibilities and limitations offered by our increasing computational capabilities, and the way information shapes relations between the human, the environment, and the machine.

ACADIA 2010 will gather leading practitioners, theorists, and researchers who will examine the relation that architecture has with technology and information, and how the latter propels today’s most innovative design experimentations and research. The conference will be centered on a series of peer-reviewed paper sessions and a groundbreaking exhibition including peer-reviewed projects.

ACADIA 2010: October 21st to 24th 2010, The Cooper Union, NY

Conference Chairs: 
Aaron Sprecher, Shai Yeshayahu and Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa