Emily Abruzzo
Assistant Professor, Parson School of Art

Chandler Ahrens                 
Senior Designer, Morphosis        

Phillip Anzalone
Director, Building Technology Sequence, Director,
Avery Digital Fabrication Laboratory Columbia University GSA

Phillip Beesley                 
Associate Professor, University of Waterloo

Torben Berns                 
Assistant Professor, McGill University

Oliver Bertram             
Assistant Professor, Institute of Architecture,
University of Applied Art, Vienna

Meredith Bostwick
Associate, RMJM

Martin Bressani                 
Associate Professor, McGill University

Gail Borden                          
Assistant Profesor, USC 

Guedi Capeluto
Associate Professor, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology             

Jason Crow                          
McGill University        

Christian Derix                 
AEDAS                                                     
Head of Computational Design and Research

Marty Doscher
Director of Information Technology, Morphosis Architects

Jose Pinto Duarte                  
Assistant Professor, TU Lisbon                          

Jeremy Ficca                 
Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University                          

Paola Giaconia                 
Professor of Architectural Design, California State University in Florence

Marcelyn Gow                 
Design Faculty, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm  

Yasha Grobman                 
PhD, Harvard GSD and Technion

Michael Hensel                 
Professor, AHO Oslo

Alicia Imperiale
Temple University                                   

Jason Johnson                   
Assistant Professor, Calgary University            

Omar Khan                          
Associate Profesor, University of Buffalo 

Axel Kilian                          
Assistant Professor, Princeton University 

Branko Kolarevic                 
Associate Professor, Calgary University                 

Peter Lang                          
Associate Profesor, Texas A&M 

Tapani Launis                 
PhD, Architecture Tapani Launis

Mark Linder            
Professor and Chair Graduate Program, Syracuse University  

Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa        
Assistant Professor, The Cooper Union        

Miguel Mesa del Castillo         
Technical Specialist, Politécnica Superior de Architectura del Alicante

Alexis Meier                 
Assistant Professor, Universite de Strasbourg

Rafael Gomez Moriana        
Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Calgary  

Eduardo S.  Nardelli         
President, SiGraDi          

Marc Aurel Schnabel        
Associate Profesor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Yusuke Obuchi                 
co-curator, AA fabrication research, AA DRL        

Vera Parlac            
Assistant Professor, Calgary University

Alessandra Ponte                 
Associate Professor, Universite de Montreal 

Atilio Pentimalli                 
Professor, UBA 

Christopher Pierce                 
Unit Master, AA      

George Proctor, RA                
Professor, California State Polytechnic University                                              

David Ruy                          
Assistant Professor, Pratt Institute        

Jenny Sabin                 
Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania

Antonino Saggio                 
Professor, La Sapienza, Rome

Andrew Saunders                 
Assistant Professor, RPI

Axel Schmitzberger                 
Assistant Professor, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Mohamed Sharif                 
Associate Professor, OTIS College of Art and Design

Mark Shepard                  
Assistant Professor, University of Buffalo

Aaron Sprecher,
Assistant Professor, McGill University School of Architecture                

Joshua Stein                 
Associate Professor, Woodbury University

Marc Swackhamer
Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota         

Michael Su                          
Visiting Professor, Pratt Institute   

Joshua Taron                     
Assistant Professor, Calgary University      

Aron Temkin                 
Director and Associate Professor, FAU                 

David Theodore                 
Harvard GSD          

Graziano Mario Valenti        
Professor, R.A.D.A.A.R. Universita La Sapienza, Rome

Eric Verboon           
Buro Happold                           

Shai Yeshayahu                 
Assistant Professor, Southern Illinois University        


 

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