bejing CHINA

Non-Linear Architecture_Parametrics Workshop 2010_Tsinghua University
July 31, 2010 – August 7, 2010

171 Students from around the world attended the one-week workshop in Beijing, China. In association with the AA summer school and sponsored by Gehry Technologies the workshop taught students how to generate, parametrically control, and fabricate complex geometry.

Students chose one of three main focuses; Software Training, Advanced Parametric Design, and Fabrication. The Software Training studio utilized Digital Project and Grasshopper to provide a parametric foundation, while Fabrication tested alternate methods of making. The Advanced Design Studio taught students to apply the software to parametric design strategies and thought processes to achieve their visions.
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brooklyn NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

graham CALDWELL : This is work for a show I just installed at G Fine Art in Washington DC
The show title is The Uncanny Valley

sP: what or who influenced this project?

gC: The work of Robert Smithson and Gordon Matta Clark influenced this show

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

heather ROBERGE: The contemporary American house is experiencing a deepening crisis of identity in this era of growing environmentalism. This identity crisis began nearly fifty years ago with the end of the Case Study House program and the rapid acceleration of suburbanization. The discipline of architecture never regained its footing in the context of American housing as housing became a product, subject to the efficiencies and economics of mass manufacture. The impact of suburban sprawl on energy, water and transportation infrastructure was largely overlooked until its geographic consequences were already firmly entrenched. The widespread growth of environmentalism has begun to address this problem, but even the corresponding aesthetic of the environmental movement has done little to assert a new identity for the American house.
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