philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA
Since its emergence roughly 20 years ago, generative digital design has fundamentally altered the way in which we conceptualize, design, and fabricate architecture. Virtually every aspect of our profession has been radically transformed. . . .
symposium: “The New Normal: Experiments in Contemporary Generative Design.”
Thursday, 11/14 & Friday, 11/15
PennDesign / Meyerson Hall, Lower Gallery
210 S. 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
These innovations have not been restricted to questions of technology alone, and have fueled a lively debate among leading educators, theoreticians, and practitioners in their respective efforts to understand the larger cultural ramifications triggered by this phenomenon.
The symposium starts from the viewpoint that after 20 years of Digital Design, a new platform has now been established [The New Normal], and new forms of practice have emerged. For the New Normal we gathered some of the most innovative of these new practices, who will participate in one of the three panels and present their speculation on radical and innovative forms of that practice.
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Thursday, November 14
Meyerson Hall, Lower Gallery
210 S. 34th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
6:30PM Keynote lecture: Neil Denari, Neil M. Denari Architects, UCLA
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Friday, November 15
Meyerson Hall, Lower Gallery
210 S. 34th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
10:00AM Welcome and Introduction
10:30AM Panel 1: “New Assemblages”
Moderator: Roland Snooks, PennDesign, Kokkugia
Panelists: Manuel De Landa, PennDesign
Mark Goulthorpe, deCOi Architects, HypoSurface, Zero+, MIT
Simon Kim, PennDesign, IK Studio
Brandon Kruysman, Kruysman-Proto, Bot&Dolly, SCI-Arc
Francois Roche, New-Territories Architects
1:30PM Panel 2: “New Niche”
Moderator: Ferda Kolatan, PennDesign, su11 architecture+design
Panelists: Michael Loverich, Bittertang
Drura Parrish, Parrish Holdings
Jason Payne, UCLA, Hirsuta
Jonah Rowen, SCI-Arc, Project
4:00PM panel 3: “The Anorganic”
Moderator: Winka Dubbeldam, PennDesign, Archi-tectonics
Panelists: Philip Beesley, University of Waterloo
Lydia Kallipoliti, Syracuse U, Cooper Union, EcoRedux, ANAcycle design+writing
Tobias Klein, Studio Tobias Klein
Gaston Nogues, Ball-Nogues Studio
Chris Sharples, SHoP Architects, SHoP Construction
6:30PM keynote lecture: Ben van Berkel, UNStudio
