Exhibition and Workshop images
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Brank Kolarevic
University of Calgary
KEYNOTE LECTURE
Complicit + Simplexity
University of Houston
02/10/2011
6:00
Branko Kolarevic holds the Chair in Integrated Design and co-directs the Laboratory for Integrative Design (LID). Prior to his appointment at the University of Calgary, he was the Irving Distinguished Visiting Professor at Ball State University in Indiana. He has taught architecture at several universities in North America, most recently at the University of Pennsylvania, and in Asia, in Hong Kong.
He has lectured worldwide on the use of digital technologies in design and production and has authored, edited or co-edited several books, including the recently published “Manufacturing Material Effects: Rethinking Design and Making in Architecture” (with Kevin Klinger), “Performative Architecture: Beyond Instrumentality” (with Ali Malkawi) and “Architecture in the Digital Age: Design and Manufacturing.” He is the past president of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) and is the recipient of the ACADIA 2007 Award for Innovative Research.
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L. William Zahner
ZAHNER CO
Adding Intelligence
University of Houston
02/11/2011
4:30
L. William Zahner, President and CEO of Zahner®, is a prolific writer and a sculptor. Well known for his passion for metal, he authored two books over the past twenty years, sharing his wealth of knowledge derived from being a fourth-generation expert in the field of metals. He has contributed to a number of high-profile projects using metal as a major building material, including the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, the Experience Music Project in Seattle, and the de Young Museum in San Francisco.
Zahner® has been engineering and producing advanced sheet metal surfaces for over 100 years. Under the management of L. William Zahner, the company began a rapid shift from regional projects to high-profile architecture working with internationally acclaimed artists and architects like Walter De Maria, Foster & Partners, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid Architects, OMA / REX, Martin Puryear and Moshe Safdie.
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Meppelink + Vrana
METALAB
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Patrick Hood-Daniel
Build Your Own CNC
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Vlad Tenu
Vlad Tenu
Over 100 attendees participated in nine workshops held on the University of Houston campus. Sold out workshops with participants representing 8 states and eight academic institutions. The sessions – taught by leading software developers, designers, and instructors in the field, including Marc Fornes, Ronnie Parsons and Gil Akos, Chris Lasch, Kevin McClellan, and Brad Bell – focused on the use of the NURBS modeling software Rhino. The sessions ranged from an introduction to a more advanced lesson that addressed issues of scripting, paneling, and the parametric plug-in Grasshopper.
