Dallas


February 27- March 3, 2013


The University of Texas at Arlington hosted TEX-FAB 4 over four days on February 28th to March 3rd 2013. This year’s conference featured a day-long symposium of speakers from the academic and professional sector and introduced for the first time a four day workshop that ran throughout the entire conference. We were fortunate to have Lisa Iwamoto join us as our keynote lecture and share the compelling work being done by her firm IwamotoScott Architects. The conference presentations expanded to include a wide range of work such as The Beck Group, Arup, Future Cities Lab, Aranda\Lasch, MODE Collective and CASE. The winner of this years APPLIED competition also made a presentation on their work entitled “Cast Thicket” which anchored the exhibition in the UT Arlington Gallery. The workshop instruction featured some new faces with Jason Johnson teaching Robotic Prototypes and the HKS Line Studio teaching Beyond Pavilion Architecture. Familiar faces included David Fano but this time with Nate Miller who taught Workflow Rigging, Travis McCarra who taught Parametric Fundamentals, Chris Lasch returned to teach Design Scripting and Ronnie and Gil Akos who expanded their Crafting Material Effects to a four day workshop. The TEX-FAB 4 event saw AEC professionals, academics, and students join in a lively discussion around issues of computational fabrication and continued the efforts to bridge regional dialogue with a global network.

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Exhibition and Workshop images

Symposium

  • Lisa Iwamoto

    IWAMOTOSCOTT

    KEYNOTE LECTURE

    Current Work

    The Magnolia Theatre

    02/28/2013

    6:30

    Lisa Iwamoto received her Master of Architecture degree with Distinction from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Structural Engineering from the University of Colorado. Lisa has taught previously at the University of Michigan where she was a Muschenheim Fellow, and Harvard University. Lisa is currently an Assistant Professor at University of California Berkeley where her design research concentrates on the perceptual performance of material and digital fabrication techniques.

    Lisa is partner of IwamotoScott, a practice formed in partnership with Craig Scott. Committed to pursuing architecture as a form of applied design research, IwamotoScott engages in projects at multiple scales and in a variety of contexts consisting of full-scale fabrications, museum installations and exhibitions, theoretical proposals, competitions, and commissioned design projects. Iwamoto’s work has been published widely nationally and internationally. She is author of Digital Fabrications: Architectural and Material Techniques published by Princeton Architectural Press as part of their series Architecture Briefs.

  • Akos + Parsons

    MODE COLLECTIVE

    Design Modes

    University of Texas at Arlington

    03/01/2013

    Session 2 - 1:45

    MODE COLLECTIVE is a Brooklyn-based design studio and research collective founded by Ronnie Parsons and Gil Akos. As a studio committed to design as a form of applied research, Mode engages in practices that have a requisite and deep connection to material and the processes by which it is formed and informed.

    MODE COLLECTIVE has completed and collaborated on a number of projects, varying in scale and complexity from interactive installations to stadia design. Mode has exhibited throughout North America and Europe in shows that most recently include System:System by Random Number and Spontaneous Schooling at the Nous Gallery. Ronnie and Gil currently teach at Pratt Institute and have previously taught studios, seminars, and workshops at institutions such as California College of the Arts, University of Minnesota, University of Toronto, and University of Kentucky as well as Yale, Princeton, and Columbia Universities.

  • Maria Mingallon

    ARUP

  • Coates + Falick

    The Beck Group

  • Chris Lasch

    Aranda/Lasch

  • Jason Kelly Johnson

    Future-Cities Lab

  • Fano + Miller

    CASE Inc.

Workshops
This years workshops drew 123 attendees from around the world, with our largest and most diverse collection of sessions. Student attendee geography hit many distance regions from the South, Midwest and Southwest while Professional attendees came from all over the county including Seattle and New York. Additionally, the inclusion of international attendees was the broadest ever with Italy and Korea represented.

  • Crafting Material Effects

    MODE Collective

  • Parametric Fundamentals

    Travis McCarra

  • Beyond Pavilion Architecture

    HKS | Line Studio

  • Design Scripting

    Chris Lasch

  • Robotic Prototypes

    Jason Kelly Johnson

  • Workflow Rigging

    CASE Inc.

Sponsoring Institutions