ACADIA (Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture) is pleased to announce that registration is now
open for the ACADIA 2014 Design Agency Conference to be held at the USC School of Architecture in Los Angeles the week of October 23-25, 2014. Co-chaired by Dr. David Jason Gerber (USC School of Architecture), Alvin Huang, AIA (Synthesis Design + Architecture/USC School of Architecture) and Jose Sanchez (Plethora Project/USC School of Architecture), this highly anticipated event will bring an international audience of innovative design educators, researchers, and practitioners together
for a week of design focused workshops, lectures, panels, presentations, and exhibitions that will push the boundaries of contemporary design technology and define new paradigms for design thinking.
Conference (October 23-25):
Pritzker Prize winning architect Zaha Hadid headlines an all-star lineup of keynote speakers pushing the boundaries of design including programmer Casey Reas (creator of Processing), game designer Will Wright (creator of SimCity), computational architect Marc Fornes (Principal of TheVeryMany, and structural engineer Greg Otto (Principal of Walter P. Moore). Additionally, the conference will featured 3 days of
presentations of peer-reviewed papers and projects from a global community of Architects, designers, fabricators, engineers, media artists, technologists, software developers, hackers, researchers, students and educators and others in related fields of inquiry.
Additional conference highlights include a panel discussion hosted by the American Institute of Architects TAP (Technology in Architectural Practice), the book launch of "Paradigms in Computing" edited by Dr. David J. Gerber and Mariana Ibanez, and the annual ACADIA Awards of Excellence. This years awardees are:
2014 ACADIA Lifetime Achievement Award
Zaha Hadid, Director, Zaha Hadid Architects
2014 ACADIA Innovative Research Award of Excellence
Martin
Bechthold, Director, Harvard Graduate School of Design - Technology Platform
2014 ACADIA Award of Teaching Excellence
Neil Gershenfeld, Director MIT - Center for Bits and Atoms
2014 ACADIA Digital Practice Award of Excellence
Jenny Sabin, Assistant Professor Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning
2014 ACADIA Innovative Academic Program Award of Excellence
Scott R. Marble, Director of Integrated
Design, GSAPP Columbia University
2014 ACADIA Society Award of Excellence
Nancy Yen-wen Cheng, Associate Professor Department of Architecture University of Oregon
Workshops (October 20-22):
In the three days leading up to the conference, ACADIA will host a series of 10 design workshops exploring various computational design processes. Each workshop is led by a leading innovator in the design industry who will share their tricks of the trade. Limited seats are available. Workshops are being led by Marc Fornes (TheVeryMany), Roland Snooks (Kokkugia), Daniel Piker (Kangaroo 3D), Nathan Miller (Case Inc.),
Andrew Heumann (NBBJ), Sigrid Brell-Cokcran & Johannes Braumann (Robots in Architecture), Shajay Bhooshan, Vishu Bhooshan & Mostafa El Sayed (ZHA CODE), Shane Burger, Tom Withers & Peter Van Hage (Woods Bagot), Sebastian Claussnitzer, Neil Katz, Matthew Shaxted, Sejung Kat Park, Robert Yori (SOM), and AutoDesk. For additional information about the workshops and to register - http://2014.acadia.org/workshops.html
Please direct all enquiries to: acadia.conf.2014@gmail.com
Hack-a-thon
(October 26):
The closing event of ACADIA 2014 will be a unique social experiment that will encourage every participant of the conference, to open their laptops and share, co-work and enjoy an exciting 1 day event hosted by the Annenberg Innovation Lab and powered by Unity3D. The event will host 20 design agency 'champions' around which teams will form to explore different workflows. The
participants will be invited to join any of the groups or wander around absorbing the amazing range of design techniques of our skilled participants. The Hackathon celebrates a culture of making and sharing and while we will give prizes to the best outputs at the end of the day, every participant will gain an insight from how designers behind key practices and institutions work. The event invites all design disciplines to work together under one roof, with a special guest, Charlie Roberts who will act as our resident LIVE CODING DJ for the event. The event will be free to all ACADIA 2014 Ticket holders. For additional information about the hackathon and to register, visit http://2014.acadia.org/hackathon.html
Please direct all enquiries to: acadia.conf.2014@gmail.com
eVolo Discount ($100 off from Registration):
eVolo is a sponsor of the 2014 ACADIA Conference and we are offering a discount of $100 to all our readers that would like to attend the event.
- Professionals Regular Price: $745 - with eVolo discount: $645
- Student Regular
Price: $345 - with eVolo discount: $245
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