Committee members

Makoto Sei Watanabe (Chairman)
architect
MAKOTO SEI WATANABE / ARCHITECTS' OFFICE
professor
Space-Generating Lab, Faculty of Urban Life Studies, Tokyo City University, Tokyo, Japan
works
WEB FRAME & WF-II: SUBWAY STATION / IIDABASHI (Tokyo), RIBBONs (Taichung), SHANGHAI HOUSE (Shanghai), AOYAMA TECHNICAL COLLEGE (Tokyo), etc.
books
ALGOrithmic Design EXecution and logic (Maruzen publishing), ALGORITHMIC DESIGN (collaboration, Kajima Institute publishing), makoto sei watanabe(EDILSTAMPA, Italy)
INDUCTION DESIGN(Birkhäuser, Switzerland-Germany / Testo and Immagine, Italy), etc.
Michael Hansmeyer
director
Visiting prof.​,
Lab. of Architectural Algorithms & Applications,
School of Architecture, Southeast University,
Nanjing, China
works
Subdivided Columns (Gwangju Design Biennale), Digital Grotesque (FRAC Centre), Platonic Solids
Urs Hirschberg
architect
IAM Research & Studio
professor
Vice-Dean Faculty of Architecture, Director, TU Graz Field of Expertise Sustainable Systems, Director Institute of Architecture and Media (IAM), Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria
works
IAM Research & Studio projects: Kobra aus Brettsperrholz (Graz), The Framed Pavillion (Knittelfeld), The wooden Chandelier, Steiermarktisch, etc.
books
GAM.10 Intuition & the Machine (editor, forthcoming), GAM.09 Walls Spatial Sequences (editor, Springer Verlag Wien / New York), GAM.08 Dense Cities (editor, Springer Verlag Wien / New York), GAM.07 Zero Landscape (editor, Springer Verlag Wien / New York),
GAM.06 Nonstandard Structures (editor, Springer Verlag Wien / New York), etc.
Chen-Cheng Chen
professor
Department of Architecture, Tamkang University, New Taipei, Taiwan
works
Digital Di-Hua Design Exhibition (Taipei), Green Expo (I-Lan)
books
City Zen Garden (TKU Publishing), Development of Kinetic Walls (TKU Publishing), Digital Di-Hua Design (TKU Publishing).
Theodore Spyropoulos
director
Design Research Lab, Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture, London, UK
works
Faleron Bay National Park of Athens, Vehicle Memory Cloud Detroit, Petting Zoo Frac Centre (Orleans), Becoming Animal MoMA (NY).
books
Adaptive Ecologies: Correlated Systems of Living (author), Enabling: The Work of Minimaforms (collaboration)
Dillenburger Benjamin
assistant professor
John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto, Canada
works
Stadtigel, International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (collaboration), Digital Grotesque FRAC (collaboration)
Antonino Saggio
professor
Department of Architecture and Project DiAP, University of La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
works
Villa In Sutri (with Luigi Franciosini), Urban Green Line project (Rome)
books
The IT Revolution in Architecture (editor, Book Series), Giuseppe Terragni (author), Frank Gehry (author), peter eisenman (author, monographs), The IT Revolution in Architecture Thoughts on a Paradigm Shift, etc.
Christian Girard
professor
Chair, the Digital Knowledge Department, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture Paris-Malaquais, Paris, France
works
Public works (5 built social housing programs, 2 biovegetal research greenhouses, income tax office building), private housing (Mineral Lodge in Savoie, Kryptik House in Paris), private programs (Ellip6)
books
Architecture et concepts nomades Traite d'Indiscipline (Mardaga, Bruxelles), Architectures Experimentales 1950-2012 (collaboration, Editions Hyx, Orleans), etc.
Hani Rashid
architect
ASYMPTOTE ARCHITECTURE: RASHID + COUTURE
professor
Director, Studio Hani Rashid, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
works
Yas Viceroy Marina Hotel (Abu Dhabi UAE), ARC Mutimedia Theater Daegu S. Korea,
Perry Street Condominiums (New York city), ING HQ Gent Belgium
books
Asymptote Flux, (Phaidon UK), Actulaizations, (Aadcu), Atmospherics, (Simon De Pury Publishing New York), Architectural Labrotries, (NAI Publishing Netherlands)
Marcos Novak
professor
Director, transLAB, Vice Chair, Media Arts and Technology Program (MAT), University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
works
Energy Parachutes | Entelechy Drones (Daejeon Biennial 2102), Amon's Acids: Of Gods and Proteins, Of Places and Planets (Space Gallery, Seoul 2010),
Turbulent Topologies (Venice Biennale; Garanti Gallery, Istanbul; IVAM, Valencia 2008), AlloBrain@AlloSphere (AlloSphere, UCSB 2006)
books
Urban Futures Manifesto (Allopolis and Kami), Liquid Essays: Trajectories to Transvergence (Forthcoming)
Sean Hanna
reader
Space and Adaptive Architectures, Space Group, Director of MSc / MRes Adaptive Architecture and Computation, Academic director of EngD Virtual Environments, Imaging and Visualization, Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, University College London, UK
works
Explaining Modeling and Forecasting Global Dynamics (enfolding), Centre For Nature Inspired Engineering, CNIE), Antony Gormley’s Exposure and expansions series (proxies), etc.
books
Embedded, Embodied, Adaptive: Architecture and Computation (Emergent Architecture Press), Defining adequate models for adaptive architecture (editor), The inverted genotype and its implications for the flexibility of architectural models (The Journal of Space Syntax), etc.
Wolfgang Höhl
assistant professor
Faculty of Informatics, Chair of Media Informatics, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany
Faculty for Building, Master Course of Architecture, FH JOANNEUM University of Applied Sciences, Graz, Austria
books
Interactive Environments with Open-Source Software, (Springer Vienna NewYork)
Mike Xie
professor
Director, Centre for Innovative Structures and Materials, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
books
Evolutionary Structural Optimization (Springer, London), Evolutionary Topology Optimization of Continuum Structures (Wiley, Chichester)
Biao Li
architect
Li Biao / Jiangsu generative architectural design office
professor
Director, Lab. of Architectural Algorithms & Applications, School of Architecture, Southeast University, Nanjing, China
works
I&I (sculpture, Laiwu Government Plaza), Laiwu National Fitness, etc.
books
Architectural Generative Design: Searching for CAS-Based Methods of Generative Art in Architectural Design (SEU publishing), Introduction to Digital Architecture (collaboration, China Architecture & Building Press), etc.
Aaron Sprecher
architect
Open Source Architecture (O-S-A)
assistant professor
Research Director LIPHE, University School of Architecture, Montreal, Canada
works
SlrSrf (Los Angeles), ParaSolar (Tel Aviv), I-Grid (Hollywood), The Hylomorphic Project (with Hollywood), The Gen(H)ome Project (Hollywood), Evolutive Topologies (with LIPHE Research / Montreal), Ice Robotics (with LIPHE Research / Montreal), Performalism (with LIPHE Research / Quebec)
books
Architecture in Formation: On the Nature of Information in Digital Architecture (Co-edited, Routledge, Taylor and Francis), LIFE in:formation: On Responsive Information and Variations in Architecture (ACADIA), The Gen(H)ome Project, (Co-edited, MAK Center)
Shen-Guan Shih
professor
Group of Architectural Synergy, Chair, the Department of Architecture, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan
works
Biologics: Motivational Sensitive Organism (SIGGRAPH 2009, Art gallery, New Orleans, USA), Scale: Spatial Hyperlink (SIGGRAPH 2013, Art gallery, Anaheim, USA)
Kas Oosterhuis
architect
Director at ONL [Oosterhuis_Lénárd] bv, Rotterdam
professor
Director, Hyperbody and the Protospace Laboratory for Collaborative Design and Engineering, Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
works
Waterpavilion at artificial island Neeltje Jans (Netherlands), Web of North-Holland at World Expo Floriade (Netherlands), Cockpit in Acoustic Barrier along A2 highway in Utrecht (Netherlands), CET mixed use development in Budapest (Hungary), etc.
books
iA#5, Robotic Architecture (editor in chief, Jap Sam Books), Hyperbody. First Decade of Interactive Architecture (editor in chief, Jap Sam Books), Towards a New Kind of building, A Designers Guide to Nonstandard Architecture (Nai Publishers), ONL monography (Prestel Verlag), etc.
Philip F. Yuan
associate professor
Director, Archi-Union Architects, the Architecture and Planning Institute of Tongji University, Shanghai, China
works
From Research to Design-Tongji Architects (Exhibition at Milan Triennial), Solar Decathlon Europe (Madrid), AUTONOMOUS TECTONICS – Research .Teaching .Practice (AU Space, 201307)
books
A Tectonic Reality (China Architecture & Building Press), Theater Design (Tongji University Press), Fabricating the Future and Scripting the Future (co-editor, Tongji University Press), Digital Workshop in China (co-editor).
Jose Pinto Duarte
professor
Faculty of Architecture, Researcher, CIAUD, University of Lisbon, Portugal
works
CityInduction Project, Digital Alberti Project, ISTAR Labs
books
Customizing Mass Housing (FCG), The Lisbon Charrette (IST Press)
Alisa Andrasek
architect
BIOTHING (principal), BLOOM GAMES (partner)
professor
Digital Media, the European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland
Director, GAD post-graduate program, Bartlett School of Graduate Studies,
University College London, UK
works
Bloom urban game, Climath Dubrovnik, Mesonic Fabrics (Pompidou Center),
Fissure port terminal and Phosphorescence Pop Music Center
(competition / Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Bifid (New Museum NY), Proto/e/co/logics symposium (curator)
Neil Leach
adjunct professor
The University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
Visiting Prof., Harvard GSD, Cambridge, USA
Visiting Prof., Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Prof., the European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland
books
Designing for a Digital World (editor, Wiley), Digital Tectonics (editors, Wiley), Emerging Talents, Emerging Technologies 2vols. (editors, CABP), (Im)material Processes:New Digital Techniques for Architecture, 2vols. (editors, CABP), Fabricating the Future (editors, Tongji University Press), Scripting the Future (editors, Tongji University Press)
Elena Manferdini
thesis coordinator
Graduate Thesis Coordinator, Studio Faculty, Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), Los Angeles, USA
Visiting Studio Prof., Department of Architecture, College of Environmental Design, the University of California Berkeley, USA / Architecture Program, the University of Pennsylvania School of Design (Penn Design), Philadelphia, USA / College of Architecture Art and Planning, Cornell University, NY, USA / Department of Architecture, Faculty of Design, Kyoto Seika University, Japan
Workshop Prof., School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China / School of Architecture & the Built Environment, Singapore Polytechnic
works
KEIHAN (Lake Biwa), NEMB (South Los Angeles), TEMPERA (Los Angeles), FLORENTINI & BAKER (Venice CA).
books
Elena Manferdini MONOGRAPH (Equalbooks)
Branko Kolarevic
professor
Chair, Integrated Design, Faculty of Environmental Design, University of Calgary, Canada
books
Manufacturing Material Effects (collaboration, Routledge, London & New York),
Performative Architecture: Beyond Instrumentality (collaboration, Routledge,
London & New York), Architecture in the Digital Age: Design and Manufacturing (Routledge, London & New York)
Ingeborg M. Rocker
architect
Rocker-Lange Architects
associate professor
Architecture, Graduate School of Design, Director GSDigital Media Workshops, Director On the Bri(n)ck Research, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
works
Extending Urban and Architectural Typologies for Hong Kong I + II (Hong Kong & Shenzhen Biennale), Urban Adapter (Hong Kong & Shenzhen Biennale), Pavilion Indivisible whole (Architectural Design Biennale China), Urban Intervention: From lines and spaces (Cambridge), Serial Architecture:125 Tower Versions for Hong Kong (Venice Biennale), Ordos 100: Villa Inside Out|Outside In (Ordos)
books
Emerging Structures: Information Aesthetics and Architectures of the Digital Medium (Princeton University), Parametric Prototypes (collaboration, New Computational Paradigms: Parametrics & Prototypes, XUAUT Publications, Xi’an)
Jeffrey Huang
architect
Convergeo
professor
Head, Architecture and Sustainable Design Pillar, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore
Prof., Architecture and Information Systems, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
works
Algorithmic Urbanism (Guangzhou, Beijing, Sichuan), Baselworld Interactive Wall (Basel), Artificial Morphogenesis (Florence), Newscocoons (Beijing, Lausanne, San Francisco), SINLAB (Lausanne)
books
Architecture as Interface (MIT Press, in preparation), Interactive Furniture (Springer), Algorithmic Urbanism (EPFL)
Greg Lynn
professor
Studio Greg Lynn, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
Prof., Architecture and Urban Design (AUD), University of California,
Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
works
GF42 (Los Angeles, California), Bloom House (Southern California), Korean Presbyterian Church (Queens, New York), Cincinnati Day School (Cincinnati, Ohio)
books
Archaeology of the Digital (Editor, CCA), Greg Lynn FORM (Rizzoli), Composites,Surfaces,and Software (Co-editor, Yale School of Architecture),
Animate Form (Princeton Architectural Press), Folds,Bodies and Blobs (La Letre Volee), Intricacy (ICA Philadelphia)
Toru Hasegawa
architect
Proxy Design Studio
adjunct assistant professor
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), Columbia University, NY, USA
works
Stabile Center, with Marble Fairbanks Architects (New York), Sangenjaya Residence, with N Maeda Atelier (Tokyo), NYU Advanced Media Studio (New York)
books
a+u 2011:10 Manhattan Grid, September 2011 (Shinkechiku), Informal Toolbox, 2008 (SEHAB, Sao Paulo, Brazil), Proxy Log 07/08, 2008 (lulu.com), Proxy Log 06/07, 2007 (lulu.com)
Taro Narahara
assistant professor
Digital Design, College of Architecture and Design, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, USA
works
Space-ReActor: Walking a synthetic man through architectural space (Software prototype), (collaboration, Mori Art Center)
books
The Computer as a Tool for Creative Adaptation: Biologically Inspired Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design in Computation for Humanity-Information Technology to Advance Society (Chapter / CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.), Crowd Simulation and Interactive Device in Programming for civil engineers for VR and structural analysis (Chapter / Nikkei Business Publications, Inc.)
Shohei Matsukawa
architect
SHOHEI MATSUKAWA / 000studio
assistant professor
Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University SFC, Fujisawa, Japan
works
AlgorithmicSpace / Hair_Salon (Toyama), AlgorithmicSpace / Beach_House (Kanagawa), etc
books
Design of Design (INAX), etc
Atsushi Takizawa
associate professor
Department of Applied Mathematics, Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan
books
ALGORITHMIC DESIGN (collaboration, Kajima Institute publishing), Introduction to Optimization in Architecture (collaboration, AIJ), CONTRAST DATA MINING (collaboration, CRC Press), etc.
Tomohiro Fukuda
associate professor
Environmental Design and Information Technology lab, Division of Sustainable Energy and Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
works
Citizen participatory square design (Takamatsu city), Lighting Design of Weathercock House (Kazamiodori no yakata, Kobe), Kobunaki Eco Village (3DCG short film, Omihachiman), Next Gene20 (3DCG short film, Taiwan).
Shuichi Asayama
professor
Computer Science and Design Technology Lab, Department of Architecture and Building Engineering, School of Science and Technology for Future Life, Tokyo Denki University, Tokyo, Japan
works
Mechanical characteristics of a wavy space structure from an algorithm generating ocean wave (collaboration, 14th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering, June 2012, Moscow, Russia), Fractal Arch House (Komae, Tokyo)
books
Algorithmic Design (collaboration, AIJ, Kajima Institute Publishing), Complicity in Architecture, City and Society (collaboration, AIJ, Gihodo Shuppan)
Gakuhito Hirasawa
associate professor
Graduate School of Engineering, Division of Architecture and Urban Science, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
works
Digital Archives of Japanese traditional wooden structures
books
GDL Programming for beginners (X-Knowledge)
Ryusuke Naka
professor
Chair, Workplace Design Lab, Faculty of Design Engineering & Management, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, Japan
works
NKC Garden (Osaka), Gonmori-Hose (Tokyo), T-cube (Tokyo)
books
Post Office (TOTO publishing), Changing Office (Maruzen publishing), Wearable Workplace (Cyuokoron publishing), etc
Taichi Sunayama
adjunct professor
Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, the University of Tokyo, Japan
works
Materializing Exhibition (curator, Chinretsukan Gallery, Tokyo), Amorphous Form ©kwwek (installation project, Ozone Gallery, Tokyo), Ephemeral Depth ©gh/e (filed sculpture, Yamaguchi)
Akira Wakita
associate professor
Metamorphic Architecture Lab, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University, Fujisawa, Japan, Japan
works
Blob Motility (Ars Electronica Center, Linz), TRANSIENCE (TEI 2013, Barcelona),
SMAAD Surface (CAADRIA 2011, New Castle), CT (Media Arts Festival Japan 2001),
Infotube (Nikkei Architecture Digital Design Competition, 1999), etc.
books
Access to Materials (BNN, 2013), x-DESIGN (Keio University Press), Introduction to Design Language (Keio University Press)

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