The MIT Center for Art, Science and Technology and the MIT Department of Architecture co-sponsored a video that was featured at the Advances in Architectural Geometry symposium at the Centre Pompidou in Paris from September 27-30, 2012.
Architectural geometry is an emerging field using geometrical principles to approach current design challenges with a renewed mathematical rigor. As part of a presentation on the most advanced and challenging research in the field, the video, curated by Skylar Tibbits, spotlights the groundbreaking technologies, materials, and processes produced at MIT.
VIDEO SECTIONS
01:00 Material: John Fernandez
Associate Professor, Building Technology Faculty, Department of Architecture
Principal and Founder of LFArc and Urban Metabolism Group
02:06 Scale: Skylar Tibbits
Lecturer, Design Faculty, Department of Architecture, MIT
Principal and Founder of SJET LLC
03:56 Prototype: William O’Brien Jr.
Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture
Principal, William O’Brien Jr. LLC
05:33 Movement: Joel Lamere
Assistant Professor, Design Faculty, Department of Architecture, MIT
Principal and Founder of GLD
06:54 Modules: Nader Tehrani
Department Chair, Department of Architecture, MIT
Principal and Founder of NADAA
08:05 Interaction: Meejin Yoon
Associate Professor, Design, Faculty, Department of Architecture, MIT
Principal and Founder of Howeler + Yoon/MY Studio
09:25 Innovation: Sheila Kennedy
Professor of Practice, Design Faculty, Department of Architecture, MIT
Principal and Founder of Kennedy & Violich
10:35 Digital: Mark Goulthorpe
Associate Professor, Design, Faculty, Department of Architecture, MIT
Principal and Founder of dECOi Architects, HypoSurface Corp and Zero+