Between Architecture and Science: Material Analogs , by Jenny Sabin

When: January 18th, 2010  6:30PM - 8PM
Where: Philadelphia Center For Architecture

Collaborations between architects and scientists offer up venues for productive exchange in design while revealing powerful models for visualizing the intangible. Sabin's collaborative research, teaching and design practice focus on the contextual, material and formal intersections between architecture,science and technology. Through the visualization and materialization of dynamic and complex datasets, Sabin has generated a body of speculative and applied design work that aligns crafts-based technologies with digital fabrication alongside questions related to the body and information mediation. This talk will look at intersections between architecture, computational models, textile structures and biology through multiple modes of working and collaborating.  The material world that this type of research interrogates reveals examples of nonlinear fabrication and self-assembly at the surface, and at a deeper structural level. In parallel, this work offers up novel possibilities that question and redefine architecture within the greater scope of generative design and fabrication.

Visit:


http://www.jennysabin.com/
http://www.sabin-jones.com/


For more information contact Brad Hubbard at bradhubbard8@gmail.com. 

Construction Craft/Design Precision by DIGSAU --RE-SCHEDULED

When: December 8th, 2010 6:30pm - 8pm


Where: Center for Architecture 1218 Arch St. Philadelphia


Focusing on the natural feedback loop between designing and building, DIGSAU will examine several case studies and the firm’s goal to approach construction documentation in a manner that anticipates the variables of construction and promotes opportunities for collaboration with various construction trades. As a way of adding texture and richness to the design process, each project seeks an appropriate balance between constraint, craftsmanship, and chance in the act of building.

Contact Brad Hubbard at bradhubbard8@gmail.com for more information.

DIGSAU - Design Precision / Construction Craft

Presented by Jules Dingle and Marc Sanderson of DIGSAU.

When:  November 16, 2010  6:30pm - 8pm

Where:  Center for Architecture  1218 Arch St. Philadelphia

Focusing on the natural feedback loop between designing and building, DIGSAU will examine several case studies and the firm’s goal to approach construction documentation in a manner that anticipates the variables of construction and promotes opportunities for collaboration with various construction trades.  As a way of adding texture and richness to the design process, each project seeks an appropriate balance between constraint, craftsmanship, and chance in the act of building.