Between Architecture and Science: Material Analogs , by Jenny Sabin

Don't miss the upcoming TECH Series event featuring Jenny Sabin, January 18th 6:30 pm at the Philadelphia Center for Architecture.

Jenny E. Sabin’s research, teaching and design practice focuses on investigating the contextual, material and formal intersections between architecture, textile tectonics and biology. Her expertise resides in generative design and design computation, two contemporary trajectories in architectural design research. She is Director of Jenny Sabin LLC, a research and architectural design studio based in Philadelphia. She currently teaches design studios and elective seminars within the graduate Department of Architecture at PennDesign.

Sabin is the first non-scientist member of the Institute for Medicine and Engineering (IME), University of Pennsylvania, where she is collaborating with the Jones Lab, most recently initiating a research LabStudio between the IME and the School of Design together with Peter Lloyd Jones. She is also a founding member of the Non-Linear Systems Organization (NSO), a research group at PennDesign started by Cecil Balmond, where she is currently Senior Researcher.

Sabin has collaborated with the Advanced Geometry Unit, Arup London, on an installation at Artists Space, NYC, "H_edge." She is the co-recipient, along with Peter Lloyd Jones, of the prestigious Upjohn research grant administered by the American Institute of Architects. She was awarded the AIA Henry Adams first prize medal and the Arthur Spayd Brooke gold medal for distinguished work in architectural design, 2005. She was an American Association of University Women Selected Professions Fellow and has exhibited nationally and internationally most recently at the Siggraph 09’ Design and Computation Galleries and Ars Electronic, Linz, Austria. Sabin is a member of the international Smart Geometry Group and was a senior tutor and lecturer at the 2007, 2008 and 2009 Smart Geometry workshops and conferences. Sabin's work has been published in A+U, 306090, 10+1, ACM and various exhibition catalogues and reviews.

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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.