Date: Tuesday and Wednesday 10/14-10/15

Instructors:David Fano of SHoP Architects / DesignReForm.net and Scott Davidson of McNeel & Associates

GC workshop results:

Parametric Associative Modeling & Environmental Analysis
Date: Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday 10/13-10/15

Instructors: Rob Woodbury (Simon Fraser University) andKaustuv DeBiswas (MIT)

Arno Schlueter

Aron Temkin

Ashley Latona and Raf Godlewski: PolypSurface Module

Dieter Toews

Jason Charalambides

Jason Johnson: Randomized Sun Screen

Jose Galarza

Peter Von Buelow

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If you are interested in using the University of Minnesota’s wireless network, you can sign up here. Access is $5/day. Somewhat illogically, you must sign up on a computer that already has internet access, so you may want to do so from your hotel (free wireless at the Radisson) before arriving at the conference venues.

Please download the full conference program. Map of the conference is on page 7.

The Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture has announced the recipients of ACADIA awards for excellence. Inaugurated in 1998, the ACADIA Award of Excellence is one of the highest awards that can be achieved in the field of architectural computing. It represents recognition, by colleagues and peers worldwide, of consistent contributions and cumulative impact on the field over the course of a career. At most one award is presented each year in each category, to an individual whose work, in the eyes of the awards review committee, provides evidence of exceptional and innovative achievement.

The ACADIA Award for Emerging Digital Practice has been awarded to Fabian Scheurer. Fabian Scheurer is a computer scientist with Design to Production—an interdisciplinary consultancy for the digital production of complex architectural designs based in Zurich.

The ACADIA Award for Innovative Research has been awarded to Professor Robert Woodbury. Dr. Woodbury was the founding Chair of the Graduate Program in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at SFU and a founding member of the Master of Digital Media program jointly offered by four Vancouver institutions.

The ACADIA Award for Innovative Academic Program has been awarded to Professor Michael Weinstock. Professor Weinstock is the Academic Head of the Architectural Association, London, and co-director of AA’s Emergent Technologies program.

The ACADIA Society Award has been awarded to Professor Tom Maver. Professor Maver is currently Research Professor in the Mackintosh School of Architecture at the Glasgow School of Architecture and is an Emeritus Professor of the University of Strathclyde.

All the award winners will be honored at the 2008 ACADIA Conference to be held at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis from October 16-19, 2008. For more information, please contact Professor Mahesh Senagala, President of ACADIA at president@acadia.org or visit www.acadia.org
ACADIA was formed in 1981 for the purpose of facilitating communication and critical thinking regarding the use of computers in architecture, planning and building science.

We are pleased to announce the line up for a special event called ACADI@Minneapolis. The event will take place on Friday, October 17th, 8-10pm at the Rapson Hall courtyard, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. The event is planned as an evening of short, informal presentations by an outstanding group of local and visiting designers. The event is open to the public and we hope it will foster a lively discussion between ACADIA members and the local academic and professional design communities.

We are honored to introduce Jennifer Yoos, Principal of VJAA, and Aron Temkin, Director and Associate Professor at FAU, as the hosts for the ACADI@ event. The speakers will be:

• Philip Beesley, Toronto, Univ. of Waterloo and Philip Beesley Architects
• Blaine Brownell, Minneapolis, Transstudio and the Univ. of Minnesota
• Shane Burger, New York, Grimshaw Architects
• Jeff Day, Nebraska, MinDay Architects
• Kevin Klinger and William Marquez, Indiana, Digital Fabrication Institute
• Brian Lilley, Halifax, Dalhousie Univ.
• Ralph Nelson, Minneapolis, Loom Studio
• Ronnie Parsons, New York, Commonwealth
• Blair Satterfield, Houston, HouMinn Practice
• Jason Vollen, New York, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Built Ecologies and binarydesign.org

Two workshops, Grasshopper on Oct. 14-15 and Rhinoscript on Oct. 18, are now sold out! There is still room in:

• FormZ.Script by AutoDesSys
• Building an Emergent Urbanscape
• Associative Modeling and Formula Driven Geometry using Revit Architecture
• Digital Project by Gehry Technologies
• Generative Components by Bentley

We are very happy to announce the addition of two more workshops! Both are intensive 1-day workshops and will take place on Saturday, October 18th and focus on the use of scripting in design.

• Rhinoscript taught by Dave Pigram of Supermanoeuvre and Scott Davidson of McNeel
• FormZ.script by AutoDesSys

These workshops are great opportunities for conference attendees who are unable to attend any of the pre-conference workshops. In addition, they are ideal for local students at the University of Minnesota.

Since these exciting workshops are being added so late, we need interested parties to sign up now.

Lots of changes in workshops. Unfortunately, Wolfram Research has just informed us that they will not be able to host a Mathematica workshop. Therefore, the Mathematica workshop is now canceled.

On the bright side, we are very happy to announce that Gehry Technologies has just joined as a major sponsor of ACADIA 08! Gehry Technologies will be hosting a 2-day workshop on Tuesday-Wednesday, October 14-15 in their Digital Project parametric design software.

In addition, we are currently finalizing two other workshop. Check back for more news soon.

1941 – 2008
Associate Professor, School of Architecture
University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

A long-time member and steadfast supporter of ACADIA and its goals, Thomas set and maintained high standards for aesthetic integrity and pursuit of knowledge. Our hearts go out to his family, friends, colleagues and students. He will be greatly missed.

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