Exhibition Brief

Evolutive Means: On Adaptation and Selection in Architectural Design seeks to augment the conference theme of LIFE in:formation, On Responsive Information and Variation In Architecture, by posing questions and addressing issues beyond those described in the General Call.

An "evolutive design process" is distinguished by its capacity for regulation. That is, rather than operating linearly, evolutive design processes oscillate non-linearly towards specific thresholds of optimization. The means by which these processes approach and, moreover, regulate their performance towards optimization are the subjects of this exhibition. In particular,
Evolutive Means: On Adaptation and Selection in Architectural Design expands upon the thematic questions of the General Call by exhibiting projects explicitly responsive to these inquiries:

Which hardwares, softwares, workflows, methodologies, or fabrication techniques conceivably comprise "evolutive design processes"?

In turn, how do they operate non-linearly, establish thresholds of optimization, or otherwise demonstrate their capacities to regulate performance?

More pointedly, how do applications of "evolutive design processes" to architectural design account for such specifically-architectural concepts as program, structure, materiality, autonomy, or interiority?

Finally, what is the role of architectural designers with respect to these "evolutive design processes"?



EXHIBITION OPENINGS AND ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION



Friday, October 22, 7:00pm

EVOLUTIVE MEANS

On Adaptation and Selection in Architectural Design

ACADIA 2010 Exhibition in the Pratt Institute School of Architecture, Siegel Gallery

Welcome Note by Dean Thomas Hanrahan

Introduction by Exhibition and Conference Chairs:
Chandler AHRENS
Axel SCHMITZBERGER
Michael WEN-SEN SU
Pablo LORENZO-EIROA
Aaron SPRECHER


Roundtable Discussion with Exhibition Invitees in Higgins Auditorium:
ARCHI-TECTONICS / Winka DUBBELDAM
BURO HAPPOLD
CLEAR/ Julia CZERNIAK and Mark LINDER + McLain CLUTTER
Omar KHAN
MORPHOSIS
MOS
REISER + UMEMOTO
David RUY/ Karel KLEIN
Andrew SAUNDERS
Mark SHEPARD
su11/ Ferda KOLATAN and Erich SCHOENBERGER
Paul VANOUSE


EXHIBITION LOCATION

PRATT INSTITUTE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, SIEGEL GALLERY
10.00am-4.00pm
61 St. James Place
Brooklyn, NY 11238
For more information, please visit:
http://www.pratt.edu/academics/architecture/
http://www.pratt.edu/about_pratt/visiting_pratt/

 

Saturday, October 23, 6:15-8:00pm

PEER-REVIEWED PROJECTS EXHIBITION

The Great Hall Gallery Exhibition Gallery The Cooper Union

Talk with Exhibition Participants
Introduction by the ACADIA 2010 Chairs

Rodolphe El-Khoury / Nashid Nabian
Ming Tang / Jonathon Anderson
Maria Mingallon / Sakthivel Ramaswamy / Konstantinos Karatzas
Robert Trempe
Joshua Vermillion / Mahesh Senagala / Elizabeth Boone / Eric Brockmeyer / Adam Buente
Michael Westlake / Ian Keough / Alan Tansey / Joe White
Joseph Choma
Jonas Coersmeier
David Freeland / Brennan Buck / David Fletcher
Arshia Mahmoodi / Reza Baherzadeh
Jason K. Johnson / Nataly Gattegno
Rob Ley
Mette R. Thomsen / Ayelet Karmon / Eyal Shaeffer,
Matias Del Campo / Sandra Manninger
Lonn Combs / Rona Easton

 

EXHIBITION LOCATION

THE COOPER UNION, THE GREAT HALL GALLERY EXHIBITION GALLERY
10.00am-6.00pm

 

Welcome

The ACADIA 2010 conference will focus on the changing nature of information and its impact on architectural education, research and practice. With the ever-increasing integration of information technologies in the design laboratory, the discipline of architecture has changed profoundly in recent years. The emerging fields of digital fabrication, generative and evolutionary modeling among others, are now at the core of investigations in a growing community of digital design practitioners and researchers.

ACADIA 2010 will explore the ways designers, architects, engineers and scientists collect, analyze and assemble information through computational systems that redefine the notions of design performance and optimization, evolutionary and responsive models. These notions are today inherently related to the possibilities and limitations offered by our increasing computational capabilities, and the way information shapes relations between the human, the environment, and the machine.

ACADIA 2010 will gather leading practitioners, theorists, and researchers who will examine the relation that architecture has with technology and information, and how the latter propels today’s most innovative design experimentations and research. The conference will be centered on a series of peer-reviewed paper sessions and a groundbreaking exhibition including peer-reviewed projects.

ACADIA 2010: October 21st to 24th 2010, The Cooper Union, NY

Conference Chairs: 
Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa,Aaron Sprecher, Shai Yeshayahu