Sherif Abdelmohsen
PhD candidate, Georgia Institute of Technology

Emily Abruzzo
Assistant Professor, Parson School of Art

Henri Achten
Associate Professor, Czech Technical University in Prague

Chandler Ahrens                 
Senior Designer, Morphosis   
     
Phillip Anzalone
Director, Building Technology Sequence, Columbia University

Phillip Beesley                 
Associate Professor, University of Waterloo

Torben Berns                 
Visiting Professor, McGill University

Oliver Bertram             
Assistant Professor University of Applied Art, Vienna

Gail Borden                          
Assistant Professor, USC 

Meredith Bostwick
Associate Architect, RMJM

Martin Bressani                 
Associate Professor, McGill University

Anthony Caicco,
Visiting Lecturer, The Ohio State University, Knowlton School of Architecture

Guedi Capeluto
Senior Lecturer, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Sheng-Fen Chien
Assistant Professor, National Cheng Kung University

Jason Crow                          
PhD Candidate, McGill University   
     
Christian Derix                 
Head of Computational Design and Research, AEDAS

Edouard Din
Associate Professor of Architecture, Tuskegee University

Marty Doscher
Director of Information Technology, Morphosis Architects

Jose Pinto Duarte                  
Assistant Professor, TU Lisbon  
                        
Jeremy Ficca                 
Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University   

Pia Fricker
Chair for CAAD, ETH, Zurich

Paola Giaconia                 
Professor of Architectural Design, California State University in Florence

Michael D. Gibson
Instructor / Researcher, Ball State University

Marcelyn Gow                 
Design Faculty, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm  

Yasha Grobman                 
PhD, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Mark D Gross
Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

Gilles Halin
Research Director, MAP-CRAI Laboratory, Nancy University

Michael Hensel                 
Professor, AHO Oslo

Christiane M. Herr,
Visiting Assistant Professor, National Cheng Kung University

Alicia Imperiale
 Assistant Professor, Temple University    

Mehlika Inanici
Assistant Professor, University of Washington

                               
Jason Johnson                   
Assistant Professor, Calgary University   
         
Omar Khan                          
Associate Professor, University of Buffalo 

Joachim B. Kieferle
Professor, Hochschule RheinMain

Axel Kilian                          
Assistant Professor, Princeton University 

Yoshihiro Kobayashi
Research Associate, Arizona State University

Branko Kolarevic                 
Professor, Calgary University   

Robert J. Krawczyk
Associate Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology

Peter Lang                          
Associate Professor, Texas A&M 

Tapani Launis                 
PhD, Architecture Tapani Launis

Brian Lilley
Associate Professor, Dalhousie University

Mark Linder            
Professor, Syracuse University

Brian Lockyear
Principal, Lockyear Design

Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa        
Assistant Professor, The Cooper Union        

Gregory A. Luhan
Associate Professor of Architecture, University of Kentucky

Alexis Meier                 
Associate Professor, National Institute of Applied Sciences of Strasbourg (AMUP+LAVUE)

Miguel Mesa del Castillo         
Technical Specialist, Politécnica Superior de Architectura del Alicante

Rafael Gomez Moriana        
Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Calgary

Hoda Moustapha
PhD Computational Design, Carnegie Mellon University

Eduardo S.  Nardelli         
President, SiGraDi 

Eran Neuman,
Chair, Tel Aviv University School of Architecture

Yusuke Obuchi                 
co-curator, AA fabrication research, AA DRL  

Yeonjoo Oh
PhD Candidate, CoDeLab, Carnegie Mellon University

Filiz Ozel 
Professor of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Arizona State University

Murali Paranandi
Associate Professor of Architecture, Miami University

Vera Parlac            
Assistant Professor, Calgary University

Atilio Pentimalli                 
Instructor, University of Buenos Aires

Santiago R. Perez
Assistant Professor of Architecture, University of Arkansas

Christopher Pierce                 
Unit Master, AA  

Celine Pinet
Dean of Instruction, West Valley College

Alessandra Ponte                 
Associate Professor, Université de Montreal 

George Proctor             
Professor, California State Polytechnic University   
                                           
David Ruy                          
Assistant Professor, Pratt Institute    
    
Jenny Sabin                 
Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania

Antonino Saggio                 
Professor, Universita La Sapienza, Rome

Andrew Saunders                 
Assistant Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Axel Schmitzberger                 
Assistant Professor, California State Polytechnic University

Marc Aurel Schnabel        
Associate Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Mohamed Sharif                 
Associate Professor, OTIS College of Art and Design / SCI-ARC, Los Angeles

Mark Shepard                  
Assistant Professor, University of Buffalo

Pedro Soza
Assistant Professor, Univesidad de Chile

Ryan E. Smith
Assistant Professor, University of Utah

Aaron Sprecher
Assistant Professor, McGill University

Joshua Stein                 
Associate Professor, Woodbury University

Marc Swackhamer
Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota       
  
Michael Su                          
Visiting Professor, Pratt Institute   

Kyle Talbott
Associate Professor, UW-Milwaukee

Joshua Taron                     
Assistant Professor, Calgary University  
    
Aron Temkin                 
 Dean, Norwich University

Oliver Tessmann
Bollinger + Grohmann Ingenieure

Lisa Tilder
Associate Professor, The Ohio State University, Knowlton School of Architecture
              
David Theodore                 
PhD Candidate, Harvard University         

Graziano Mario Valenti        
Professor, R.A.D.A.A.R. Universita La Sapienza, Rome

Eric Verboon           
Architect, Buro Happold
   
Shane Williamson
Associate Professor, University of Toronto

Wei Yan
Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University

Shai Yeshayahu                 
Associate Professor, Southern Illinois University

So-Yeon Yoon
Assistant Professor, University of Missouri-Columbia


    

   


 

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