ACADIA 2010 CONFERENCE:
LIFE IN:FORMATION
The School of Architecture of The Cooper Union

Conference Chairs
Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa, The Cooper Union
Aaron Sprecher, Mc Gill University
Shai Yeshayahu, Southern Illinois University

Exhibition Chairs
Chandler Ahrens, Architect Partner, Open Source Architecture
Axel Schmitzberger, California State Polytechnic University
Michael Su, Pratt Institute

ACADIA 2010 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

THURSDAY OCTOBER 21st of 2010

08.30am-10.00am
Great Hall Lobby
Registration - Coffee

10.00am-10.30am
The Great Hall Auditorium
Opening Notes
Welcome Note Hosting Institution
Anthony Vidler, Dean and Professor, School of Architecture - The Cooper Union

Welcome Note and Introduction to ACADIA 2010:
Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa, Conference Chair
Aaron Sprecher, Conference Chair
Shai Yeshayahu, Conference Chair

10.30am-11.30am
The Great Hall Auditorium
Keynote Lecture 1
Georges Teyssot, Architecture Historian and Theorist, Professor, Laval University, Quebec City

11.30am-11.45am
Coffee Break

11.45am-1.20pm
The Great Hall Auditorium
Affluence: Peer-reviewed session
Carlos L. Marcos
Paul Andersen / David Salomon
Achim Menges
Nathan Miller

1.20pm- 2.30pm
Foundation Building Ground floor Colonnade
Lunch(sponsored event)

2.30pm-4.05pm
The Great Hall Auditorium
Influence: Peer-reviewed session
Flora Dilys Salim / Hugo Mulder/ Przemyslaw Jaworski
Vlad Tenu
Kermin Chok / Mark Donofrio
Nicholas de Monchaux / Shivang Patwa/ Benjamin Golder/ Sara Jensen/ David Lung

4.05pm-4.30pm
Coffee Break

4.30pm-5.30pm
The Great Hall Auditorium
Keynote Lecture 2
Karl Chu, Professor Pratt Institute

5.30am-6.15pm
The Great Hall Auditorium
Roundtable discussion - Keynotes with ACADIA audience
Participants: Georges Teyssot and Karl Chu

6.15pm-6.30pm
Coffee Break

6.30pm-8.00pm
Great Hall
Confluence: Peer-reviewed session
Rhett Russo
Chris Perry
Pablo Banda
Jordan Geiger/ Virginia San Fratello

8.00pm-8.15pm
ACADIA President - Introduction to ACADIA

8.15pm-
Dinner (free time) non-sponsored event

FRIDAY OCTOBER 22nd of 2010

8.30am-10.10pm
The Great Hall Auditorium
Work-in-Progress - Affluence
Antonino Saggio, Professor, University La Sapienza
Ingeborg Rocker, Assistant Professor, Harvard GSD
Alexis Meier, Assistant Professor, University of Strasbourg
Christian Derix, AEDAS, Head of Computational Design and Research
David Gersten, Professor, The Cooper Union

10.10am-10.30am
Coffee Break

10.30am-12.00pm
Great Hall and F. P. Rose Auditorium orMenschel Board Room LL 101
Affluence: Peer-reviewed sessions
Session A
Ming tang / Jonathon Anderson
Simon Flöry / Helmut Pottmann
Antonino Di Raimo
Danelle Briscoe

Session B
Anijo Mathew
Kyle Steinfeld/ Pravin Bhiwapurkar/ Anna Dyson/ Jason Vollen
Joanna Crotch / Robert Mantho / Martyn Horner
Jong Bum Kim / Mark J. Clayton

12.00pm-1.30pm
Foundation Building Ground floor Colonnade
Lunch (sponsored event)

1.30pm-2.30pm
The Great Hall Auditorium
Keynote Lectures 3
Antoine Picon, Architecture Historian and Theorist, Director PhD Program, Harvard GSD

2.30pm-3.30pm
Great Hall and F. P. Rose Auditorium or Menschel Board Room LL 101
Roundtable discussion - Affluence - 2 parallel sessions
Participants: 5 invited panelist + 12 peer review authors

3.30pm-4.00pm
Coffee Break

4.00pm-5.00pm
Keynote Lecture 4
George L. Legendre, IJP Corporation, Design Critic, Harvard Graduate School of Design

5.00pm-5.45pm
The Great Hall Auditorium
Roundtable discussion - Keynotes with ACADIA audience
Participants: Antoine Picon and George L. Legendre

5.45pm-7.00pm
NYC - Brooklyn

7.00pm-8.30pm
The School of Architecture Gallery At Pratt Institute
Curated Exhibition Opening + Cocktail (hors d'oeuvres and drinks)
Welcome Note Hosting Institution Thomas Hanrahan, Dean and Professor, School of Architecture - Pratt Institute

Introduction by ACADIA 2010 Chairs

Gallery Talk with Exhibition Participants
RUR Architecture / Reiser+Umemoto
Morphosis
Buro Happold
Paul Vanouse
Archi-Tectonics / Winka Dubbeldam
Ruy/Klein
MOS
Julia Czerniak + Mark Linder
su11 / Ferda Kolatan-Erich Schoenenberger
Andrew Saunders
Omar Khan
Mark Shepard

8.30pm-
Dinner

SATURDAY OCTOBER 23rd of 2010

9.00am-10.20pm
Great Hall And F. P. Rose
Work-in-Progress - Influence
Martin Bressani, Associate Professor, McGill University
Alessandra Ponte, Associate Professor, University of Montreal
Alberto T. Estévez, Director Biogenetic Architecture Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
Jenny Sabin, Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania.

10.20am-10.45am
Coffee Break

10.45am-12.15pm
Influence: Peer-reviewed sessions
Great Hall and F. P. Rose Auditorium or Menschel Board Room LL 101

Session A
Tomasz Jaskiewicz
Scott Crawford
Flora Dilys Salim / Hugo Mulder/ Przemyslaw Jaworski
Michael Beaman / Stefan Bader

Session B
Anke Pasold / Isak Worre Foged
Isak Worre Foged / Esben Skouboe Poulsen
Evan Greenberg / Christina Doumpioti/ Konstantinos Karatzas
Jennifer Wall / Eric Hegre

12:15pm-1.30pm
Foundation Building Ground floor Colonnade
Lunch(sponsored event)

1.30pm-2.30pm
Great Hall and F. P. Rose Auditorium or Menschel Board Room LL 101
Roundtable discussion - Influence - 2 parallel sessions
Participants: 5 invited panelist + 12 peer review authors

2.30pm-3.00pm
Coffee Break

3.00pm-4.00pm
Great Hall Auditorium
Keynote Lecture 5
Evan Douglis, Dean and Professor Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

4.00pm-4.45pm
The Great Hall Auditorium
Roundtable discussion - Keynotes with ACADIA audience
Participants: Evan Douglis in discussion with David Ruy and Mohamed Sharif

4.45pm-6.15pm
Acadia Awards Ceremony + Cocktail

6.15pm-8.00pm
The Great Hall Gallery Exhibition Gallery The Cooper Union
Peer Reviewed Exhibition Opening
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

8.00pm-9.30pm
Dinner

9.30pm-midnight
The Great Hall, The Cooper Union
ACADI@NY: Media from NY
Students’ work 20 slides x 20 seconds presentation w/ live DJs performance
Moderator: Meredith Bostwick

 

SUNDAY OCTOBER 24th of 2010

09.00am-10.30am
Great Hall and F. P. Rose Auditorium
Confluence: Peer-reviewed sessions
Session A
Lawrence Blough
Vinu Subashini Rajus / Robert Woodbury / Halil I. Erhan / Bernhard E. Riecke / Volker Mueller
Martin Tamke / Jacob Riiber Nielsen/ Hauke Jungjohann
Karola Dierichs / Achim Menges

Session B
Shahin Vassigh /Silvana Herrera
Heinz Schmiedhofer
Sigrid Brell - Cokcan/ Johannes Braumann
Mark Cabrinha

10.30am-12.00pm
Brunch

12.00pm-1.40pm
The Great Hall Auditorium
Work-in-Progress - Confluence
Nader Tehrani, Professor, MIT;
Mohamed Sharif, Associate Professor, OTIS College
Mark Linder, Professor, Syracuse University
David Theodore, Harvard GSD
Scott Marble, Director, Avery Digital Fabrication Lab, Columbia University

1.40pm-2.00pm
Coffee Break

2.00pm-3.00pm
Great Hall and F. P. Rose Auditorium or Menschel Board Room LL 101
Roundtable discussion - Confluence - 2 parallel sessions
Participants: 5 invited panelist + 12 peer review authors

3.00pm
Great Hall Auditorium
End of ACADIA 2010

 

NOTE: THIS SCHEDULE AND THE WORKSHOP LOCATIONS IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
For the latest updates please check www.acadia.org/acadia2010
For further information please contact the ACADIA 2010 Conference Chairs at acadia2010@acadia.org

 

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: 
Aaron Sprecher, Shai Yeshayahu and Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa