The Association for Computer-Aided Design In
Architecture
www.acadia.org
Wassim Jabi, President
president@acadia.org
ACADIA/IJAC 2007 Cover Image Competition
Hosted by the Association for Computer-Aided Design In
Architecture
In collaboration with the International Journal of
Architectural Computing
January
3, 2007
ACADIA Members:
It
gives me great pleasure to announce on behalf of the Association for Computer-Aided
Design In Architecture (ACADIA) and the International Journal of Architectural
Computing (IJAC) the winning entry and the three honorable mentions (in no
particular order) for the ACADIA/IJAC 2007 Cover Image Competition. The winning
entry will be featured on the cover of four issues of IJAC in 2007. First of
all, however, I would like to thank all those who have submitted images for
this competition. The jury and the publishers were very impressed by the
overall quality of the submissions. The entries were judged by the
Winning
Entry
Title:
i.Spot
Author:
Nicholas Wallin
Project Authors: Nathaniel
Cram, John T. Moran, and Nicholas Wallin (alphabetically)
Date
of Creation: April 2005
Description:
The
image is a top view of a model that was created using the parametric software,
TopSolid. The model was one iteration of a family, created through the
utilization of parametrics and laser cutting technologies for a design-build
group thesis project (Nathaniel Cram, John T. Moran, and Nicholas Wallin) at
the
Honorable
Mention
Title:
It's a Parasite!
Author:
Stanislav Roudavski
Project
authors: Giorgos Artopoulos, Stanislav Roudavski (alphabetically)
Date
of Creation: October 2006
Description:
The
image is a digital rendering created for the project entitled "It's a Parasite!"
- an experimental practice-based research/art project for the International
Biennale of Contemporary Arts organised under the auspices of Czech National
Gallery. The pavilion was installed in
Honorable
Mention
Title:
Cultural Hub
Author:
George Katodrytis
Project
authors: George Katodrytis
Date
of Creation: July 2004
Description:
Proposal
for the Dubai Cultural Hub located on the famous
Honorable
Mention
Title:
Digital Exchange
Authors:
Gregory Luhan, Kevin R. Klinger, Joshua Vermillion
Date
of Creation: October 2006
Description:
The
Digital Exchange is a juried exhibition curated by Kevin Klinger, a Fellow at
the Center for Media Design in Ball State University's Department of
Architecture and Gregory Luhan, an Associate Professor at the College of Design
and the Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments at the University of
Kentucky and the Conference Chair for the ACADIA 2006 International Conference
entitled Synthetic Landscapes. The works exhibited in this catalogue are
peer-reviewed and from 189 international entrants 30 participants were
selected. The media types vary from digital print, video projection, and
modeled exhibition. The exhibit features the creative work of artists,
architects, interior designers, and graphic designers and results in
eighty-five printed panels, five video projection installations, and ten
full-scale installations. The scope of the exhibition centers on the allied
relations between practice, academe, and industry that rely extensively on
master modeling, visualization, animation, informed formulation, and data
distribution. This exhibit allows us to see a range of possible outcomes from
tool integration to informative design to full-scale digital fabrication and
manufacturing. It is our hope that this exhibition, which offers a glimpse into
some of the leading-edge research and projects by academics, industry
professionals, and students, will inspire its viewers to innovate further in
the near future.
Rebuilding Praxis
Digital
technology facilitates navigation in and out of the boundaries of traditional
architectural practice, and as such has re-scripted our modes of production. As
digital technology continues to form key linkages between the ideation process
and the reality of production, alternate forms of practice in the design
disciplines emerge. Today, designers, fabricators, material suppliers, clients,
engineers, and contractors involved in the production process operate within a
synthetic landscape that is based upon a digital exchange of bits of
information. The space of this exchange continues to evolve, transforming
traditional modes of representing ideas into materials that further inform
methods of making. As questions that relate to surface, interface, and
performance begin to emerge in relation to this digital exchange, it is
undetermined which principles will exactly govern the development of the
digital model, its resulting form, and spatial quality. Today, designers
practice within a performance-based context. Parametric modeling structures can
simulate performance early in the design process as information becomes input
and freely exchanged. The result offers a wide range of benefits, from better
design development to, direct fabrication of highly precise structures. This
exhibit does not claim to resolve any of the grand problems of building. It
merely offers a glimpse of architectural opportunities that arise with the
engagement of digital tools. We hope that this sharing of ideas might give an
ever so slight impulse to a redirection of the Praxis of architecture.
Congratulations!
Best
regards,
______________________
Wassim
Jabi, Ph.D.
President,