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complex morphologies_final reviews usc 091213

February 4th, 2010 · No Comments · teaching

Roland Snooks directed the algorithmic design seminar, Complex Morphologies, in Fall in conjunction with Roland Wahlroos-Ritter. The seminar explored methodologies that engage complex and non-linear systems to generate emergent formations. Recursive and self-organizing techniques were developed that are capable of generating complex forms of order.
In addition to developing algorithmic techniques the seminar operated as a [...]

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sameer kashyap lecture @ usc 100120

January 20th, 2010 · No Comments · lecture

Sameer Kashyap from Gehry Technologies will give a lecture titled ‘Mass Customization; Parametrics and Automation’ at USC tonight. Sameer is one of the most brilliant minds a Gehry Technologies and director for Gehry Technologies Los Angeles Services Group. His work is largely unpublished, mostly due to proprietary reasons, so this is a rare [...]

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parametric design_final reviews @ usc 091215

December 15th, 2009 · No Comments · teaching

Continuing todays review marathon, the students of David Gerber’s and Roland Wahlroos-Ritter’s Parametric Design I seminar presented their final work today at USC. The seminar was structured in two parts. The first part was dedicated to Case Studies. The students were asked to research, analyze and develop a parametric design strategy for building CATIA models [...]

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field urbanism_final review @ usc 091215

December 15th, 2009 · No Comments · teaching

The students of the field urbanism studio lead by Neil Leach and Nick Pisca presented their work today at usc. Here is an excerpt of Neil’s studio description: ‘This project sought to evaluate an existing proposal for a CBD in Houhai, Shenzhen, and develop an alternative, improved version. The project took one semester and was [...]

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non-linear aggregations_final reviews @ usc 091215

December 15th, 2009 · No Comments · teaching

The students of the non-linear aggregations studio presented their explorations into algorithmic design techniques to a panel of guest critics today at usc. The undergraduate studio lead by Roland Wahlroos-Ritter is a design research studio investigating algorithmic design techniques with an emphasis on space, form and complex morphologies. Techniques of non-linear algorithms are tested through [...]

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(n)certainties (biotopes) 4.0_mid term review @ usc

November 12th, 2009 · No Comments · teaching

The students of Francois Roche’s, Mark Fornes’ and Stephan Heinrich’s (n)certainties studio presented their mid term work at USC yesterday.

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non-linear aggregations_mid term reviews @ usc

October 19th, 2009 · No Comments · teaching

Today the students of the non-linear aggregations studio at usc presented their explorations into algorithmic design techniques to a panel of guest critics.

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ash installation_091003

October 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · design research

The first pet project was initiated by Matt Melnyk from Buro Happold and Roland Wahlroos-Ritter from WROAD in May 09. The design research focuses on a new workflow that integrates Catia as parametric modeler, Robot as a finite element analysis tool and ModeFrontier as a multiple design objective optimizer. After weeks of intensive modeling, scripting [...]

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re-thinking architecture_091002

October 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · interview

Roland Wahlroos-Ritter interviews Neil Leach, Professor at the University of Brighton and Visiting Professor at USC. Neil Leach has also taught at Columbia GSAPP, SCI-Arc, Cornell and the Architectural Association. He has published 17 books on theory and design, including Rethinking Architecture, The Anaesthetics of Architecture, Camouflage, Designing for a Digital World and Digital Tectonics. [...]

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