USC School of Architecture just announced the launch of PARAsite. This blog has been set up as a forum for debate about recent developments within the USC School of Architecture in the area of parametric and algorithmic design. PARAsite also serves as a repository of records of past events, such as the Intensive Fields conference [...]
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PARAsite @ USC
February 8th, 2010 · No Comments · lecture, teaching
Tags:algorithm·digital design·intensive fields·parametric·parametric urbanism·urbanism
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 [...]
Tags:algorithm·computational geometry·digital design·emergence·generative design·non-linear·rhinoscript·roland snooks·roland wahlroos-ritter·scripting·swarm algorithm·swarm intelligence
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 His work is largely unpublished, mostly due to proprietary reasons, so this is a rare [...]
Tags:algorithm·associative thinking·automation·catia·computational geometry·digital design·digital fabrication·digital project·gehry technologies·generative detailing·mass customization·optimization·parametrics·performance·scripting·tectonic
4A city operations_final reviews @ SCI-Arc 091218
December 18th, 2009 · No Comments · teaching
The studio started with an – impressively thorough – precedence study of skyscrapers in diagrams, drawings and 3d prints. And then developed -through research of Seoul, Jakarta and Mumbai – critical concepts for skyscrapers in super-dense settings. The final review took an interesting twist, when it couldn’t be no longer ignored that this wasn’t the [...]
Tags:digital design·parametric·sci-arc·skyscraper·undergraduate design studio
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 [...]
Tags:associative thinking·catia·computational geometry·digital design·digital fabrication·installation·parametric·performance·tectonic
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 [...]
Tags:algorithm·bottom up·computational geometry·digital design·emergence·graduate design studio·mel scripting·non-linear·optimization·parametric·parametric urbanism·performance·rhinoscript·scripting
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 [...]
Tags:algorithm·bottom up·computational geometry·digital design·emergence·non-linear·rhinoscript·scripting·swarm algorithm·swarm intelligence·undergraduate design studio
(n)certainties (biotopes) 4.0_final review @ usc
December 14th, 2009 · No Comments · teaching
After a semester of intense work the students of Marc Fornes’, Stephan Henrich’s and Francois Roche’s (n)certainties studio presented their final work today at usc.
The studio opened a new territory for usc by venturing deeply into a speculative realm of materiality, technology and ultimately architecture. Subversively leaving the bounds of what at usc is called [...]
Tags:(n)certainties·algorithm·digital design·rhinoscript·scripting
Intensive Fields @ USC_091212
November 25th, 2009 · No Comments · lecture
LOS ANGELES | USC | INTENSIVE FIELDS | 12 December 2009
Intensive Fields: New Parametric Techniques for Urbanism
Conference, Taper Hall 101, University of Southern California
Last minute note from the organizers:
“Due to the unprecedented interest in the conference, we understand that the venue has now changed to a larger auditorium, Taper Hall 101, and that a few [...]
Tags:algorithm·digital design·intensive fields·parametric·parametric urbanism·rhinoscript·scripting·urbanism
(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.
Tags:(n)certainties·algorithm·computational geometry·digital design·rhinoscript·scripting