ACSA 100th Annual Meeting
March 1-4, 2012 in Boston, MA
Host School: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Co-chairs: Mark Goulthorpe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Amy Murphy, University of Southern California
Downloadable Abstract Book
Note: The Abstract Book will not be available on-site. Please pre-print this for your reference during the conference.
1912: Progress, Technology, and Nature
Fran Leadon, City College of New York
Evaluating Progressivism: A Critique of Biomimetic Architecture
Wynn Buzzell, UNC Charlotte- School of Architecture
From Orthographic to Eccentric:Tall Architecture of Extreme
Terri Boake, University of Waterloo
The On-Again Off-Again Romance Between Nature and Technology in Healthcare Settings
Mardelle Shepley, Texas A&M University
Utopias/Dystopias: from the Progressive Era to a Sustainable Future
Marie-Alice L'Heureux, University of Kansas
1988–1997: Ambitions and Apprehensions of a “Digital Revolution”
John Stuart, Florida International University
Sunil Bald, Yale University
Eulogy to Paperless Studios: The Kernel for Pulsation in Architecture
Eric Goldemberg, Florida International University
Extreme Makeover; or How the F-Word Shaped Contemporary Architecture
Dora Epstein Jones, SCI-Arc
The Autonomous Nature of Creativity in Juxtaposition to the New Structuralism
Hollee Becker, Catholic University of America
4D Architecture
Keith Green, Clemson University
4D Environments and Design: Prototyping Interactive Architecture
Jonathan Grinham, Studio27
Kihong Ku, Philadelphia University
Cloud Code: Public Space in 4 Dimensions
Andrew Vrana, University of Houston
Joseph Meppelink, University of Houston
Travis McCarra, Metalab
Reflections on Kinetic Reticulated Frameworks
Bernhard Sill, Clemson University
Self-organizing Strategy: An Adaptable Growth Model for Architecture
Taro Narahara, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Advanced Composite Fabrication Technologies for Architecture
Michael Silver, Mike Silver Architects
Fibrous Boundaries: 'Green' Composites in Architectural Applications
Anil Netravali, Cornell University
John Hoiby, Cornell University
In-situ processing of thermoplastic composites for large-scale structures
Anne Roberts, Automated Dynamics
Robert Langone, Automated Dynamics
Laminar Folds: Fabric Structure Molds to Jigs
David Hill, North Carolina State University
Laura Garofalo, University At Buffalo, SUNY
Zero+ Spatial Deployment of Thermoplastic Structural Panels via Robotic Manufacture
Mark Goulthorpe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Agency of Drawing and the Digital Process
Andrew Atwood, University of Southern California
(Mis)Behaviors of Drawing
Kelly Bair, University of Illinois at Chicago
Digital Distortion
Volkan Alkanoglu, Southern California Institute of Architecture
Drawing the Line; or Surrender, Surrender, but Don't Give Yourself Away...
Dora Epstein Jones, SCI-Arc
The Stylus Vector
Michael Young, The Cooper Union
Automatism, or, Post-Medium Architecture and Post-War Art
Sean Keller, Illinois Institute of Technology
Software: Jack Burnham and the Medium as System
Charissa Terranova, University of Texas at Dallas
The Death of Film in Architecture
James Macgillivray, University of Michigan
The Solaris Mirror
Luke Ogrydziak, Ogrydziak Prillinger Architects
Becoming Computational: Restructuring/ Reconsidering Pedagogy Towards a (More) Computational Discipline
Christopher Beorkrem, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Nicholas Senske, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Bootstrapping a Computational Discourse
Maya Przybylski, University of Waterloo
Computation as an Ideological Practice
Jeffrey Huang, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Nathaniel Zuelzke, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Trevor Patt, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Computational Design Methods
David Lee, Clemson University
Integrated BIM and Parametric Modeling: Course Samples with Multiple Methods and Multiple Phases
Wei Yan, Texas A&M University
Beyond Digital: Speculations on Analog Convergence
Brian Lonsway, Syracuse University
A Materiality of Agency// Speculations on the Impact of Biological Computation on Materiality and Space
Nicole Koltick, Drexel University
Émission
Jordan Geiger, SUNY at Buffalo
From Digital Materials To Self-Assembly
Skylar Tibbits, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Parallel Tracks: Digital | Analog Dialogue in Toy Development
Jennifer Akerman, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Design Computation: Parametrics, Performance, Pedagogy and Praxis
Karen Kensek, University of Southern California
Folded Sun-Shades: from Origami to Architecture
Ashley Koger, University of Oregon
Abraham Rodriguez, University of Oregon
Nancy Cheng, University of Oregon
Material in Performance - driven Architectural Geometry
Sevil Yazici, Istanbul Technical University
Leyla Tanacan, Istanbul Technical University
Performance-Based Generative Design. An Investigation of the Parametric Nature of Architecture
Ming Tang, University of Cincinnati
Jonathon Anderson, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Ajla Aksamija, Perkins + Will
Michael Hodge, Perkins + Will
Signature Architecture Franchising: Improving Average Architecture using BIM
Ehsan Barekati, Texas A&M University
James Haliburton, Prairie View A&M University
Mark Clayton, Texas A&M University
Ozan Ozener, Texas A&M University
Digital Details
Matt Burgermaster, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Optimization Takes Command: Miscalculations in Performative Design
Doris Sung, University of Southern California
Tending to the Detail
Patrick Doan, Virginia Tech
Flies in the Ointment: Reconsidering Detail in a Physiochemical / Chemiophysical Paradigm
Rhett Russo, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Digital Nouveau and the New Materiality
Armando Montilla, Clemson University
Digital Plecnik : Vienna Years
Magdalena Garmaz, Auburn University
Material Postproduction
Adam Fure, University of Michigan
Nouveau Pulsation - 100 Years of Craft Evolution: From Art Nouveau to Digital Pulsation
Eric Goldemberg, Florida International University
Tactile Values: a Political Economy of Smooth Surfaces
Ann Marie Brennan, University of Melbourne
Emerging Materials, Renewable Energy, and Ecological Design
Franca Trubiano, University of Pennsylvania
Aluminet: A Study In Technology Transfer and Radiant Barriers Post-Sputnik
Ryan Salvas, Auburn University
Beyond Arrows: Natural Ventilation in a High-rise Building with Double Skin Façade
Mona Azarbayjani, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Drawing Energy Abu Dhabi: Critical Reflections
Lisa Moffitt, University of Edinburgh
EcoArchitectural Machines
Brook Muller, University of Oregon
Photosynthetic Energy and Ecological Recycling: The Architectural Potential of Algae Cultivation
Gundula Proksch, University of Washington
REIs: Renewable Energy Infrastructures
Chris Ford, University of Nebraska
Simulationg Visual Comfort and Energy Performance of Organic Energy Harvesting Electrochromic Windows (EH-ECWs) in Mid-Size Commercial Office Buildings
Amanda Bruot, University of Washington
Christopher Meek, University of Washington
Integration, Not Segregation: Interdisciplinary Design Pedagogy for the Second 100 Years
James Doerfler, California Polytechnic State University
Kevin Dong, California Polytechnic State University
A 21st Century Approach to Trans-disciplinary Sustainable Design Education
Robert Fleming, Philadelphia University
A New Regional Platform for Computational Fabrication
Brad Bell, University of Texas at Arlington
Kevin McClellan, University of Texas At San Antonio
Will Laufs, Buro Happold
Andrew Vrana, University of Houston
In Support of Pre-Professional Relations: Guidelines for Effective Educational Collaborations between Architecture and Engineering
Clare Olsen, California Polytechnic State University
Sinead Mac Namara, Syracuse University
Reaching for Sustainability Using Technology and Teamwork: Teaching Integrated Project Delivery in Multi-Disciplinary Studios
Carrie Dossick, University of Washington
Kathrina Simonen, University of Washington
Robert Pena, University of Washington
Open: Community
Tom Fisher, University of Minnesota
A Small House Nation: Making Our Stuff Fit
James OBrien, Miami University
Activating Agency: Assessing Impacts of Global Collaborative Practices
Michael Zaretsky, University of Cincinnati
Architecture For the Public Good , A Problematic Development Process
David Kratzer, Philadelphia University
Bricks and Bones: Discovering Atlanta’s Forgotten Spaces of Neo-Slavery
Richard Becherer, Southern Polytechnic State University
Four Transit Villages for Nashville: A Case Study in University Research and Livable Communities
Thomas Davis, University of Tennessee
Millennials and Design Education
Richard Sweeney, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Darius Sollohub, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Open: Disaster Recovery
Reinhard Goethert, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Digital and Analog Aptitudes in Emergency Shelter Design and Fabrication
Bruce Johnson, University of Kansas
Haitian Rebuilding Initiative: Technological Solutions that Hinge on Empowerment
Juintow Lin, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Michael Fox, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Learning From Disaster: Lessons from Community-based Design in Haiti
John Comazzi, University of Minnesota
Jim Lutz, University of Minnesota
reCOVER: Transitional Disaster Recovery Housing
Anselmo Canfora, University of Virginia
Open: Diversity
Brian Kelly, University of Maryland
Opportunities & Challenges: Learning Experience from International Architectural Students in the US
Xiao Hu, University of Idaho
The Predicament of Diversity through the Architectural Pedagogy of Beginning
Shima Baradaran Mohajeri, Texas A&M University
Open: History/Theory
Vittoria Di Palma, Columbia University
Blow-Up: Architecture and the Technology of Contemporary Art
Isabelle Wallace, University of Georgia
Nora Wendl, Portland State University
Leftovers: Residual and Risk in "Our Digital Present"
Jasmine Benyamin, Texas A&M University
Digital Ecstasy: Architecture in the Post-Fordist Era
Elie Haddad, Lebanese American University
Nadir Lahiji, Lebanese American University
Open: Sustainable Design
Adrian Parr, University of Cincinnati
The Ontological Performance of Sustainable Design
Michael Harpster, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Uneasy Green: The Value of a Semi-Autonomous, Productively Critical Green Architecture
Doug Jackson, California Polytechnic State University
Yes, They Do Walk In Suburbia: Multfamily Housing and Trips to Strips
Nico Larco, University of Oregon
Marc Schlossberg, University of Oregon
Open: Urbanism
Tim Love, Northeastern University
From the Park to Parking: the Evolution of Suburban Mobility
Ian Baldwin, Wentworth Institute of Technology
Laid Bare: Debating an Expanded Role for Instrastructure at the World Trade Center
Robert Arens, California Polytechnic State University
Other Urbanisms: A scalar approach towards pervious design
Jen Maigret, University of Michigan
Maria Arquero de Alarcon, University of Michigan
Post-Parametric Environments
Jennifer Leung, Yale University
Biochemical Injections - Architecture as a Biotechnical Interface in a Post-parametric Environment.
Mina Yaney
Communication Theory as an Anti-environment for Understanding the Effects of Technological Environments upon Cultural Change
Isaac Lerner, Eastern Mediterranean University
Risky Business: from Digital Fabrication to the Abstract Workshop
Mark Cabrinha, California Polytechnic State University
The Parameters of the Posthuman
Ariane Lourie Harrison, Yale University
Registration and Projection: The Mediations of Urban Imaging Technologies
McLain Clutter,
University of Michigan
Aerial Vision-Based Model of Urbanism
El Hadi Jazairy, University of Michigan
Modeling Spatial Activity Distributions in Complex Urban Conditions: The Markov Chain Model for Weighting Spaces with Attractors
Ipek Rohloff, Mount Holyoke College
Kurt Rohloff, Raytheon/BBN Technologies
Representing Information: Envisioning the City through Data
Karen Lewis, Ohio State University
Spectacle of the Hyper-Real: Environmental Simulation, Cybernetic Subjects, and Urban Design
Anthony Raynsford, San Jose State University
Situated Technologies
Jordan Geiger, University at Buffalo, SUNY
Omar Khan, University at Buffalo, SUNY
Mark Shepard, University at Buffalo, SUNY
A Cybernetic House Between
Duncan Patterson, University of Waterloo
Appropriateness in the Design of Ubiquitous Computing Environments
Nasir Barday, TandemSeven, Inc.
Informing Material Specification
Ayelet Karmon, Shenkar College of Engineering and Design
Mette Thomsen, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture
Intelligent Infrastructure: Mobile Networks as Tactical Transportation
Therese Tierney, University of Illinois Urbana Chamapign
Ben Feldmann, Mia Lehrer Landscape Architecture
Dinesh Perrera, Format Design
Gerry Tierney, 510 Collective
Katherine Handy, Field Paoli Architects
Tyron Marshall, Perkins+Wills
Teaching History in the Digital Age
Carla Keyvanian, Auburn University
Building Socialistic Architectural Schools: The Transformation of China's Architectural Education from American Beaux-Arts Model into the Soviet Model
Xiao Hu, University of Idaho
On the Use Value of History
Amir Ameri, University of Colorado
Transparency: Literal, Phenomenal, Digital
Bimal Balakrishnan, University of Missouri - Columbia
Newton D'souza, University of Missouri - Columbia
James Dicker, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Theoretical Implications of BIM: Performance and Interpretation
John Folan, Carnegie Mellon University
Ute Poerschke, Pennsylvania State University
Beauty+ the BIM
Danelle Briscoe, University of Texas at Austin
Integrating BIM Into the Comprehensive Design Studio
Jerry Stivers, Oklahoma State University
Parametric BIM as a Generative Design Tool
Andrzej Zarzycki, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Topological Future: Generative BIM
Alfredo Andia, Florida International University