ACSA 101: NEW CONSTELLATIONS / NEW ECOLOGIES
March 21-24, 2013, San Francisco
Host School: California College of the Arts
Co-chairs: Ila Berman, California College of the Arts; Ed Mitchell, Yale University
101_1 Waste(lands) + Material Economies
Matter: Excess vs. Optimization Jason Payne, University of California, Los Angeles
The Garden in the Machine
David Ruy, Pratt Institute
Mixing Urban Cocktails
Ferda Kolatan, University of Pennsylvania
Six Facets of Matter: Material Futures for the Architectural Object
Rhett Russo, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Toward an Architectural Theory of Negative Matter
Michael Osman, University of California, Los Angeles
Practicing Industry
Hugh Hynes, California College of the Arts
New Industrial Design Protocols for Carbon Neutral Buildings
Thomas Spiegelhalter, Florida International University
Rapid Types: A Coffee Pod and Alternative Digital Processes
Kory Bieg, University of Texas at Austin
Automate Architecture
Alfredo Andia, Florida International University
Full Figures: Finding Form in Excess Matter
Kelly Bair, University of Illinois at Chicago
Less is More: Creativity Through Scarcity (GROUP 1)
Elizabeth Golden, University of Washington
Gundula Proksch, University of Washington
Scarcity and Standardization: Architects’ Data and the Exigencies of Total War
Nader Vossoughian, NYIT Schools of Architecture and Design
The Scarcity Aesthetic: The Technics of Malthus in Late Modernity
Charissa N. Terranova
The Fallacy of Efficiency and Scarcity
Kiel Moe, Harvard University
Scarcity: Reality and Ideology
Jon Goodbun, University of Westminster
Less is More: Creativity Through Scarcity (GROUP 2)
Elizabeth Golden,
University of Washington
Gundula Proksch,
University of Washington Readymade
Cheryl Atkinson, Ryerson University
High and Dry: Performances Around Water's Absence
Beth Weinstein, University of Arizona
An Ecology from Absence: In Place of Pruitt-Igoe
Nora K. Wendl, Portland State University
Something from Nothing: Extreme Re-purposing and Material/Construction Processes in First Year Studio
Marcus Shaffer, Pennsylvania State University
Burn it. Bury it. Or send it on a Caribbean Cruise
El Hadi Jazairy, University of Michigan
Rania Ghosn, University of Michigan
The Reserva Ecologica: Three Streams of Material Excess in Buenos Aires
Erin S. Putalik, Virginia Tech
Brian Davis, Cornell University
Gob Piles and Culm Dumps
Christian Stayner, Stayner Architects
Waste, Industry, Ecology: Urban Design Futures for Sauget, IL
Midori Mizuhara, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Anna Muessig, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kristen Zeiber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A Geography of Interest: Waste and Public Life
Curt Anderson Gambetta, Woodbury University
Drosscape
Alan Berger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Urban Sponge: From Drosscape to Foodscape
Brittney Lynn Everett
Big Box Operations: Managing Waste and Change in Walmart Superstores
Ian Caine, University of Texas at San Antonio
Anticipating the City That Never Was
Christopher Marcinkoski, University of Pennsylvania
Île de Nantes – designerly ways of recognition
Ellen Marie Braae, The University of Copenhagen
101_2 Energy Circuits + Artificial Ecologies
Energy Circuits
Sean Lally,
University of Illinois at Chicago Systole and Diastole: Multimedia Environments and Manifold Form
Adam Fure, University of Michigan
Ashley Fure, Harvard University
Naturalizing Architecture – Beauty Becoming Beast A Design Study: Condensation House
Skender Luarasi, Rhode Island School of Design
Carl Solander, Harvard University
NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL LIGHT AS ENERGY: EXPERIMENTS IN SPACE
Zenovia Toloudi, Wentworth Institute of Technology
Mountains & Clouds: Landscape, Meteorology and Building Form
Stephen Hugh Roe, Feng Chia University
Synthetic Ecologies
Marcelyn Gow, Southern California Institute of Architecture
Synthetic Ecological Frameworks
Bradley Cantrell, Louisiana State University
Frank Melendez, Louisiana State University
The Thin Green Line
Dora Epstein Jones, Southern California Institute of Architecture
Noise Control: Designing with Entropic Processes
Daniel Norell, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Tomorrow’s Ecologies | A Synthetic Approach
Nicole Koltick, Drexel University
Architecture's Next Companion Species
Mason White, University of Toronto
Land Management Tribes: A New Species of Symbiotic Architectures for The Great Plains
Matthew Spremulli, University of Toronto
Fei-Ling Tseng, University of Toronto
Mess-Mate Codesigners
Edward Dodington
Animal Companions / Posthuman Territory
Ariane Lourie Harrison, Yale University
Constructing Wilderness
Joyce Hwang, University at Buffalo, SUNY
Ecological Infrastructures: From Bubbles to Territories
Lola Sheppard, University of Waterloo
Infrastructure as Organism
Mitchell Joachim, NYU Gallatin
Melanie Fessel
The Envirobubble: Clean Air Pods Redux
Lydia Kallipoliti, The Cooper Union
FRONTIER URBANISM: Explorations and Propositions in the Expanded Field
Christopher Austin Roach, California College of the Arts
3 Dialectical Ecology: Towards a Critical Metabolic Materialism
Jon Goodbun, University of Westminster
Eco-logics
Helene Furjan, University of Pennsylvania
Niche-Tactics: The Giraffe Model
Caroline O'Donnel, Cornell University
Tropical Ecologies : Biomimicry as a Generator for Climate Responsive Architectural Design
Tobias Holler, New York Institute of Technology
A Field Guide to Generating Architectural Species
Nicole Koltick, Drexel University
Matthew Lutz, Princeton University
Urban Filtration | Architecture as Watershed
Corey T. Griffin, Portland State University
101_3 Genetic Systems + Non-standard Modes of (Re)Production
Figuring Differentiation
Chris Hight, Rice University
Layered Fabrications
Grant Gibson, University of Illinois at Chicago
Heterotopic Speciation [Theorizing an alternative Parametric Syntax]
Maximiliano Spina, Woodbury University
A Bi-directional Thermal Rectifying Facade ~ for a hot-arid climate
Michael Ritzenthaler, University of Arizona
Digital Craft: Material, Technology and Performance
Heather Roberge, University of California, Los Angeles
Art of Workmanship in the Digital Age
Awilda I Rodriguez, Oklahoma State University
Formations of Digital Craft Culture
Andrew Kudless, California College of the Arts
Craft Works: On How to Get Medieval
Ramiro Diaz-Granados, Southern California Institute of Architecture
Strand Porosities: Mixing Traditional Textile Techniques with Digital Craft
Kenneth Joseph Tracy, Washington University in St. Louis
Christine Yogiaman, Washington University in St. Louis
Mass Customization + Non-Standard Modes of (Re)production
Branko Kolarevic, University of Calgary
MASS Customization
Danelle Briscoe, University of Texas at Austin
Beyond Control: Parametrics and Metadesign as a Model for Mass-Customization
Frank Richard Jacobus, University of Arkansas
Marc Anthony Manack, Ohio State University
Eclipsis: Historical Precedent - Digital Fabrication
Robert J. Dunay, Virginia Tech
Joseph Wheeler, Virginia Tech
Robert P. Schubert, Virginia Tech
Jonathan Grinham, Studio 27
101_4 Exchange Terminals + Interactive Technologies
Sensing the City
Jason Johnson,
California College of the Arts Expanding Scenarios for Responsive Architecture
AnnaLisa Meyboom, University of British Columbia
Reconsidering Physicality
Paola Zellner-Bassett, Virginia Tech
Living Bits + Bricks
Carlo Ratti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nashid Nabian, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mediated and Situated Landscapes
Andrzej Zaraycki, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Manual of Networked Possibilities: Forward Thinking Interventions for Intelligent Cities
Therese Tierney, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Urban Performance and Media Scapes
Ariane Lourie Harrison, Yale University
Negotiated Territory
John McMorrough, University of Michigan
The Demilitarized Zone: Redrawing the 151-mile border between North and South Korea
Dongsei Kim, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation
The High Frontier, the Megastructure, and The Big Dumb Object
Fred Scharmen, Morgan State University
Cosmopolitan Beasts: Pee-Wee's Applied Pedagogy
Julia Sedlock, Cosmo Design Factory
Re-Cultivating the Forest City
Christopher Marcinkoski, University of Pennsylvania
Andrew Moddrell, University of Illinois at Chicago
101_5 Enclaves / Territories + Expanding Megalopolises
Securing the Perimeter
Elijah Huge,
Wesleyan University
Territory Jam: Tehran
Rudabeh Pakravan, University of California, Berkeley
For + Against: Designing for Failure
Julie Larsen, Syracuse University
Proliferating the Perimeter: A Spatial Plan for the Maldives
Joyce Hsiang, Yale University
Bimal Mendis, Yale University
Rapid Cities: Prototyping Urban Growth
Mona El Khafif, California College of the Arts
Adaptable Urban Models in the Age of Climatic Changes: ParametricNOLA
Pasquale De Paola, Louisiana Tech University
STRUCTURING RAPID GROWTH THROUGH INHERITED URBAN FORM: CASE STUDY FROM CHIANG MAI, THAILAND
Brian P. McGrath, Parsons The New School for Design
Martina Barcelloni-Corte, IUAV, University of Venice
Somporn Sangawongse, Chiang Mai University
Global Garden City: Trans-Territorial Ecologies in Singapore
Kian Goh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The City of 7 Billion: An Index
Joyce Hsiang, Yale University
Bimal Mendis, Yale University
Strategies Beyond the Compact City
Felipe Correa, Harvard University
Suburban Sensibilities
David Salomon, Cornell University
Gaining Ground: Structuring Settlement in the Uncertain Economic and Climactic Landscape of the Gulf Coast Mega-Region
Jeff Carney, Louisiana State University
Free Trade Zone Urbanism
Martin Felsen, Illinois Institute of Technology
Grand Manner Alla Turca: Istanbul’s Territorial Appropriations
Erkin Ozay, Harvard University
Infrastructural and Ecological Urbanisms
Julia Czerniak, Syracuse University
Coeur de Ville: An urban, ecological catalyst
Ursula Emery McClure, Louisiana State University
Michael McClure, University of Louisiana - Lafayette
Bradley Cantrell, Louisiana State University
WATER DRIVES THE MOTOR CITY
Maria Arquero de Alarcon, University of Michigan
Jen Maigret, University of Michigan
Roadmap 2050 and the Promised Landscapes of Low-Carbon
Rania Ghosn, University of Michigan
Remaking Paris as the 'City of Flows'
Lara Belkind, Columbia University
101_6 Populations / Networks / Datascapes: From Cloud Culture to Informal Communities
Guerilla Ecologies
Ulrike Heine, Clemson University
Dan Harding, Clemson University
Aaron Bowman, Clemson University
Bernhard Sill, Hochschule Trier | University of Applied Sciences
What Can We Do With(out) Action?
Christopher Austin Roach, California College of the Arts
No More Waiting for Superman: Teaching Guerilla Urbanism and Reflexive Practice
José L.S. Gámez, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Janni Sorensen, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Emerging from Dystopia: Latin America’s Latest Lessons
Luis Diego Quiros, University of Maryland
INFORMAL URBANISM // THE SLOW EVOLUTION OF A NEW FORM
Dan Clark, University of Minnesota
Discursive Networks
Ana Miljaki, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Amanda Reeser Lawrence, Northeastern University
Architectural Appropriations in the Age of Networked Reproduction
William T. Willoughby, Louisiana Tech University
Pasquale De Paola, Louisiana Tech University
Edvard Ravnikar’s Liquid Modernism: Architectural Identity in a Network of Shifting References
Vladmir Kulic, Florida Atlantic University
Anonymity and Influence: Corporate Authorship and The Architects Collaborative
Michael Kubo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Loos, Law and the Culture of the Copy
Ines Weizman, London Metropolitan University
Urban Geographies of Multiculturalism
Armando Montilla, Clemson University
Mapping the African – American Urban Enclave: The Ghetto in Translation
Scott L. Ruff, Tulane University
Hedonistic Urbanism: The Beirut Post-War Experience
Elizabeth Martin, Southern Polytechnic State University
CompliCity: Transformation of public spaces in the Heart of Sharjah
Samia Rab, American University of Sharjah
Urban Code
Laura Kurgan, Columbia University
Nicholas de Monchaux, University of California, Berkeley
Radical Railbanking
McLain Clutter, University of Michigan
#Map
Brett L. Snyder, University of California, Davis
Jonathan Massey, Syracuse University