I recently had the opportunity to share a few questions with Dr. Rachel Armstrong, specialist on living architecture and protocell technology, Senior TED Fellow and Co-Director of AVATAR (Advance Virtual and Technological Architectural Research) in Architecture & Synthetic Biology at The School of Architecture & Construction, University of Greenwich, London. Here, I ask Rachel about her […]

During the last day of ACADIA, an informal workshop using basic chemistries was held in F_RMlab with Rachel Armstrong. The workshop gives a broad look into the ideas behind protocell technology and self-assembling chemistries, helping to introduce an understanding of future methods for creating intelligent material from the bottom up. In this workshop, Rachel shows us […]

By now you probably know that the ADAPTIVE ARCHITECTURE 2013 ACADIA conference has begun at Waterloo Architecture. The formal conference is being held from October 24-26, 2013, while a series of workshops and installations have already begun and will continue to the Sunday following the conference. Please see the schedules and maps below for a […]

The ADAPTIVE ARCHITECTURE 2013 ACADIA conference will be held in the Waterloo School of Architecture in Cambridge on October 24-26, 2013. ACADIA is an international network of digital design researchers and professionals. These updates from students are to let you know about visiting groups, speakers, events and displays. Elena Manferdini is interested in how architects can operate outside […]

Greg Lynn will be speaking as part of the ACADIA conference at 3:45pm on Thursday October 24th. He is the recipient of the 2013 ACADIA Award of Teaching Excellence. Left: Index Award Pavilions: Design to Improve Life, 2011 Right: Uniserve corporate headquarters, 2011 Greg Lynn has been a leader in the field of design with […]

Tex-Fab Digital Fabrication Alliance The 4 finalists from the Tex Fab SKIN competition will be exhibiting their prototypes at the ACADIA Adaptive Architecture Conference, where the jury will review and announce the winners. Tex Fab was formed by Brad Bell, Kevin Patrick McClellan, and Andrew Vrana in 2009 as an alliance in Texas that aims […]

CITA - The Rise from David Stasiuk on Vimeo.   Seeking Volunteers for Installation this Week! As a part of the ACADIA conference “The Rise” from The Royal Danish Academy’s Center for Information Technology and Architecture (CITA) is a workshop that will explore the conceptualization, technologies and making of an architecture that is continuously sensing and dynamically […]

The annual ACADIA (Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture) conference is coming to Cambridge and will be held at our school this year. In anticipation of this international event, the ACADIA 2013 Management Team, F_RMlab and Graduate Research Elective: ARCH 684 will feature a series of posts on Bridge to introduce the keynotes and […]

Meeting July.2013 2013.07.04 4:00PM Ward Room Meeting Minutes In Attendance – May Wu, Connor O’Grady, Mark Tam, Miriam Ho, Vikkie Chen, Caitlin Perry (skype), Boian (drop-in to report on Nostalgia Tour) 1. Pecha Kucha Progress This term’s graduate Pecha Kucha will happen in early August, the exact date will be announced within the next two […]

For those of you who do not already know this… F_RMlab [Digital Research and Media] is a grad student initiative to promote digital technology and computational discourse in architecture at our school. F_RMlab’s current initiatives and extended goals exist in the areas of software and scripting; physical computing and interactive systems; digital fabrication; environmental simulation; and the ACADIA Adaptive Architectures conference […]