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"Experimental Green Strategies" launched at Autodesk University in Las Vegas, 30 November 2011
"Experimental Green Strategies: Redefining Ecological Design Research" will be featured at Autodesk University (AU) 2011, an annual event for designers, engineers, technologists, and architects with more than 9000 (!) attendees. Attendees at AU can take part in some of the 720 classes and labs relating to design and computation. AU workshops and lectures relate to innovation strategies, web, cloud, mobile technologies, workflows and process, visualization, sustainability, change management, design leadership and classes on Autodesk products and suites. One of the AU events is the Design Computation Symposium.
From the AU website: Explore the world of design computation through the ideas and experience of leading researchers, educators, and practitioners at the Design Computation Symposium. This year's symposium focuses on ecological design, and uses as its springboard “Experimental Green Strategies”, a title by Architectural Design (AD), and guest edited by architect Terri Peters. This year's theme is "AD@AU." Many of the symposium presentations will be made by the authors of the articles in AD, while other presentations during the symposium will take some of the ideas introduced in this edition of AD and develop related research themes, such as nanotechnology and digital fabrication. Chaired by Robert Aish, director of software development for Autodesk Platform Solutions, the symposium is organized into two sessions around the subjects of "Ecological Design Strategies in Architecture" and "Advanced Research." These are broken down into a series of 20-minute TED-style presentations from:
Architect Terri Peters, guest-editor of Architectural Design
Peter Busby, Perkins+Wills Canada
Kasper Guldager Jørgensen, GXN
Azam Kahn, Gonzalo Martinez, and Carlos Olguin of Autodesk Research
Omri Drory, Genome Compiler Corporation
The symposium concludes with Carl Bass, Autodesk President and CEO.
From the AU website: Explore the world of design computation through the ideas and experience of leading researchers, educators, and practitioners at the Design Computation Symposium. This year's symposium focuses on ecological design, and uses as its springboard “Experimental Green Strategies”, a title by Architectural Design (AD), and guest edited by architect Terri Peters. This year's theme is "AD@AU." Many of the symposium presentations will be made by the authors of the articles in AD, while other presentations during the symposium will take some of the ideas introduced in this edition of AD and develop related research themes, such as nanotechnology and digital fabrication. Chaired by Robert Aish, director of software development for Autodesk Platform Solutions, the symposium is organized into two sessions around the subjects of "Ecological Design Strategies in Architecture" and "Advanced Research." These are broken down into a series of 20-minute TED-style presentations from:
Architect Terri Peters, guest-editor of Architectural Design
Peter Busby, Perkins+Wills Canada
Kasper Guldager Jørgensen, GXN
Azam Kahn, Gonzalo Martinez, and Carlos Olguin of Autodesk Research
Omri Drory, Genome Compiler Corporation
The symposium concludes with Carl Bass, Autodesk President and CEO.
Book launch party for "Experimental Green Strategies: Redefining Ecological Design Research" on 11.11.11 in Copenhagen.
Architectural Design Guest-Editor Terri Peters and 3XN would like to invite you to a lecture and book launch of "Experimental Green Strategies: Redefining Ecological Design Research" at the 3XN offices at Strandgade 73, 1401 København K on Friday 11.11.11 at 16.00. The book is published by John Wiley & Sons Press and highlights the work of fourteen design offices from around the world that are pioneering experimental sustainable research and implementing these ideas in built projects. Featured offices include Atelier Ten (UK), Aedas (UK), Biomimicry Guild (USA), Foster + Partners (UK), 3XN/GXN (Denmark), Hoberman Associates (USA), Nikken Sekkei (Japan), Perkins and Will (Canada) and Rau (Netherlands) and others. Generously hosted by 3XN and sponsored by Campari, the event will feature special cocktails by Campari, a light installation by Electrotexture/ GXN, and a lecture by architect and Editor Terri Peters. There will be a limited number of copies of the book to buy at a special price.
"Experimental Green Strategies: Redefining Ecological Design Research", Architectural Design, John Wiley & Sons, November 2011 Edited by Terri Peters
Guest-edited by Terri Peters, “Experimental Green Strategies” is a new title in the ground-breaking Architectural Design series which was established in 1930 as an influential publication that combines the currency and topicality of a newsstand journal with the rigour and production qualities of a book. This issue of AD relates to applied architectural research, a state of the art of how architects are using ecological research in the designs of built architectural projects. All of the buildings in the book can be considered "experiments" in architecture, as each new strategy derived from research is tested at full scale in real projects. The publication features three key theoretical texts by Editor Terri Peters, Simos Yannas (AA School) and Robert Aish (Autodesk Research) with fourteen texts from international offices such as Atelier Ten (UK), 10 Design (China), 2012Arkitekten (Netherlands), Aedas (UK) and Perkins + Will (Canada). Thoroughly illustrated, the projects include a new building by Nikken Sekkei (Japan) which circulates rainwater through ceramic facade elements that are designed to lessen the Urban Heat Island Phenomenon, a feature by Hugh Whitehead at Foster+Partners (UK) about the innovations at Masdar City in Abu Dhabi, and the experimental zero energy buildings of RAU (Netherlands) . Provocative and inspirational, in the words of series editor Helen Castle, “With this title of AD, Peters defines and examines an emerging trend in contemporary architectural practices relating to the formation of sustainable design research groups. These research groups mark a shift in how environmental design is approached in practice, and how ecological research is coming to be valued within the profession.” Available now.
