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lapa was one of four Swiss research and teaching laboratories invited to present in the Swiss Pavilion at the Venice Architectural Biennale, 2008. The exhibition illustrated the design and production methodology developed within the lapa, and featured work ...
This thesis investigates the impact of digital technology on the methods of design and production in architecture. Through research of history, theory, technology, and methods, the work determines whether the current use of new technologies should be consi ...
EPFL2012
The fundamental methodology of design is based on the ability to imagine "what could be" - a subjective position based on the "suspension of disbeleif". The basic premise of digital tools, parametric design, and at the core logic, is fundamentally objectiv ...
Luftschacht Press2011
Presentation of the work being done in the Digital Design and Production course at the EPFL. The presentation highlighted the relationships of digital design to digital production methods, and focused on demonstrating the similarity between creative design ...
Design and architecture has always been used within film to engage the fantasy of the viewer. By providing both a sense of the familiar and by communicating complex information about context architecture and design enhance the believability of place and su ...
University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland FHNW, Academy of Art and Design, Basel2010
The emergence of computation in design is an ongoing evolution, rather than a technological revolution. Contemporary digital tools have influenced the image of architecture, as object, as shelter, and as icon – but digital design has yet to change our unde ...
Interface in Architecture - Norwegian Association of Architects Conference Presentation + Panel moderator: Norwegian University of Science and Technology This presentation showed the work of the lapa: the research and teaching projects accomplished over th ...
Sustainability issues are increasingly taking more prominent positions in the hierarchy of design decisions. The combination of linked digital analysis and parametric design has emerged as an integrated method of assimilating performative characteristics i ...
Computer Aided Architectural Design Research In Asia2011
Keynote Speaker - Gulf Forum for Architecture Presentation outlining the use of new technology in the design, development, and production of contemporary architecture. The presentation made analogy to science fiction and the image of the “alien” and then u ...
Conference presentation This presentation was part of a series of invited lectures on the issue of “digital tectonics”. Each invited speaker was asked to create a “tectonic manifesto” outlining the approach and concepts that they use to develop the link be ...
