Phase 2 Reviews // 13-14 January 2022

bhooshan STUDIO

GAMIFICATION / ROBOTIC FABRICATION / MASS-CUSTOMIZED DESIGN

The studio explores robotic fabrication while enabling mass-customisation strategies that can compete with contemporary co-living models in highly productive cities. The promise of mass-customisation integrated with new models of housing now allows for the generation of a vibrant community fabric.

Schumacher STUDIO

CYBER-URBAN INCUBATOR / TECTONISM

The studio contributes to the The space of social communication after Covid-19 should be designed simultaneously as both real and virtual navigation and communication realms, as cyber-urban spaces, seamlessly integrating physically immediate and digitally mediated communicative interactions, constituting a new augmented mixed reality. The matrix is coming.

Spyropoulos Studio

ELEMENTAL / WATER / EARTH / FIRE / AIR

The studio challenges the fixed and finite orthodoxies of building design for a latent and unknown world. Within the contemporary condition new conceptual terrains emerge that raise questions of agency and intelligence within a deep ecology of our environment. The studio examines the elemental phenomena as technology Can we control the clouds? Can we grow our homes? An architecture of constructed atmosphere as energy.  

DAY 1 // January 13th 2022

morning session // 10AM-2pm GMT Link here

CRITICS: TOM KOVAC / PAOLO FLORES / MELIKE ALTINISIK / KOSTAS GRIGORIADIS / PHILIPPE MOREL / NILS FISCHER / NASSIA IGLESSIS

afternoon session // 3pm-5pm GMT Link here

CRITICS: TOM KOVAC / WINKA DUBBELDAM / PAOLO FLORES / SOOMEEN HAHN / KOSTAS GRIGORIADIS / PHILIPPE MOREL / NILS FISCHER / NASSIA IGLESSIS

KEYNOTE LECTURE // 6PM-7PM GMT

WINKA dubbeldam / strange Objects link here

DAY 2 // JANUARY 14th 2022

morning session // 12pm-3pm GMT Link here

CRITICS: TYSON HOSMER / JOSE PAREJA / PAOLO FLORES / JELLE FERINGA / MELIKE ALTINISIK / STEPHEN GAGE / MANUELA GATTO / VASILIS STROUMPAKOS / NASSIA IGLESSIS

AFTERNOON session // 4pm-7pm GMT Link here

CRITICS: ANDREW WITT / MARIO CARPO / JELLE FERINGA / MELIKE ALTINISIK / PAOLA CADIMA / LAWRENCE LEK / PHILIPPE MOREL

/ STEPHEN GAGE / MANUELA GATTO / VASILIS STROUMPAKOS / NASSIA IGLESSIS

Guest critics:

Tom Kovac – https://www.rmit.edu.au/contact/staff-contacts/academic-staff/k/kovac-professor-tom

Tom Kovac is a Professor of Architecture at RMIT University and Deputy Director of the (SLWC) Sir Lawrence Wackett Defence & Aerospace Centre RMIT. Previously he was Visiting Professor at IoA Die Angewandte Urban Strategies, Vienna, Studio director at SCI-Arc, Los Angeles and Director of Alessi Airspace Architectural Association, London.

Philippe Morel – https://www.ezct.fr/

Philippe Morel is an architect and theorist, co-founder of EZCT Architecture & Design Research (2000) and initiator and founding CEO of the large-scale 3D-printing corporation XtreeE (2015). He is currently a Visiting Professor at UCL Bartlett and an Associate Professor at the École nationale supérieure d'architecture Paris-Malaquais, where he headed the Digital Knowledge department (co-founded with Pr. Girard).

Melike Altinisik – https://www.melikealtinisik.com/2-index/

Melike Altinisik is an award-winning architect and designer who is dedicated to develop an innovative approach towards architecture and design. She is the founder of internationally recognised architecture practice MAA – Melike Altınışık Architects with offices in Istanbul and Seoul. MAA has been developing innovative and visionary projects that ranges from architecture and urban design to interiors as well as installations and product design. Melike is an alumni of the AADRL.

Paolo Flores – https://www.zaha-hadid.com/people/paulo-flores/

Paulo Flores received his Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture from the Ibero-American University in Mexico in 2003, and his Master’s Degree in Parametric and Digital Design from the AA in 2007. H joined ZHA in 2007 and was made Associate Director in 2018. He leads the firm’s Front-End Design Research Team, which inputs to a wide variety of project types, with focus on development of the firm’s creative approach to early concept design.  

Kostas Grigoriadis – https://www.aaschool.ac.uk/people/Konstantinos-Grigoriadis

Kostas Grigoriadis studied Architecture at UCL, followed by a masters from the DRL programme at the AA. He has worked for Foster + Partners and Populous in London and held a Visiting Lectureship at the RCA where he also completed a PhD. He is currently an Experimental Programme unit tutor at the AA and a Teaching Fellow at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. His practice Continuum recently completed large scale projects in both India and China.

Winka Dubbeldam – https://www.design.upenn.edu/architecture/graduate/people/winka-dubbeldam

Winka is Chair and Miller Professor of Weitzman Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, Director of the Advanced Research and Innovation lab [ARI] and Founder and Partner of Archi-Tectonics NYC LLC. Her talk will feature work from her recently published monograph Strange Objects which will be on sale at the AA bookshop on the day. Link provided gives details to book the online talk.

Soomeen Hahn – https://soomeenhahm.com/about/

Soomeen Hahm is the founder of the SoomeenHahm Design, a design researcher, educator and architectural designer. She is currently a design faculty and robotic researcher at the SCI-Arc. Soomeen gained her BA Degree at the Beijing Tsinghua University and her MArch Degree at the AA DRL. Her latest research focuses on AR/VR, wearable machines and human computer interaction. 

Tyson Hosmer – https://www.zaha-hadid.com/people/tyson-hosmer/

Tyson Hosmen is an Associate at Zaha Hadid Architects working with the ZH Code group. He holds a Masters Degree from the AA DRL and a BA in Architecture from Virginia Tech. He has over 10 years of experience as a designer, software developer and researcher previously working in several architecture offices including Axi Ome, Asymptote Architecture, Kokkugia, and Cecil Balmond Studio. Currently his research focuses on the application of machine learning with agent-based systems. 

Jose Pareja – https://www.zaha-hadid.com/people/jose-pareja-gomez/

José studied architecture at the De La Salle University in Leon, Mexico and received his MArch from the AA DRL. He has taught at the Bartlett, UCL and lectured on diverse technology and architectural forums in Latin America and Europe. José joined ZHA in 2013 and has played a key role in the development of the ZHVR Group. 

Andrew Witt – https://certainmeasures.com/

Andrew Witt is an Associate Professor in Practice in Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, teaching and researching on the relationship of geometry and machines to perception, design, construction, and culture. Witt is also co-founder, with Tobias Nolte, of Certain Measures, a Boston/Berlin-based design and technology studio that combines imagination and evidence for systemic and scalable approaches to spatial problems. He is the author of Formulations: Architecture, Mathematics, Culture (MIT Press, 2021), an expansive examination of the visual, methodological, and epistemic connections between design, mathematics, and the broader sciences.

Mario Carpo – https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/architecture/people/prof-mario-carpo

Mario Carpo is Reyner Banham Professor of Architectural History and Theory, the Bartlett, UCL. He specialises in the history of architectural theory and history of cultural technologies, with focus on the early modern period and on contemporary digital design theory. He is the author of The Second Digital Turn – Design Beyond Intelligence and The Alphabet and the Algorithm (both published by the MIT Press) and other books.

Paola Cadima

Paula Cadima is Director of the MArch+MSc Sustainable Environmental Design at the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA), PhD Supervisor, Member of the AA Academic Board, Academic Committee and Internal Assessment Committee. She taught at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Lisbon where she was Founding Director of the Bioclimatic Architecture MPhil Programme and also co-founded her own practice, UrbanDynamics. She also worked for the European Commission in Brussels for five years, chaired the Environment and Sustainable Architecture working group at the Architect's Council of Europe in 2009 and was the president of the International PLEA Network from 2011-2017, where she continues as advisor to the Director’s Board. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Lawrence Lek – https://lawrencelek.com/

Lawrence Lek is an artist, filmmaker, and musician working in the fields of virtual reality and simulation. He explores world-building as a form of multi-dimensional collage that can incorporate elements from both material and virtual worlds, while developing narratives that reflect on alternate histories and possible futures.

Jelle Feringa

Jelle Feringa is an architecture and robotics specialist and as CTO of Aectual responsible for the development and production of tailor-made building products at scale. While developing his PhD thesis at TU Delft, Jelle established a full robotics lab in the docks of Rotterdam. Here he developed the technical underpinnings for Odico formwork robotics, the first publicly traded architectural robotics company which he co-founded in 2012. Technologies that Jelle developed, include hotwire, hotblade, diamond wire cutting and large scale 3d printing and are applied in high-profile construction projects. Jelle has taught & lectured internationally at the Bartlett, Architectural Association, Paris-Malaquias, IAAC, ETH Zürich, TU Delft and Aarhus School of Architecture. Jelle is a founding partner of EZCT Architecture & Design Research. The work of the office is widely exhibited, exhibitions include the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Archilab, Orléans, Barbican Gallery Design Miami/Basel. Projects by the office are part of Pompidou Center permanent collection and the FRAC Centre Orléans. He is a long-term contributor of the PythonOCC project, and some of his fascinations include levelsets, stereotomy and powertools.

Nils Fischer – https://www.zaha-hadid.com/people/nils-fischer/

Nils has joined Zaha Hadid Architects in 2004 and developed a design portfolio spanning Europe, the Middle East and Asia, with a focus on cultural facilities such as Performing Arts Facilities and Museums as well as projects involving novelty design, engineering and construction solutions. Nils co-leads Cluster 1, a business unit within Zaha Hadid Architects focussing on large cultural, infrastructure and transportation projects, and oversees the company’s technology, research and development agenda. 

Manuela Gatto – https://www.zaha-hadid.com/people/manuela-gatto/

Manuela was born in Italy, where she graduated cum laude at the IUAV (Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia), then gaining her Master Degree with Honours at the Design Research Laboratory of the Architectural Association (AADRL). She taught at the IUAV in Venice and the AA in London, where she was joint tutor in the Intermediate School. She is co-author of the book “Negotiate My Boundary! Mass customisation and responsive environments” and has lectured widely in various universities including the Architectural Association, London, University of Hong Kong, La Sapienza University in Rome, IUAV University in Venice, Technion in Haifa, Tel Aviv University, University of Leige in Belgium, University of Graz in Austria, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. In 2002 she joined Zaha Hadid Architects where she is currently Director. She has collaborated to a number of projects including the BMW Central Building in Leipzig, and led seminal projects such as the Bridge Pavilion in Zaragoza, SKY SOHO mixed used complex in Shanghai, Leeza SOHO, a mixed-use 207m tall tower featuring the tallest atrium in the world, and Danjiang Bridge in Taipei, which, upon completion, will be the world’s longest single-tower asymmetric cable-stayed bridge.

Vasilis Stroumpakos – http://www.arch.upatras.gr/en/faculty/professors/vasilis-stroumpakos-5150.html

Diploma in Architecture A.U.TH. 2000, M.Arch in Architecture and Urbanism with Distinction Architectural Association Design Research Lab (2002), Research Fellow Architectural Association (2004).
Academic: Studio Tutor at Architectural Association DRL M.Arch (2002-2008), AA Media Studies (2006-2008), AA Diploma (2004), Adjunct Lecturer at Architecture Department University of Patras (2008-2020). Curator at Architectural Association New Media Research Cluster (2005-2007), Head of AA Digital Platforms, Architect at Zaha Hadid Architects (2002). Awards and Distinctions: European Design Awards, Feidad, Possible Futures (Miami Bienale), Plecnik Institution, Interactive Media Awards, AVA Digital Awards, Design Licks. Exhibitions: National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens, London Architecture Biennale, Milan Biennale, Miami Biennale, Arco the greek suspense Madrid, Software Boundaries Israel, Digital Topographies Thessaloniki. Publications at AD (Radical Interface), Blueprint, World Architecture Review, Piranesi Periodical, Feidad Exhibition Catalogue, Il Projetto, European Design Awards Catalogue, Spazio Architettura, New Italian Blood, AB magazine. He is co- author of Negotiate My Boundary! (AA Publications , Birkhauser).

Nassia Iglessis – https://www.nassia-inglessis.com/

Nassia Inglessis, is an Artist, Engineer and Designer based in London and Athens. She founded Studio INI as an experimental practice that couples rigorous design and scientific research with public engagement in immersive and experiential installations.