Cabinet of Curiosities
LMNts’ third blog post and image are up on Metropolis Magazine’s POV blog where Scott Crawford shares his thoughts on a design technology Cabinet of Curiosities. Be sure to also checkout Confessions of a Design Technology Evangelical and Re-Upping on Design Technology if you haven’t already.
Happy Holidays 2011 from LMN
Happy Holidays 2011 from everyone at LMN.
This Holiday Season, LMNers lit candles…LOTS of candles. The video was directed, shot, edited and produced by: cbaker, jbeaver, scrawford, cgrammens, kgregga, thenderson, ahunter, kkimura, amacdonald, and gshaw.
Confessions of a Design Technology Evangelical
Guest blogging at Metropolis Magazine, Dan organizes his Field Notes. (Meanwhile, the Design Desk Liberation Front launches another photographic assault). For an pseudo-retro-iconoclastic-interlude to all this computational fetishism, go read the Confessions of a Design Technology Evangelical.
Still Life with Design Technology
George Shaw – managing partner at LMN – on Re-Upping on Design Technology: a bit of history on the ideas and projects that led to LMNts. In Metropolis Magazine’s POV section.
Flexible Grids in Self-Structure Exhibition
Our flexible grid research project is currently being exhibited at Le Lieu du Design in Paris. While preparing materials for the exhibition we decided to try and build a longer version of the flexible grid. Our previous grid prints were sized to take up roughly half of the print bed (5″x7″) of our Objet Alaris30, but for the exhibit we wanted something bigger. We ended up being able to get an 8″x20″ version, and learned a number of lessons along the way.
LMNts at Build Boston
Stephen Van Dyck and Scott Crawford of LMN Architects will be presenting some recent work at this year’s Build Boston conference on November 17 as part of a session about Generative Design. The event is sponsored by the AIA’s Technology in Architectural Practice (TAP) group. http://www.buildboston.com http://network.aia.org/technologyinarchitecturalpractice/Home/
Seattle Design Festival 2011
If you haven’t done so already, mark your calendars for next month’s 1st ever Seattle Design Festival. Taking place on September 16th – 25th, all events are open to the public and many events are free. Tours, films, panels: 10 days of architectural design and product design, industrial design and digital design. Sponsored by the AIA Seattle and lots of other good folks.
AIA Seattle whichCRAFT? Dialogs
Thursday, June 23rd, 2011: Part of the continued AIA Seattle 2011 Series on Craft comes the full day forum entitled WhichCraft? Dialogs. A full day of panel presentations and dialogues will explore the multiple definitions of Craft for architects and help to explore directions for future work. In the morning, Dan will take part in the panel discussion called “speculativeCraft” – including specialists from Boeing and Walsh Construction – which will be moderated by Kimo Griggs of the University of Washington.
Symposium: Craft Kraft craft
The UW College of Built Environments is hosting a two day symposium on High Performance Craft. The event will bring together a number of practitioners and thinkers working at the intersections between emerging technologies and building materials, new and old.
Lecture: Firefly Experiments
For those of you in the Seattle area, Jason Kelly Johnson of Future Cities Lab in San Francisco will be at the University of Washington for a lunch-time lecture to demo Firefly and show recent projects produced by his lab. Firefly is a software bridge between Grasshopper and the Arduino micro-controller, the internet and a number of other Human Interface devices. It allows near real-time data flow between the 3D digital and physical worlds, and will read/write data to/from internet feeds, remote sensors, connect with machine vision protocols, etc. We have been toying around with Firefly here at LMN and having a lot of fun. Jason Kelly Johnson’s introduction should serve as a great overview of the software and where it’s going.
Portland State U: Fridays@4
Dan will be speaking at the upcoming Fridays@4 lecture at Portland State University Department of Architecture on February 4th, 2011. The topic is the relationship between scripting and performance analysis in architectural practice. Dan will present recent work at LMN that makes use of scripts to bridge design and simulation environments. The Fridays@4 lectures take place every Friday at 4 p.m. in the Shattuck Hall Annex. The events and are free and open to the public.
Seattle EUG: ScriptJIGs
I will be presenting at next week’s Seattle Ecotect Users Group meeting. I’ve been asked to speak on the topic of “scripting.” I’ll explain how LMNts has been employing Grasshopper as a sort of “digital script jig” to guide other tools, including Ecotect. Specifically, I’ll present a number of case studies on how analysis data is brought back into our design environments and how/why/when it is used to inform decisions.
A Breathing Building Skin at ACADIA 2010
Scott will be presenting “A Breathing Building Skin” at the ACADIA 2010 Conference at Cooper Union in New York, taking place October 21st – 24th. The theme of the conference this year is “the changing nature of information and its impact on architectural education, research and practice,” with a focus on the roles of information in the design process, generative and evolutionary modeling, and digital fabrication.
University of Washington Digital Design and Fabrication Certificate Program
The University of Washington’s College of Built Environments will be offering a certificate in Digital Design and Fabrication this fall. The certificate program is a three quarter exploration of using digital design tools like Rhinoceros, Grasshopper, and Solidworks in combination with lasercutters, CNC routers, plasma cutters, and 3d printers.
AIA Seattle: Parametrics for Sustainability
AIA Seattle is sponsoring a Grasshopper Tech Demo: Parametrics for Sustainability meeting. Part demo, part discussion, this event will feature two Seattle-based firms’ use of an increasingly popular design tool.
Date: May 25, 5:00-6:30 pm
Location: The Miller|Hull Partnership
Cost: Free
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