Monthly Archives: January 2010

Theorizing the Parametric

By Neil Leach | Published 2010-01-21 | Posted in seminar

  If there were ever a theorist of the parametric it is surely the French philosopher, Gilles Deleuze. While he himself did not write about parametric theory, it is clear that his work raises a number of provocative questions, and suggests new ways of theorizing the subject. This semester a theory course is being offered, [...]

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sameer kashyap lecture @ usc 100120

By Roland Wahlroos-Ritter | Published 2010-01-20 | Posted in Lecture

Sameer Kashyap from Gehry Technologies will give a lecture titled ‘Mass Customization; Parametrics and Automation’ at USC tonight. Sameer is one of the most brilliant minds a Gehry Technologies and director for Gehry Technologies Los Angeles Servies group. His work is largely unpublished, mostly due to proprietary reasons, so this is a rare opportunity to [...]

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parametric design_final reviews @ usc 091215

By Roland Wahlroos-Ritter | Published 2010-01-15 | Posted in Review, seminar

Continuing todays review marathon, the students of David Gerber’s and Roland Wahlroos-Ritter’s Parametric Design I seminar presented their final work today at USC. The seminar was structured in two parts. The first part was dedicated to Case Studies. The students were asked to research, analyze and develop a parametric design strategy for building CATIA models [...]

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non-linear aggregations_final reviews @ usc 091215

By Roland Wahlroos-Ritter | Published 2010-01-13 | Posted in design studio, Review

The students of the non-linear aggregations studio presented their explorations into algorithmic design techniques to a panel of guest critics at usc. The undergraduate studio lead by Roland Wahlroos-Ritter is a design research studio investigating algorithmic design techniques with an emphasis on space, form and complex morphologies. Techniques of non-linear algorithms are tested through the [...]

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Swarm Urbanism

By Neil Leach | Published 2010-01-12 | Posted in design studio

    ‘In his book, Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Cities and Software, Steven Johnson presents the city as a manifestation of emergence. The city operates as a dynamic, adaptive system, based on interactions with neighbours, informational feedback loops, pattern recognition and indirect control. ‘Like any emergent system’, notes Johnson, ‘the city is a [...]

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Houhai CBD, Shenzhen, China

By Neil Leach | Published 2010-01-12 | Posted in design studio, Review

This project sought to evaluate an existing proposal for a CBD in Houhai, Shenzhen, and develop an alternative, improved version. The project took one semester and was undertaken by a team of postgraduate students from the School of Architecture at the University of Southern California on behalf of the Shenzhen Planning Department. The approach adopted was to see [...]

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