Beagle Project research into genetic algorithms by David Gerber
Dr. David Jason Gerber, Assistant Professor at the USC School of Architecture, gave a lecture on his recent work on Wednesday 7 March 2012. He concurrently also works as an executive at Gehry Technologies, and has worked as an architect for Moshe Safdie, Gehry Technologies, and Zaha Hadid Architects. He has held appointments at MIT’s Media Lab as a research fellow, as well as numerous teaching and research fellowships at Harvard GSD and as Harvard’s Frederick Sheldon Fellow. He has been an instructor at SCI-Arc, the AA DRL, Innsbruck University, EPFL Switzerland and has been a guest speaker and critic at Harvard and MIT. At USC he instructs courses in the Applied Sciences and studios in design, design computation, AEC technologies, and fabrication, emphasizing associative parametric design strategies and Building Information Modeling as a means of design exploration and realization.
