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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 His work is largely unpublished, mostly due to proprietary reasons, so this is a rare opportunity to [...]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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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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INTERVIEW: re-thinking architecture

By Roland Wahlroos-Ritter | Published 2009-12-13 | Posted in Interview

    Roland Wahlroos-Ritter interviews Neil Leach, Professor at USC. Neil Leach has also taught at Columbia GSAPP, SCI-Arc, Cornell and the Architectural Association. He has published 18  books on theory and design, including Rethinking Architecture, The Anaesthetics of Architecture, Camouflage, Designing for a Digital World and Digital Tectonics. He was also the curator of [...]

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