February lecture - Andrew Kudless - FLUX »
Date: February 18, 2010
Lecture will go from 7-8:30 pm followed by a cash bar reception
Location: Uptown Stage and Screen (612 8 Ave SW)
The work of the emerging research and design firm Matsys will be explored through the relationship between form, fabrication, and performance. Several projects from the firm’s work will be discussed in regards to how digital tools such as parametric modeling and scripting can facilitate a more integrated practice of architecture. The firm’s work ranges from art installations to architecture to urban design, however at all scales the work is firmly rooted in the innovative uses of new technologies.
About Andrew Kudless
Andrew Kudless is a designer based in San Francisco where he is an assistant professor at the California College of the Arts. In 2004, he founded Matsys, a design studio exploring the - Anythi Andrew has taught at The Ohio State University, the Architectural Association, and Yale University. In 2005 Andrew was the Howard E. LeFevre Fellow for Emerging Practitioners at OSU. He has a Master of Arts in Emergent Technologies and Design from the Architectural Association and a Master of Architecture from Tulane University. He is the recipient of a 2004 FEIDAD Design Merit Award and a 1998 Fulbright Fellowship in Japan. He has worked as a designer for Allied Works Architecture in Portland and New York and as a digital design consultant for Expedition Engineering in London. The work of Matsys has been published in the journals/magazines Praxis, Mark, and Pasajas and has been shown in exhibitions in the United States, England, France, and China. In 2009 he completed a large-scale commissioned installation for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
About Matsys
Established in 2004 by Andrew Kudless, Matsys is a design studio that explores the emergent
relationships between architecture, engineering, biology, and computation. Based on the idea that architecture can be understood as a material body with its own intrinsic and extrinsic forces
relating to form, growth, and behavior, the studio investigates methodologies of performative
integration through geometric and material differentiation. The studio’s work ranges from
speculative and built projects to the crafting of new tools which facilitate an interdisciplinary
approach to the design and fabrication of architecture.
Sponsors:
Andrew Kudless will visit EVDS as part of the Dale Taylor Visiting Lectureship - an intensive one-week workshop course offered to senior students. This program was named to honour Dale Taylor, FRAIC, a past Director of the Architecture program.
The EVDS Design Matters lecture series is sponsored by: The Kayak
Foundation at the Calgary Foundation, Stantec Architecture, HOK,
Marshall Tittemore Architects, Nexen, the Calgary Airport Authority,
The City of Calgary, RGO Flooring, RGO Office Products, Section 23
Group, Shaw Contract Group, Simpson Roberts Architecture, Steelcase,
Steel Structures Education Foundation
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