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Nature, Material, Media
Architects today find themselves working between natural and technological worlds, using digital representations of reality to order the material world. As new technologies and systemic approaches to design expand the imaginative, sensorial, and disciplinary scope of architecture, architects can embrace the challenges of shaping not only buildings but techno-natural interfaces.
Through a series of projects that explore themes of planetary imagination, radical reuse, generative reassembly, synthetic natures, and machine imagination, we can glimpse the special role that computational design can play in charting our uniquely human place at the nexus between natural and technological worlds.
About the Speaker
Andrew Witt is a transdisciplinary designer working between architecture, computation, and culture. He is the inaugural Kavita and Krishna Bharat Professor of Design and AI and Washington University in St Louis, and co-founder, with Tobias Nolte, of Certain Measures, a studio that combines design and data for scalable approaches to spatial problems. Trained in both architecture and mathematics, he has a particular interest in a technically synthetic approach to form. The work of Certain Measures is in the permanent collection of the Centre Pompidou, and has been exhibited at the Pompidou, the Barbican Centre, the Venice Biennale, the Museum of the Future, and the Canadian Centre for Architecture, among others. He was previously Associate Professor in Practice of Architecture at Harvard GSD, where he was co-director of Harvard’s Masters in Design Engineering program.
