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Society | University of New Mexico,
Albuquerque, N.M. August 6 - 8, 2009 |
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co-hosted by: Department of Architecture, School of Architecture and Planning, University of New Mexico Department of Architecture and Interior Design, College of Art and Architecture, University of Idaho |
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Conference Theme Significant developments in material science, design and manufacture of building components, innovative building systems, and dynamic structures, require specific knowledge and expertise and are driving design practice. However, one of the emerging challenges in architectural education, research and practice is to promote integrative design through interdisciplinary models of teaching, research and practice. Despite this call to action, many architectural programs remained fractured and collaborative work between technologists, theorists, and designers is undervalued and underrepresented. At the same time, new models for teaching, research, and creative work are required to intersect these contrasting developments. Additional Questions we
hope to address through this conference include: Plenary Session Topics Concept + Construct The translation of the design concept into a physical construct has been viewed, in recent history, as a leap between two discrete realms. Now, with architecture, structure, services and building envelope being conceived as an integrated whole, and with design and construction becoming ever more closely connected, thinking and making are once again united. This session will focus on the integration of design and construction. Papers are invited that explore and examine collaborative and multidisciplinary ways of working; tools that are transforming design, prototyping, fabrication and project delivery; and the challenges of integrating design and construction in architectural pedagogy, research and practice. Local Complexities: Integrating Technology and Ecology This plenary session advocates three observations: local biologic analogues and material investigations can lead to effective thermodynamic management, responsible ecologic intervention leads to an increased reliance on materials and technologies, and sustainability has principally to do with energy, passive and active, local and global. These observations suggest realignment towards regenerative principles based on physical and digital testing using the simulation of forces to develop effective strategies for performance, effectively creating the built ecology. We invite papers that address the complexity of integrating Technology and Ecology, from the opportunistic viewpoint of local forces. Authors of selected papers will be invited to partake in a panel discussion to address, as a provocation, the following questions. What is the usefulness to building technologists of biological analogues? How will the requirements for a broader understanding of ecological impact influence current models of education? How do we as educators, practitioners, and researchers implement strategies for opportunism in local ecologies? And what is it that we are actually trying to sustain? Submission Requirements and
Schedule Call for Abstracts Closed
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