BIODYNAMIC STRUCTURES - AA/CCA Global Summer Workshop 2010

California College of the Arts (CCA) has partnered with the Architectural Association (AA) in London to host the first AA North American summer school. The 10-day intensive program is called BIODYNAMIC STRUCTURES and will focus on extracting design principles from natural systems as well as designing and building interactive prototypes. An outstanding collection of faculty and associated lecturers have been collected for this event. CONTENT TAGS Biodynamic, Parametric, Scripted, Mimetic, Responsive, Interactive, Digitally Fabricated SOFTWARE + HARDWARE Rhino, Grasshopper, Firefly, RhinoScript, Arduino, Processing INFO + ENROLLMENT http://sanfrancisco.aaschool.ac.uk/ CONTACT [email protected] or [email protected] DATES + LOCATION Visiting School dates: 12 – 21 July 2010 Application deadline: 25 June 2010 Location: CCA San Francisco, CA CORE FACULTY Michael Weinstock (Academic Head, Director of Emergent Technologies Programme, AA London UK) Christina Doumpioti, Evan Greenberg, Konstantinos Karatzas (Tutors, AA EmTech Programme, London UK) Jason Kelly Johnson [Future Cities Lab], Andrew Kudless [Matsys] (CCA MediaLab Coordinators, SF CA) ASSOCIATED FACULTY George Jeronimidis (Director of Center for Biomimetics, University of Reading UK); Andrew Payne (LIFT Architects, Grasshopper Primer); Daniel Segraves (ASGG Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture); Ronnie Parsons + Gil Akos (Studio Mode, NY); Daniel Piker (Kangaroo Project Live Physics) ASSOCIATED LECTURERS: Thom Faulders (Faulders Studio, San Francisco CA); Lisa Iwamoto and Craig Scott (Iwamoto/Scott Architects, San Francisco CA); David Gissen (HTC Experiments/CCA); Ila Berman (CCA Director of Architecture); Wendy Ju (CCA/Stanford University); Andrew Sparks (CCA); Nataly Gattegno (Future Cities Lab, San Francisco CA)