Lecture: Lisa Iwamoto, Synthetics

Lisa Iwamoto received her Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from University of Colorado Master of Architecture with Distinction from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. Currently, Iwamoto is Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture at University of California Berkeley where she authored the book, Digital Fabrications: Architectural and Material Techniques. Iwamoto is a partner at IwamotoScott Architecture, a San Francisco based practice committed to pursuing architecture as a form of applied design research. The firm engages in projects at multiple scales and in a variety of contexts: full-scale fabrications, museum exhibitions, theoretical proposals, competitions and commissioned design projects. Conceptual themes of the work are adaptation, and intensifying the experiential and performance based qualities of architecture. These approaches are paired with in-depth exploration of the potentials of new technologies. IwamotoScott have received numerous commendations: Best of the Year Award from Interior Design magazine; an R&D Award from Architect magazine; Grand Prize for “Hydro-Net” in the History Channel’s City of the Future competition; inclusion in Ordos 100 development in Inner Mongolia; MoMA/PS1 YAP finalist; California Council AIA Emerging Talent Award; and multiple AIA Design Awards and I.D. Design Awards. IwamotoScott’s work is also widely published in books and journals and has been exhibited at various venues and art institutions internationally including MoMA, the Guggenheim Museum, SFMOMA, Architecture Biennale Beijing, Seoul Design Olympiad and Gwangju Design Biennale. To learn more about Lisa Iwamoto and her work, please visit: www.iwamotoscott.com/ To learn more about the upcoming lecture by Lisa Iwamoto, please visit: www.arch.gatech.edu/event/school-architecture-lecture-series-lisa-iwamoto To learn more about the Georgia Tech, School of Architecture Annual Lecture Series, please visit: www.arch.gatech.edu/news/lectures or email us at: [email protected]