Colloquium Details
The Digital Imagination Distinguished Speaker Series-Craft, Digital Fabrication & Generative Design
| Author: | Prof. Santiago Pérez University of Houston |
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| Date: | March 31, 2009 |
| Time: | 16:00 |
| Location: | 100 Willamette Hall, UO |
Abstract
Santiago Pérez's research and teaching attempts to develop a dialog between "the physicality of making, and the fluidity of digital representation & fabrication." He studies how form inspired by mathematical and biological principles could generate novel assemblies combining the natural and the artificial.
Biography
Pérez is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Houston's Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture. He has published and lectured widely on the influence of craft, biology, robotics & emergent form on design and architecture.
The University of Oregon Distinguished Speakers' Series on the Digital Imagination is sponsored by the departments of Computer and Information Science, Architecture, and Art with support of a grant from the College of Arts and Sciences.