specializing in design technology for the built environment

Complex Geometry

Autodesk Revit Architecture 2010 Conceptual Design White Paper

Submitted by Steve on Sun, 06/07/2009 - 13:24
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CASE was commissioned by Autodesk to develop an exercise and author a white paper demonstrating the new conceptual modeling tools for Revit Architecture 2010.

CASE AIANY Tech Lecture now available online

Submitted by Steve on Fri, 03/13/2009 - 17:37
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The lecture that we gave over a month ago (wow, that went fast!), is now available online, thanks to the good folks at Bentley. Unfortunately, you also have to register with them to watch the video (they have to get something out of it right?).

CASE Teaches GC Workshop at Carnegie Mellon

Submitted by Steve on Wed, 02/25/2009 - 23:48
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I'll be kickin' it solo during a two-day GC Marathon at CMU this weekend (yeah, I know I have no life, but hey, I've never been to Pittsburgh before).

CASE speaks at AIANY Tech Series

Submitted by Steve on Fri, 02/06/2009 - 11:44
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CASE has been invited to present during the monthly AIANY Tech Lecture series. We're stoked to take part in this consistently impressive series and hope we can live up to everyone's expectations.

I've included the original announcement below:

CASE Teaches GC Workshop at Stevens

Submitted by Steve on Thu, 02/05/2009 - 15:34
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I'll be co-teaching a GC Workshop this Saturday from 9-5 at Stevens Institute with Shane Burger, Charlie Portelli and Robert Cervellione.

PARA-Project | MoMA / P.S.1 Young Architects Competition Geometric Rationalization

Submitted by Steve on Tue, 02/03/2009 - 00:47
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Rhino
RhinoScript

CASE provided technology consulting and geometric rationalization to PARA on their finalist entry for this renowned competition to construct a temporary installation in the courtyard of P.S. 1 during their annual summer program, Warm Up. PARA's proposal, entitled Stimulator, aimed to turn excess into resource by proposing an installation of mass, rather than of surface.

Scripted Vases | Experiments in Computational Design and Rapid-Manufacturing

Submitted by Steve on Mon, 02/02/2009 - 00:14
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Generative Components
Rhino
RhinoScript

These Scripted Flower Vases were completed by Steve with Jon Kontuly in 2006, as their final project for a computational design class taught by Chris Lasch of Aranda\Lasch at Stevens Institute. The goal of the project was to design a series of vases that demonstrated the algorithm used to generate the vases, didactically through their form. This was as much an editorial process, as a generative one: identifying the elements that best represent the algorithm, while still maintaining the form and function of a flower vase.

Steve co-teaches Proof Studio at Columbia GSAPP

Submitted by Steve on Sun, 11/30/2008 - 21:44
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In Fall 2007, I co-taught an advanced design studio with David Benjamin, of The Living, entitled Proof: Prototyping Energy, Ecosystem, Evolutionary Computing, and Amphibious Architecture. This was the first in a series of studios that David would go on to teach using a methodology that we developed. The primary goal of the studio was to explore rigorous testing as a design process, beginning with the formulation of the studio itself.