Debate: POST PARAMETRIC 1: DATA
Monday, September 28, 2009 at 6:30PM
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
GSAPP, Columbia University

Chuck Eastman, Architecture and Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology; Casey Reas, UCLA Design Media Arts + Co-founder, Processing and Chris Anderson, Editor in Chief, Wired Magazine

Moderated by David Benjamin, GSAPP and The Living + Michael K. Reed, Computer Science, Columbia University + Blue Sky Studios

In the post-parametric era, one key challenge for architectural design is the acquisition, processing, and integration of data. Designers already have an enormous amount of computable data from building simulations, physical sensing, geometric form, construction techniques, cost and location of materials—and the mountain of numbers shows every sign of rapid expansion. This debate will explore what might be done with all of this data, and more broadly, how we might be designing architecture ten years from now. Post Parametric 1 is the first in a series of discussions that aim to question, broaden, and re-frame the way we think about computation and design.