We would like to thank Arta Yazdanseta for taking the time and contributing the following article to digitalfutures. Arta is currently teaching a REVIT course @ Pratt Manhattan.

Professional Practice Lecture Series Pratt Institute  School of Undergraduate Architecture

Intro:

According to the McGraw Hill Construction 2009 Smart Market Report – The Business Value of BIM, the number of professionals in the AEC (architecture, engineer and construction) fields who make use of BIM as an

integral part of their practice experienced a large upswing in growth from 28% of professionals in 2007 to 48%

of professionals in 2009.

As the professional adoption of BIM is gaining momentum, the AEC industry is confronting the inevitable next step: that is, to use BIM throughout all the phases of a building’s life cycle; from its conceptual creation to construction to facilities management to demolition.

This research-based lecture series is aimed to answer some of the questions on the subjects mentioned above.

BIM + IPD (Integrated Project Delivery)

Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) is a project delivery method distinguished by a contractual agreement between a minimum of the owner, design professional, and builder where risk and rewards are shared and stakeholder success is dependent on project success.

Change in dynamic > Change in workflow

The new IPD Agreement redefines the traditional relationship of the three main participants of a project: the Owner, the Designer, and the Builder. The consequence of this change in dynamic is the drastic change in a project’s workflow.

In this lecture we examine the characteristics of this new dynamic between the key participants of a project and the resulting workflow.

Change in the main parties’ dynamic:

A California Council these changes in the relationships and roles of the main participants can be broken down into six main categories:

1- Early Involvement of the Key Participants:

From the very beginning the owner should identify the designer and the builder of the project. The relationships should be established on mutual trust and respect, and compatibility and comfort in collaboration should be tested. The team will help the owner to crystallize the project’s goals and objectives from very early on.

2- Shared Risk/ Rewards:

Full Integrated Project Delivery is a goal-oriented project delivery, wherein the team members share the losses and gains of a project. This new mindset creates a stronger incentive for participants to work towards the success of the project instead of personal gain.

3- Multi-Party Contact:

The IPD Agreement is a three-way contract, which unites the three main parties (Owner, Architect, and Builder) together. As a result, the success of one party is tied directly to the other. It is crucial, for the success of the project, that from the very beginning the risk and responsibility matrix of each participant be clearly identified.

4- Collaborative Decision Making/Control:

From the beginning of a project the main parties need to establish an agreement and a method to ensure that their representatives are involved in every step of the project. Also, the parties need to execute a previously agreed upon system where possible disagreements between team members can be resolved by an hierarchical management team.

5- Liability Wavers Among Key Participants:

To reinforce the sense of unity and a collaborative environment the main parties should waive any claim amongst themselves except for in the instance of a willful default. However, third-party liability (meaning, parties involved beyond the initial three-way contract, such as sub-contractors) should be addressed by the standard liability coverage.

6- Jointly Developed/Validated Target:

To gauge a project’s success the parties need to agree upon a clear and specific set of criteria. This set of criteria can be established according to the owner’s goal for the project and can vary from schedule and budget to sustainability objectives. The compensation of the non-owner parties will be in accordance to the meeting of the established targets.

Change in workflow:

“A Building Information Model is a digital representation of physical and functional characteristics of a facility. As such, it serves as a shared knowledge resource for information about a facility forming a reliable basis for decisions during life cycle from inception onward.”

National Institute of Building Science (NIBS)

Building Information Modeling (BIM) programs have revolutionized the workflow of IPD. From the very early stages of a project AEC professionals can have access to information that would not have been available to them in a typical project until the very end of the CD phase.

BIM creates an environment where designers and builders can come together to help one another

to make wiser decisions in advancement of a better and more responsible project. The resulting digital model would be used, not only throughout the conception and construction of a building, but for facility managing and, eventually, the demolition of a building.

In this new workflow, the idea of the clear phases of a project blur. Since the digital model is constantly evolving, and the building data is readily and instantaneously available to all parties, the traditional SD, DD, and CD sets change to “just in time” sets.

This increase of information requires a longer time period to manage and, as a result, the design phase of a project expands. However, by the end of the Detailed Design phase, the model has evolved to a high level of sophistication so that the Implementation Document phase shortens drastically.

Also, since from the very beginning the builder is involved with the project, the bidding and contractual negotiation phase will be eliminated and the cost estimates and market risk controls become much more accurate.

Shop Drawings will eventually become eliminated. Architects will not be obligated to create detail drawings to show the design intent. The builder must provide the digital BIM model with the required detailed elements. These elements will be discussed between the main participants and will be approved and used directly for construction and fabrication. According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s 2004 survey, estimated RFI management costs (combined contractors and architects/engineers) has been $500 million per year. Since IDP allows for a seamless and much more accurate coordination and collaboration between parties, the amount of RFI costs will be drastically decreased.

In conclusion, it is important to highlight that BIM can be explored to its fullest by practicing Integrated Project Delivery. In order to gain the maximum advantage of IPD, the team members should be willing to collaborate in a transparent and open-book manner to create an environment of trust. Integrated Project Delivery is an option for sophisticated and active owners, whose goals are not only their financial gain, but also a better design and higher quality of work.

A Case Study

The following case study is one of six case studies done by a collaboration of AIA National, AIA California Council, AGC California and McGraw-Hill Construction.

Autodesk AEC Solutions Division Headquarters is one of the few projects that have been fully developed through Integrated Project Delivery. Below is a summary of the study released by the AIA California Council in 2010.

Early Involvement of Key Participants

Autodesk conducted a selection process to find an architect/builder team willing to try Integrated Project Delivery. The RFP clearly stated the owner’s direction in terms of scope, budget, sustainability goals and the mandated form of agreement. At first, another team was the front runner but their corporate leadership asked for fundamental changes in the proposed IPD arrangement which Autodesk declined to make. In the end, KlingStubbins and Tocci were chosen because of their qualifications, familiarity with the local market, BIM and LEED sophistication, and willingness to abide by a “true” IPD agreement. But another factor was their proposal to allocate fees and incentives within the fixed project budget. Three major subcontractors were also selected early and included in the risk/reward structure.

Shared Risk/Reward

The contract establishes an Incentive Compensation Layer (ICL) in which the architects’ and builders’ anticipated profit is put at risk. If specific goals are met, designers and builders receive their normal profit, but jointly, not separately. If they are exceeded in measurable ways the firms are eligible for additional compensation. The ICL could adjust from minus 20% to plus 20% depending on whether project goals were met or exceeded.

Multi-Party Contract

The Integrated Project Delivery Agreement (IPDA) is a three-way contract between the owner, the architect and the builder. Each party’s success is directly tied to the performance of the others. Distinct roles and responsibilities are delineated in contract language and in a “responsibility matrix.” Major subcontractors (mechanical/fire protection, electrical, and drywall) were also brought in to the agreement, worked at cost, and shared in the incentive program.

Collaborative Decision Making/Control

By contract, three levels of collaborative teams were established to manage the project. A Project Implementation Team (PIT) was set up to handle the day-to-day issues of the project. The composition of the PIT included project participants whose work at any given time could impact the project’s outcome. A Project Management Team (PMT) with representation of the owner, architect, and builder, was established to manage the project and make decisions by consensus. If issues arose that could not be resolved by the PMT they were taken to a higher level for final resolution: a Senior Management Team, (SMT) again with representation of the three principal parties.

Liability Waivers Among Key Participants:

The parties waived all claims against each other except those arising from fraud, willful misconduct or gross negligence. Disputes were to be resolved by mediation or, if necessary, arbitration. Each party was required to maintain typical insurance but with the provision that policies be amended so that no right of subrogation (the ability to gain the rights belonging to one party against a third party who caused a loss) existed against the other partners.

Jointly Developed/Validated Targets:

The contract spelled out specific criteria that would be used to judge success. These included schedule and budget, sustainability, quality of craftsmanship, functionality, and design quality. Owner, architect, and builder jointly selected three comparable projects in the Boston area to serve as benchmarks against which these goals would be measured. It was agreed – after some hesitation from the team – that an independent evaluator (in this case an architecture professor) would be the arbiter of how successfully the project met the design quality criteria. There was a scorecard and the process was made as objective as possible.

Daniel Libeskind will be lecturing Monday, April 5^th at 6pm in Higgins Hall Auditorium.

Daniel Libeskind, B.Arch. M.A. BDA AIA is an international figure in architectural practice and urban design. He is well known for introducing a new critical discourse into architecture and for his multidisciplinary approach.  His practice extends from building major cultural and commercial institutions – including museums and concert halls- to convention centers, universities, housing, hotels, shopping centers and residential work.  He also designs opera sets and maintains an object design studio.

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Born in postwar Poland in 1946, Mr. Libeskind became an American citizen in 1965.  He studied music in Israel (on the America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship) and in New York, becoming a virtuoso performer.  He left music to study architecture, receiving his professional architectural degree in 1970 from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City.  He received a postgraduate degree in History and Theory of Architecture at the School of Comparative Studies at Essex University (England) in 1972.

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In 1989, Mr. Libeskind won the competition for the Jewish Museum Berlin, which opened to the public in September 2001 to wide public acclaim.  The city museum of Osnabrück, Germany, The Felix Nussbaum Haus, opened in July 1998.  In July 2002, the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester, England opened to the public.  Atelier Weil, a private atelier/gallery, opened in Mallorca, Spain in September 2003.  The Graduate Student Centre at the London Metropolitan University opened in March 2004, and the Danish Jewish Museum opened in Copenhagen in June 2004.  Tangent, an office tower for the Hyundai Development Corporation, opened in Seoul, Korea in February 2005, Memoria e Luce, a 9/11 memorial in Padua, Italy opened on September 11, 2005 and the Wohl Centre, Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv, Israel; opened in October, 2005.  Most recently, the Frederic C. Hamilton building, Extension to the Denver Art Museum, alongside the Denver Museum Residences, in Colorado, opened in October 2006, The Extension to the Royal Ontario Museum, Canada, opened in June of 2007, and the Glass Courtyard, an extension to the Jewish Museum Berlin, which covers the original Courtyard, was completed in the Fall 2007. The Ascent at Roebling’s Bridge, a residential high-rise in Covington, Kentucky opened in March 2008.  The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, California opened in June 2008 and Westside, the largest shopping and wellness center in Europe opened in October 2008, in Bern, Switzerland.

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Several of Mr. Libeskind’s projects are currently under construction, including: the Military History Museum in Dresden, Germany; the Grand Canal Performing Arts Centre and Galleria in Dublin, Ireland; CityCenter, a retail complex, on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada; Zlota 44; a residential high rise in Warsaw, Poland, and a grand piano design for Schimmel Piano is currently in production. Upon winning the World Trade Center design competition in February 2003, Daniel Libeskind was appointed as master plan architect for the site in New York City.  Memory Foundations is now under construction.

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Mr. Libeskind has many other projects in design and planning, such as The New Center for Arts and Culture in Boston, Massachusetts; the L Tower and Sony Centre for the   Performing Arts in Toronto, Canada; the redevelopment of the historic Fiera Milano Fairgrounds in Milan, Italy; New Songdo City, in Incheon, South Korea; Haeundae Udong Hyundai l’Park in Busan, South Korea; a waterfront, residential development, Reflections, in Keppel Bay, Singapore;  Rejuvenation, a center for children in the Katrina-ravaged area of Gulfport, Mississippi; Editoriale Bresciana Tower in Brescia; and Orestad Downtown Master Site Plan, in Copenhagen, Denmark, which is a 5km development zone.

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Mr. Libeskind has taught and lectured at many universities worldwide. He has held such positions as the Frank O. Gehry Chair at the University of Toronto, Professor at the Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe, Germany, and the Cret Chair at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Louis Kahn Chair at Yale University. He has received numerous awards, including the 2001 Hiroshima Art Prize – an award given to an artist whose work promotes international understanding and peace, never before given to an architect. He was awarded the 1999 Deutsche Architekturpreis (German Architecture Prize) for the Jewish Museum Berlin; also the 2000 Goethe Medallion for cultural contribution; in 1996 the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Architecture and in the same year the Berlin Cultural Prize; in 1990 a membership in the European Academy of Arts and Letters; in 1997 an Honorary Doctorate from Humboldt Universität, Berlin; also in 1999 an Honorary Doctorate from the College of Arts and Humanities, Essex University, England; in 2002 an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Edinburgh and an Honorary Doctorate from DePaul University, Chicago, and most recently in 2004, an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Toronto. Two of Mr. Libeskind’s buildings won RIBA Awards in 2004, the London Metropolitan University Graduate Centre and the Imperial War Museum North, the latter of which was also nominated for the Stirling Prize. Also in 2004, Mr. Libeskind was appointed the first Cultural Ambassador for Architecture by the U.S. Department of State, as part of the CultureConnect Program.

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Daniel Libeskind’s work has been exhibited extensively in major museums and galleries around the world and has also been the subject of numerous international publications in many languages.

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HONORS and AWARDS

2010

Buber-Rosenzweig Medal from DKR (German Coordinating Council of Societies for Christian-Jewish Cooperation) awarded to Daniel Libeskind

2009

Outstanding Project Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) to the Contemporary Jewish Museum

2008

The American Institute of Architects present the Award of Honor for the highest achievement in design excellence for the Museum ResidencesAIA New York and the Center for Architecture Foundation present Studio Daniel Libeskind with 2008 President’s AwardCNBC Americas Property Awards 2008 in categories of Best Development to the Museum Residences and Best High-Rise Development to the Ascent at Roebling’s Bridge awarded to Studio Daniel Libeskind and Corporex

The Technion Honorary Doctoral Ceremony awarded the Doctor Scientiarum Honoris Causa at Mount Carmel Campus, Haifa

CNBC Europe & Africa Property Awards 2008 in categories of Architecture, Redevelopment, High-Rise Architecture and High-Rise Development to ORCO Property Group for Zlota 44

Annual Project of the Year Award given to the Midland Engineering Company for the Ascent at Roebling’s Bridge

2007

The Commander ’s cross of the Order of Merit at the Residence of the Consul General of GermanyGold medal for Architecture at the National Arts ClubThe Second Penn State IAH Medal for Distinguished Contributions to the Public Advancement of Arts and Humanities, PA, USA

Silver Award for “Large Visitor Attraction of the year” for the Imperial War Museum North

Award of Merit for innovative steel design for the Royal Ontario Museum,Canada

Merit Award for Multifamily for “The Museum Residences”, Denver, Colorado, USA

Trebbia European Award  Laureates , Prague State Opera, Prague

2006

RIBA International Award, for the Wohl Centre at Bar-Ilan University, Israel

2005

Royal Fine Arts Commission Trust, Building of the Year Award, Jeu D’ Esprit, for London Metropolitan UniversityAmerican Architect Award, for the Danish Jewish MuseumGiants of Design Award, The Hearst Corporation and House Beautiful

2004

Board of the Cultural Foundation of the Borough of Copenhagen, Recognition of Exceptional ArchitectureHonorary member of the Royal Academy of Arts, London, EnglandRIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) Award, 2004, for Imperial War Museum North

RIBA Award, 2004, for London Metropolitan University Graduate Centre

The First Cultural Ambassador to the US for Architecture by the U.S. Department of State, as part of the Culture Connect program

Awarded Honorary Doctorate, Doctor of Laws, honoris causa from the College of Arts and Humanities, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The New York Academy of Medicine, Honor for visionary Leaders contributions to public health, for World Trade Center Design, New York City

CITY arts 36th Annual Benefit Honor

Honorary Korczak Award, American Friends of the Ghetto Fighters’ Museum, New Jersey

Best of New York Award, for the ‘Building of New York’, Hosted by the New York City College of Technology Foundation, New York

Genovino D’Oro, (Gold Metal Award), for Architecture Genoa, Italy

Man of the Year Award from the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel

The Cooper Union, Urban Visionary Award for Architecture, New York City

CITY arts” Making a Difference through the Arts” Award, New York City

Yivo Institute for Jewish Research “Lifetime Achievement” Award, New York City

The Dr. Bernard Heller Prize from the Hebrew Union College, Jewish Institute of Religion, New York City

2003

Building of the Year, British Construction Industry for Imperial War Museum NorthVisitor Attraction of the Year, Northwest Tourism Board for Imperial War Museum NorthInterfaith Visionary Award, Interfaith Center, New York City

Leo Baeck Institute Award, New York City

New York Association for New Americans, Torch of Honor Award

The Bronx Walk of Fame Induction, New York City

The James Parks Morton Interfaith Award

The Holocaust Educational Trust Award, London, England

The American-Israel Cultural Foundation Aviv Award, New York City

Honorary Royal Academician of the Royal Academy of Arts , London, England

2002

Awarded Honorary Doctorate Faculty of Arts and Sciences, DePaul University, ChicagoAwarded Honorary Doctorate Faculty of Social Sciences, Edinburgh University, ScotlandHolocaust Educational Trust Award

America-Israeli Cultural Foundation Award

2001

Hiroshima Art Prize: Award given to an artist whose work promotes peace

2000

The Goethe Medal for cultural contribution, the Goethe Institute, Germany

1999

Honorary Doctorate for the College of Arts and Humanities, Essex University, EnglandThe German Architecture Prize for the Jewish Museum Berlin, Berlin, Germany

1998

Polish Consulate of New York, Award for Culture, New York, USAArt forum International, The Best of 1998, The Jewish Museum BerlinTIME Magazine, The Best of 1998 Design Awards, The Felix Nussbaum Museum Osnabruck

1997

Awarded Honorary Doctorate, from Humboldt Universität Berlin, Faculty of Philosophy, Berlin, Germany

1996

Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, USAAwarded Bild Zeitung Kulturpreis (Berlin Cultural Prize), Berlin, GermanyFirst prize for Best Exhibition by the German Museum Directors Association

1993

Elected to the Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, Germany

1992

Augustus St. Gaudens Medal for Outstanding Contribution to ArchitectureBook Design Award from the German Publisher’s Commission

1990

A membership to the European Arts and LettersAkademie der Kunst Member

1989

Senior Scholar, The Getty Centre for the History of Art and the Humanities, Los Angeles, California, USA

1988

Visiting Getty Scholar, The Getty Centre for the History of Art and the Humanities, Los Angeles, California, USA

1987

First Prize I.B.A. Building Competition City Edge, Berlin

1986

Forty Under Forty Award for ArchitectsPratt Institute Award for Representation in Architecture

1985

Venice Biennale First Prize Stone Lion Award for the Palmanova ProjectSenior Fulbright-Hayes Teaching Fellowship

1984

1983

Graham Foundation Fellowship for Studies in ArchitectureNational Endowment for the Arts Design Arts Grant for Studies in Architecture

1979

United States – Scandinavia Society Travel AwardAmerican Institute of Graphic Arts Certificate of Excellence

1976

University of Kentucky Award for Best Teacher

1973

Ontario Institute for Studies in Education Research Grant

1972

Institute of Architecture and Urban Studies Research Grant

1970

Graham Foundation Award for TravelNew York City American Institute of Architects Award for Design ExcellenceAmerican Institute of Architects Medal for Highest Scholastic Achievement

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BUILDING AWARDS

2008

The American Institute of Architects Award of Honor for the Museum ResidencesCNBC Americas Property Awards 2008 in category of Best Development for the Museum ResidencesCNBC Americas Property Awards 2008 in category of Best High-Rise Development for the Ascent at Roebling’s Bridge

Building of America Award by Real Estate Construction and Review to Contemporary Jewish Museum

CNBC Europe & Africa Property Awards 2008 in categories of Architecture, Redevelopment, High-Rise Architecture and High-Rise Development to ORCO Property Group for Zlota 44

Annual Project of the Year Award given to the Midland Engineering Company for the Ascent at Roebling’s Bridge

2007

Silver Award for “Large Visitor Attraction of the year” for the Imperial War Museum NorthAward of Merit for innovative steel design for the Royal Ontario Museum,CanadaMerit Award for Multifamily for “The Museum Residences”, Denver, Colorado, US

2006

RIBA International Award, for the Wohl Centre at Bar-Ilan University, Israel

2005

Royal Fine Arts Commission Trust, Building of the Year Award, Jeu D’ Esprit, for London Metropolitan University

2004

RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) Award, 2004, for Imperial War Museum NorthRIBA Award, 2004, for London Metropolitan University Graduate CentreBest of New York Award, for the ‘Building of New York’, Hosted by the New York City College of Technology Foundation, New York

2003

Building of the Year, British Construction Industry for Imperial War Museum North

1998

TIME Magazine, The Best of 1998 Design Awards, The Felix Nussbaum Museum Osnabrück

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Digital Futures Workshop Series

Pratt Institute

School of Undergraduate Architecture

V-Ray Rendering in Rhino 4

Location- HHN 308

Date + Time- 2010.04.03, 12:00-3:00pm

Requirements- Participants are required to bring a laptop with the following software installed:

Rhino 4.0 (SR7) & V-Ray for Rhino Plug-In (v.01.05.29), Photoshop CS3, Illustrator CS3

Description- The workshop will serve as an introduction to rendering with the V-Ray rendering plug-in for Rhino 4.  Participants will be introduced to the concepts and techniques required to effectively set up, develop, and successfully render geometry in Rhino 4.  Topics covered will include modeling, lighting, configuring options/settings, and post processing.  Emphasis will be placed on developing quick, reliable results while rendering with V-Ray in Rhino 4.

Workshop Outline:

User Interface, Navigation

-loading plug-in

-accessing the V-Ray toolbar

-Material Editor

-Settings

-V-Ray Frame Buffer (VFB)

Lighting

-Basic Lighting Concepts: Direct and Indirect Lighting (Global Illumination or GI)

-Types of Light Objects in Rhino and how to add them to a scene

-Adjusting Light Properties and Physical Camera Properties

Materials

-Understanding the Material Editor

-Adjusting Color and Transparency

-Adding /adjusting reflectivity

Rendering Settings

-Overview, speed versus quality

-Settings, Output, Gamma Correction, and VFB channels

-Primary Rendering Engine: Irradiance Mapping, important settings and guidelines

-Secondary Rendering Engine: Light Cache, important settings and guidelines

-Saving Images and Channels

Post Processing

-Adjusting rendered images in Photoshop, Color Correction

-Overlaying vector drawings from Rhino on top of a rendered image using Illustrator.

Liferaft Earth 1969 a film by Robert Frank will be shown Thursday, April 1^st in Higgins Hall Auditorium, a symposium panel, including Alessandra Ponte, Edward Dimendberg, Caroline Maniaque, and William Menking, will discuss the film.

Liferaft Earth begins with a newspaper report from Hayward, California: “Sandwiched between a restaurant and supermarket, 100 anti-population protesters spent their second starving day in a plastic enclosure…. The so-called Hunger Show, a week-long starve-in aimed at dramatizing man’s future in an overpopulated, underfed world….” This film accompanies the people on this “life raft” from 11 to 18 October 1969, and was made by Robert Frank for Stewart Brand, the visionary founder of the international ecological movement and publisher of the bestselling Whole Earth Catalog (1968-85).

Alessandra Ponte is currently the Director of the Undergraduate Program in History and Theory of Architecture at Pratt’s School of Architecture, New York. She has also taught at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, at Princeton’s School of Architecture, at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, and at Cornell’s Department of Architecture.
She has published a book on Richard Payne Knight and the XVIIIth Century Picturesque: Le paysage des origines. Le voyage en Sicile (1777) de Richard Payne Knight (Paris, 2000). She edited (in collaboration with Antoine Picon) a volume on the interconnections between architecture and the sciences: Architecture and the Sciences: Exchanging Metaphors (Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 2003), and she is currently preparing a collection of essays on the American desert.

Edward Dimendberg currently is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies, Visual Studies, and German at the University of California, Irvine, and a University of California President’s Research Fellow in the Humanities. He has received grants and fellowships from the German Fulbright Commission, the J. Paul Getty Trust, the Graham Foundation, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the Social Science Research Council, and the International Research Center for Cultural Studies in Vienna. From 2005 to 2008 he served as the first Multimedia Editor of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, and he remains a frequent lecturer at schools of architecture, museums, cinema studies programs, and film festivals. His book Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity is a key contribution to scholarship on cinema and the city in the 1940s and 1950s. Together with Anton Kaes and Martin Jay, he co-edited The Weimar Republic Sourcebook. As Sponsoring Editor in the Humanities at the University of California Press from 1990 to 1998, Dimendberg acquired and published manuscripts in philosophy, twentieth-century Art, film studies, and European intellectual history. He is a General Editor of the Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism book series and of the Flashpoints electronic book series.

Caroline Maniaque is both an architect and a historian, having earned her PhD from l’université de Paris VIII. She is an associate professor at l’école nationale supérieure d’architecture et de paysage in Lille, where she teaches architectural history and culture. Additionally, she teaches regularly at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture in New York. Between 1994 and 1997, Caroline was the associate curator at the Centre Pompidou for the exhibition L’Art de l’ingénieur taking charge of the portion of the exhibit devoted to light structures showing the works of Graham Bell, R. Buckminster Fuller, Kenneth Snelson, Georges David Emmerich, Frei Otto, Robert Le Ricolais, and Emilio Perez Pinero. Her research and publications have, on one hand, focused on scholarly architectural culture of the 1950s and, on the other hand, on alternative North American culture of the 1960s and its impact on Europe. In particular, she has published Hard et Soft America : Perspectives françaises, dans Les Cahiers de la recherche architecturale et urbaine (2002). She contributed to the catalogues for Ant Farm exhibitions both through the University of California Press in 2004 and at the FRAC Centre in October 2007. During her stay at the CCA, she is putting the finishing touches on a work about European architects and North American counterculture. She has presented her work in progress at the Docomomo international colloquium in New York in 2004, at the Americanization of Post War Architecture colloquium at the University of Toronto in 2005, as well as at the colloquium on the Whole Earth Catalog organized by UC Davis in 2006.

William Menking is the founder and editor of The Architect’s Newspaper. Published in both New York and California the papers highlight the latest design projects and commissions, unfolding politics and debate, current events and cultural developments on architecture, urban design and planning. He has organized, curated and created catalogues for exhibitions on architecture and urbanism for venues in the U.S., England and Europe, including Forever Modern: Fifty Years of Record Houses and Shrinking Cities at The Pratt Manhattan gallery and Van Alen Institute. He is the commissioner and curator of the United States pavilion at the 2008 Venice biennale. The title of the exhibition Into the Open: Positioning Practice proposes that social, cultural and spatial boundaries be understood as a new kind of center that can and should act as a definer of architectural problems. He is professor the Pratt Institute in New York City.

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Pratt Lecture: William Katavolos 1994 (part 1 to 4) from core.formula on Vimeo.

Lecture William Katavolos gave in 1994 that Gamal El-Zoghby has graciously extended to digital futures.

Pratt Lecture: William Katavolos 1994 (part 2 to 4) from core.formula on Vimeo.

Lecture William Katavolos gave in 1994 that Gamal El-Zoghby has graciously extended to digital futures.

Pratt Lecture: William Katavolos 1994 (part 3 to 4) from core.formula on Vimeo.

Lecture William Katavolos gave in 1994 that Gamal El-Zoghby has graciously extended to digital futures.

Pratt Lecture: William Katavolos 1994 (part 4 to 4) from core.formula on Vimeo.

Lecture William Katavolos gave in 1994 that Gamal El-Zoghby has graciously extended to digital futures.

Through ongoing interviews that we have been conducting at core.form-ula, we have decided to highlight one video in particular for digital futures. We sat down with William Katavolos and got an incite on his experience as a Professor with over 50 years teaching at Pratt.

As we transition from one period to another, understanding the history becomes critical in building upon some of the rich pedagogies within the school and charting a path into the 21st century.

“More or less we have finished with “A”, we are now finishing with “B”, you better pull the “A”/ “B” together before you lose it but you better start on the new “C” and then of course you will have the “CA”, “CB”, the “ABC” and then we will have ourselves a great school” WK

You will be able to see parts 1-12 on core.form-ula over the next three weeks, in addition, digital future will be posting a lecture William Katavolos gave in 1994 that Gamal El-Zoghby has graciously extended to us.

Sir Peter Cook, renowned English architect, will be lecturing at Pratt Institute Thursday, March 11^th at 6pm in Higgins Hall Auditorium.

Sir Peter Cook (b Southend-on-Sea, Essex, 22 Oct 1936). English architect, teacher and critic. He studied architecture at the Bournemouth College of Art (1953-8) and at the Architectural Association, London (1958-60), where his teachers included James Gowan, John Killick and Peter Smithson. While working in the office of James Cubitt and Partners (1960-62) he met David Greene (b 1937), and, beginning in 1960, they produced the first of nine issues of the magazine Archigram. An ARCHIGRAM group was formed with other recently graduated young architects, including Warren Chalk, Dennis Crompton, Ron Herron and Mike Webb, who came together after Cook had joined the Taylor Woodrow Design Office in 1962. Archigram magazine was the group’s most important outlet, but a wider audience was also sought through exhibitions, for example the Living City exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London (June 1963); through such events as the International Dialogue of Experimental Architecture, Folkestone (June 1966), a seminal conference for the architectural progressives; and through lecturing and teaching. Cook started teaching at the Architectural Association in 1964.

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When asked to describe the inspiration for the marvelous form of his Kunsthaus Graz museum, Cook describes how an intimate familiarity with the project’s site (“It used to be the one place that you could get a drink after 3 o’clock at night”) helped make the design decisions for this acclaimed building “terribly easy.” (1:40)

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Image courtesy Kunsthaus Graz; photography by Nicolas Lackner.

William F. Baker, partner and structural engineer for the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, will be lecturing Thursday, March 4^th at 6pm in Higgins Hall Auditorium

Bill Baker is the partner in charge of Structural and Civil Engineering for the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP. Mr. Baker pursues a collaborative process which resonates with SOM’s multidisciplinary practice. His approach to structural engineering seeks to integrate form, function, and aesthetics. Since joining the firm in 1981, Mr. Baker has worked on a broad range of engineering projects including designing structural systems for supertall buildings, to smaller, specialized structures and engineering collaborations with artists.

Mr. Baker leads the Structural Engineering studio to ensure that quality, innovation, material economy, and cost efficiency are customized to fit each project’s scope and needs. Mr. Baker has developed the structural system for the Burj Dubai, the world’s tallest structure. Other recently-completed projects include the long span structure of the Virginia Beach Convention Center, the glass cable-net entrancepavilion of the General Motors Renaissance Center in Detroit, Michigan, and Chicago’s Trump International Hotel and Tower.

In addition to working at SOM, Bill’s expertise is frequently solicited by institutions of higher learning, as well as numerous professional organizations. Bill is the 2008 recipient of the Fazlur Rahman Khan medal from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) and the 2009 recipient and first American to receive the Fritz Leonhardt Prize. He is a Fellow of both the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE). Bill is on the Specifications Committee of the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) and also frequently lectures on a variety of structural engineering topics within the U.S. and abroad.

Professional Associations:

Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

Fellow, Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE)

American Concrete Institute (ACI)

Committee on Specifications, American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC)

Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH)

National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES)

International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS)

International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE)

Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI)

University of Illinois President’s Council

Structural Engineers Association of Illinois (SEAOI)

Structural Engineers Association of Northern California (SEAONC)

Structural Engineers Association of New York (SEAONY)

Certified in the Practice of Structural Engineering by the Structural Engineering Certification Board (SECB)

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Frank Barkow of the Berlin firm Barkow Leibinger Architects will lecturing Monday, March 1^st at 6pm in Higgins Hall Auditorium

Frank Barkow and Regine Leibinger founded the Berlin based practice Barkow Leibinger Architects in 1993. Characterized by the interaction of practice, research, and teaching, the firm’s “interdisciplinary, discursive attitude allows its work to expand and respond to advancing knowledge and technology.” Recent designs include a gatehouse and factory-campus event space in Stuttgart, Germany and the TRUTEC Office Building in Seoul, Korea. Pursuing their interest in digitally tooled material, Barkow Leibinger’s recent research projects investigate revolving laser cutting and CNC-cut translucent concrete formwork with an application to facade systems, pre-cast concrete, and ceramic elements.

Barkow Leibinger Architects has been published and exhibited worldwide; drawings and other practice materials are included in collections at the Pompidou Centre, the Deutsches Architektur Museum, and the Heinz Architecture Center, among others. The firm has recently published a book edited by Andres Lepik, MoMA with Hadje Cantz entitled Reflect: Building in the Digital Media City, Seoul. The firm has won numerous AIA Honor Awards and was nominated in 2004 for the Mies van der Rohe Award for the Customer and Administration Building Ditzingen.

Bio:

since 1993 Barkow Leibinger Architects, Berlin, Germany
2005-06 Guest Professor, State Academy of Art and Design, Stuttgart
2004 Visiting Professor, Harvard Design School, Cambridge Cass Gilbert Visiting Professor, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
2003 The Arthur Gensler Visiting Professor of Architecture, Cornell University, Ithaca
2000 Guest Professor, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design
1995-98 Unit Master, Architectural Association, London
1990-92 Visiting Critic, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York and Rome
1990 Master of Architecture, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design
1982 Bachelor of Architecture, Montana State University
1957 Born in Kansas City, USA

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Modeling menu

File menu

“ER” menu:”File-Editing Requests”
“RL” menu:”File-Reload Latest””RW” menu:”File-Reload Latest”

Edit menu

“DE” menu:”Edit-Delete”
“MD” menu:”Edit-Modify”
“SA” menu:”Edit-Select All Instances”
“MV” menu:”Edit-Move”
“CO” menu:”Edit-Copy”
“RO” menu:”Edit-Rotate”
“AR” menu:”Edit-Array”
“MM” menu:”Edit-Mirror”
“RE” menu:”Edit-Resize”
“GP” menu:”Edit-Group-Create Group”
“EG” menu:”Edit-Group-Edit Group”
“UG” menu:”Edit-Group-Ungroup”
“LG” menu:”Edit-Group-Link Group”
“EX” menu:”Edit-Group-Exclude Member”
“MP” menu:”Edit-Group-Move Member to Project”
“RB” menu:”Edit-Group-Restore Excluded Member”
“RA” menu:”Edit-Group-Restore All”
“AP” menu:”Edit-Group-Add to Group”
“RG” menu:”Edit-Group-Remove from Group”
“AD” menu:”Edit-Group-Attach Detail”
“PG” menu:”Edit-Group-Group Properties”
“FG” menu:”Edit-Group-Finish Group”
“CG” menu:”Edit-Group-Cancel Group”
“PP” menu:”Edit-Pin Position”
“UP” menu:”Edit-Unpin Position”
“CS” menu:”Edit-Create Similar””PR” menu:”Edit-Properties”

View menu

“ZR” menu:”View-Zoom-Zoom In Region”
“ZO” menu:”View-Zoom-Zoom Out (2x)”
“ZF” menu:”View-Zoom-Zoom To Fit”
“ZE” menu:”View-Zoom-Zoom To Fit”
“ZA” menu:”View-Zoom-Zoom All To Fit”
“ZS” menu:”View-Zoom-Sheet Size”
“ZP” menu:”View-Zoom-Previous Scroll/Zoom”
“VP” menu:”View-View Properties”F8 menu:”View-Dynamically Modify View
“VG” menu:”View-Visibility/Graphics”
“HH” menu:”View-Temporary Hide/Isolate-Hide Element”
“HI” menu:”View-Temporary Hide/Isolate-Isolate Element”
“HC” menu:”View-Temporary Hide/Isolate-Hide Category”
“IC” menu:”View-Temporary Hide/Isolate-Isolate Category”
“HR” menu:”View-Temporary Hide/Isolate-Reset Temporary Hide/Isolate”
“EH” menu:”View-Hide in view-Elements”
“VH” menu:”View-Hide in view-Category”
“EU” menu:”View-Unhide in view-Elements”
“VU” menu:”View-Unhide in view-Category”
“WF” menu:”View-Wireframe”
“HL” menu:”View-Hidden Line””SD” menu:”View-Shading with Edges”
“AG” menu:”View-Advanced Model Graphics””TL” menu:”View-Thin Lines”
“RR” menu:”View-Rendering-Raytrace”
F5 menu:”View-Refresh”

Modeling menu

“DR” menu:”Modelling-Door”
“WN” menu:”Modelling-Window””CM” menu:”Modelling-Component”
“LI” menu:”Modelling-Lines”
“RP” menu:”Modelling-Ref Plane”

Drafting menu

“DI” menu:”Drafting-Dimension”
“EL” menu:”Drafting-Spot Dimension-Spot Elevation”
“TX” menu:”Drafting-Text”
“GR” menu:”Drafting-Grid”
“LL” menu:”Drafting-Level”
“TG” menu:”Drafting-Tag-By Category”
“RM” menu:”Drafting-Room”
“RT” menu:”Drafting-Room Tag”
“DL” menu:”Drafting-Detail Lines”

Site menu

Tools menu

F7 menu:”Tools-Spelling”
“MA” menu:”Tools-Match”
“LW” menu:”Tools-Linework”
“PT” menu:”Tools-Paint”
“SF” menu:”Tools-Split Face”
“AL” menu:”Tools-Align”
“SL” menu:”Tools-Split Walls and Lines”
“TR” menu:”Tools-Trim/Extend”
“OF” menu:”Tools-Offset”

Settings menu

“SU” menu:”Settings-Sun and Shadows Settings”
“UN” menu:”Settings-Project Units”

Window menu

“WC” menu:”Window-Cascade”
“WT” menu:”Window-Tile”

Help menu

Snap overrides

“SI” snapcode:”Intersections”
“SE” snapcode:”Endpoints”
“SM” snapcode:”Midpoints”
“SC” snapcode:”Centers”
“SN” snapcode:”Nearest”
“SP” snapcode:”Perpendicular”
“ST” snapcode:”Tangents”
“SW” snapcode:”Work Plane Grid”
“SQ” snapcode:”Quadrants”
“SX” snapcode:”Points”
“SR” snapcode:”Snap to Remote Objects”
“SO” snapcode:”Snaps Off”
“SS” snapcode:”Turn Override Off”

Alternates with closer key spacing

“ZZ” menu:”View-Zoom-Zoom In Region”
“ZX” menu:”View-Zoom-Zoom To Fit”
“ZC” menu:”View-Zoom-Previous Scroll/Zoom”
“ZV” menu:”View-Zoom-Zoom Out (2x)”
“VV” menu:”View-Visibility/Graphics”
“CC” menu:”Edit-Copy”

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