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Digital Architect: Lecture by Andrew Kudless

Andrew Kudless

Andrew Kudless, an architect currently based in Columbus, Ohio, is the founder of the architectural firm Material Systems Organization, which examines connections among architecture, building, biology and informatics. He is the recipient of the 2005-2006 LeFevre Fellowship for Emerging Practitioners at the Ohio State University's Knowlton School of Architecture. In addition, he is a consultant for Expedition Engineering as a digital modeling and fabrication specialist. He recently graduated with distinction from the Architectural Association with a MA in Emergent Technologies and Design. He is the recipient of a Design Merit Award in the 2004 Far Eastern International Digital Architecture Design competition. He has taught workshops in architectural design and digital techniques at the AA and Rice University and will assist in teaching a course at Yale University during the fall 2005 term. Prior to graduate school he was a designer at Allied Works Architecture for four years working on the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis; the Museum of Arts and Design, NY; and the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas, Texas. Previous to this experience, he spent one year in Japan on a Fulbright Fellowship studying the self-organizing patterns of urban development within the Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe metropolis. He graduated with honors from Tulane University in 1998 earning a Master of Architecture.

The lecture "Cellular Stuctures" will take place at the ČVUT Faculty of Architecture (Thákurova 7, Praha 6 – Dejvice, room C 223) on Tuesday, September 26, at 6 p.m.

In addition to Andrew Kudless, Michel Rojkind, Pavel Hladík and Vladimír Soukenka will also participate in the “Digital Architect” series of lectures. Each of them lives in a different country, different environment and works on different projects. They are not even the same generation of architects, but are connected by one thing: fascination with digital architecture.

Andrew Kudless (Material Systems Organization, USA) www.materialsystems.org