Title: 'New Directions in Computing for Architecture'

Date: Tuesday, November 11 2003

Location: Center for Architecture, Hines Gallery. 536 LaGuardia Place (between Bleecker & West 3rd Streets)

Time: 6:00 - 8:00 PM

Speaker: Michael Silver, Assistant Professor of Architecture, Director of Digital Media, Yale University School of Architecture

Description: Supercomputing, LIDAR mapping, Design as Software development, Automason Ver. 1.0, CFD (computational fluid dynamics) CNC Foam Shaping, Cellular Automoton programming, Moire Phase shifting, Diffusion Limited Aggregation models, and Computer simulation. The speaker will discuss the link between computing and architectural poetics and explore new technologies and how they're being used to rethink problems specific to the discipline of architecture.