Emergent Technologies and Design Programme (inaugurated in 2001) is open to graduates in architecture and engineering who wish to develop skills and pursue knowledge in architectural design science that is located in new production paradigms. We investigate new synergies of architecture and ecology through the critical intersection of computational design and fabrication. Our focus is on exploring the cultural and social potentials of new material and spatial configurations for architectural and Ecological Urban Designs situated in the dynamic contexts of emerging biomes. The programme is designed to stimulate critical thinking through experience of research-driven design projects that are developed in an intellectually rigorous and creative studio environment. Our projects are pursued by multiple iterations through hypothesis, material and computational experimentation, robotic fabrication, and evaluation; reflected upon in verbal presentations and group discussions and documented in analytical and scientifically structured papers.
MSc Students 2020/2021
Amal Alshamsi, Cheng He, Eleftherios Kourkopoulos, Clinton Glen, Mendonca Georges, Junior Merheb, Anna Sapountzaki, Naoki Tachikawa, Yiteng Wang
MArch Students 2020/2021
Nupur Gandhi, Amanpreet Kaur (Distinction), Yi Ju Lin (Distinction), Pouyan Mohammadi, Ashwin Abraham Mukkaranath (Distinction), Hongyu Si
Current Students 2021/2022
Baris Doga Çam, Zhaoheng Chen, Ghazal Enayati, Maxence Fromentin, Ziyue Gao, Yanan Guo, Luis Bosoms Hernandez, Helen Yael Johnson, Anastasiya Katliarskaya, Anna Maria Oldakowski, Brendan O’Rourke, Rodrigo Maron Rius, Manya Singhal, Yixiao Xu, Chu Zhang
Staff
Programme Director: Dr. Elif Erdine
Founding Director: Dr. Michael Weinstock
Studio Master: Dr. Milad Showkatbakhsh
Studio Tutors: Eleana Polychronaki, Lorenzo Santelli, Felipe Oeyen
Emeritus Professor: Dr. George Jeronimidis
Partners & Sponsors
Buro Happold Engineering
Hassell Studio
One Click LCA
Lecturers / Guest Critics
Andy Watts – Grimshaw
Nicolo Bencini – BuroHappold Engineering
Nacho Marti – ETS AA School
Babak Soleimani – HKS, Ford Motor Company
Jordi Truco – HYBRIDa
Jens Pedersen – Odico Construction Robotics, Aarhus School of Architecture
Zeynep Aksoz – Die Angewandte, TU Wien
David Andres Leon – McNeel Europe, Master in Advanced Computation for Architecture & Design (MaCAD) in the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC)
Enriqueta Llabres Valls – Bartlett UCL, Relational Urbanism Lab
Andrew Heumann – HYPAR
Jose Luis GarcÃa del Castillo y López – Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Sina Mostafavi – DARS Hub, Dessau International Graduate School of Architecture
James Solly & Stephen Melville – FORMAT Engineers
Julia Koerner – UCLA
Brian Ringley – Boston Dynamics
Mohammed Makki – University of Technology Sydney, Wallacei
Weiting Kong – Price & Myers
Giulio Gianni – Price & Myers
Craig Buchanan – Imperial College London
Elena Shilova – Grimshaw Architect
Stephanie Chaltiel – Mudd Architects
Kostas Grigoriadis – Bartlett UCL
Christian Derix – Neom
Xavier De Kestelier – Hassell Studio
Edoardo Tibuzzi – AKT ll
Music
Rebound – Qube
Music from Uppbeat: https://uppbeat.io/t/qube/rebound
License code: Z0EQABJOLJVA3ZNZ
Digital Dreams – Infraction
Music from Uppbeat: https://uppbeat.io/t/infraction/digital-dreams
License code: WE0DOFT0TNU1PKEZ
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