[Maths-Education] Maths-Art Seminars at London Knowledge Lab: Digital Design and Geometry in Architecture, Foster & Partners, 13 March 2007

[Phillip Kent]

*** PLEASE CIRCULATE ** ALL WELCOME **

DIGITAL DESIGN AND GENERATIVE GEOMETRY IN ARCHITECTURE:
THE WORK OF FOSTER AND PARTNERS' SPECIALIST MODELLING GROUP
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*An LKL Maths-Art seminar by
Brady Peters and Xavier De Kestelier,
Foster & Partners, London

Tuesday 13 March, 6.00 – 7.30pm

*Foster and Partners is an international studio for architecture, planning
and design led by Norman Foster and a group of Senior Partners. The advent
of digital technologies has allowed the practice to design and build
structures with complex geometric forms that would not have been feasible as
little as twenty years ago. The practice's in-house Specialist Modelling
Group (SMG) has introduced a highly advanced three-dimensional computer
modelling capability that allows architects both to explore design solutions
rapidly and to communicate data to consultants and contractors.

The SMG, currently a team of seven, was formed in 1997 and has been involved
in over 100 projects, providing consultancy in advanced 3-D modelling
techniques, and the creation of custom digital tools. SMG expertise
encompasses architecture, art, maths and geometry, environmental analysis,
geography, programming and computation, urban planning, and rapid
prototyping.

The SMG specialists are a new breed of architectural designer, the digital
design specialist, requiring an education based in design, maths, geometry,
computing, and analysis. Digital design specialists use geometry as a means
of description and as a way to harness the complexity of a building design,
seeking to use science in an artistic manner. This requires a new range of
skills, which are not part of architects' training and thus one of the roles
of the SMG is the education of architects in the use of digital techniques
and the role of geometry in design of buildings.

Brady and Xavier, both members of the SMG, will introduce the Group's work,
and also the work of  the SmartGeometry Group (smartgeometry.com), an
independent, international organisation involving experts from leading
architectural practices and CAD software houses, whose aim is to advance
education and research in the area of 3D CAD applications.


TIME: 6 - 7.30pm, Tuesday 13 March 2007
PLACE: London Knowledge Lab, 23-29 Emerald St, London, WC1N 3QS
[Travel information / Maps at:
http://www.lkl.ac.uk/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=42&Itemid=32]

All welcome. No reservation required, but an email to
lkl.maths.art at gmail.com would be appreciated.

The seminar will be webcast live at: www.lkl.ac.uk/cms/live. A video
recording will then be available at the LKL event video
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