Roland Snooks - Encoding Algorithmic Matter

lecture
04/21/2010
Encoding Algorithmic Matter

Architect and educator, Roland Snooks is the George Issacs Distinguished Fellow in Digital Technology.

Snooks is a partner of the architecture practice Kokkugia. He holds a masters degree in advanced architectural design from Columbia University where he studied on a Fulbright scholarship after graduating from RMIT University (B.Arch). Snook has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University and the USC School of Architecture. He has also directed design studios and seminars at the Pratt Institute; the Southern California Institute of Architecture; the University of California, Los Angeles; the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, both in Australia. Snooks current teaching and research interests focus on emergent and algorithmic design processes involving genetic and agent based techniques.

The work of Kokkugia has been published and exhibited internationally at the Beijing Biennale and Chernikhov Prize in Moscow. In addition, Kokkugia was named the Australian Curator for the 2008 Beijing Biennale. Kokkugia is currently working on projects in Australia and Mexico.

Established by prominent USC alumnus, George Isaacs, the 20l0 Fellowship is awarded to a leading international scholar, research and/or practitioner in the emerging field of integrated digital technology. The purpose of the visiting fellowship is to impact teaching, study and research to stimulate and transform design excellence through integrated digital technology. The process is embedded in all academic levels at the School of Architecture. The fellow engages students and faculty through a variety of academic activities including lectures, a studio, workshops, symposia, exhibition and a subsequent publication.

Lectures are free and open to the public. They are located in the Gin D. Wong, FAIA Conference Center, Harris Hall, on the University Park campus. No reservations are required. Parking is available on campus at Gate 1 off Exposition Blvd.

http://www.kokkugia.com/

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• architecture
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• snooks
• parametrics
• algrothmics
• encoding
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