After a dozen years at CCA, Kudless will review the growth of his research, practice, and teaching during this time. From early projects to more recent projects like Confluence Park, Kudless will trace several themes through his work such as material computation, form as a diagram of force, representation in the age of automation, and nonhuman architectures. 

After the lecture, there will be an alumni reception sponsored by Blomberg Windows. This is a great opportunity to see what’s happening at CCA and to reconnect with your former classmates.

Andrew Kudless is a designer based in Oakland, CA and is a Professor at the California College of the Arts. In 2004, he founded Matsys, a design studio exploring the emergent relationships between architecture, engineering, biology, and computation. He holds a Master of Arts in Emergent Technologies and Design from the Architectural Association and a Master of Architecture from Tulane University. The work of Matsys has been exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the FRAC Centre in Orleans, France. In 2018, his collaborative project with Lake|Flato Architects, Confluence Park, won a national AIA Honor Award. In early 2020, he will move to Houston, Texas where he will be the Bill Kendall Memorial Endowed Professor at the University of Houston’s Hines College of Architecture Design as well as the Director of the Advanced Media Technology Lab.