Emerging technologies of design and production have transformed the role of drawings within the contemporary design process from that of design generators to design products. As architectural design has shifted from an analog drawing-based paradigm to that of a computational model-based paradigm, the agency of drawing as a critical and important form of design representation has shifted. Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation examines the effects of this transformation on the architectural discipline and explores how architects have critically integrated procedural thinking into their drawing process.

This event, marking the launch of the book, will discuss the premise of the project and focus on the role of computation in the pedagogy of architectural drawing. Book authors Adam Marcus and Andrew Kudless will be joined by contributors Liz Gálvez, Thom Faulders, Zeina Koreitem, and Heather Roberge to present their contributions to the book and participate in a conversation about how computation has both transformed and revitalized architectural representation.

Speakers:

Adam Marcus directsVariable Projects, an award-winning design and research studio focused on architecture, computation, and fabrication. He is also a partner in Futures North, a public art collective exploring data aesthetics. His work critically engages design computation, digital fabrication, and robotics, emphasizing ecological, material, and public interaction. Adam is an Associate Professor at Tulane University, where he serves as Research Director of the Center on Climate Change and Urbanism. He previously taught at CCA, where he co-founded the Architectural Ecologies Lab, and has also held teaching positions at the University of Minnesota and Columbia University.

Andrew Kudless, based in Houston, Texas, is the Bill D. Kendall Professor at the University of Houston’s Hines College of Architecture & Design and Director of the CRAFT Lab. He founded Matsys in 2004, a design studio blending art, design, architecture, and engineering. Kudless holds a Master of Arts from the Architectural Association and a Master of Architecture from Tulane University. A Fulbright Fellow in Kyoto, Japan, he has received numerous awards, including the 2019 AIA Honor Award and a 2023 AIA Top Ten COTE Award for Confluence Park. Matsys’s work is exhibited globally and featured in major collections, including the SFMoMA and Centre Pompidou.

Thom Faulders is a Professor of Architecture at CCA and the founder of FAULDERS STUDIO, a multi-disciplinary practice that pursues architecture as an open condition. Licensed since 1998, Faulders has received the Emerging Architect Award from the Architecture League of New York, an Experimental Design Award from SFMOMA, and a New Practices Award from AIA San Francisco. FAULDERS STUDIO projects have earned international recognition and are part of permanent collections at SFMOMA, the FRAC Centre in France, and UC Berkeley Archives.

Liz Gálvez is a registered architect, director of Office e.g., and teaches courses on design and environmentalism. She holds an MArch from MIT and a bachelor's degree in architectural and philosophical studies from Arizona State University. Based between the San Francisco Bay Area and Michoacán, Mexico, her work explores the intersection of architecture, theory, and environmentalism. Gálvez has taught at Yale, Rice, and Michigan’s Taubman College, where she was the 2018–19 William Muschenheim Fellow. Her research has received support from the SOM Foundation and Graham Foundation, and she was awarded the 2021 Architectural League Prize.

Zeina Koreitem is a Lebanese architect, founding partner with John May of MILLIØNS,  a Los Angeles-based architecture and design practice and Design Faculty at SCI-Arc. Their projects span various scales and media formats. MILLIØNS is the winner of an international competition to reimagine the East wing of I.M.Pei's Everson Museum, in Syracuse, NY. Most recently, Koreitem and May were named by Wallpaper* as one of the “USA 400: The People Shaping America’s Creative Landscape in 2024.

Heather Roberge AIA is a registered architect and educator based in Los Angeles, California. She is the founder and principal of design practice murmur and a professor in the Department of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA. Her work explores the spatial and atmospheric potential of digital technologies in architecture, emphasizing innovative material, computation, and manufacturing approaches. Roberge has received numerous accolades, including the 2016 Emerging Voices Award from the Architectural League of New York and a 2015 AIA LA Merit Award. Her work has been published in major outlets and exhibited internationally. She holds a Master of Architecture from Ohio State University.

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