SHAPESHIFTING

Registration: www.nrinet.com/aia3d

SHAPESHIFTING:
The Emerging Role of Three-Dimensional Printing in Contemporary Studio Practice and Design

June 11th, 2009

AIA Center for Architecture

The direct physical realization of computer-visualized, three-dimensional form holds
the promise of a new era of architectural design methodology.

The manufacturing and production of scale models and
exotic shapes have taken center stage as viable generators
of design rules; the REAL inexorably, and without precedent,
linked to the VIRTUAL.

Now complex modeling explored on the computer, either
by scripting or through the direct manipulation of form has
a tangible output: Three-Dimensional Printing.

The impact of this important technology, its generation of
form from virtual models, and the potential of its expanding
role in design practice will be the subject of the roundtable/
panel discussion: SHAPESHIFTING.

Seating is limited. Please RSVP by June 8.

AIA Center for Architecture
536 LaGuardia Place
New York NY

Technology Exhibit:
Demo of 3D Printers: 4PM
Technology Seminar: 5PM

Model Gallery:
FXFOWLE Architects, Rietveld
Architects, Grimshaw, Cooper Carry,
HOK, SOM, Burt Hill,
Polshek Partnership

Panel Discussion: 6PM
Colin Montoute, AIA LEED
FXFOWLE Architects
Piet Meijs, Associate
Rietveld Architects LLP
Evan Jenkins, SOM

Curating and Panel Moderators:
Charles Matz, AIA RIBA CID, Faculty - New York Institute of Technology
Jon Dillon, Adj. Faculty - New York Institute of Technology
Bishara Abdul-Hamid, IT Engineer

Cocktails and hors

d’oevres served