Architecture Computational Technologies

Explore design research at the frontiers of architecture through experimentation in computational design, robotic systems applied to fabrication and interactivity, and materiality. For more information please contact ms.act@nyit.edu

ENTANGLED ECOLOGIES of the PUBLIC REALM, Lecture by Marcella del Signore

Automation in Development through Collectives MS ACT Program Lecture Event SoAD

MS in Architecture, Computational Technologies Program Information Session Fall 2022

Panoramas of Cinema: Image Search Lecture by Jorge Orozco, Dr. Sc. ETHZ

Buckminster Fuller's trajectory - Dymaxion to the Geo Lecture by Michael Wen Sen Su, Pratt Institute

MASTER’S IN ARCHITECTURE, COMPUTATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES PROGRAM IS TAKING ARCHITECTURE INTO THE FUTURE

INFORMED REALISM ARCH 701B Studio Final Review Prof. PABLO LORENZO-EIROA

Blog-Video | Dec 23, 2021

An Informed Realism becomes active once survey is understood as an act of design. Questioning representation parameters in architecture, students address how computation can be understood as proto-architectural. From Big Data gathering, to emergent computation through simulation, to activating artificial intelligence (Data Science, Simulation, Machine Learning), to an augmented virtual reality, students are asked to develop ideas through specific computational thinking, learning and investigating through technology specific cultural problems.

INFORMED REALISM ARCH 701B Studio Final Review Prof. PABLO LORENZO-EIROA

Video | Dec 23, 2021

An Informed Realism becomes active once survey is understood as an act of design. Questioning representation parameters in architecture, students address how computation can be understood as proto-architectural. From Big Data gathering, to emergent computation through simulation, to activating artificial intelligence (Data Science, Simulation, Machine Learning), to an augmented virtual reality, students are asked to develop ideas through specific computational thinking, learning and investigating through technology specific cultural problems.
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Interview with Salma Kattass by MSACT

Blog | Nov 21, 2021

Salma Kattass is a Fulbright grantee in the Masters in Architecture, Computational Technology program here at NYIT. She graduated from the National School of Architecture Rabat, Morocco in 2019. After her undergraduate degree she occupied a position of an architect project manager at an architectural firm in Casablanca where she worked on projects of multiple scales ranging from private residences to office buildings to public parks. Furthermore, Salma participated in many national and international competitions as a student, a young architect and designer where she received several awards.
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ARCHITECTURE And CAPITALISM Lecture YANIS VAROUFAKIS, PEGGY DEAMER,

Blog | Nov 21, 2021

This is a discussion of architecture’s role in capitalism and the manner in which it is circumscribed by capitalism and furthers capitalism’s agenda. In discussion with Nader Vossoughian, Hyun-Tae Jung and Yanis Varoufakis, we will examine the role that building can play in remedying the economic, biological, and social crises facing so many nations today. We will talk about its importance to the future of the public sphere, not just from a political point of view but also from an ecological and humanitarian standpoint. We will debate the ongoing challenges that monopoly capitalism poses to our life on this planet. We will consider some of the theories of infrastructure current in artistic and policy-related circles. We will assess the merits of the Green New Deal, which pairs labor programs together with the climate crisis. And we will examine activist movements taking root in various parts of the world.
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DIGITAL FEUDALISM AND SURVEILANCE Lecture SEAN ANDERSON, JANA LEO, M7red, ZULAIKHA AYUB

Blog | Nov 18, 2021

Borders and cities index more an economic system than the previous modern ideals of socio economic stability, health and equity. These economic systems are measurable in how the city form follows finance (Willis) rather than environmental, urban and architecture parameters. What are the consequences of Capitalism in architecture and urbanism? How can we denaturalize cities as business and present alternative scenarios? In a globalized economy, people cannot move but goods can. How can we disclose implicit and explicit political boundaries in the current neoliberal model? What are the possibilities for a Post-Capitalist Urbanism in the Post-Anthropocene? How is technology enabling or resisting these processes? How is the current Feudal Capitalism in Computation reinforcing or displacing this logic and physical and political borders?
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