What we know about a site is the result of our capacity to see and measure it. Yet much of what occurs on a site does so while we aren’t looking! In an unlikely turn of events, computation has enabled new forms of situatedness for Landscape Architecture, especially through an ability to “keep watch”. In this lecture Brian will discuss “Live Drawing” as a method of linking data collected by sensing devices directly into digital drawing and modelling environments, such that geometries may be parametrically driven by a continuous feed of site information.
Brian Osborn (Assistant Professor of Architecture, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo) is an Architect and a Landscape Architect. His research interests hover around topics of building, site, and landscape technologies and the way that we engage them, as designers, through drawing and expanding modes of representation. His contributions to the evolving field of computational techniques in landscape architecture can be found in publications including Landscape Architecture and Digital Technologies (Jillian Wallis and Heike Rahmann), Codify: Parametric and Computational Design in Landscape Architecture (eds. Bradley Cantrell and Adam Mekies), and Representing Landscapes: Hybrid (ed. Nadia Amoroso). Brian is currently an Associate Professor of Architecture at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. Previously he has taught at Rutgers University, Pratt Institute, and the University of Virginia; where he was the 2012-14 Virginia Teaching Fellow before continuing on as Assistant Professor in the Landscape Architecture Department.
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