New ethics and technologies necessitate a restructured relationship between material supplies, construction methods, and design processes. Shared authorship models and computational design enable the intelligent utilization of material irregularity, behavior, and other conventional limitations. This talk considers how processes of growth and grown materials might be harnessed in the production of architecture.
Katie MacDonald and Kyle Schumann are Assistant Professors of Architecture at the University of Virginia, and Cofounders of After Architecture, a practice named to convey the built environment’s impact on cultures and ecologies. Previously, they jointly held the 2019-2020 Tennessee Architecture Fellowship at the University of Tennessee. Their research critiques conventional building practices, which face new lifecycle questions and overextended supply chains amid the current environmental crisis. Such work explores how technological agency can help reconcile the intentions of the designer with the irregularity of natural materials and processes, leveraging data and feedback to reframe authorship. Recent projects include an installation at the Oslo Architecture Triennale 2019 and a pavilion at the Knoxville Museum of Art.
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