Opening Lecture： “Design Innovation”

Time：9pm-11pm, June 10

ZOOM：982 4441 6092

Design Innovation 

Innovation is not merely change. Innovation is effective precisely to the degree that it inflects culture. The longevity of any innovation is directly related to its ability to sustain and continually encourage its effect; innovation is change that people find useful or meaningful. Architecture design innovation is dependent on design techniques that form the pivot between culture and its progression. Design techniques affect the technical that influences technology and as technology improves it progresses culture and techniques are reinvented to continue cultural progression. As techniques change so does culture and as culture changes so do the aesthetics.

To be culturally relevant we need to operate with the most far reaching of design techniques available to us, and our ability to develop an aesthetics is reliant on the contrast between the affect we select and the built environment. In this workshop we will use the latest digital techniques available to design a facade using new materials that can be constructed today using contemporary manufacturing techniques. The method and detail of the components of the facade and their assembly will manifest in a detailed design that will develop aesthetics that are in contrast with the existing bult environment.

Lecturer Introduction 

Ali Rahim is Professor of Architecture and Director of Advanced Architecture Design (MSD-AAD) at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design. He is Co-Director of the New York and Shanghai based architectural firm CAP. Mr. Rahim has served as the Studio Zaha Hadid Visiting Professor at the University of Applied Arts (die Angewandte) in Vienna, as the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Professor at Yale University, as a Visiting Architecture Professor at Harvard University and a Visiting Professor at SCI-Arc.