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03.27.2013 - ACADIA election results announced. I am happy to have been elected to the Board of Directors for the upcoming term (2013-2015). Excited to serve with such a great group of people. More information here: http://acadia.org/features/Q7Q62C

07.01.2012 - I will be giving a lecture for the Advanced Architectural Design (AAD) degree program at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture this Thursday, July 5th, 2012. Thanks to Josh Uhl and David Fano for the invitation.

08.24.2011 - I will be giving a demo of Firefly at this year's Open Hardware Summit in New York on Sept. 15th. If you're around the city, you should definitely stop by and check it out. Find out more at: www.openhardwaresummit.org/

07.26.2011 - I will be giving a lecture at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) in Barcelona, Spain for their Global Summer School lecture series.

06.02.2011 - In case you missed it, there was a nice write up in the May-June issue of GreenSource magazine featuring Firefly and it's potentials regarding building performance modeling. Make sure to check it out.

06.02.2011 - If you are around Cambridge tonight, I will be presenting at the Pecha Kucha Boston at the Oberon Theater (2 Arrow St, Cambridge, MA 02138). Doors open at 6:00 and the 20x20 talks begin at 6:45. I hope to see you there!

12.06.2010 - I'd like to thank Achim Menges for inviting me to be a guest critic for his final Performative Wood Studio review at Harvard's Graduate School of Design.

10.07.2010 - I will be giving a demonstration of Firefly for Prof. Rodolphe el-Khoury and Prof. Nashid Nabian's architecture studio at MIT.

08.29.2010 - Jason K. Johnson and I are really excited to unveil the new website for Firefly! Come find out the latest features, tutorials, photos, videos and much more at: http://www.fireflyexperiments.com. Come take a look and let us know what you think!

07.08.2010 - LIFT architects has now moved! At least physically anyway. We're now located in Boston, MA and excited about all of the new potentials this city has to offer. We also have a lot of new things to unveil over the coming months (including a new website) so check back often. If your in the neighborhood, please do not hesitate to contact me: andy[at]liftarchitects[dot]com.

03.08.2010 - I will be presenting a lecture entitled "Parametric Optimization and Interactive Architecture" at Clemson University School of Architecture on March 8th, 2010. I would like to thank professor David Lee for the invitation.

05.13.2009 - I will be speaking at the 2009 ICFF Design Entrepreneurs Conference on Monday, May 18th. The conference will be held at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City and is international gathering of entrepreneurs, thought leaders, and innovators from many fields and disciplines. I will be speaking about my runner up submission for the 2009 Metropolis Next Gen Competition titled, the Air Flow(er). To see more about this project, check out the May issue of Metropolis Magazine or come to the conference and get a first hand glimpse of the prototype that I've been developing over the last several months.

03.26.2009 - the FLUX Exhibition will open on March 30th at 8:30pm at the San Francisco campus of the California College of the Arts. The school is located at 1111 Eighth Street, San Francisco, CA. Stop by if your in the Bay area and see what I've been working on.

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SAN FRANCISCO, CA | PARAMETRIC URBANISM WITH GRASSHOPPER | FEB 13-14, 2010 | 10:00am-5:00pm

I am really excited to be participating in the upcoming Formations 2010 workshop series being held at the California College of the Arts campus in San Francisco. There is a really great lineup of instructors teaching a wide array of topics:

Mapping Urban Information with ESRI ArcGIS by Mona El-Khafif (CCA URBANlab) and Richard Kos (CCSF GIS Education Center/ San Jose State University)
Neocartography - an Introduction to Interactive Mapping with Flash by Sha Hwang (Stamen Design)
Parametric Urbanism with Grasshopper by Andy Payne (Lift Architects) and Andrew Kudless (Matsys/CCA MEDIAlab)
Sensing the City with Arduino and Processing by Jason Kelly Johnson (Future Cities Lab/CCA MEDIAlab) and TBA instructor
Parametric Design Modeling with Revit by David Fano (Case, inc./ DesignReForm.net/Columbia GSAPP)
ECOlogics with Ecotect by Nataly Gattegno (Future Cities Lab / CCA ECOlab) and Olivier Pennetier (Symphysis)

Below is a synopsis of the Parametric Urbanism workshop I will co-teaching with Andrew Kudless.
Instructor: Andy Payne (Lift Architects) and Andrew Kudless (Matsys/CCA MEDIAlab)

This workshop will focus on the generative modeling of urban design logics using the Grasshopper plugin for Rhino 4.0. From the early work of firms such as MVRDV to the more recent investigations by Zaha Hadid, a parametric approach to urban design has allowed designers to condense complex hierarchies of design data into solutions that exhibit highly differentiated patterns of urban form. The workshop will cover several techniques that attempt to integrate common urban design parameters dealing with massing, program, and density into one associative model allowing the designer to quickly and accurately test multiple design scenarios. The first day of the workshop will introduce many of the central topics and techniques of parametric urbanism while the second day will focus on the implementation of these techniques in a large, complex urban masterplan.

Eligibility: Open to all design students and professionals.
Cost: $100 for students, $200 for professionals.
Click here to register for this event.

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