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Arturo Tedeschi is an architect and computational design specialist with more than ten years of experience in the avant-garde segment of architecture and industrial design (furniture, automotive, installations, products, footwear). He works as a consultant for leading companies, providing services and training related to Algorithms-Aided Design, complex geometry, digital fabrication, and data-driven design. He is the author of Parametric Architecture with Grasshopper and AAD Algorithms-Aided Design, the worldwide reference book on algorithmic modeling. He taught and was an invited speaker at Architectural Association School (London), Politecnico di Milano, IUAV (Venice), The University of Sydney, Dubai Institute of Design and Innovation,…

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Neil Leach is an architect, professor, curator, and writer. He teaches at Tongji University, European Graduate School, and Harvard Graduate School of Design. Leach has also taught at many prestigious institutions, such as the Architectural Association, Cornell University, IaaC, and SCI-Arc. In addition to his teaching career, he is also a widely known author with more than 30 books published in the fields of critical theory and digital design. His books include Rethinking Architecture (Routledge 1997), Designing for a Digital World (Wiley,2002), and Computational Design (Tongji University Press, 2018), for which he collaborated with Philip F Yuan. Philip F Yuan…

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[maxbutton id=”14″] Christina Cogdell is an associate professor and chair of the design department at University of California. She is also the author of award-winning book “Eugenic Design: Streamlining America in the 1930s”. Cogdell teaches design history, theory and criticism through a large number of lectures and seminars with a focus on bio-design, self-organization and emergence. In the last few years, she has been researching generative architecture and design for her current book “Toward a Living Architecture? Complexism and biology in Generative Design” with fellowships she received from the Mellon Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, The Canadian Centre for Architecture…

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HOT TO COLD: an odyssey of architectural adaptation is published by Taschen and the book is known to be one of the best-selling architecture books of its generation. Hot to Cold aims to investigate the way mankind inhabits the planet, through sixty case studies that are situated in extreme climate conditions. While investigating the relationship between architecture and climate, the book intends to challenge and reformulate extreme climate conditions into both economically and environmentally beneficial hospitability solutions. Architecture is the art and science of accommodating the lives we want to live. Our cities and buildings aren’t givens; they are the…

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