Between Architecture and Science: Material Analogs, by Jenny S

Collaborations between architects and scientists offer up venues for productive exchange in design while revealing powerful models for visualizing the intangible. Sabin’s collaborative research, teaching and design practice focus on the contextual, material and formal intersections between architecture, science and technology. Through the visualization and materialization of dynamic and complex datasets, Sabin has generated a body of speculative and applied design work that aligns crafts-based techniques with digital fabrication alongside questions related to the body and information mediation. This talk will look at intersections between architecture, computational models, textile structures and biology through multiple modes of working and collaborating. The material world that this type of research interrogates reveals examples of nonlinear fabrication and self-assembly at the surface, and at a deeper structural level. In parallel, this work offers up novel possibilities that question and redefine architecture within the greater scope of generative design and fabrication. This lecture is a part of the Philadelphia Associate AIA, TECH Series. The event will focus on relationships between science and architecture while showcasing Jenny Sabin's work and methodologies. Sabin, director of Jenny Sabin LLC and co-founder of Sabin + Jones Lab Studio, is currently the Senior Researcher of the Non-Linear Systems Organization (NSO) at PennDesign started by Cecil Balmond. For more information visit : http://phillyaaiatechseries.blogspot.com/ Walk-in's welcome, RSVP is appreciated. To RSVP or for more information email Brad Hubbard at, [email protected].