ACADIA is pleased to announce the results of the 2025 Election for the President of ACADIA, the ACADIA Board of Directors, and the IJAC Editorial Board.
Thank you to all of the candidates for running and to all of our members who voted in the election. We look forward to working with this new group of leaders over the coming year.
ACADIA President Elect
* Biayna Bogosian, Arizona State University
ACADIA Board of Directors Returning and Newly Elected:
* Sina Mostafavi, Texas Tech University
* Benjamin Ennemoser, Texas A&M
* Alex Schofield, California College of the Arts
* Molly Reichert, University of Minnesota
* Erin Hunt, Texas Tech University
* Teng Teng, Lawrence Tech University
* Maxwell Jarosz, Miami University
* Assia Crawford, Tulane University
* Jacob Gasper, Cornell University (Grad Student Rep)
Final Product and Pedagogical Insights.
This hybrid exhibition space fosters creativity, collaboration, and hands-on exploration, blending physical and digital fabrication.The installation not only serves as a backdrop for the models displayed outside, but it also shapes the space by housing a dynamic display of three screens inside. These screens showcase student work and faculty research, creating a communicative, ever-changing installation. A versatile space where ideas converge and evolve.It highlighted the potential of AR and craftsmanship in shaping the future of design.
Images depict physical models produced by Department of Architecture students in front of the installation.
Fabrication Team: Marc Ihle, Benjamin Ennemoser, David Jiménez Iniesta, María Peñalver Izaguirre, Shirley Dongwei Chen, Hans Steffes, Fabrizio Aimar, Matthew Benedict, Department of Architecture Texas A&M students.
Drawings credit: Estudio Brava
Photo credit: Marcel Erminy.
#Tamu #Design #Architecture #AR #AugmentedReality #CoAShowcase #DesignEducation #Exhibition #DesignBuild #Collaboration #TechInDesign #InnovativeSpaces
CoA Showcase Installation | Collaborative Design-Build Process
This hands-on, collaborative project emphasized teamwork and real-time design fabrication, blending digital and analog techniques. AR projections via Microsoft HoloLens2 acted as digital stencils, guiding the weaving process. In just one day, 6 faculty and 45 architecture students created a spatial structure using AR and manual methods.
Through this process, the soft surface of a domestic carpet transforms into an installation space that displays faculty and student work.
Images and video depict the installation on exhibition with material details.
Fabrication Team: Marc Ihle, Benjamin Ennemoser, David Jiménez Iniesta, María Peñalver Izaguirre, Shirley Dongwei Chen, Hans Steffes, Fabrizio Aimar, Matthew Benedict, Department of Architecture Texas A&M students.
Drawings credit: Estudio Brava
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CoA Showcase Installation | AR as a Design Tool
This collaborative installation explores the intersection of pedagogy, technology, and participatory design. Through the aid of AR, the pre-computed stitching patterns were translated onto the carpet sheet. The process involves an immersive bridging between the physical and the virtual environment.
The final exhibition space was fabricated collaboratively by undergraduate students and faculty from the Department of Architecture. The resulting installation is a dynamic, flexible exhibition space redefining design and materiality.
Fabrication Team: Marc Ihle, Benjamin Ennemoser, David Jiménez Iniesta, María Peñalver Izaguirre, Shirley Dongwei Chen, Hans Steffes, Fabrizio Aimar, Matthew Benedict, Department of Architecture Texas A&M students.
Drawings credit: Estudio Brava
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Soft Spaces.
The project unfolds in three key phases:
Material Exploration: or the “One Matter” phase. Carpet wrinkling-ness is investigated, focusing on the material behavior and structural potential. This exploration redefines the material’s identity, generating a tactile, abstract surface that elevates its perception from ordinary to refined.
Digital Bricolage: The patterns derived from the material are digitally cloned, This digital twin becomes a design tool, allowing for iterative experimentation with parameters such as stitch density and spacing, bridging the physical and virtual realms.
Fabrication: Using Microsoft HoloLens, the digital patterns are translated into physical form through a collaborative process. The augmented reality overlay functions as a virtual stencil, enabling precise weaving and stitching while integrating human skill and technological aid.
Images depict the Department of Architecture Students working on the installation.
Fabrication Team: Marc Ihle, Benjamin Ennemoser, David Jiménez Iniesta, María Peñalver Izaguirre, Shirley Dongwei Chen, Hans Steffes, Fabrizio Aimar, Matthew Benedict, Department of Architecture Texas A&M students.
Drawings credit: Estudio Brava
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Soft Spaces.
Soft Spaces is a collaborative project that reimagines the potential of recycled domestic materials—such as carpets, drywall, and televisions—within the context of architectural experimentation. By merging manual craftsmanship with cutting-edge digital tools, the project transforms these everyday elements blurring the boundaries between the mundane and the extraordinary.
Fabrication Team: Marc Ihle, Benjamin Ennemoser, David Jiménez Iniesta, María Peñalver Izaguirre, Shirley Dongwei Chen, Hans Steffes, Fabrizio Aimar, Matthew Benedict, Department of Architecture Texas A&M students.
Drawings credit: Estudio Brava
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Digital Bricolage and Augmented Craftsmanship.
Constructed over 24 hours by a team of students and faculty, Soft Spaces serves as a multimedia exhibition platform, hosting interactive screens that display collective works, including a 600-page digital publication. The pavilion embodies the ethos of the digital bricoleur, blending repurposed materials and hybrid methodologies to create a spatial narrative that is simultaneously playful, resourceful, and innovative.
This project underscores the transformative potential of recycling and bricolage in architecture. By repurposing familiar materials and embracing emergent technologies, Soft Spaces demonstrates how sustainability and ingenuity can intersect to produce experimental environments that challenge traditional notions of space and materiality.
Final exhibition space was fabricated collaboratively by undergraduate students and faculty from the Department of Architecture.
Fabrication Team: Marc Ihle, Benjamin Ennemoser, David Jiménez Iniesta, María Peñalver Izaguirre, Shirley Dongwei Chen, Hans Steffes, Fabrizio Aimar, Matthew Benedict, Department of Architecture Texas A&M students.
Drawings credit: Estudio Brava
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Xeno-tékton captures the essence of human and non-human interdependence by portraying coexistence as a web of interconnected relationships. This multi-species habitat seamlessly integrates ancient materials like clay and soil with cutting-edge AI and robotic fabrication techniques. The result is an urban/natural living environment that harnesses the vitality of nature and living materials. The project breathes life into what would otherwise be inert matter, all while minimizing the carbon footprint and pushing the boundaries of sustainable design.
In this project, humans, machines, and natural systems collaborate as co-creators. Designed with AI and constructed by robots, the structure is stabilized by nature through plant growth and biomineralization, forming microhabitats and food webs that enhance biodiversity.
Rather than a static art object, Xeno-tékton is a living installation that evolves daily, allowing nature to act as an artist, architect, and ecosystem engineer. Seasonal environmental changes continuously transform the artwork, integrating adaptability and self-healing properties of biological systems. Integrated sensors record these transformations for future scientific analysis and the development of a digital installation.
#livinginstallation #artandscience #natureandtech #futurehabitat #biodiversity #aiandnature #artsciencetechnology #livingmaterials #soilscience #3dprinting #3dGANs
acknowledgments:
Scientific Collaborators: Thomas Pümpel - Institute of Microbiology and Jonathan Baker - Quaternary Research Group, Institute of Geology both @uniinnsbruck
scientific advisors: Arwyn Jones, Calogero Schillaci - #jrc of the #europeancommission
3D Printing Partners: @x_rex.lab@cera.lab
funding: State of Tyrol #artinpublicspace program 2024
curated: @kunstlerinnenvereinigung_tirol
Throwback to the final reviews of my 406 research studio, “Supercharge,” at the Department of Architecture at Texas A&M. @tamuarch Students delved into new modes of transportation, ranging from personal electric vehicles to high-speed trains in the Texas Triangle, creating a multi-modal transportation hub at Texas A&M. Leveraging Generative AI, they reimagined norms of mobility, architectural programs, and contemporary aesthetics.
Project/Physical Model: @jaketays@huizar_thomas_@vrg_studiodesign
Photography: Marcel Erminy @merminy
I’m thrilled to share that I have been honored once again with the Undergraduate Faculty Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Graduating Fourth Year Class of 2024 at the Department of Architecture, Texas A&M. @tamuarch A heartfelt thank you to all the students who voted for me and to Department Chair Dr. Gregory Luhan @gregory.luhan , along with Dean Dr. Patrick Suermann @sususupermansuey of the School of Architecture @tamuarchschool , for presenting this award and their support. This recognition truly means a lot to me! #tamu #tamuarch
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@benjamin_ennemoser Benjamin Ennemoser is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Texas A&M University, where he leads the research lab for Artificial Intelligence in Architecture. He has previously taught and lectured at UCLA, the University of Innsbruck, and the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, among others. He studied architecture at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and the University of Innsbruck, where he graduated with distinction. He has received several fellowships and grants, including a research grant from the Academy of Performing and Visual Arts at TAMU, a CRS Foundation Probes grant, and the Start Grant from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Arts and Culture. His research on computational design, robotics, and artificial intelligence in architecture was published and presented in international journals, books, conferences, and academic institutions such as the AA London, Bartlett UCL, Tongji University, EPFL, and Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. He is a licensed architect in the European Union and founded his practice in 2016. He recently collaborated with Google R&D for the Built Environment, Carvana, and Gensler DxD as a technology consultant and design lead.
The conference is arranged as a series of short presentations and panel discussions over the course of two days, engendering close discourse and lively debate.
Organized by Karla Saldana Ochoa, Adil Bokhari, Lee-Su Huang, and Nikola Marincic
Dates: November 2nd and 3rd 2023
Location:
The in-person event will be held at the John and Anne Sofarelli Family Gallery—University of Florida School of Architecture (registration warrants entry)
The conference attendance is free of charge, but requires registration. The event will also be streamed online.
Conference website and registration links in bio.
We are thrilled that our research project was selected as a Winner in this year’s Architizer Vision Awards! - Category Best Physical Model! @architizer
The Project critically investigates the issue around data justice and bias when tasking AI, such as Diffusion Models, to generate architecture and its elements. Academy for the Visual & Performing Arts at Texas A&M University (AVPA) and the Texas A&M Architecture Department at Texas A&M University supported the project to promote the arts in the Brazos Valley, Texas. @tamuavpa@tamuarch@tamuarchschool
A massive shout-out to the team!
Design and Research: Elijah Huggins @morefault , Quinn McCormack @quinntmccormack , Jade Radford @radford.arch
Photography: Marcel Erminy
Photomodel: Mary Tran @mtran.arch , Jose Garcia Diaz @jose.gracia.diaz More pictures soon!
#architizerawards #avpa #tamuarch #architizer #aiarchitecture #aiarchitects #diffusion-models #physical-model #superarchitects #texasam #tamu
