Drawing Afield is a one-day workshop exploring real-time networked creativity. Participants will work collaboratively to produce rich and complex digital drawings through generative, procedural, and deductive processes. The workshop will focus on techniques of algorithmic creativity and explore their continued influence on architecture and the arts. The workshop will take place in the Digital Craft Lab at CCA’s San Francisco campus. The workshop leaders will be participating remotely, but students will participate in-person throughout the day.

Participants will convene with invited guests for an exhibition of the workshop output and conversation on Monday, September 27, at 1:00pm in the Nave Presentation Space.

The workshop is free and open to all students in CCA Architecture Division. Capacity is limited. Sign-up is first-come, first-served, via this Google Form.

Workshop Leaders:
Erik Herrmann and Ashley Bigham are co-founders of Outpost Office and Assistant Professors of Architecture at The Ohio State University.

20th St Underpass Pop-up Event
Thursday, April 25, 7:30-9:30 pm
20th St & Minnesota St, Dogpatch

When is the last time you had fun in an underpass?

Students from the California College of the Arts (CCA) are working with SF Planning, the Dogpatch / NW Potrero Hill Green Benefits District (GBD) and the community to explore creative strategies from the Central Waterfront - Dogpatch Public Realm Plan to activate Dogpatch’s underpasses. The public event will feature student installations that explore activation concepts using lightweight constructions, digital projection technologies, light and sound. Students and partners will make informal presentations followed by discussion. Community feedback will be encouraged - please join us!

The event will feature 3 student installations that explore underpass activation concepts using lightweight constructions, digital projection technologies and sound. Students and partners will be on hand for informal presentations, discussion, and community feedback. This public event will also feature snacks and light refreshments. 

RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/light-up-the-under-passes-tickets-60068318959

Questions about the event? Please e-mail CCA Faculty Prof. Jason Kelly Johnson (jason.kelly.johnson@cca.edu) or Robin Abad from SF Planning (robin.abad@sfgov.org)       

Location: 20th Street Underpass between Minnesota St and Tennessee St (799 Minnesota Street https://goo.gl/maps/Z8gYYWG8ev32 )

Thursday, March 21, 2019, 6:00pm
WeWork Civic Center
1161 Mission Street, San Francisco
Exhibition of student work at 6:00pm / Panel begins at 6:30pm.

A panel discussion exploring new ways to make architecture, organized in conjunction with the Component/Assembly Advanced Architecture Studio led by Adam Marcus and Matt Hutchinson.

The Case Study House Program (1945-1966) provided a platform for architects to re-conceive domestic living in the era of postwar, industrial mass production. This experiment, melding standardized building materials with a very specific notion of the American nuclear family, helped forge the paradigm of the detached, single-family house that has persisted now for generations. In today’s vastly different cultural, social, and material landscape, contemporary modes of living demand new architectural and spatial arrangements. In the spirit of the Case Study House Program, this panel will explore how new forms of flexible fabrication and mass customization might allow architects and builders to rethink domestic architecture today. What are possible alignments between emerging modes of production and alternative conventions of ownership, shared living, and collective domesticity? How might questions of fabrication and tectonics relate to the balance between working and living, between labor and leisure? How do the politics of customization condition both the making and inhabitation of domestic architecture?

Participants:

Darrick Borowski
WeWork/WeLive
“Investigations Into a New Typology of Sharing”

Taylor Keep, PE
Head of Building Sciences, Katerra
“Better, Cheaper & Faster Buildings”

Jose Sanchez
Assistant Professor, University of Southern California / Director, Plethora Project
“Reconstructing the Commons”

Antje Steinmuller
Associate Professor, California College of the Arts / Associate Director, CCA Urban Works Agency
“Living Together”

Response by:
Irene Cheng
Assistant Professor, California College of the Arts

This event is free and open to the public. To reserve your spot, please RSVP / register in advance using this Eventbrite link.

Interested in virtual reality / augmented reality? Wish you could overlay your Rhino model on to physical reality? Join us for an informal talk and demonstration with the two of the creators of Fologram, a software plug-in for Rhino that situates digital content in physical space through the use of Microsoft Hololens. 

Location: CCA, 1111 8th Street, San Francisco / Digital Craft Lab (upstairs, across from Lab A)

Check out some of the videos of Fologram in use here:

https://vimeo.com/fologram

Join us for an informal talk with the creators of the Burning Man 2018 Temple. Arthur Mamou-Mani is a London-based French architect and director of Mamou-Mani Architects, which specializes in a new kind of digitally designed and fabricated architecture. He is a professor at the University of Westminster and owns a digital fabrication laboratory called the Fab.Pub. Aaron Porterfield is a Bay Area native designer. He received a BFA in Industrial Design from the Academy of Art University in 2012 and was a core member of the Temple Team.

"Architect as Maker" Guest Skype Lecture by Arthur Mamou-Mani
Monday 17 April 2017 2:00-3:00pm PST, CCA Digital Craft Lab, San Francisco
All students and faculty welcome. Organized as a part of Jason Kelly Johnson's seminar course "3d Printing and Additive Manufacturing in Architecture"

Arthur Mamou-Mani AA dipl, ARB/RIBA FRSA is a French architect and director of the award-winning practice Mamou-Mani Architects, specializing in a new kind of digitally designed and fabricated architecture.  He is a lecturer at the University of Westminster and UCL-Bartlett in London and owns a digital fabrication laboratory called the FabPub which allows people to experiment with large 3D Printers and Laser Cutters.

Arthur, along with Adam Holloway (http://adamholloway.net) and Karl Kjelstrup-Johnson (http://krk-j.com/) initiated Project Silkworm. Silkworm is a plugin that translates Grasshopper and Rhino geometry into GCode for 3d printing. Silkworm allows for the complete and intuitive manipulation of the printer GCode, enabling novel printed material properties to be specified by non-solid geometry and techniques of digital craft.

Since 2016, Arthur is a fellow of the The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. He has won the Gold Prize at the American Architecture Prize for the Wooden Wave project installed at BuroHappold Engineering. Arthur gave numerous talks including the TedX conference in the USA and has been featured in The New-York Times and Forbes.  Mamou-Mani’s clients include ARUP, Buro Happold Engineering, Karen Millen Fashion, The Burning Man Festival, Food Ink and Imagination ltd. Prior to founding Mamou-Mani in 2011, he worked with Atelier Jean Nouvel, Zaha Hadid Architects and Proctor and Matthews Architects.

Organized in parallel with the DCL Drawing Codes exhibition, Janette Kim (CCA / All of the Above) and Nicholas de Monchaux (UC Berkeley) will discuss the show and the role of systems in architectural representation.