SmartGeometry Events

2003 SmartGeometry Summer School Cambridge, UK
2004 SmartGeometry at ACADIA Cambridge, Ontario Canada
2006 SmartGeometry Workshop and Conference Cambridge, UK
2007 SmartGeometry Workshop and Conference New York, New York USA
2008 SmartGeometry Workshop and Conference Munich, Germany
2009 SmartGeometry Workshop and Conference San Francisco, California USA
2009 SmartGeometry Fall Event: Open Platform TU Delft, Netherlands

Workshops with SmartGeometry Representation

2004 DCC Workshop MIT
2007 ACADIA Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada
2008 ACADIA Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
2008 BJ Parametric Design Workshop Beijing, China

The Parametric Design Repository contains many of the files (including scripts) created during past conferences.  This resources is hosted by the Canadian Design Resource Network (CDRN).

Architectural design with computational tools

Computation and the use of computer as an intelligent design aid provide the focus for the SmartGeometry Group. It was formed in 2001 as a partnership between Practice, Research and Academia. Some of the world's leading architectural and engineering practices (Foster+Partners, KPF, Grimshaw, Arup, Buro Happold) and educational institutions (Architectural Association, MIT, Delft Technical University, University of Bath) are represented in its core organisation.

Geometry is one of many systems which are amenable to modeling. Architectural design as a process should, we maintain, exploit the new potential available in computing. To the new generations of architects mathematics and algorithms are becoming as natural as pen and pencil.

The activities of the SmartGeometry Group promote the emergence of a new generation of digital designers and craftsmen, who are able to expolit the combination of digital and physical media. The group’s  interests range from parametric design and scripting to digital manufacturing.

The SG community is built on an annual workshops and an international conference.

As the SmartGeometry group has developed it is moving its focus from tools and techniques to a forum where the new critical language of emerging architecture can be formed.