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SUMMARY:ENAC Seminar Series by Prof. Andrew Witt
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Andrew Witt\n13:45- 14:45 Prof. Andrew Witt\nAssociate P
 rofessor in Practice\, Architecture\, Harvard University\n\nFormulations: 
 Practices of Architectural Mathematics\n\nSince the Renaissance\, and part
 icularly since the advent of computation\, mathematics has served as a dyn
 amic engine for striking new ways of imagining and creating architecture. 
 In this lecture Andrew Witt will consider the past and future of mathemati
 zed design as a creative and visual practice\, through the work of his des
 ign office Certain Measures\, his research at Harvard GSD\, and his new bo
 ok Formulations: Architecture\, Mathematics\, Culture.\nFirst\, he will sh
 ow how a contemporary design practice and research might embrace mathemati
 cal processes as a core creative tool\, through projects ranging from extr
 eme material reuse to morphological classification of the world’s buildi
 ngs. Second\, through case studies drawn from his book "Formulations: Arch
 itecture\, Mathematics\, Culture\," he will reflect on the transdisciplina
 ry past of design mathematics and uncover how mathematical techniques infl
 ected the ways architecture was seen\, drawn\, modeled\, and imagined in t
 he predigital period. Witt argues that a fusion of design and scientific p
 rocesses can open new possibilities for the nature of design itself.\n\nSh
 ort bio:\nAndrew Witt is an Associate Professor in Practice at the Harvard
  Graduate School of Design\, teaching and researching on the relationship 
 of geometry\, data\, AI\, and machines to architecture\, design\, and cult
 ure. Trained in both architecture and mathematics\, he has a particular in
 terest in a technically synthetic and logically rigorous approach to form.
  He is also co-founder\, with Tobias Nolte\, of Certain Measures\, a Bosto
 n/Berlin-based studio that combines design and data for systemic and scala
 ble approaches to spatial problems. The work of Certain Measures is in the
  permanent collection of the Centre Pompidou\, and has been exhibited at t
 he Pompidou\, the Barbican Centre\, the Museum of the Future\, the Canadia
 n Centre for Architecture\, among others.\n 
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