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SUMMARY:ENAC Seminar Series by Dr. Noam Andrews
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DESCRIPTION:Dr. Noam Andrews \n13:30-14:30 Dr Noam Andrews\nPostdoctoral
  Research Fellow\, Ghent University\n\nArchitectural Geometry at the Dawn 
 of Digital Design\n\nThe lecture takes a cross-section of architectural pe
 dagogy and culture at the fin de siècle in order to query the roots of th
 e rules of engagement with digital design. Eschewing a traditional account
  of the exponential evolution of architectural geometry (pre- and post-dig
 ital)\, the claim is made that the formal operations that define contempor
 ary design production have extensive backstories\, both within architectur
 e as well as within the visual and material culture of applied geometry mo
 re generally. In eliding an emphasis on formal innovation as justification
  for design research\, the lecture seeks to articulate a set of epistemic 
 concerns spanning the politics of software implementation to the origins o
 f our computer graphic interfaces and gestures towards the importance of p
 arsing the structures of power and inequality imbedded in the propensity f
 or morphological change.\n\nShort bio:\nNoam Andrews is a Brussels-based a
 rchitect and researcher. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of the 
 History of Science at Harvard University in 2016 and maintains a professio
 nal architecture license in England and Belgium. He has taught at the Arch
 itectural Association\, Harvard University\, New York University\, and Ghe
 nt University\, and worked as a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art\
 , where\, among other projects\, he curated an exhibition on aesthetics an
 d mathematics. He has held fellowships at Villa I Tatti – The Harvard Un
 iversity Center for Renaissance Studies and the  Max Planck Institute for
  the History of Science. His first monograph\, The Polyhedrists: Art and G
 eometry in the Long Sixteenth Century\, was published by The MIT Press in 
 2022 and offers a material and representational history of the development
  of polyhedral geometry. His second monograph\, Parameters\, traces the li
 fe cycle of design software within architecture from both a historical and
  sociological perspective.\n\n 
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