Nick Bruscia’s thesis receives awards from the AA and d3 Natural Systems

June 30, 2009 at 10:19 pm · Filed under competition, exhibits, physical computing, responsive, situated technologies

Allotropic Systems, Nicholas Bruscia, 2008.

Recent m.a.c graduate Nicholas Bruscia’s thesis project Allotropic Systems received an award from the Architectural Association’s AA | FAB 2009 Designing Fabrication competition. Nick has been invited to London to be present and exhibit the project as part of the city’s Design Festival week from 19-27 September, 2009.

The project also received a Special Mention from the d3 Natural Systems competition.

ACADIA Conference and Exhibition

November 9, 2008 at 6:56 pm · Filed under conference, exhibits, workshop

Students from the Media, Architecture and Computing (m.a.c) program and the Situated Technologies Research Group (STRG) were well represented at the exhibition at this year’s ACADIA conference, Silicon + Skin.

The juried exhibition, curated by Billie Faircloth (Kieran Timberlake Associates) and Kiel Moe (Northeastern University), included recent m.a.c graduate Nick Bruscia’s thesis project, Allotropic Systems, STRG graduate James Brucz’s Elastic Catenaries and STRG students Ashley Latona’s and Raf Godlewski’s, Polyp Surface. Nick, Raf and Ashley also participated in the Generative Components workshop.

In addition, Omar Khan presented a paper, Reconfigurable Molds as Architecture Machines, that highlighted his and student research in parametric “fabbers”. These architecture machines explore the confluence of computational processes with material properties to develop parts that can be combined to create more complex wholes.

Responsive Architectures Exhibit

April 9, 2007 at 5:39 pm · Filed under exhibits, physical computing, responsive

The Responsive Architectures Exhibit at the Center for the Arts Gallery, University at Buffalo, exhibits recent student work that explores the augmentation of architecture through sensing and actuating technologies. The exhibit was curated and designed by m.a.c students Brian Diesel, Nick Bruscia and Heamchand Subryan and included student work from recent design studios conducted by Omar Khan and Mark Shepard.

The student’s involved were Nick Bruscia, Carl Burdick, Dan Galagher, Dave Goldstein, Peter Heller, Jake Levine, Dave Marcoux, Dave Ruperti, Ryan Sisti, Jim Sternick, Heamchand Subryan, and Brian Verdone.

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