Thursday 21 Jan 2010
19:00
Kepplerstrasse 11, K1
Room 4.08
Chrsitian Derix set up the Research & Development initiative at Aedas architects London in 2004. He is Head of the Computational Research and Design group [CDR] where new design methodology is developed from a blend of computing science and other disciplines. The research has been implemented over various scales on many live projects such as furniture - VITA shelving system 2008 -, architecture - World Trade Centre Memorial Museum visual analysis, 2007 - or urban design, - Masdar City mixed neighbourhood MIST 340, 2009.
Christian Derix is senior lecturer of the Master of Computing & Design at the University of East London since 2001. He set up the Centre for Evolutionary Computing in Architecture (CECA) in 2002 with Paul Coates and has taught Algorithmic Architecture at the Milan Polytechnic, Technical University Vienna and University College London.