ICD Expert Lecture WS 10
16.12.2010
19.00
Hörsaal 1.08, K1, 1.OG
Cristiano Ceccato is an Associate at Zaha Hadid Architects in London. His work entails a range of management, design and technology leadership responsibilities, leading large-scale public and private projects. Professional focus includes technical team management, design and development of building infrastructure, systems and cladding, including geometric rationalization and constructability resolution of structural and envelope systems; Project governance and cost control through the introduction of Building Information Modeling (BIM) systems and associated practice methodologies across the firm.
Cristiano was a co-founder and Director of Research & Consulting of Gehry Technologies, where he was responsible for professional consulting services and technology transfer. At Gehry Partners he was responsible for the development and application of parametric design tools and integrated modeling principles, and associated digital construction methods, on a wide range of design projects at all stages of development. In addition to Frank Gehry projects, Cristiano worked on a wide range of external projects through Gehry Technologies, most recently the Swire One Island East Tower in Hong Kong and the 2008 Olympic Stadium in Beijing with Herzog & de Meuron and ARUP, as well as cross-disciplinary research with Boeing.
Cristiano trained as an architect and computer scientist, and specializes in the development of design solutions for complex forms using parametric technologies and computer programming, supporting computational design tools and associated fabrication methods. Cristiano has practiced architecture in Europe, Asia and the US. He has lectured widely on the subject of computational rule-based design systems and parametric form finding in digital building processes. He has held academic faculty positions in London, Milan, Hong Kong, Los Angeles and Australia, where he is currently a Visiting Professor of Architecture at QUT. He received his professional Diploma in Architecture degree from the Architectural Association (1996) and an MS in Computer Science from the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London (1997). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (UK) in 2004.