Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture

{{Short description|American nonprofit organization}}

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{{Infobox organization

| title = Association for Computer Aided Design In Architecture

| abbreviation = ACADIA

| founded = 1981

| tax_id = 99-0267393"[http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2014/990/267/2014-990267393-0b7bdc8b-9.pdf Form 990: Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax]". Association for Computer Aided Design In Architecture. Guidestar. December 31, 2015.

| status = 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization

| revenue = $277,631

| revenue_year = 2014

| expenses = $266,199

| expenses_year = 2014

| employees = 0

| employees_year = 2014

| headquarters = Fargo, North Dakota, United States

| leader_name = Shelby Doyle "[http://acadia.org/organization Officers and Board of Directors]". Association for Computer Aided Design In Architecture. Retrieved September 7, 2016.

| leader_title = President

| website = {{URL|www.acadia.org}}

}}

The Association for Computer Aided Design In Architecture (ACADIA) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization active in the area of computer-aided architectural design (CAAD).

Mission statement

Begun in 1981, the organization's objectives are recorded in its bylaws:{{Cite book|url=http://assets.acadia.org/doc/ACADIA%20Bylaws_Version%2010-15-11.pdf|title=ACADIA Bylaws|date=15 October 2011|publisher=Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture}}

"ACADIA was formed for the purpose of facilitating communication and information exchange regarding the use of computers in architecture, planning and building science. A particular focus is education and the software, hardware and pedagogy involved in education."

"The organization is also committed to the research and development of computer aides that enhance design creativity, rather than simply production, and that aim at contributing to the construction of humane physical environments."

Membership

Membership is open to anyone who subscribes to the objectives of the organization, including architects, educators, and software developers, whether resident in North America or not. An online membership registration form and directory is available via the organization.{{Cite web|url=http://acadia.org/content/membership|title=Membership|date=27 March 2017|website=Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture}}

The organization is primarily governed by the elected Board of Directors. The organization is led by the elected President, who presides over Board of Directors meetings, but does not vote except in the case of a tie.

= Presidents (elected) =

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!Years

!President

!Number of years serving

1981

|Charles M. Eastman

|1

1982-1983

|John Wade

|2

1984

|Chris Yessios

|1

1985

|Yehuda Kalay

|1

1986

|Elizabeth Bollinger

|1

1987

|Patricia McIntosh

|1

1988

|Robert E. Johnson

|1

1989

|Pamela J. Bancroft

|1

1990

|John McIntosh

|1

1991

|J. Peter Jordan

|1

1992

|Larry O. Degelman

|1

1993

|Skip Van Wyk

|1

1994

|M. Stephen Zdepski

|1

1995

|Karen M. Kensek

|1

1996

|Glenn Goldman

|1

1997

|Branko Kolarevic

|1

1998

|Douglas E. Noble

|1

1999

|Brian Johnson

|1

2000

|Mark Clayton

|1

2001-2002

|Ganapathy Mahalingam

|2

2003-2004

|Kevin Klinger

|2

2005-2006

|Wassim Jabi

|2

2007-2008

|Mahesh Senagala

|2

2009

|Nancy Cheng

|1

2010-2012

|Aron Temkin

|3

2013-2015

|Michael Fox

|3

2016-2017

|Jason Kelly Johnson

|2

2018-2020

|Kathy Velikov

|3

2021-2022

|Jenny E. Sabin

|2

2023-2024(current)

|Shelby Doyle

|current

Activities

= Annual conference =

ACADIA sponsors an annual national conference, held in the autumn of each year at a different site in North America. Papers for the conferences undergo extensive blind review before being accepted for presentation (and publication). Membership is not a prerequisite for submission of a paper.

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!

!Year

!City, state/province{{Cite web|url=http://papers.cumincad.org/|title=Cumincad database}}

!Country

!Host university

!Conference theme

Founding

|1981

|Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

|USA

|Carnegie-Mellon University

|N/A

1st

|1982

|Blacksburg, Virginia

|USA

|Virginia Tech

|N/A

2nd

|1983

|Columbus, Ohio

|USA

|Ohio State University

|N/A

3rd

|1984

|Troy, New York

|USA

|Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

|N/A

4th

|1985

|Tempe, Arizona

|USA

|Arizona State University

|ACADIA Workshop '85

5th

|1986

|Houston, Texas

|USA

|University of Houston

|Architectural Education, Research and Practice in the Next Decade

6th

|1987

|Raleigh, North Carolina

|USA

|North Carolina State University

|Integrating Computers into the Architectural Curriculum

7th

|1988

|Ann Arbor, Michigan

|USA

|University of Michigan

|Computing in Design Education

8th

|1989

|Gainesville, Florida

|USA

|University of Florida

|New Ideas and Directions for the 1990s

9th

|1990

|Big Sky, Montana

|USA

|Montana State University

|From Research to Practice

10th

|1991

|Los Angeles, California

|USA

|University of California at Los Angeles

|Reality and Virtual Reality

11th

|1992

|Charleston, South Carolina

|USA

|Clemson University

|Mission - Method - Madness

12th

|1993

|Texas

|USA

|Texas A&M University

|Education and Practice: The Critical Interface

13th

|1994

|Saint Louis, Missouri

|USA

|Washington University in St. Louis

|Reconnecting

14th

|1995

|Seattle, Washington

|USA

|University of Washington

|Computing in Design - Enabling, Capturing and Sharing Ideas

15th

|1996

|Tucson, Arizona

|USA

|University of Arizona

|Design Computation: Collaboration, Reasoning, Pedagogy

16th

|1997

|Cincinnati, Ohio

|USA

|University of Cincinnati

|Design and Representation

17th

|1998

|Québec City, Québec

|Canada

|Université Laval

|Digital Design Studios: Do Computers Make a Difference?

18th

|1999

|Salt Lake City, Utah

|USA

|University of Utah

|Media and Design Process

19th

|2000

|Washington D.C

|USA

|The Catholic University of America

|Eternity, Infinity and Virtuality in Architecture

20th

|2001

|Buffalo, New York

|USA

|The State University of New York at Buffalo

|Reinventing the Discourse - How Digital Tools Help Bridge and Transform Research, Education and Practice in Architecture

21st

|2002

|Pomona, California

|USA

|California Polytechnic State University

|Thresholds - Design, Research, Education and Practice, in the Space Between the Physical and the Virtual

22nd

|2003

|Indianapolis, Indiana

|USA

|Ball State University

|Connecting >> Crossroads of Digital Discourse

23rd

|2004

|Cambridge, Ontario

|Canada

|University of Toronto & University of Waterloo

|Fabrication: Examining the Digital Practice of Architecture

24th

|2005

|Savannah, Georgia

|USA

|Savannah School of Architecture and Design

|Smart Architecture: Integration of Digital and Building Technologies

25th

|2006

|Louisville, Kentucky

|USA

|University of Kentucky, Lexington

|Synthetic Landscapes

26th

|2007

|Halifax, Nova Scotia

|Canada

|Dalhousie University & Nova Scotia College of Art and Design & Canadian Design Research Network

|Expanding Bodies

27th

|2008

|Minneapolis, Minnesota

|USA

|University of Minnesota

|Silicon + Skin: Biological Processes and Computation

28th

|2009

|Chicago, Illinois

|USA

|School of the Art Institute of Chicago

|reForm(): Building a Better Tomorrow

29th

|2010

|New York, New York

|USA

|The Cooper Union & Pratt Institute

|Life in:Formation

30th

|2011

|Calgary(workshops) and Banff(conference), Alberta

|Canada

|University of Calgary

|Integration Through Computation

31st

|2012

|San Francisco, California

|USA

|California College of the Arts & UCSF

|Synthetic Digital Ecologies

32nd

|2013

|Cambridge, Ontario

|Canada

|University of Waterloo

|Adaptive Architecture

33rd

|2014

|Los Angeles, California

|USA

|University of Southern California

|Design Agency

34th

|2015

|Cincinnati, Ohio

|USA

|University of Cincinnati

|Computational Ecologies: Design in the Anthropocene

35th

|2016

|Ann Arbor, Michigan

|USA

|University of Michigan

|Posthuman Frontiers: Data, Designers And Cognitive Machines

36th

|2017

|Cambridge, Massachusetts

|USA

|Massachusetts Institute of Technology

|Disciplines & Disruptions

37th

|2018

|Mexico City, Mexico

|Mexico

|Universidad Iberoamericana

|Re/Calibration: On Imprecision and Infidelity

38th

|2019

|Austin, Texas

|USA

|University of Texas at Austin

|Ubiquity and Autonomy

39th

|2020

|Online, Global

|Global

|ACADIA

|Distributed Proximities

40th

|2021

|Online, Global

|Global

|ACADIA

|Realignments: Toward Critical Computation

41th

|2022

|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

|USA

|University of Pennsylvania

|Hybrids & Haecceities

42nd

|2023

|Denver, Colorado

|USA

|University of Colorado Denver

|Habits of the Anthropocene

43rd

|2024

|Calgary(workshops) and Banff(conference), Alberta

|Canada

|University of Calgary

|Designing Change

= Proceedings =

Each year the conference papers are gathered into a proceedings publication which is distributed to members, and available to the public via the open access database CumInCAD.

= Awards =

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Started in 1998, ACADIA Awards of Excellence are "the highest award that can be achieved in the field of architectural computing". The awards are given in areas of practice, teaching, research and service, with at most one award in each category per year. Past awards have recognized various significant contributors to the field of architectural computing.

The current awards given annually or biannually are the Lifetime Achievement Award, the Digital Practice Award of Excellence, the Innovative Academic Program Award of Excellence, the Innovative Research Award of Excellence, the Society Award for Leadership, and the Teaching Award of Excellence.

== Lifetime Achievement Award ==

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!Year

!Recipient

!Affiliation

2021

|Wolf dPrix

|Coop Himmelb(l)au

2016

|Elizabeth Diller

|Diller, Scofidio and Renfro / Princeton University

2014

|Zaha Hadid

|Zaha Hadid Architects

== Innovative Research Award of Excellence ==

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!Year

!Recipient

!Affiliation

2023

|Joseph Choma

|Florida Atlantic University School of Architecture

2022

|Felecia Ann Davis

|Pennsylvania State UniversityPennsylvania State University

2021

|Caitlin Mueller

|Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2020

|Sean Ahlquist

|Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning

2019

|Jose Sanchez

|Plethora Project

2018

|Madeline Gannon

|NVIDIA Robotics

2017

|Wesley McGee

|Matter Design

2016

|Andrew Payne

|Autodesk

2015

|Skylar Tibbits

|Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2014

|Martin Bechtold

|Harvard University Graduate School of Design

2013

|Elena Manferdini

|Atelier Manferdini and SCI-Arc

2012

|David Rutten

|Robert McNeel and Associates

2011

|Ellen Do

|Georgia Institute of Technology

2010

|Kostas Terzidis

|Harvard University Graduate School of Design

2009

|Paul Coates

|University of East London

2008

|Robert Woodbury

|Simon Fraser University

2007

|Branko Kolarevic

|University of Calgary

2006

|Mark Burry

|The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

== Digital Practice Award of Excellence ==

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!Year

!Recipient (person or firm)

!Affiliation

2023

|Nader Tehrani

|NADAAA

2022

|Award category omitted

|

2021

|Alvin Huang

|Synthesis Design + Architecture and University of Southern California

2020

|Jessica Rosenkrantz co-founder of Nervous System and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg co-founder of Nervous System

|Nervous system

2019

|Roland Snooks

|Studio Roland Snooks and The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

2018

|Jenny Wu and Dwayne Oyler

|Oyler Wu Collaborative

2017

|Lisa Iwamoto and Craig Scott

|IwamotoScott Architecture and University of California, Berkeley and California College of the Arts

2016

|Ron Rael and Virginia San Fratello

|Emerging Objects and University of California, Berkeley and San Jose State University

2015

|Kieran Timberlake

|KieranTimberlake

2014

|Jenny Sabin

|Jenny Sabin Studio

2013

|Cecil Balmond

|Balmond Studio

2012

|Gehry Technologies – accepted by Dennis Shelden

|Frank Gehry Technologies

2011

|Phillip Beesley

|Phillip Beesley Architects and University of Waterloo

2010

|Award category omitted

|

2009

|Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler

|Gramazio Kohler Architects

2008

|Fabian Scheurer

|Design to Production

2007

|Achim Menges

|Architectural Association School of Architecture

2006

|Evan Douglis

|Evan Douglis Studio

== Society Award for Leadership ==

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!Year

!Recipient (Academic Program)

!University

2023

|Kathy Velikov

|Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning

2022

|Jason Kelly Johnson

|California College of the Arts and FUTUREFORMS

2021

|Brian Slocum

|Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City and tresRobots

2020

|Mike Christenson

|University of Minnesota

2019

|Chris Yessios

|Ohio State University and AutoDesSys, Inc.

2018

|Sigrid Brell-Cokcan and Johannes Braumann

|Association for Robots in Architecture

2017

|Bob Martens

|Technical University of Vienna

2016

|Chuck Eastman

|Georgia Institute of Technology

2015

|Branko Kolarevic

|University of Calgary

2014

|Nancy Cheng

|University of Oregon

2013

|Mahesh Daas

|Ball State University

2013

|Award category omitted

|

2012

|Award category omitted

|

2011

|Award category omitted

|

2010

|Brian Johnson

|University of Washington

2009

|Tom Seebohm

|University of Waterloo

2008

|Tom Maver

|Mackintosh School of Architecture

2007

|Award category omitted

|

2006

|Robert Aish

|Bentley Microsystems

== Innovative Academic Program Award of Excellence ==

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!Year

!Recipient (Academic Program)

!University

2023

|Award category omitted

|

2022

|Award category omitted

|

2021

|Award category omitted

|

2020

|DigitalFUTURES Program, Tongji University accepted by Philip F. Yuan, Professor and Neil Leach

|DigitalFUTURES Program

2019

|Master of Science in Digital and Material – accepted by Catie Newell

|Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning

2018

|Institute of Advanced Architecture Catalonia – accepted by Areti Markopoulou

|Institute of Advanced Architecture Catalonia

2017

|Bartlett Prospective (B-Pro) Program – accepted by Gilles Retsin and Manual Jimenez Garcia

|The Bartlett School of Architecture

2016

|Centre for Information Technology and Architecture (CITA) – accepted by Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen

|Centre for Information Technology and Architecture (CITA)

2015

|Institute for Computational Design (ICD) – accepted by Achim Menges

|Institute for Computational Design (ICD)

2014

|Columbia Building Intelligence Project (CBIP) – accepted by Scott Marble

|Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

2013

|AADRL Design Research Laboratory – accepted by Brett Steele and Theodore Sypropoulos

|London

2012

|Center for Architecture, Science and Ecology|Center for Architecture Science and Ecology (CASE) – accepted by Anna Dyson

|Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Skidmore Owings and Merrill

2011

|Award category omitted

|

2010

|Award category omitted

|

2009

|Award category omitted

|

2008

|AA Emergent Technologies and Design – accepted by Michael Weinstock

|London

History

ACADIA was founded in 1981 by some of the pioneers in the field of design computation including Bill Mitchell, Chuck Eastman, and Chris Yessios. Since then, ACADIA has hosted over 40 conferences across North America and has grown into a strong network of academics and professionals in the design computation field.

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Related organizations

= Sister organizations =

There are four sister organizations around the world to provide a more accessible regional forum for discussion of computing and design. The major ones are

  • CAADRIA - The Association for Computer Aided Architectural Design in Asia, since 1996.
  • SIGraDi - Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics, since 1997.
  • ASCAAD - The Arab Society for Computer Aided Architectural Design, since 2001.
  • eCAADe - The Association for Education and Research in Computer-Aided Architectural Design in Europe.

References

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