Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture
{{Short description|American nonprofit organization}}
{{Redirect|ACADIA|other uses|Acadia (disambiguation)}}
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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_year = 2014
| expenses_year = 2014
| 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 |
Founding
|1981 |Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |USA |N/A |
1st
|1982 |Blacksburg, Virginia |USA |N/A |
2nd
|1983 |Columbus, Ohio |USA |N/A |
3rd
|1984 |Troy, New York |USA |Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |N/A |
4th
|1985 |Tempe, Arizona |USA |ACADIA Workshop '85 |
5th
|1986 |Houston, Texas |USA |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 |Computing in Design Education |
8th
|1989 |Gainesville, Florida |USA |New Ideas and Directions for the 1990s |
9th
|1990 |Big Sky, Montana |USA |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 |Mission - Method - Madness |
12th
|1993 |Texas |USA |Education and Practice: The Critical Interface |
13th
|1994 |Saint Louis, Missouri |USA |Washington University in St. Louis |Reconnecting |
14th
|1995 |Seattle, Washington |USA |Computing in Design - Enabling, Capturing and Sharing Ideas |
15th
|1996 |Tucson, Arizona |USA |Design Computation: Collaboration, Reasoning, Pedagogy |
16th
|1997 |Cincinnati, Ohio |USA |Design and Representation |
17th
|1998 |Québec City, Québec |Canada |Digital Design Studios: Do Computers Make a Difference? |
18th
|1999 |Salt Lake City, Utah |USA |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 |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 |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 |Integration Through Computation |
31st
|2012 |San Francisco, California |USA |California College of the Arts & UCSF |Synthetic Digital Ecologies |
32nd
|2013 |Cambridge, Ontario |Canada |Adaptive Architecture |
33rd
|2014 |Los Angeles, California |USA |University of Southern California |Design Agency |
34th
|2015 |Cincinnati, Ohio |USA |Computational Ecologies: Design in the Anthropocene |
35th
|2016 |Ann Arbor, Michigan |USA |Posthuman Frontiers: Data, Designers And Cognitive Machines |
36th
|2017 |Cambridge, Massachusetts |USA |Massachusetts Institute of Technology |Disciplines & Disruptions |
37th
|2018 |Mexico City, Mexico |Mexico |Re/Calibration: On Imprecision and Infidelity |
38th
|2019 |Austin, Texas |USA |University of Texas at Austin |Ubiquity and Autonomy |
39th
|2020 |Online, Global |Global |Distributed Proximities |
40th
|2021 |Online, Global |Global |Realignments: Toward Critical Computation |
41th
|2022 |Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |USA |Hybrids & Haecceities |
42nd
|2023 |Denver, Colorado |USA |University of Colorado Denver |Habits of the Anthropocene |
43rd
|2024 |Calgary(workshops) and Banff(conference), Alberta |Canada |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 |
2016
|Elizabeth Diller |
2014
|Zaha Hadid |
== Innovative Research Award of Excellence ==
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!Year !Recipient !Affiliation |
2023
|Joseph Choma |
2022
|Felecia Ann Davis |
2021
|Caitlin Mueller |
2020
|Sean Ahlquist |
2019
|Jose Sanchez |
2018
|Madeline Gannon |
2017
|Wesley McGee |
2016
|Andrew Payne |
2015
|Skylar Tibbits |
2014
|Martin Bechtold |
2013
|Elena Manferdini |
2012
|David Rutten |
2011
|Ellen Do |
2010
|Kostas Terzidis |
2009
|Paul Coates |
2008
|Robert Woodbury |
2007
|Branko Kolarevic |
2006
|Mark Burry |
== Digital Practice Award of Excellence ==
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!Year !Recipient (person or firm) !Affiliation |
2023
|Nader Tehrani |
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 |
2019
|Roland Snooks |Studio Roland Snooks and The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology |
2018
|Jenny Wu and Dwayne Oyler |
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 |
2014
|Jenny Sabin |
2013
|Cecil Balmond |Balmond Studio |
2012
|Gehry Technologies – accepted by Dennis Shelden |
2011
|Phillip Beesley |
2010
|Award category omitted | |
2009
|Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler |
2008
|Fabian Scheurer |
2007
|Achim Menges |
2006
|Evan Douglis |
== Society Award for Leadership ==
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!Year !Recipient (Academic Program) !University |
2023
|Kathy Velikov |
2022
|Jason Kelly Johnson |
2021
|Brian Slocum |
2020
|Mike Christenson |
2019
|Chris Yessios |
2018
|Sigrid Brell-Cokcan and Johannes Braumann |
2017
|Bob Martens |
2016
|Chuck Eastman |
2015
|Branko Kolarevic |
2014
|Nancy Cheng |
2013
|Mahesh Daas |
2013
|Award category omitted | |
2012
|Award category omitted | |
2011
|Award category omitted | |
2010
|Brian Johnson |
2009
|Tom Seebohm |
2008
|Tom Maver |
2007
|Award category omitted | |
2006
|Robert Aish |
== 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 |
2019
|Master of Science in Digital and Material – accepted by Catie Newell |
2018
|Institute of Advanced Architecture Catalonia – accepted by Areti Markopoulou |
2017
|Bartlett Prospective (B-Pro) Program – accepted by Gilles Retsin and Manual Jimenez Garcia |
2016
|Centre for Information Technology and Architecture (CITA) – accepted by Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen |
2015
|Institute for Computational Design (ICD) – accepted by Achim Menges |
2014
|Columbia Building Intelligence Project (CBIP) – accepted by Scott Marble |
2013
|AADRL Design Research Laboratory – accepted by Brett Steele and Theodore Sypropoulos |
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 |
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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External links
- [http://www.acadia.org Association for Computer Aided Design In Architecture]
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