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Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture

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Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture
AbbreviationACADIA
Founded1981
99-0267393[1]
Legal status501(c)(3) nonprofit organization
HeadquartersFargo, North Dakota, United States[1]
Shelby Doyle [2]
Revenue (2014)
$277,631[1]
Expenses (2014)$266,199[1]
Employees (2014)
0[1]
Websitewww.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

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Begun in 1981, the organization's objectives are recorded in its bylaws:[3]

"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

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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.[4]

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.[3]

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

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Annual conference

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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.

Year City, state/province[5] Country Host university Conference theme[5]
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 Critial 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

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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 (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

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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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Sister organizations

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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.
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  • CAAD Futures - Computer Aided Architectural Design Futures, since 1985.
  • CUMINCAD - The Cumulative Index of Computer Aided Architectural Design, with public CumInCAD records available via an Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) feed and records are available via multiple bibliographic archives and citation indexes online.[6][7][8]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e "Form 990: Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax". Association for Computer Aided Design In Architecture. Guidestar. December 31, 2015.
  2. ^ "Officers and Board of Directors". Association for Computer Aided Design In Architecture. Retrieved September 7, 2016.
  3. ^ a b ACADIA Bylaws (PDF). Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture. 15 October 2011.
  4. ^ "Membership". Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture. 27 March 2017.
  5. ^ a b "Cumincad database".
  6. ^ "Architexturez CumInCAD OAI-PMH Mirror". Architexturez. Archived from the original on August 8, 2013. Retrieved 24 November 2012.
  7. ^ "DBLP". University of Trier. Retrieved 14 February 2017.
  8. ^ "Researchgate". Retrieved 22 September 2012.
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