Lecture: "Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation"
Monday, March 24, 2025
6pm - 7pm
Richardson Memorial Hall, Room 202 - Thomson Hall
Tulane's Uptown Campus
This lecture is open to the public.
The talk will be followed by a reception in the Richardson Memorial Hall gallery, where the Drawing Codes exhibition is on view through April 24.
The lecture "Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation" is presented by Adam Marcus, Variable Projects, Futures North, and Associate Professor of Architecture and Director of Research of the Center of Climate Change and Urbanism, Tulane School of Architecture; and Alumnus Andrew Kudless (A '98), Matsys and Bill Kendall Memorial Endowed Professor and Director of the Advanced Media Technology (C.R.A.F.T.) Lab at University of Houston Hines College of Architecture Design.
About the lecture:
Emerging technologies of design and production have transformed the role of drawings within the contemporary design process from that of design generators to design products. As architectural design has shifted from an analog drawing-based paradigm to that of a computational model-based paradigm, the agency of drawing as a critical and important form of design representation has shifted. Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation examines the effects of this transformation on the architectural discipline and explores how architects have critically integrated procedural thinking into their drawing process. This lecture and book launch will discuss the premise of the Drawing Codes project, discuss works included in the book, and how computation has both transformed and revitalized architectural representation.
About the speakers:
Adam Marcus is an architect and educator based in New Orleans. He is an Associate Professor of Architecture and Director of Research of the Center of Climate Change and Urbanism at Tulane School of Architecture.
He directs Variable Projects, an award-winning design and research studio dedicated to critical engagement with design computation, digital fabrication, and robotics, emphasizing how these technologies enable ecological, material, and public interaction. He is also a partner in Futures North, a public art collective exploring data aesthetics. A graduate of Brown University and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Marcus is an Associate Professor at Tulane University, where he serves as Research Director of the Center on Climate Change and Urbanism. He previously taught at California College of the Arts, where he co-founded the Architectural Ecologies Lab, and has also held teaching positions at the University of Minnesota and Columbia University. Marcus’s individual and collaborative professional work has been recognized with an AIA Innovation Award, AIA Small Projects Award, AIA Minnesota Honor Award, and other honors from AIA California, ASLA, The Architect’s Newspaper, Architect Magazine, and ACSA. With Andrew Kudless, he is the author of Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation (Applied Research + Design, 2024).
Andrew Kudless is a designer based in Houston, Texas where he is the Bill D. Kendall Professor at the University of Houston’s Hines College of Architecture & Design as well as the Director of the Construction Robotics and Fabrication Technologies Lab (CRAFT Lab).
In 2004, he founded Matsys, a design studio that pursues a trans-disciplinary and trans-scalar practice that blends art, design, architecture, and engineering. He holds a Master of Arts in Emergent Technologies and Design from the Architectural Association and a Master of Architecture from Tulane University. Kudless was a Fulbright Fellow in Kyoto, Japan. Matsys is the recipient of several awards including the 2019 AIA Honor Award for Architecture and an AIA Top Ten COTE Award in 2023, both for Confluence Park with Lake|Flato Architects. The work of Matsys has been exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the FRAC Centre in Orleans, France. In 2019, Kudless became the first American designer to contribute to Louis Vuitton’s Objets Nomades furniture collection. Kudless is the co-author of Flux: Architecture in a Parametric Landscape and Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation.
Questions? Please reach out to Ben Neal, TuSA Executive Administrative Assistant, at bneal1@tulane.edu.
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