Heather Roberge - Thoughts on Contemporary Plasticity
Heather Roberge is a practicing architect and educator in Los Angeles. She is the founder and principal of murmur, a practice that studies the spatial, structural and atmospheric potential of emerging digital design and manufacturing techniques. She is Associate Vice Chair of the Department of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she teaches graduate courses in design and digital fabrication. Roberge also serves as the director of UCLAs undergraduate program in Architectural Studies. Ms. Roberges research focuses on the effective implications of contemporary surfaces with particular interest in formal and material experimentation that engages the senses. Her work has received numerous design awards and has been included in A+U, Praxis, Metropolis, ID, Japan Esquire, Architectural Record 2, Log, Form Magazine, The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times, Softspace, Crib Sheets and Digital Fabrications: Architectural and Material Techniques among others. In 2006, as co-founder of Gnuform, she participated in MOMAs Young Architects Program with the submission of a project titled Purple Haze and was included in the Bejing Biennial, Emerging Talents: Emerging Technologies. Her work has been displayed in exhibitions including Gnuform: Hairstyle, Patterns: Cases in Synthetic Intelligence, Temporalism and Matters of Sensation. Lectures are free and open to the public. They are located in the Gin D. Wong, FAIA Conference Center, Harris <b>...</b>
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