Alvin Huang, AIA
Associate Professor
University of Southern California School of Architecture, Los Angeles, USA
 

Founder
Synthesis Design + Architecture
Los Angeles, USA

OVERVIEW
It can be said that the catalyst for every major advancement within the discipline of Architecture has been a parallel advancement of technology. Recently the introduction of computation within the field of Architecture has enabled new generative design techniques, new digital fabrication processes, and new performative building technologies. However, technology is not the end (solution), but rather the means (provocation).  In this talk Alvin Huang, AIA shares the exploratory practice of his firm Synthesis Design + Architecture, an award-winning design research practice and that leverages technology as a means to challenge convention and imagine alternatives.

BIOGRAPHY
ALVIN HUANG, AIA is an award-winning architect, designer, and educator specializing in the integrated application of material performance, emergent design technologies and digital fabrication in contemporary architectural practice. His work spans all scales ranging from hi-rise towers and mixed-use developments to temporary pavilions and bespoke furnishings.

His work has been published and exhibited widely and has gained international recognition with over 30 distinctions at local, national, and international levels including being selected of as one of 50 global innovators under the age of 50 by Images Publishing in 2015, being featured as a "Next Progressive" by Architect Magazine in 2014, and being named one of Time Magazine's 25 Best Inventors of 2013. He has been an invited critic, guest lecturer, and keynote speaker at various institutions in the US, Canada, Mexico, Chile, UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Israel, India, Singapore, Thailand, Japan, and China.

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Registration
Free for Members / Non-members 100rmb
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Date
Friday May 25, 2018
6:30pm - 9:00pm

Location
Haworth Showroom, Shanghai
West Nanjing Road #1515, Jingan Kerry Center Tower 1, Floor 32
上海市南京西路1515号静安嘉里中心1塔楼，32层

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