Keith Besserud @ Upgrade! Chicago

Keith Besserud @ Upgrade! Chicago
founder of Black Box Studio at Skidmore Owings and Merrill
Wed. Sept. 30th, 2009
7 PM
FREE
Simone’s Bar
960 W. 18th St
Chicago, IL
http://simonesbar.com

Come to our first fall Upgrade! Chicago get together. An informal gathering with a presentation by Keith Besserud, founder of Black Box Studio at Skidmore Owings and Merrill architecture firm. Keith will talk a little after 7, and then we will have discussion and general catching up afterwards.

Black Box develops computational models for designing projects all over the world, integrating software into the aesthetic process of the architechts they work with. Keith also hosts an interdisciplinary computational design forum, made up of architects, scientists, mathematicians, economists and artists who use computation and data in their work.

More about Black Box Studio:

The BlackBox Studio is a team of architects, design professionals, and other unique experts whose mission is to engage in all stages of the design process across all service disciplines, leveraging the power of advanced computational design tools and methods to expose and explore new frontiers of conceptual thought and innovative form/space/place-making in the work of the SOM Chicago design studios and service disciplines.

BlackBox is an applied research resource. The group’s parametric modeling and scripting expertise is focused primarily on two broad areas of interest: the search for the “optimal” (goal-oriented) and the search for the “novel” (explorational). More: http://www.som.com/content.cfm/services_blackbox