Andrew Witt | Architecture’s Digital Ecologies

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Architecture’s Digital Ecologies

Architecture is entangled in overlapping and trans-scalar industrial, material, and natural systems that are increasingly mediated through digital proxies. How designers digitally see, dimension, and encode these systems can transform architecture and the world beyond with a logic of repair, integration, and imagination. Through a series of research projects probing the negotiations between architecture and wider systems, Witt offers experiments of a future shared world in which humans, machines, and nature interact through data.

Andrew Witt is an Associate Professor in Practice at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, teaching and researching on the relationship of geometry, data, AI, and machines to architecture, design, and culture. Trained in both architecture and mathematics, he has a particular interest in a technically synthetic and logically rigorous approach to form. He is also co-founder, with Tobias Nolte, of Certain Measures, a Boston/Berlin-based studio that combines design and data for systemic and scalable approaches to spatial problems. The work of Certain Measures is in the permanent collection of the Centre Pompidou, and has been exhibited at the Pompidou, the Barbican Centre, the Museum of the Future, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, among others.