David Fano is the first of three visitors to our studio this year from CASE Design in New York. All three members of this small but powerful company trace their roots back to SHoP Architects where they previously practiced. In David’s words, “[CASE specializes] in anything that involves computers and architecture.” CASE provides strategic advising to AEC firms seeking to transform their practices through technological innovation. They help clients identify and implement technologies that enable a more effective coordination, communication, collaboration, and information exchange. Monday afternoon, David met with An Inconvenient Studio to offer some guidance and focus to our projects. Each group gave a short presentation of their “Robotic Interventions” followed by a short but informative critique. He ended the session with a general Grasshopper workshop and had a follow up session with individual groups.
David also spent some time in a public Q&A session hosted by Glue during which he discussed in further detail CASE’s general business model, his experiences working within a more specialized group outside of architecture, and some of his ideas about what the future may hold for the industry.
David’s visit brought us new perspective on parametric design and Building Information Modeling as well as the dynamic nature of the dialogue between clients, engineers, architects, and fabricators. We’re looking forward to continuing this dialogue in the future with Steve Sanderson and Federico Negro. We would like to personally thank David for his recent visit and sharing his breadth of skills and knowledge.
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