Richard Garber

The Department of Architecture welcomes Richard Garber for the launch of his book, Building Futures: Technology, Ecology, and Architectural Practice, and panel discussion.

Join us for a round table discussion to celebrate Richard Garber's new book Building Futures: Technology, Ecology, and Architectural Practice on the occasion of its publishing by Wiley. The book addresses the myriad of complexities faced by architects as practice seeks to engage 21st century issues of climate change, diversity and social equity, and urban development, mediated through the lens of technologies that are rapidly maturing and allowing architects to adopt new design strategies and workflows. The event will include remarks by Garber and Robert Stuart-Smith who wrote the book's foreword. Stuart-Smith will moderate a discussion with a panel of architects that created case-studies used in the book. Panelists include Winka Dubbeldam (Weitzman, Architect-Tectonics, NY), Kerenza Harris (Morphosis, LA), and Shajay Bhooshan (Zaha Hadid Architects, London).

Richard Garber, AIA, is a founding partner at GRO Architects. The work of the practice privileges the integration of emerging technologies to respond to client needs, project complexity, and collaboration between disciplines. GRO received the 2022 Honor Award, Residential Category in the annual AIA New Jersey Design Awards Competition for Nest, a 122-unit micro-housing project in Jersey City. Increasingly contemplating large-scale planning proposals, GRO received the Bronze Medal for Excellence in Planning from the City of Wuhan, Hubei Province, China in 2015. Richard has written numerous books and essays in which he advocates for technology as it relates to formal speculation, simulation, manufacturing, and building delivery to generate innovate design, assembly, and construction solutions. He is the author of BIM Design: Realizing the Creative Potential of Building Information Modelling (John Wiley & Sons, 2014), and guest editor of Closing the Gap: Information Models in Contemporary Design Practice (Wiley, 2009), a thematic volume of Architectural Design. He holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. The December 2010 issue of Dwell magazine named him as one of 32 new faces of design, and showcased GRO's precast concrete housing prototype PREttyFAB.
 
Wiley will provide copies of Building Futures: Technology, Ecology, and Architectural Practice for purchase as well as distribute a discount code for students and faculty interested in purchasing the book online.

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