July 30, 2011 – 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
NewSchool of Architecture + Design, San Diego
DESIGNING ON THE FRINGE: architecture in the new economy
Gather with other Emerging Professionals from across California at the AEP Statewide Forum to reinvigorate your architectural career and participate in inspiring discussions with people who have ventured out on the fringe to start their own businesses and take charge of their careers.
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Guest Speakers
Miles Kemp
Founder / President Variate Labs in Los Angeles
With a strong background in architecture and user experience, his work focuses on creating new types of interactive experiences that excite, connect and engage people. For more than 15 years, Miles has partnered with some of the most interesting companies, and brightest minds, in architecture and the digital space. His design experience covers all scales and platforms including architecture, robots, products, vehicles, software, interfaces and information strategies.
Before launching Variate Labs, Miles spent more than thirteen years working for prominent architecture firms across the US. During that time he designed and built more than 60 structures all around the world. In the last five years, Miles has design and developed next-generation interfaces and experiences for web, mobile and other emerging platforms. His clients include ABC, Blockbuster, BMW, BBC, Disney, Emotiv, Gates Foundation, Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, Microsoft, Samsung, Sony, Target, Televisa and Time Warner.
In 2009, Miles released his first book, Interactive Architecture, published by Princeton Architectural Press and co-authored with Michael Fox, that is the first comprehensive overview of the history, current landscape and future of interactive spaces.
Nicholas de Monchaux
Architect / Urbanist
Nicholas’ work examines the intersections of nature, technology, and the city. He is the author of Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo (MIT Press, 2011), an Architectural history of the Apollo 11 Spacesuit.
de Monchaux received his B.A. with distinction in Architecture, from Yale, and his Professional Degree (M.Arch.) from Princeton . He has worked as a designer for Michael Hopkins & Partners in London, and Diller, Scofidio + Renfro in New York. Until 2006, he was Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Virginia. He is currently Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at UC Berkeley.
de Monchaux’s work has been published and reviewed in Log, Architectural Design, the New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, and have been supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the Macdowell Colony, the Santa Fe Institute, and the Smithsonian Institution. His design work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the 2010 Biennial of the Americas. He has received design awards and citations from the International Union of Architects, Pamphlet Architecture, and the Van Alen Institute, who awarded him the 2000 John Dinkeloo Memorial Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome.
He lives with his wife and son in Downtown Oakland.