The SmartGeometry workshops offer participants a unique opportunity to meet and work with tutors from some of the leading practices exploiting new parametric technologies as design methodologies.

The key focus of the 2008 workshops  was design to manufacture. Increasingly areas of expertise are converging based on digital tools and in today’s environment operating between multiple computing environments is common. Although the base software used at the course was Bentley’s GenerativeComponents (provided for free to attendees) several of the workshops explored links to other design, computation and design environments.

Other sessions focused on linkages to analysis for performance evaluation such as environmental, structural, and of course light simulation.

The Workshop was divided into 5 rooms, each of which pursued a predominant although not exclusive theme. Each workshop also linked to a variety of other software, ranging from Excel to analysis and simulation.

• Structure
• Environment
• Form
• Computation
• Architecture

Workshop groups were led by 24 tutors, including these senior tutors.

Achim Menges Architectural Association London / HFG Offenbach
Andrew Kudless California College of the Arts / Matsys
Axel Kilian TU Delft / designexplorer.net
Brady Peters Foster + Partners
Chris Williams Bath University
Francis Aish Foster + Partners
Hugh Whitehead Foster + Partners
Jalal El Ali Buro Happold
Jenny E. Sabin University of Pennsylvania and CabinStudio
Jeroen Coenders Arup
Jonathan Rabagliati Foster + Partners
J Parrish Arup Sport
Judit Kimpian Aedas
Kaustuv De Biswas MIT
Lars Hesselgren KPF
Mirco Becker KPF
Onur Yuce Gun KPF
Rob Woodbury Simon Fraser University
Roly Hudson Bath University
Shane Burger Grimshaw
Steve Sanderson SHoP
Stylianos Dritsas KPF
Volker Mueller Bentley
Xavier De Kestelier Foster + Partners