I am an architect, designer and researcher working on issues of automation in architecture, human-machine interaction, and the technological imagination of design.
I am based in Cambridge, MA, as a Ph.D. Candidate in Design and Computation in the Department of Architecture at MIT.
For updates and ongoing projects see the two columns to the right. You can also see my CV, or check a list of my publications and projects.
For contact info, see below:
em: dcardoso [at] mit [dot] edu
tw: @dcardo
77 Mass. Ave, Of. 9-269
Cambridge, MA, 02139
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| Missiles, symbiosis, and the invention of an algorithmic tectonics |
| July 22/12 talk at the Architecture Association -AA Visiting School in Bogotá, Colombia. In the talk I focused on the discourses of design produced by the "ecology of knowledge" that developed around army-funded research operations active at MIT during the post-war age. See more info. |
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| Computational design workshop |
| In March 17, 2011, taught a 3 day design workshop on computational modularity and variation in the American University of Sharhaj, in the UAE. In collaboration with Gehry Technologies colleagues Santino Medina and Maher El Khaldi. |
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| 08 15 2010 |
| I presented Conceptions of Human and Non-Human Agency (The Poetics of Automation) in the 4S Conference in Tokyo, Japan. Read the abstract. |
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| 08 12 2010 |
| I was invited to give a lecture and micro-workshop in Universidad Francisco Marroquin (UFM), in Guatemala City. The talk's title was: Apuntes para una poética automática. Visited the beautiful Petén and the impressive Yaxhá. |
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| 07 27 2010 |
| Peer reviewed journal IJAC publishes "Shift_Design". An article where I discuss technical and cultural aspects of the design and scripting workshops taught in US and South American architecture schools. |
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| 12 01 2009 |
| Collaborated with Kenfield Griffith at a Cornell University School of Architecture design and scripting workshop. The workshop was organized and co-taught by Cornell Professor (and MIT Ph.D.) Yanni Loukissas. |
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| 09 09 2009 |
| Collaborated with Kenfield Griffith at a Harvard Graduate School of Design design and scripting workshop. The workshop was organized and co-taught by DDeS Candidate Taro Narahara. |
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| 05 15 2009 |
| Researching the history of automata and automation for my exams. Thinking of design automata. |
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| 05 09 2009 |
| Invited to Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona to present the paper 'New Geography of Design' under the ECAP 09 European Conference of Philosophy and Computing, early July. |
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| 11 20 2008 |
| The Voronoi Pavilion, in Lima, Peru, designed by Natalija Boljsakov and Brian Miller. I collaborated with the designers by automating aspects of the form-generation and fabrication of this exhibition space, for Lima's UPC's architecture school. |
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| 09 06 2008 |
| Back in Central Square, Cambridge, MA. |
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| 01 08 2009 |
| I helped my friends (and ex-students) in Peru's UPC Natalija Boljsakov and Brian Miller to develop a custom tool for designing and altering complex surfaces. Some applications will be presented in Bogota this month. |
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| 06 21 2008 |
| Performed live in Sommerville before a small audience with Altiplano. The VJing was in charge of Maria Mendez. Lots of feedback and beautiful noise. Listen to a Lo-Fi recording of the performance. |
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| 01 08 2009 |
| Based on my Master's Thesis I presented the Generative Fabrication lecture and conducted a micro-workshop on scripting in the BAC (Boston Architectural College) |
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| 04 17 2008 |
| I gave a presentation entitled Design and the Automated Utopia at the Critical Digital Conference, at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. |
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| 04 17 2008 |
| Melnikov Grammar paper accepted to the 3IA'2008 the 11th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Artificial Intelligence in Athens, Greece. |
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| Ph.D. defense: Builders of the Vision |
| Successfully defended my Ph.D. dissertation 'Builders of the vision: technology and the imagination of design," before my truly wonderful committee: Terry Knight, Lucy Suchman, Rosalind Williams, and Takehiko Nagakura. MIT, August 26. |
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| Lessons on 'Realarchitektur' |
| In this article I identify and discuss the 'social moment' of Colombian architecture through a critical look at one of Giancarlo Mazzanti''s latest projects: El Bosque de la Esperanza. It was published by Cuadernos de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, in English, Spanish and Portughese. See article (PDF). See journal website. July, 2012. |
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| 'Perfect Slaves' article published |
My article 'Perfect slaves,' about the early days of computational design at MIT was published by the Dearq journal, edited at the Universidad de los Andes. Free online version of the journal. September 14, 2012 |
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| The Carless Street published in the New York Atlas of Possibilty |
| In the context of the Urban Design Week the "Manhattan Promenades" project was featured online and published in a book called "New York Atlas of Possibility," a collection of urban and architectural proposals for the city. |
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| Inertia of an Automated Utopia |
| My paper "Inertia of an Automated Utopia," which discusses critically the cybernetic reformulation of authorial agency in Nicholas Negroponte’s early work on CAD (and some repercussions in contemporarydesign) was published in the 39th issue of Thresholds, edited by Adam Johnson. |
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| Hello (3D) World |
| Hello (3D) World is a collection of my introductory handouts to scripting and geometry automation. Download it here. |
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| Sigradi 2010 |
| Editorial Co-chair for the Sigradi 2010 Conference to be held in Bogotá, Colombia in November 2010. |
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| The Poetics of Automation |
| Dissertation keywords: Human-Machine Interaction, authorial agency, automation, utopia. |
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| Des-comp Blog |
| Guest editor of MIT's Design and Computation Group blog-space. Also, of 4.583 - Computation group forum. |
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| Design and Computation Workshops |
| Design and Computation Workshop project by Rodrigo Velasco. Check here for more info on the workshop taught in collaboration with Skylar Tibbits in Bogotá, Colombia. |
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| Croma |
| A collaborative and inter-disciplinar research initiative that seeks to develop a responsive, programmable polymer-based architectural component. |
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| 08 29 2008 |
| A photo of the Iseo Lake (Pronvincia di Brescia, Italy) |
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