In April of 2011 I applied on a whim to a one-week workshop in the French countryside. What unfolded was an inspirational weekend with the best designer thinkers from across the globe.

This was a quick consultation/fabrication project for the Cambridge architect William O’Brien Jr. for part of his gallery showing at Parsons as a recipient of the Architecture League of New York’s Prize for Young Architects and Designers.

Back in mid-2010 I was asked by a cousin to be a groomsman in his wedding party. One conversation lead to the next and the groom, bride and myself decided that we us would collaborate on an interactive electronic piece.

I’ve long been a fan of Bre Pettis and Kio Stark’s ‘Cult of Done Manifesto’. In an attempt to start 2011 on a positive note I decided to spend a brief amount of time on a project to see just how much progress I could make in just getting it done.

One of the biggest benefits of scripting is being able to write small, custom tools on the fly. They’re not each worth their own blog posts so I thought I’d give them all a home here.

This Grasshopper definition was developed to make usable patterns for the Social Gravity installation. To deal with the sheer size of the suspended forms we panelized them based on the largest piece of fabric that we could get from the manufacturer and then generated patterns from the panels.

Commissioned by SHIFTboston, Social Gravity celebrated the entries into the international Moon Capital competition. The project utilized the full breadth of the group’s abilities in computation, fabrication and interactivity to create a out-of-this-world experience.

At some point in their careers all architects are exposed to quote ‘architecture is frozen music’. But what if there really was a 1-to-1 relationship between music and space?