Peter Lloyd Jones
www.uphs.upenn.edu/ime/PJones/index.htm

Peter Lloyd Jones is a cellular and developmental biologist, and Director of the Penn-CMREF center for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension at the University of Pennsylvania. Following completion of his Ph.D. in Cellular and Genetic Pathology at the University of Cambridge, Peter undertook a post-doctoral fellowship at the Lawrence Berkeley Lab, University of California at Berkeley, studying the role of the extracellular microenvironment on tumor behavior. This was followed by a second fellowship at the University of Toronto in lung biology. In 1998, Peter was appointed Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia where he established an independent NIH-funded research group examining how cell and tissue architecture affects normal and pathological development. In 2000, Peter was recruited to a specialized center of lung research at the University of Colorado where he continued to garner NIH funding to explore the critical role that cellular architecture exerts over the genome. In 2005, he was recruited to the Department of Pathology and Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania. His laboratory is located in the Institute for Medicine and Engineering, a trans-disciplinary center dedicated to the discovery of new research areas in biology and medicine.

Peter has lectured widely in the U.S. and abroad, and has received numerous awards for his work, published in more than 50 peer-reviewed articles, including 306090. Awards include the Robert Diesenhouse Prize for Cardiovascular Science, and the 2003 American Physiologic Society Giles Filley Memorial Award for Excellence in Respiratory Medicine. In 2006, Peter began to collaborate with Jenny Sabin at the NSO at PennDesign investigating biological form and its application to contemporary architectural design.

Daniel Bosia
www.arup.com

Daniel Bosia has extensive experience in Structural Design, Bridge Design and Computer Programming. Joined ARUP in 1998 as a Structural Engineer, Daniel will teach Form and Algorithm at Penn Design, 2005.

Major projects have included the Twist Building at the Battersea Powerstation site, the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, and the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in Hyde Park, London.

Aranda/Lasch
Benjamin Aranda and Chris Lasch
www.arandalasch.com

Established in 2003, Aranda/Lasch is a New York-based architectural studio headed by Benjamin Aranda and Chris Lasch. Current projects include built installations, competition proposals, research publications and video works. All are focused on architectural techniques and procedures that expose nested structures found in urban, media and natural phenomena. Using computational code these structures can be understood as simple recipes sometimes referred to as algorithms, which serve as conceptual and geometric fodder in a project's formation. A stated mission of the studio is to engage architecture through the playful and discrete use of mathematics and geometry as a way to deeply appreciate space. Aranda/Lasch were selected as finalists for the MoMA/PS1 Young Architects Program, the Mountain Hut Competition hosted by the US Park Service and took first place for their Las Vegas Gateway competition entry. They are currently working on two exhibitions of their work at Artists Space and Columbia University in New York as well as an exhibition design at the MoMA. Aranda/Lasch's work is the subject of the latest edition of Pamphlet Architecture, titled Tooling, available early 2006.