Ferda Kolatan
www.su11.com
Ferda Kolatan is co-founder of su11 architecture+design, New York City. He was the recipient of the Honor Award for Excellence in Design and the Lucille Smyser Lowenfish Memorial Price from Columbia University. His firm received the Swiss National Culture Award for Art and Design and the ICFF Editors Award for ‘Best New Designer’ in 2001. His work has been published widely including Archilab’s Futurehouse, L’Arca, New New York, Sapce, Monitor, Arch+, Digital Real, The Metapolis Dictionary of Advanced Architecture, AD, Dwell, Le Monde, NY Times, LA Times and Washington Post. He participated in "Documenta X" in Kassel and the Archilab Conference in Orleans in 2001. The project Composite House has been featured in the exhibition "Strangely Familiar" at the Walker Art Center in 2003. Recent exhibitions include Open House: Architecture and Technology for Intelligent Living, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, 2007 and Open House: Intelligent Living by Design, Vitra Design Museum, Zeche Zollverein, Essen, Germany, 2006. In 2006 su11 was selected finalist for the Chernikhov Price and in 2007 he was nominated to be a finalist for the MoMA/PS1 YAP competition. Kolatan has taught design studios and theory seminars at the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, Pratt Institute, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, UQAM, RWTH Aachen and the University of British Columbia. In May 2007, Kolatan was named Lead Researcher of the Nonlinear Systems Organization.
Jenny Sabin
www.cabin-studio.com
Jenny E. Sabin is an architect, artist and founding director of CabinStudio, a research and design studio located in Philadelphia, PA. Before completing her Master of Architecture degree at the University of Pennsylvania, Jenny was a practicing visual artist based in Seattle, Washington USA. Jenny currently teaches design studios and elective seminars within the graduate Department of Architecture at PennDesign. She is a Lead Researcher within the Non-Linear Systems Organization (NSO), a new research group at PennDesign started by Cecil Balmond. Jenny’s current research and projects establish relationships between architecture, computation and weaving. Her interest in the materialization and structure of live data sets such as color, light and sound have lead her to investigate the binary mathematical sequence, the Fourier Series. These investigations question and engage the nature of woven frequency space within the greater scope of generative design and fabrication. Jenny recently collaborated with the Advanced Geometry Unit, Arup London on an exhibition at Artists Space titled H_edge. She is the recipient of the AIA Henry Adams first prize medal and the Arthur Spayd Brooke gold medal for distinguished work in architectural design, 2005. She was an American Association of University Women Selected Professions Fellow, 2004-2005 and was recently invited to attend the 2006 Smart Geometry workshop and conference in Cambridge, UK and the Generative Components Summit in Prague, Czech Republic. She is a tutor and speaker at the 2007 Smart Geometry workshop and conference in NY, NY.
