Digital Media Lecture Series: David Jason Gerber
| Date/Time: | Wednesday, 29 Sep 2010 from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm |
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| Location: | Kocimski Auditorium, 101 Design |
| Cost: | free |
| Contact: | Chiu-Shui Chan |
| Phone: | 515-294-8326 |
| Channel: | College of Design |
| Categories: | Lectures |
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David Jason Gerber is an assistant professor of architecture at the University of Southern California with a joint appointment in the USC department of civil and environmental engineering. He has worked as an executive at Gehry Technologies Inc., a leading building information modeling consultancy and technology company, and as an architect for the Steinberg Group, Safdie Architects and Zaha Hadid Architects, among other firms.
While with Zaha Hadid Architects, Gerber was involved with a number of recently built projects, including the Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati, Phaeno Science Museum in Wolfsburg, Germany, and the Hoenheim-Nord terminus in Strasburg, Germany. He was also project architect and manager for the One North master plan in Singapore.
Gerber has held numerous teaching and research fellowships, including at Harvard University Graduate School of Design and MIT's Media Lab. He has taught at the Architectural Association's Design Research Laboratory, London; Innsbruck University, Germany, and the EPFL Switzerland. At USC, he has taught courses in applied sciences, civil and environmental engineering, design studio, design computation, architecture/engineering/construction (AEC) technologies and fabrication, emphasizing associative parametric design strategies and building information modeling (BIM) as a means of design exploration and realization.
Gerber has a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley (1996); a Master of Architecture from the Architectural Association Design Research Laboratory (2000), a Master of Design Studies from Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2003) and a Doctor of Design from Harvard GSD (2007). His doctoral research, Parametric Practices: Models for Design Exploration in Architecture, focuses on associative parametric design technology and its effect on design, theory, processes and contemporary practice.
The College of Design's Digital Media Lecture Series is sponsored by Rohrbach Associates, PC, Iowa City.