Kory Bieg
ACADIA 2019 Site Chair
Associate Professor, School of Architecture, The University of Texas at Austin
Principal, OTA+ (link)

Bio:

Kory Bieg is an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his Master of Architecture from Columbia University and is a registered architect in the states of California and Texas. Since 2013, he has served as Chair of the TxA Emerging Design + Technology conference, and co-Director of TEX-FAB Digital Fabrication Alliance. He has served on the Board of SXSW Eco Place by Design and the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture.

In 2005, Kory Bieg founded OTA+, an architecture, design, and research office that specializes in the development and use of current, new, and emerging digital technologies for the design and fabrication of buildings, building components, and experimental installations. OTA+ uses current design software and CNC machine tools to both generate and construct conceptually rigorous and formally unique design proposals.

Danelle Briscoe
ACADIA 2019 Technical Chair
Associate Professor, School of Architecture, The University of Texas at Austin
Principal, db studio (link)

Bio:

Danelle Briscoe received her Master of Architecture degree from Yale University where she was awarded the Eero Saarinen Design Excellence Award. Her Bachelor of Architecture degree is from the University of Texas at Austin with Honors. Her ten years of work experience includes being a designer at Frank Gehry Partners, LLP, designer at Marmol+ Radziner LLP (both in Los Angeles) and UT residency at Centerbrook Architects (in Connecticut). In 2016, Danelle completed her book titled Architecture Information Modelling. Danelle has served on the Board of Directors for ACADIA and also on the Editorial Board for the International Journal of Architectural Computation (IJAC).

Clay Odom
ACADIA 2019 Technical Chair
Associate Professor, School of Architecture, The University of Texas at Austin
Principal, studioModo (link)

Bio:

Clay Odom founded the design practice of StudioMODO in 2009 to develop design, branding, conceptual art, and furniture projects and research.

In the Fall of 2013, Clay began a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor at The University of Texas School of Architecture. His research involves inquiry into the generation and manipulation of a range of subjective spatial, contextual, experiential, and para-cinematic outcomes - such as atmosphere, sublimity, and delight, which emerge through objective, effective processes of design, fabrication, and installation.

Benjamin Rice
ACADIA 2019 Workshop Chair
Lecturer, School of Architecture, The University of Texas at Austin
Principal, MTTR MGMT (link)

Bio:

Benjamin Rice is a principal of MTTR MGMT. Before joining MM Benjamin helped deliver high profile architectural projects and competitions ranging in scope from residential, to commercial, to transportation for some of the worlds leading architectural firms.

Benjamin’s work, both personal and professional, has been published and exhibited widely. Recent exhibitions include the A+D Museum in Los Angeles, the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, and the Denver Art Museum. Recent publications include On Ramp, Pidgin Magazine, TARP, eVolo Magazine, and the recent Actar book Critical Prison Design: Mas d'Enric Penitentiary by AiB arquitectes + Estudi PSP Arquitectura.

Benjamin is currently Research Faculty at the University of Texas at Austin. He has taught previously at the Virginia Tech School of Architecture + Design, the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design, the California College of the Arts, and as an assistant at the Southern California Institute of Architecture and the Princeton University School of Architecture. He received his Bachelor of Architecture from the Southern California Institute of Architecture where he is a graduate of distinction, and his Master of Architecture from the Princeton University School of Architecture where he was a Fellow of the Graduate School.

Michelle Addington
Dean, School of Architecture, The University of Texas at Austin

Bio:

Michelle Addington is dean of The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture, where she holds the Henry M. Rockwell Chair in Architecture. Formerly, she served as Gerald Hines Chair in Sustainable Architectural Design at the Yale University School of Architecture and was jointly appointed as a Professor at the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Prior to teaching at Yale, she taught at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, the Technical University of Munich, Temple University and Philadelphia University.

Originally educated as a mechanical/nuclear engineer, Addington worked for several years as an engineer at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center and for E.I DuPont de Nemours before she studied architecture. Her teaching, research, and professional work span across these disciplines with the overarching objective of determining strategic intersections between the optimal domains of physical phenomena with the practical domains of spatial, geo-political, economic, and cultural systems. Her books, chapters, essays, journal papers, and articles address topics ranging from fluid mechanics to the History of Technology to smart materials, and she has consulted on projects as diverse as the Sistine Chapel and Amazon rain forest.

Addington received a B.S.M.E. from Tulane University, a B.Arch from Temple University, and M.Des.S. and Dr.Des degrees from Harvard University. She also holds an honorary M.A. from Yale University. In 2009, she was selected as one of the country’s top ten faculty in architecture by Architect Magazine, and, in 2014, she was named as one of Connecticut’s “Women of Innovation.”