And Other Topics

Andrew Atwood w/ Brandon Kruysman and Jon Proto.

Other Topics will address emerging tropes of speculation and experimentation within the SCI-Arc Robot House and their application to and relationship with the discipline of architecture.

Andrew Atwood teaches at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc).
In 2011 he founded First Office, a design studio based in downtown Los Angeles (firstoff.net) with Anna Neimark. Their forthcoming publications include essays in the Think Space CityScapes Pamphlet, the inaugural issue
of the journal, Project and Perspecta 46: Error.

Andrew Atwood has lectured at SCI-Arc, Rice, UCLA, Cornell, USC, UVA, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, and Michigan. He recently led an ACSA panel on “The Agency of Drawing and the Digital Process” at MIT. His installations include 5 Doric Columns at the Pacific Design Center and Cone Ceiling at the Beijing Biennale. He has worked and consulted for Belzberg Architects, mos, and BIG. He holds a BA in Political Science from the University of Richmond and an M.Arch from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD). His research can be found at atwood-a.com.