David Pigram

Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture
Course Director - Master of Advanced Architecture, School of Architecture
Academic Liason Officer, School of Architecture

B App Sci Env Design, B Arch, MS Advanced Arch Design
Email: David.Pigram@uts.edu.au
Phone: +61 2 9514 8831
Fax: +61 2 9514 8787
Room: CB06.05.85 (map)
Mailing address: PO Box 123, Broadway NSW 2007, Australia

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Biography
Dave Pigram is an architect, educator and researcher who has relocated to Sydney after living and working in New York for many years.

He is a founding partner of supermanoeuvre, an internationally-recognised collaborative architecture and design practice operating out of New York and London. The practice won the ‘Young Architect’s Forum [YAF], Atlanta: Design Build Challenge’ and the ‘UTS Open Agenda 2010’ competitions. It is also shortlisted in the Powerhouse Museum’s International Lace Award 2010-2011. The studio represented Australia at the 2008 and 2010 Beijing Architecture Biennales.

Dave’s work has been exhibited at the UN Habitat World Urban Forum, the National Museum of Australia, the Gallery of Australian Design, RAIA National Headquarters as well as in Lisbon, Paris, Florence, New York, Los Angeles, Beijing, Lexington, Melbourne and Auckland.

Educated in USA, Australia, Finland and Thailand, Dave has worked for Studio Daniel Libeskind, has taught at the Architecture Association (AA) in London, Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Preservation and Planning (GSAPP), Princeton University, the Pratt Institute and the University of Michigan and been an invited jury critic for the Southern California Institute of Architecture (Sci-Arc), University of Pennsylvania, and Cornell and Goa universities.

In addition to his role as Course Director of the Master of Advanced Architecture, Design Technologies program at UTS, Dave serves on the advisory panel for the Masters of Digital Design Program at the University of Canberra, is a former University of Michigan Visiting Professor of Practice, and continues to co-direct research into algorithmic and robotic fabrication as a co-founder of the International Fabrication Robotics Network.

Publications

Conference Papers

Pigram, D.A., Larsen, N.M. & Pederson, O.E. 2012, 'A Method for the Realization of Complex Concrete Gridshell Structures in Precast Concrete', ACADIA 2012: Synthetic Digital Ecologies, 32nd Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture, San Francisco, October 2012 in Synthetic Digital Ecologies: Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture, ed Cabrinha, M., Kelly Johnson, J. and Steinfeld, K., Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA), San Francisco, pp. 209-216.

McGee, W., Pigram, D.A. & Kaczynski, M.P. 2012, 'Robotic reticulations: A method for the integration of multi-axis fabrication processes with algorithmic form-finding techniques', CAADRIA 2012, Chennai, India, April 2012 in Beyond codes and pixels: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia, ed Fischer, T; De Biswas, K; Ham, J.J; Naka, R; Huang, W.X., Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia, Hong Kong, pp. 295-304.

Pigram, D.A. & McGee, W. 2011, 'Formation Embedded Design: A methodology for the integration of fabrication constraints into architectural design', ACADIA 2011, Calgary and Banff, Alberta, Canada, November 2011 in acadia2011 integration THROUGH computation: Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture, ed Taron, J M; Parlac, V; Kolarevic, B; Johnson, J S., ACADIA, Calgary, pp. 122-131.
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Kaczynski, M.P., McGee, W. & Pigram, D.A. 2011, 'Robotically Fabricated Thin-shell Vaulting: A methodology for the integration of fof multi-axis fabrication processes with algorithmic form-finding techniques', ACADIA 2011, Calgary and Banff, Alberta, Canada, November 2011 in acadia2011 integration THROUGH computation: Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Asscoiation for Computer Aided Design in Architecture, ed Taron, J M; Parlac, V; Kolarevic, B; Johnson, J S., ACADIA, Calgary, pp. 114-121.
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Original Creative Works

Pigram, D.A. & Maxwell, I.J. 2010, 'City Breeder', Open Agenda, DAB Documents, Customs House, Sydney.
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Pigram, D.A. & Maxwell, I.J. 2010, 'Highlystrung', Machinic Processes: Architectural Biennial Beijing 2010, Architectural Biennial Beijing, 798 Space, Beijing.
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Clifford, B., McGee, W. & Pigram, D.A. 2010, 'Periscope Tower', Modern Atlanta 10UP Design Build Competition, The Young Architects Forum of Atlanta (YAF Atlanta), Modern Atlanta.
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Pigram, D.A., Hall, P. & Blasetti, E. 2010, 'Selfridges', Machinic Processes: Architectural Biennial Beijing (ABB2010), Architectural Biennial Beijing, Beijing.
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Pigram, D.A., Maxwell, I.J. & McGee, W. 2009, 'Supermatter', Wild Child, -, Bridge Gallery.
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Pigram, D.A. & Snooks, R. 2008, 'Morphogenetic Lattice', The 3rd Architectural Biennial Beijing (ABB2008), Architectural Biennial Beijing, Beijing.
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Pigram, D.A., Maxwell, I.J., Rothenberg, B. & Blasetti, E. 2008, 'Trabeculae', The 3rd Architecture Biennial Beijing (ABB2008), Architecture Biennial Beijing, Beijing.
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Pigram, D.A. & Maxwell, I.J. 2007, 'Protosynthesis', scriptedbypurpose, FUEL Gallery, Philadelphia and Marc Fornes, FUEL Gallery, Philadelphia.
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Other research activity

Maxwell, I.J., Pigram, D.A. 2010, 'Supermanoeuvre - Inorganic Speciation: Matter, Behaviour and Formation in Architecture', Contemporary Digital Architecture: Design and Techniques, Links International, Barcelona, pp. 208-227.
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