CURRICULUM VITAE Ayodh Vasant Kamath

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1 CURRENT POSITIONS August 2013 Assistant Professor of Digital Design and Fabrication Technologies Present College of Architecture and Design, Lawrence Technological University West 10 Mile Road, Southfield, Michigan 48033, USA August 2011 Partner, Kamath Design Studio Present 301, N-19 Green Park Extension, New Delhi , India PREVIOUS POSITIONS August 2012 Visiting (Adjunct) Faculty June 2013 University School of Architecture and Planning, Delhi, India August 2011 Visiting (Adjunct) Faculty June 2012 Sushant School of Art and Architecture, Gurgaon, India June 2009 Designer July 2011 Ball-Nogues Studio, Los Angeles CA, USA August 2006 Architect July 2007 Kamath Design Studio, Delhi, India January 2006 Trainee (Intern) Architect July 2006 Sanjay Prakash and Associates, Delhi, India ASSOCIATIONS April 2007 Member of the Council of Architecture, India (CA No. 2007/40019) EDUCATION September 2007 Master of Science in Architecture Studies (Design Computation) May 2009 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA August 2001 Bachelor of Architecture July 2006 Sushant School of Art and Architecture, Gurgaon, India August 2000 Advanced Diploma in Photography July 2001 Camera Arts Institute, Triveni Kala Sangam, Delhi, India AWARDS May 2014 Lawrence Technological University Faculty Seed Grant May 2013 Best Paper Award, Runner-up, 18 th CAADRIA Conference, Singapore September 2008 Merit Based Full Tuition Award, Massachusetts Institute of Technology July 2006 Bharat Mansinh Rana Gold Medal for Design Thesis, Sushant School of Art and Architecture

2 EMPLOYMENT DETAILS August 2011 Partner Present Kamath Design Studio, Delhi, India Select Current Projects Jiva Ayurvedic Healing Center, Faridabad, India Satyakiran Institute of Healthcare Education and Management, Murthal, India Gnostic Center, Gurgaon, India August 2013 Assistant Professor of Digital Design and Fabrication Technologies Present College of Architecture and Design, Lawrence Technological University Teaching Co-coordinator : Visual Communications course sequence Course Development : BIM Sequence Instructor : Visual Communications 3 (UG+G) FA13, SP14, FA14 Instructor : Visual Communications 4 (UG+G) SP13, FA14, FA15 Instructor : Integrated Design Studio 3 (UG) FA15 Instructor : Advanced Design Studio 2 (G) SP13, SP 14 Instructor : Independent Study (G) SP 15 Instructor : Thesis Advisor (G) FA15 Workshop : India Workshop on Digital Design and Fabrication (UG+G) WT13 Academic Advising : Graduate and Undergraduate levels Service Member : Digital Fabrication Task Force, College of Architecture and Design Member : Laptop Committee, Lawrence Technological University Research Cyborg Masonry Dome FA13 Computationally Reclaiming Material (Faculty Seed Grant) FA14-SP15 August 2012 Visiting (Adjunct) Faculty June 2013 University School of Architecture and Planning, Delhi, India Teaching Course Development : Architectural Design Studio agenda Instructor : 2 nd Year Architectural Design Studio (BArch) FA12, SP13 August 2011 Visiting (Adjunct) Faculty June 2012 Sushant School of Art and Architecture, Gurgaon, India Teaching Course Development : Architectural Design Studio agenda Instructor : 2 nd Year Architectural Design Studio (BArch) FA11 Instructor : 3 rd Year Architectural Design Studio (BArch) SP12 Instructor : Vertical Elective SP12 June 2009 Designer July 2011 Ball-Nogues Studio, Los Angeles CA, USA Responsibilities Design strategy development for CNC fabrication Development of design concepts through scripting and parametric modelling Shop drawings for CNC fabrication using scripting and parametric modelling

3 Operation of CNC machinery for project fabrication Projects Instal_Lator: A CNC string cutting and colouring machine Feathered Edge: Installation at MOCA-PDC, Los Angeles Drop-In Distraction: Installation at LA County Building Permit Office, Los Angeles Cradle: Public art work at Santa Monica, CA TableCloth: Amphitheatre at the Herb Alpert School of Music, UCLA, CA Gravity s Loom: Installation at the Indiana Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN Built To Wear: Installation at the Hong Kong Shenzhen Biennale, 2009 Lens: Installation at EXPOSED Art Festival, Long Beach, CA Teepee: Meditation space at Woodstock, NY (unbuilt) Urb_Lab Competition, Long Beach, CA (unbuilt) February 2009 Teaching Assistant May 2009 Digital Fabrication Professional Applications (G) Professor Dennis Shelden, MIT Responsibilities Conducting lab sessions teaching Digital Project Advising students on class projects January 2009 Sampling the Works of Rahul Mehrotra and RMA Architects February 2009 Wolk Gallery, School of Architecture + Planning, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA Responsibilities Design and fabrication of a CNC fabricated exhibition display system September 2008 Teaching Assistant December 2008 Introduction to Digital Fabrication (UG) Professor Lawrence Sass, MIT Responsibilities Conducting lab sessions teaching AutoCAD, laser cutting, 3D printing Advising students on class projects September 2007 Departmental Archivist December 2008 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture Responsibilities Documentation of student work in preparation for NAAB accreditation August 2006 Architect July 2007 Kamath Design Studio, Delhi, India Responsibilities Preparation of concept presentation drawings and renderings Preparation of construction documentation Design coordination with structural and services consultants Site supervision Projects Museum of Tribal Heritage, Bhopal, MP, India Stainless steel gateway for Jindal Power Ltd at Tamnar, Chhattisgarh, India Kalyanram Residence, Rishi Valley, AP, India Singh Residence, Delhi, India

4 January 2006 Trainee (Intern) Architect July 2006 Sanjay Prakash and Associates, Delhi, India Responsibilities Preparations of concept drawings and renderings Preparation of construction documentation Design coordination with structural and services consultants Projects Mawa Residence, Gurgaon, India Kumar Residence, Hyderabad, India Bakshi Residence, Jammu, India T-Zed Housing, Bangalore, India Agilent Corporate Office, Gurgaon, India Deki Housing, Delhi, India PUBLICATIONS Peer Reviewed August 2015 Optimization of Reclaimed Material for Gridshell Construction. Proceedings of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS), Symposium 2015, Amsterdam, Future Visions August 2015, Amsterdam. December 2014 Negotiating Converging Cultures of Designing and Making: Averting a Fourth Marginalization of the Hand. What s the Matter? Materiality and Materialism in the Age of Computation. ENHSA, December 24, 2014, Barcelona. May 2014 Designing with Maxwell s Demon: Integrating Material Information into Design Computation. Contemporary Discussions and Design Methodologies in Architecture. ARCHDESIGN 14 / Architectural Design Conference Proceedings, May 8-9, 2014, Istanbul. May 2013 Digitally Designed Architectural Form Built Using Craft-Based Fabrication: Weaving a Complex Surface as a Bamboo Reticulated Shell. Open Systems: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference of the Association of Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia CAADRIA May 15-17, 2013, Singapore. April 2012 Reinterpreting Tal Chhapar. Interventions Adaptive Reuse, Vol 3, Journal of the Department of Interior Architecture, Rhode Island School of Design. (Co-Author with Kamath, Revathi; Dore, Maitri; Kamath, Ambika). May 2009 Reverse Layered Manufacturing for Moldable Composites Using CAD/CAM Technologies. Computer-Aided Design & Applications, 6(1), (Co-Author with Griffith, Kenfield). December 2008 Visual-Physical Grammars. SIGraDi Proceedings of the 12th Iberoamerican Congress of Digital Graphics. December 1-5, 2008, La Habana, Cuba. (Co-Author with Knight, Terry; Sass, Larry; Griffith, Kenfield).

5 August 2008 Visual-Physical Design Grammars. ACM SIGGRAPH International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques. August 11-15, 2008, Los Angeles. (Co-Author with Knight, Terry; Sass, Larry; Preston, Steve; Goldenberg, Tal; Griffith, Kenfield). Commissioned / Invited April 2015 The Future ain t Here : A review of The Future of Architecture in 100 Buildings by Marc Kushner. Blink : the arts and culture supplement of the Hindu Business Line. April 25th, 2015, Chennai. January 2008 Recrafting Oltrarno. Appendix: Technology, Livability and the Historic City: Future of Florence. Editors: Dennis Frenchman, Anne Beamish, William J. Mitchell, MIT, INVITED LECTURES September 2015 Computationally Reclaiming Material. Lawrence Technological University, College of Architecture and Design, Lecture Series. September 10, 2015, Southfield, MI, USA. August 2015 Computational Strategies for Digital Reclamation. Research in Architecture and Technology, Computational Design Symposium. August 8, 2015, Gurgaon, India. July 2015 Craft and Computation : Digital Reclamation. Faculty of Design, CEPT University. July 27, 2015, Ahmadabad, India. January 2013 Algorithm to Form and Form to Algorithm Workshop. Annual Convention of the National Association of Students of Architecture. January 27, 2013, Murthal, India. January 2013 Digital Design in the Indian Context. Annual Convention of the National Association of Students of Architecture. January 28, 2013, Murthal, India. December 2011 Craft & the Computer: Theory & Practice. Department of Architecture, Design and Computation Group Lecture Series, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. December 9, 2011, Cambridge, MA. September 2011 Digital Design and Fabrication : Two Examples, Two Methods. Hyperthreads : ZHA CODE, AA Visiting School India Workshop. September 11, 2011, Bangalore, India. September 2010 Designing at the Confluence of the Digital and Physical. Lecture at the Studio U+A Lecture Series. September 18, 2010, Gurgaon, India. EXHIBITIONS September 2015 Computationally Reclaiming Material. Brick Gallery, College of Architecture and Design, Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, MI. July 2010 Inside Outside (four digital prints). Group show at Rosslyn Lofts, Downtown LA Art Walk, Los Angeles, CA.

6 September 2008 Kaleidocycle Canopy (a self-organizing, kinetic structure). DesComp 08, Boston Society of Architects, American Institute of Architects and the MIT Department of Architecture, Cambridge, MA. April 2008 Things that You Don t (two digital prints). March of Memories : a street exhibition to mark National Street Theatre Day, Delhi, India. SOFTWARE SKILLS Design Scripting Python (advanced proficiency) VB Script (advanced proficiency) Parametric Modelling Grasshopper (advanced proficiency) Dynamo (basic proficiency) Digital Project / CATIA (basic proficiency) BIM Revit (intermediate proficiency) CATIA (basic proficiency) CAD Rhinoceros (advanced proficiency) AutoCAD (advanced proficiency) CAM RhinoCAM (intermediate proficiency)