Emerging Design + Technology

Highlighting experimental research and exploration among academics and practitioners.

Started in 2013, the TxA Emerging Design + Technology conference brings experimental research and exploration among academics and practitioners to a broad audience of designers, practicing architects, construction industry executives, building products manufacturers, students, and other researchers. It takes advantage of the collection of over 3,000 representatives of these fields at the Texas Society of Architects Annual Conference and Design Expo to create a forum for sharing new ideas being formulated in schools of architecture and elsewhere.

The focus of this “conference within a conference” is developments in digital technology that inform design and/or fabrication in architecture and building. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Digital fabrication and rapid prototyping

Robotic craft and assembly

Integrated design tools

Computational models of building performance

Composite and synthetic materials

Responsive environments

Digital design theory

Accepted papers presented at the TxA Emerging Design + Technology conference are published in the proceedings of the event. See past proceedings below.

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