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:
Accepted papers presented at the TxA Emerging Design + Technology conference are published in the proceedings of the event. See past proceedings below. To order print copies of any edition ($30 each), contact us.
8–9 November 2018
Held during the Texas Society of Architects
79th Annual Conference and Design Expo in
Fort Worth, Texas
Edited by Kory Bieg
Aerodynamic Articulation: Recalibrating Micro Airflow Patterns for Thermal Comfort
Kenneth Tracy, Christine Yogiaman, Oindrila Ghosh, and Pablo Valdivia y Alvarado
Flat Crush
Gabriel Esquivel and Nancy Al-Assaf
Buoy Stone: A Megalithic Simulation of Buoyancy
Brandon Clifford
Architecture’s Digital Divide: Post-Digital Formalisms and the Emergence of Cyberphysical Architecture
Guvenc Ozel
Augmentations of the Real: A Critical Interrogation of the Relationship Between the Actual, the Virtual, and the Real / The Column as Spatial Marker
Matias del Campo and Sandra Manninger
An Integrated Robotic 3D Printing System for Carbon Fiber Composite Building Elements
Hyunchul Kwon and Benjamin Dillenburger
The Guiding Hand: Architectural Authorship in the Age of Robotics
James F. Kerestes, Alayna Davidson, and Benjamin M. Slightom
Discrete Cellular Growth
Igor Pantic and Christoph Klemmt
LIMB: Inventory-Constrained Design Method for Application of Natural Tree Bifurcations as Heavy Timber Joinery
Omid Oliyan Torghabehi, Peter von Buelow, Steven Mankouche, and Kasey Vliet
9–10 November 2017
Held during the Texas Society of Architects
78th Annual Convention and Design Expo in
Austin, Texas
Edited by Kory Bieg
3–4 November 2016
Held during the Texas Society of Architects
77th Annual Convention and Design Expo in
San Antonio, Texas
Edited by Kory Bieg
6–7 November 2015
Held during the Texas Society of Architects
76th Annual Convention and Design Expo in
Dallas, Texas
Edited by Kory Bieg
8 November 2014
Held during the Texas Society of Architects
75th Annual Convention and Design Expo in
Houston, Texas
Edited by Kory Bieg
9 November 2013
Held during the Texas Society of Architects
74th Annual Convention and Design Expo in
Fort Worth, Texas
Edited by Kory Bieg