Association for Computer Aided Design In Architecture

Association for Computer Aided Design In ArchitectureAbbreviation| ACADIA

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Founded| 1981

Tax ID no.

| 99-0267393[1]
Legal status| 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization
Headquarters| Fargo, North Dakota, United States [1]

President

| Jason Kelly Johnson[2]

Revenue (2014)

| $277,631[1]
Expenses (2014)| $266,199[1]

Employees (2014)

| 0[1]
Website| www.acadia.org

The Association for Computer Aided Design In Architecture (ACADIA) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization active in the area of computer-aided architectural design (CAAD).

## Contents

* 1 Mission statement
* 2 Membership
* 2.1 Presidents (elected)
* 3 Activities
* 3.1 Annual conference
* 3.2 Proceedings
* 3.3 Awards
* 3.3.1 Lifetime Achievement Award
* 3.3.2 Digital Practice Award of Excellence
* 3.3.3 Innovative Academic Program Award of Excellence
* 4 History
* 5 Related organizations
* 5.1 Sister organizations
* 5.2 Other related organizations
* 6 External links
* 7 References

## Mission statement

Begun in 1981, the organization's objectives are recorded in its bylaws:[3]

> "ACADIA was formed for the purpose of facilitating communication and information exchange regarding the use of computers in architecture, planning and building science. A particular focus is education and the software, hardware and pedagogy involved in education."

> "The organization is also committed to the research and development of computer aides that enhance design creativity, rather than simply production, and that aim at contributing to the construction of humane physical environments."

## Membership

Membership is open to anyone who subscribes to the objectives of the organization, including architects, educators, and software developers, whether resident in North America or not. An online membership registration form and directory is available via the organization.[4]

The organization is primarily governed by the elected Board of Directors. The organization is led by the elected President, who presides over Board of Directors meetings, but does not vote except in the case of a tie.[3]

### Presidents (elected)

Years  | President  | Number of years serving

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1981-82  | Charles Eastman  | 1
1982-84  | John Wade  | 2
1984-85  | Chris Yessios  | 1
1985-86  | Yehuda Kalay  | 1
1986-87  | Elizabeth Bollinger  | 1
1987-88  | Patricia McIntosh  | 1
1988-89  | Robert E. Johnson  | 1
1989-90  | Pamela J. Bancroft  | 1
1990-91  | John McIntosh  | 1
1991-92  | J. Peter Jordan  | 1
1992-93  | Larry O. Degelman  | 1
1993-94  | Skip Van Wyk  | 1
1994-95  | M. Stephen Zdepski  | 1
1995-96  | Karen M. Kensek  | 1
1996-97  | Glenn Goldman  | 1
1997-98  | Branko Kolarevic  | 1
1998-99  | Douglas E. Noble  | 1
1999-2000  | Brian Johnson  | 1
2000-01  | Mark Clayton  | 1
2001-03  | Ganapathy Mahalingam  | 2
2003-05  | Kevin Klinger  | 2
2005-07  | Wassim Jabi  | 2
2007-09  | Mahesh Senagala  | 2
2009-10  | Nancy Cheng  | 1
2010-13  | Aron Temkin  | 3
2013-16  | Michael Fox  | 3
2016-  | Jason Kelly Johnson  |

## Activities

### Annual conference

ACADIA sponsors an annual national conference, held in the autumn of each year at a different site in North America. Papers for the conferences undergo extensive blind review before being accepted for presentation (and publication). Membership is not a prerequisite for submission of a paper.

| Year  | City, State/Province[5] | Country  | Host university  | Conference theme[5]

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4th  | 1985  | Tempe, Arizona  | USA  |  |
5th  | 1986  | Houston, Texas  | USA  |  |
6th  | 1987  | Raleigh, North Carolina  | USA  |  | Integrating Computers into the Architectural Curriculum
7th  | 1988  | Ann Arbor, Michigan  | USA  |  | Computing in Design Education
8th  | 1989  | Gainesville, Florida  | USA  |  | New Ideas and Directions for the 1990s
9th  | 1990  | Big Sky, Montana  | USA  |  | From Research to Practice
10th  | 1991  | Los Angeles, California  | USA  |  | Reality and Virtual Reality
11th  | 1992  |  | USA  |  | Mission - Method - Madness
12th  | 1993  | Texas  | USA  |  | Education and Practice: The Critical Interface
13th  | 1994  | Saint Louis, Missouri  | USA  | Washington University | Reconnecting
14th  | 1995  | Seattle, Washington  | USA  | University of Washington | Computing in Design - Enabling, Capturing and Sharing Ideas
15th  | 1996  | Tucson, Arizona  | USA  |  | Design Computation: Collaboration, Reasoning, Pedagogy
16th  | 1997  | Cincinnati, Ohio  | USA  | University of Cincinnati  | Design and Representation
17th  | 1998  | Québec City, Québec  | Canada  |  | Digital Design Studios: Do Computers Make a Difference?
18th  | 1999  | Salt Lake City, Utah  | USA  |  | Media and Design Process
19th  | 2000  | Washington D.C  | USA  |  | Eternity, Infinity and Virtuality in Architecture
20th  | 2001  | Buffalo, New York  | USA  |  | Reinventing the Discourse - How Digital Tools Help Bridge and Transform Research, Education and Practice in Architecture
21st  | 2002  | Pomona, California  | USA  |  | Thresholds - Design, Research, Education and Practice, in the Space Between the Physical and the Virtual
22nd  | 2003  | Indianapolis, Indiana  | USA  |  | Connecting >> Crossroads of Digital Discourse
23rd  | 2004  | Cambridge, Ontario  | Canada  |  | Fabrication: Examining the Digital Practice of Architecture
24th  | 2005  | Savannah, Georgia  | USA  |  | Smart Architecture: Integration of Digital and Building Technologies
25th  | 2006  | Louisville, Kentucky  | USA  | University of Kentucky | Synthetic Landscapes
26th  | 2007  | Halifax, Nova Scotia  | Canada  | Dalhousie University & NSCAD University  | Expanding Bodies
27th  | 2008  | Minneapolis, Minnesota  | USA  | University of Minnesota | Silicon + Skin: Biological Processes and Computation
28th  | 2009  | Chicago, Illinois  | USA  | School of the Art Institute of Chicago | reForm(): Building a Better Tomorrow
29th  | 2010  | New York, New York  | USA  | The Cooper Union & Pratt Institute | Life in:Formation
30th  | 2011  | Calgary/Banff, Alberta  | Canada  | University of Calgary  | Integration Through Computation
31st  | 2012  | San Francisco, California  | USA  | California College of the Arts & UCSF | Synthetic Digital Ecologies
32nd  | 2013  | Cambridge, Ontario  | Canada  | University of Waterloo  | Adaptive Architecture
33rd  | 2014  | Los Angeles, California  | USA  | University of Southern California | Design Agency
34th  | 2015  | Cincinnati, Ohio  | USA  | University of Cincinnati  | Computational Ecologies: Design in the Anthropocene
35th  | 2016  | Ann Arbor, Michigan  | USA  | University of Michigan | Posthuman Frontiers: Data, Designers And Cognitive Machines
36th  | 2017  | Cambridge, Massachusetts  | USA  | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Disciplines & Disruptions

### Proceedings

Each year the conference papers are gathered into a proceedings publication which is distributed to members, and available to the public via the open access database CumInCAD.

### Awards

Started in 1998, ACADIA Awards of Excellence are "the highest award that can be achieved in the field of architectural computing". The awards are given in areas of practice, teaching, research and service, with at most one award in each category per year. Past awards have recognized various significant contributors to the field of architectural computing.

The current awards given annually or biannually are the Lifetime Achievement Award, the Digital Practice Award of Excellence, the Innovative Academic Program Award of Excellence, the Innovative Research Award of Excellence, the Society Award for Leadership, and the Teaching Award of Excellence.

#### Lifetime Achievement Award

Year  | Recipient  | Affiliation

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2016  | Elizabeth Diller  | Diller, Scofidio and Renfro / Princeton University
2014  | Zaha Hadid  | Zaha Hadid Architects

#### Digital Practice Award of Excellence

Year  | Recipient (Person or Firm)  | Affiliation

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2016  | Ron Rael and Virginia San Fratello  | Emerging Objects / UC Berkeley / San Jose State
2015  | KieranTimberlake  | KieranTimberlake
2014  | Jenny Sabin  | Jenny Sabin Studio
2013  | Cecil Balmond  | Balmond Studio
2012  | Gehry Technologies - Accepted by Dennis Shelden  | Gehry Technologies
2011  | Phillip Beesley  | Phillip Beesley Architects / University of Waterloo
2010  |  |
2009  | Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler  | Gramazio Kohler Architects
2008  | Fabian Scheurer  | Design to Production
2007  | Achim Menges  | The Architectural Association (London)
2006  | Evan Douglis  | Evan Douglis Studio

#### Innovative Academic Program Award of Excellence

Year  | Recipient (Academic Program)  | University

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2016  | Centre for Information Technology and Architecture (CITA) - Accepted by Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen  | The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
2015  | Institute for Computational Design (ICD) - Accepted by Achim Menges  | University of Stuttgart
2014  | Columbia Building Intelligence Project (CBIP) - Accepted by Scott Marble  | Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
2013  | AADRL Design Research Laboratory - Accepted by Brett Steele and Theodore Sypropoulos  | The Architectural Association (London)
2012  | Center for Architecture Science and Ecology (CASE) - Accepted by Anna Dyson  | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute / Skidmore Owings and Merrill
2011  |  |
2010  |  |
2009  |  |
2008  | AA Emergent Technologies and Design - Accepted by Michael Weinstock  | The Architectural Association (London)

## History

## Related organizations

### Sister organizations

There are four sister organizations around the world to provide a more accessible regional forum for discussion of computing and design. The major ones are

* eCAADe - The Association for Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe, since 1982.
* CAADRIA \- The Association for Computer Aided Architectural Design in Asia, since 1996.
* SIGraDi \- Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics, since 1997.
* ASCAAD \- The Arab Society for Computer Aided Architectural Design, since 2001.

### Other related organizations

* CAAD Futures - Computer Aided Architectural Design Futures, since 1985.
* CUMINCAD - The Cumulative Index of Computer Aided Architectural Design, with public CumInCAD records available via an Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) feed and records are available via multiple bibliographic archives and citation indexes online.[6][7][8]

## External links

* Association for Computer Aided Design In Architecture

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 "Form 990: Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax". Association for Computer Aided Design In Architecture. Guidestar. December 31, 2015.
2. ↑ "Officers and Board of Directors". Association for Computer Aided Design In Architecture. Retrieved September 7, 2016.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 ACADIA Bylaws. Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture. 15 October 2011. http://assets.acadia.org/doc/ACADIA Bylaws_Version 10-15-11.pdf.
4. ↑ "Membership". 27 March 2017. http://acadia.org/content/membership.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Cumincad database". http://papers.cumincad.org/.
6. ↑ "Architexturez CumInCAD OAI-PMH Mirror". Architexturez. http://cumincad.architexturez.net/col/acadia. Retrieved 24 November 2012. [yes|permanent dead link|dead link}}]
7. ↑ "DBLP". DBLP. University of Trier. http://dblp.org/. Retrieved 14 February 2017.
8. ↑ "Researchgate". ResearchGate. https://www.researchgate.net/. Retrieved 22 September 2012.

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