Dave Pigram is a senior lecturer in architecture at University of Technology Sydney and his research and teaching is centred on algorithmic design techniques and their combination with robotic fabrication processes. He has previously served as a Visiting Professor of Practice at the University of Michigan; Visiting Researcher at the ETH Zurich; and Research Affiliate at the MIT Media Lab. Dave is also a founding partner of supermanoeuvre, an international award-winning architecture and innovation practice operating globally from Sydney. The practice won the ‘AA and RMIT Independents Group Fellowship 2014’; ‘Young Architect’s Forum [YAF], Atlanta: Design Build Challenge’; the Powerhouse Museum’s 'International Lace Award (Multimedia) 2010-2011'; and was one of six chosen to represent Australia at the Venice Biennale 2012. His work is widely exhibited internationally including at the 2008 and 2010 Beijing Architecture Biennales, the Centre Pompidou, and is in the permanent collection of the FRAC Orléans. His writings are published in New York’s Log Journal of Architecture, The Architectural Review Asia Pacific and books such as ‘Fabricating the Future’ and ‘Contemporary Digital Architecture: Design and Techniques’.
