Wes Mcgee CV
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1 – Wes McGee CV Wes McGee 617.909.3881 [email protected] Education Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA College of Architecture Master of Industrial Design, 2005 Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA College of Engineering Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Certificate in Composites Engineering, 2001 Academic Experience University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning Senior Lecturer 2008-present Director of FABLab 2008-present MIT Media Lab Visiting Researcher, Mediated Matter Group 2012-present Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA Assistant Director, Digital Fabrication Lab, F2007-W2008 Seminar Instructor, W2008 Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA Advanced Wood Products Laboratory Teaching Assistant, W2005 Furniture Studio I/II Lab Assistant, F2004-W2005 CNC Fabrication Research Professional Experience Matter Design 154 w 2nd #313 boston, ma 02127 Founding Partner, Senior Designer, 2008-present Thing farm, LLC Atlanta, GA Managing Member, 2005-2008 Dex Studios, Inc. Atlanta, GA Production Manager, 2005-2007 Architectural Concrete Professional Organizations ACADIA Board Member(alternate) 2013 Digital Fabrication Alliance Founding Associate, 2012 – present http://digital-fabrication-alliance.org/ Professional Awards Architectural League Prize for Young Architects and Designers Matter Design, 2013 Architizer A+ Awards, Juried and Popular Vote Resonant Chamber, 2013 AZ Award | Furniture Design, Jury Award, Azure Magazine 2 – Wes McGee CV Plyshelf, 2011 AZ Award | Furniture Design, People’s Choice Award, Azure Magazine Plyshelf, 2011 Products of the Year > Furniture Category, Architectural Record: Products Report Plyshelf, 2010 Winning Entry, 10Up! National Architecture Competition Periscope: Foam Tower, 2010 Atlanta Design Excellence Award ‘Luckie Restaurant’, concrete bar design, 2007 Research and Creative Works 2012 Wilt Table [product design] as Principal, Matter Design Specimen [installation] w/ Catie Newell, Aaron Willette Clouds of Venice [installation] as Principal, Matter Design w/ Supermanoeuvre La Vout de LeFevre [research, installation] as Principal, Matter Design Cut:Fold:Pour [research] w/ Maciej Kaczynski, Doug Miller 2011 GlassCast [research, installation] w/ Catie Newell, Aaron Willette Resonant Chamber [research, installation] w/ Geoff Thun, Kathy Velikov, Lisa Sauve Pongo [research, product design] as Principal, Matter Design Drape Surface [installation] w/ Dave Pigram, Jeremy Ficca, Kevin Sweet, Charles Jones Temporal Tenancy [research, installation] As Principal, Matter Design Reciprocal Frame Architectures [research] w/ Lauren Vasey 3 – Wes McGee CV 2010 Re-Vault [research] w/ Maciej Kaczynski and Dave Pigram Robotic Wire Bending [research, teaching] w/ Dave Pigram Periscope [research, installation] as Principal, Matter Design Robotic Additive Fabrication [research, teaching] w/ Kris Walters 2009 SuperMatter Tools [research, teaching] as Principal, Matter Design w/ Supermanoeuvre SuperMatter [research, sculpture] as Principal, Matter Designw/ Supermanoeuvre Drawn Dress: Fabricating Digital Fabrication [research] as Principal, Matter Design Villa Malleable [research] as Principal, Matter Design 2008 Mitosis [product design] as Principal, Matter Design Surfacing Stone [research, installation] w/ Martin Bechthold and Monica Ponce de Leon Invited Lectures 2013 Matter and Making, Kent State University, Kent, OH [En]Coding Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsbugh, PA 2012 Digital Provocations Symposium, University of Minnesota Matter and Making, MIT, Boston, MA 2011 Matter and Making, TU Delft, Rotterdam, Nederlands Fabricate, The Bartlett, UCL, London, UK 2010 Robotic Constructs, Harvard GSD, Invitation Prof. Martin Bechthold, 2010 4 – Wes McGee CV Input:Output, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA Invited/ Juried Exhibitions 2013 Matter Design Design Biennalle, Boston Society of Architects 2012 Clouds of Venice Taubman Faculty at the Venice Biennale, College Gallery w/ Supermanoeuvre Specimen Art Prize, Grand Rapids, MI w/ Catie Newell, Aaron Willette Clouds of Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy w/ Supermanoeuvre La Vout de LeFevre Knowlton School of Architecture, Columbus, OH as Principal, Matter Design 2011 Matter and Making Digital Futures, curated by Neil Leach, Tongji University, Shanghai, China as Principal, Matter Design Foam Advocates After Hours, Princeton School of Architecture, Princeton, NJ as Principal, Matter Design Plyshelf AZ Awards – An International Architecture and Design Exhibition, Toronto, CA as Principal, Matter Design 2010 Machinic Processes Architecture Bienalle Beijing, Neil Leach +Xu Wei-Guo, as Principal, Matter Design Studio w/ Supermanoeuvre SuperMatter, Persicope Alumni and Faculty Show, Pratt Institute Gallery, New York, NY as Principal, Matter Design w/ Supermanoeuvre Periscope Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA as Principal, Matter Design Periscope 10UP Atlanta, Atlanta Modern Week, Atlanta, GA as Principal, Matter Design 2009 SuperMatter Digital Primitives, Experimenta Design Expo, Lisbon, Portugal as Principal, Matter Design w/ Supermanoeuvre 5 – Wes McGee CV SuperMatter Lot Gallery, Lexington, KY as Principal, Matter Design w/ Supermanoeuvre SuperMatter Compotech, Turin, Italy as Principal, Matter Design w/ Supermanoeuvre SuperMatter Rouse Detroit, 555 Gallery, Detroit , MI as Principal, Matter Design w/ Supermanoeuvre SuperMatter Wild Child, Bridge Gallery NY, New York, NY as Principal, Matter Design w/ Supermanoeuvre 2008 Surfacing Stone (Im)material Processes: New Digital Techniques for Architecture, Architecture Biennale Beijing w/ Martin Bechthold and Monica Ponce de Leon 2005 Eightfold I/II Cultivate, Gallery MC, Atlanta, GA Eightfold I/II Furniture Society of America: Convergence, University of San Diego Eightfold I/II Behind the Green Button, Atlanta Museum of Design Invited Workshops 2013 MATr Project, Kent State University, Kent, OH [En]Coding Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsbugh, PA Frame Automata, TU Delft, Rotterdam, Nederlands Robots in Architecture 2012 Conference, co-chair w/ Jelle Feringa 2012 Machinic Distortions, Taubman College, Ann Arbor, MI w/ Francois Roche 2011 Robot Fabrication, TU Delft, Rotterdam, Nederlands w/ Dave Pigram Robot Fabrication, AUS, Sharjah, UAE w/ Dave Pigram, Jeremy Ficca Robot Fabrication, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA w/ Dave Pigram Robot Fabrication, EPFL, Lausanne, CH w/ Dave Pigram Robot Speak, Taubman College w/ London Architectural Association and London Metropolitan College, Ann Arbor, MI w/ Iain Maxwell 6 – Wes McGee CV 2010 Robotic Constructs, Princeton School of Architecture, Princeton, NJ w/ Dave Pigram Funded Research 2013 In Reflection, Research Through Making, Taubman College of Architecture w/ Catie Newell, $20,000 Knit Archtiectures, Research Through Making, Taubman College of Architecture w/ Sean Alhquist, $20,000 2012 Cut:Fold: Pour, Research Through Making, Taubman College of Architecture w/ Maciej Kaczynski, Doug Miller, $20,000 Cut:Fold: Pour, Office of the Vice President of Research, University of Michigan w/ Maciej Kaczynski, Doug Miller, $15,000 Algorithmic Fabrication, Seminar/Studio Teaching Grant, Taubman College University of Michigan W2012 w/ Glenn Wilcox, $5,000 Resonant Chamber, Office of the Vice President of Research, University of Michigan w/ Geoff Thun, Kathy Velikov, $15,000 Subversive Stereotomy, Research Through Making, Taubman College of Architecture w/ Brandon Clifford(not funded) Algorithmic Fabrication, Seminar/Studio Teaching Grant, Taubman College University of Michigan W2012 w/ Glenn Wilcox, $5,000 2011 GlassCast, Research Through Making, Taubman College of Architecture w/ Catie Newell, Aaron Willette, $20,000 GlassCast, Office of the Vice President of Research, University of Michigan w/ Catie Newell, Aaron Willette, $15,000 Resonant Chamber, Research Through Making, Taubman College of Architecture w/ Geoff Thun, Kathy Velikov, $20,000 Reciprocal Frame Architectures, Office of the Vice President of Research, University of Michigan w/ Lauren Vasey, $10,000 2010 Re-Vault, Office of the Vice President of Research, University of Michigan w/ Maciej Kaczynski and Dave Pigram, (not funded) Re-Vault, Research Through Making, Taubman College of Architecture w/ Maciej Kaczynski and Dave Pigram, $20,000 Robotic Additive Fabrication, Office of the Vice President of Research, University of Michigan w/ Kris Walters, $10,000 Algorithmic Fabrication, Seminar/Studio Teaching Grant, Taubman College University of Michigan F2010 7 – Wes McGee CV w/ Dave Pigram, $5,000 2009 Algorithmic Fabrication, Seminar/Studio Teaching Grant, Taubman College University of Michigan W2009 w/ Dave Pigram, $5,000 Scripted Fabrication, Office of the Vice President of Research, University of Michigan (not funded) 2008 Surfacing Stone, International Masonry Institute Grant w/ Martin Bechthold, Monica Ponce de Leon, $60,000 Peer Reviewed Conference Papers and Presentations 2012 Robotic Hotwire Cutting: Processes for an Architecture of Volume Robots in Architecture 2012, Jelle Feringa, Wes Mcgee, Asbjoern Sondergard, TU Vienna, Austria, Dec 17-18 2012 “Clouds of Venice”, Robots in Architecture 2012, Dave Pigram, Iian Maxwell, Wes Mcgee, Ben Hagenhofer-Daniell, Lauren Vasey, TU Vienna, Austria, Dec 17- 18 2012 “GlassCast: A reconfigurable tooling system for free-form glass manufacturing”, ACADIA2012, Wes Mcgee, Catie Newell and Aaron Willett, California College of the Arts,