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Join us Thursday, May 21 at 6:00pm CT with guest speaker Daniela Ghertovici.

DANIELA GHERTOVICI
FOUNDER & DIRECTOR OF ARCHAGENDA LLC
Daniela is an Architect, Researcher, Educator, and Scholar, with over 25 years of international experience as an architectural designer and technologist in complex mixed-use urban developments, such as Burj Khalifa in Dubai and Shanghai North Bund White Magnolia Plaza. She has been teaching for over ten years, most recently as full-time graduate faculty and thesis chair at Harrington College of Design. She is the curator and sponsor of ArchAgenda Debates at the Chicago Architecture Biennial, the lead strategist and curator of Liberland Design Competitions 2015 and 2020, and co-curator of the Free Private Cities design symposium. Daniela holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts diploma from the School of The Art Institute of Chicago, a Master of Architecture diploma from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and is currently a PhD candidate in computational and architectural theory at the European Graduate School in Switzerland, under the supervision of Patrik Schumacher.

Daniela is the founding director of ArchAgenda LLC, a research-based architectural and computational design lab, which aims to advance and promote a new agenda of radical innovation for 21st century architecture and design, known as parametricism. ArchAgenda’s mission is to proliferate cutting edge innovation in global architecture, design and discourse through a unified, fluid and systematic approach; to generate and instrumentalize experimental design research agendas and computationally empowered design with potential to accelerate architecture’s fertile co-evolution with today’s complex socialities; to form and collaborate with entrepreneurial startups; and to amplify through publication and media communication the movement towards a new framework and agenda for architecture. ArchAgenda LLC is a Chicago Architecture Biennial Program Partner.

Watch our last meetup here: https://youtu.be/KHIGbYpXmV8

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