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about us
Vector Guerillas aims to utilize the power of computational processes to explore new territory in design. As a collective of students, academics and affiliated practices working from the School of Architecture, University of Technology, Sydney, Vector Guerrillas taps into the international and local expertise of practices such as SO-AD, Asabiyah, Offshorestudio and OCEAN design research network. Competitions are the material upon which Vector Guerrillas construct the parameters of design experimentation.
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where did the Vector Guerrillas come from?
We recognise the inevitable expansion of digital, human and environmental cognition, into a network that reaches beyond Waldner’s Internet of Things.
Based on the inherent structure of the system, governance will arise through commodification of demand, surpassing what we have seen with today’s Internet economy.
Within the so-called ‘systems architecture’ of this governance, the architects of 2050 will take on the task of subverting regimes of averages, efficiencies and popular demand.
They will be Vector Guerrillas.
Architects will modulate flows, hack frameworks, or systematically create disturbance in order to generate rebirth and novelty.
They will advocate symbiosis between nodes, or little-by-little implement protological transformations that reshape rules and, ultimately, matter.
the Vector Guerrillas are:
Robert Beson
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Anthony Burke
is a Director of Offshorestudio.net and a senior lecturer and Director of the Masters of Digital Architecture at UTS specialising in design and theory related to new media and advanced computational processes. A graduate of the Advanced Architecture Design Masters at Columbia University and the University of New South Wales, Anthony has lectured and taught extensively in Australia and internationally for 12 years, returning to Sydney in 2007 after 5 years as an Assistant Professor in Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. |
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David Burns
was born in Tennessee and is the founding principal of SO-AD. David studied architecture at the University of Tennessee and Columbia University. He has fifteen years combined experience as an architect, designer, artist, musician and educator. David’s work has been exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale, Arch Moscow, Art City Calgary, and across the United States and has been published in Architectural Design, Metropolis, Abitare, Architectural Record, among others. He has worked for Asymptote Architecture, the Guggenheim Museum, and Holabird and Root. From 2001-2003 he was the Paul Rudolph Visiting Assistant Professor at Auburn University's School of Architecture and from 2003-2007 he was an adjunct assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Architecture. He is currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of Technology, Sydney. |
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Phil Clemens
a confused young man with too much time on his hands. He has run full tilt into this project and has leaped, tripped and fallen over obstacles placed in the pathway of pixel-nest completion. Focusing on the conceptual direction for the pixel-nest, he has pushed the lightweight pavilion to structural extremes and prays to some under-defined being that the final product stands straight on two sides. To Phil, the future holds an equally under-defined boundary. Fulfilment, enlightenment and a decent job seem a long way off. |
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Ashley Dennis
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Ben Hewett
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Joanne Jakovich
is an interactive architect and researcher specialising in interactive spaces spanning art, architecture and urbanism. Her work has been exhibited in Japan, Australia, Taiwan and the Netherlands both in architectural and artistic contexts. She obtained a Masters from the University of Tokyo working with architects Hidetoshi Ohno and Fumihiko Maki and is the producer of numerous international projects integrating urban activism and art. She is currently pursuing a PhD in architecture at the University of Sydney, and is a senior lecturer in the School of Architecture at UTS. |
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Joanne Kinniburgh
(B.Sc U Otago, B.A (Arch) UTS ) is an associate of Offshorestudio, and has extensive experience in architectural practice, designing and documenting client focussed and research based projects in educational and commercial environments, including a broad base of urban, commercial, educational and residential projects. She is currently finishing her M.Arch / Master of Digital Architecture degrees at UTS in Sydney, with a focus on new technologies and their architectural applications. While completing her Masters degrees she has tutored design in the architecture school at UTS; completed a six month research exchange in Aarhus, Denmark; participated in a number of competitions and research projects with colleagues and staff, including Vector Guerrilas’ Canberra Parklands competition and States of Convergence projects.
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Adrian Lahoud
is a practicing architect and a senior lecturer at The University of Technology Sydney. His current research is into emergent urbanism. His other research interests are the relationship between conflict and patterns of urbanisation in Lebanon, Palestine and Israel, and the relationship of digital modes of production to urban design. His teaching work has aimed to develop techniques and logics from within the discipline of architecture where questions of process, materiality and organisation are foregrounded. Prior to establishing his own practice Adrian worked with a number of prominent Australian artists, architects and landscape architects. |

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Sylvie Milosevic
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Esan Ullah Rahmani
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Charles Rice
Charles Rice is an architectural historian, theorist and critic. He studied at the University of Queensland, the London Consortium, and received his PhD from the University of New South Wales. He is currently Senior Lecturer and Associate Head of the School of Architecture at the University of Technology Sydney. He has also taught in histories and theories at the Architectural Association, and has lectured internationally. Rice’s research considers questions of the interior in the context of domestic and urban culture. His book /The Emergence of the Interior: Architecture, Modernity, Domesticity/ was published by Routledge in 2007.
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Marian Sander
studies communications design at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Hanover where he specializes in 3d computer graphics (animation, rigging and modelling). During studies he worked on projects like the digital reconstruction of a medieval altar for the Kestner Museum, Hanover, the short film Catwalk - Black Cat Crossing, which is nominated for the Bitfilm Award 2008 and a trailer for the e Clips Film Festival. He created graphics and animations for the bio-tech company 5 PRIME. Currently he am a student abroad at UTS receiving a DAAD scholarship. Visit http://mariansander.de to find some work samples.
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Samantha Spurr
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Paula Vigeant
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© Copyright Vector Guerrillas: Anthony Burke, Joanne Jakovich, Jason Benedek, Robert Beson, David Burns, Philip Clemens, Ashley Dennis, Nuno Gomes, Pascal Groneker, Andreas Heikaus, Benjamin Hewett, Michael Hill, Joanne Kinniburgh, Adrian Lahoud, Sylvie Milosevic, Wei Ning, Bernd Peterwerth, Essan Ullah Rahmani, Charles Rice, Manuel Ritter, Marian Sander, Jie Song, Samantha Spurr, Paula Vigeant, Jing Wang, Fei Zhou, Arts Hanover, Asabiyah, Biofidus, Jakovich.net, Many Are Here, Ocean Research Network, Offshorestudio, University of Technology Sydney, University of Applied Sciences, Village Green.
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