State of Play V: Speakers' Bios

Yehuda Kalay YEHUDA E. KALAY
Professor of Architecture
Director, Center for New Media
College of Environmental Design
University of California, Berkeley
 

Profile

Professor Kalay’s interests lie in exploring the applications (and implications) of New Media (computing and telecommunication technologies) on architectural design methods, process, and products. He teaches courses in computer-aided architectural design, design collaboration, developing multi-user virtual environments, artificial intelligence in design, the nature of design knowledge, design decision-making, and more. His current research focuses on game-based multi-user virtual environments (MUVE) and multi-disciplinary collaborative design.

Professor Kalay is a founding member and has served as Director of the UC Berkeley Center for New Media from 2004 to 2007. He is a founding member and past president of ACADIA (Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture). He served as editor-in-chief (Architecture) of Automation in Construction (an international refereed journal published by Elsevier). Twice he has held the Lady Davis Professorship at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. He has authored and/or edited seven books, and published over 100 articles on various topics related to computer-aided design, including building representation, performance evaluation, multi-disciplinary collaborative design, knowledge-based design, and virtual place-making.

Philosophy
Computing and telecommunication have become the new media of architecture. They impact the methods architects use to design buildings, the buildings themselves, and even how they are used. My efforts are directed towards understanding the impacts of New Media on the processes, the products, and the profession of Architecture, towards educating students to become professionals who can operate in this new environment, and to have some measure of influence on its direction.

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Selected Publications

  • New Heritage, Cultural Heritage and New Media, Ed. (Routledge, 2007)
  • Architecture's New Media: Principles, Theories, and Methods of Computer-Aided Design (MIT Press, 2004)
  • Knowledge-based Computer-Aided Architectural Design, Ed. (Elsevier, 1994)
  • Evaluting and Predicting Design Performance, Ed. (Wiley, 1992)
  • Modeling Objects and Environments (Wiley, 1989)
  • Computability of Design, Ed. (Wiley, 1987)
  • Graphical Introduction to Programming (Wiley, 1987)