EDUCATION TEACHING
Pablo I. Kobayashi Santoscoy AA MA EmTech
Mexico City, Mexico +52 1 55 1473 6464 http://www.materia.com.mx pablo@materia.com.mx born 01.12.1976
Education 2003
MA // Emergent Technologies and Design Architectural Association School of Architecture
2002 Dipl. Arch. // Universidad Intercontinental Mexico City, Mexico
Teaching 2010 to date Generative design processes: emergence, generation and production Director and Head Professor. Diploma postgraduate programme. 150hrs //This is the fist programme of its kind in the country, exploring the use of digital
tools in the design process but emphasizing its theoretical and philosophical implications and transcendence in this technological and economic context and its relation to traditional production techniques. Guest lecturer/tutors: Manuel DeLanda Jalal el Ali. (Buro Happold, Zaha Hadid) Continous Education Department, Universidad Iberoamericana
Industrial Design Department, Centro de Diseño, Cine y Televisión
2006 to date Design as research towards the city Subject Professor Architecture Department, Universidad Iberoamericana 2009 to date Parametric tecniques and emergence in the design process Subject Professor Architecture Department, Universidad Iberoamericana 2011 to date Advanced modelling tools in the design process Subject Professor Architectural design masters programme, Universidad de la Salle Bajío 2011 to date Applied environmental techniques Subject Professor 2010 Applied craft production techniques Subject Professor Industrial Design Department, Centro de Diseño, Cine y Televisión Grasshopper workshops
Rigoletti Casa de Diseño, Mexico City. Mexico Universidad Cristobal Colón, Veracrúz. Mexico
TEACHING LECTURES PUBLICA– TIONS
2009 Product design studio Subject Professor Industrial Design Department, Centro de Diseño, Cine y Televisión 2008-09 Experimental foundation workshop Subject Professor Foundation Department, Centro de Diseño, Cine y Televisión 2007-2008 “Creative management towards the transformation of the city” Masters programme / Assistant Professor Centro de Alta Formación Universidad Politecnica de Cataluña / C+ 2004-2005 Architectural theories and contemporary architecture Professor
Architecture Department, Universidad Latinoamericana.
2004 Design studio Joint Professor
Architecture Department, Universidad Intercontinental
Lectures 2007-11 Parallel iteration: an evolutionary design strategy Lecture. National Architecture and Design Symposium ENADII 2011. Held in 10 different cities around the country.
Non-linear design process Lecture. POSTOPOLIS! Organized by Storefront for Art and Architecture. Parametricism: style or strategy. The Schumacher delusion. Lecture. Intarsia: Intromisión Arquitectónica. Morelia, Michoacan. México Generative design Lecture. Pecha Kucha Night Emergence and design Lecture. National Architecture and Design Symposium ENADII 2010. Held in 12 different cities around the country.
Current work Lecture. “Composition-process-system-prothesis-production” symposium Taller Reyna, Architecture School, UNAM. Mexico City
Publications 2005-2007 Emergent systems in the design process Piso No. 11, architecture and urban culture magazine
Real time LOO:04, Slow Contained control, controlled container
LOO:03, Natural
Anti-hygienic, the artificiality of the sterile
LOO:02 Sterile
Ignorance as a design tool
LOO:01 Chaos
PUBLICA– TIONS EXHIBI– TIONS GRANTS PRACTICE
2005-07 Director and founding member of the poster/magazine LOO With the support of the international architecture magazine Arquine. 2003 AA Projects Review 2002-2003 Architectural Association School of Architecture AA School Prospectus cover image Architectural Association School of Architecture
Exhibitions 2007 Creación en Movimiento Collective exhibition of the work of the Young Creators Programme grantees.
San Luis Potosí, México
2004 Projects Review Exhibition Architectural Association School of Architecture 2003 Contours: Evolutionary Strategies for Design Architectural Association School of Architecture
Grants 2006 Young Creators Programme // FONCA (National Arts and Culture Fund) Grant to develop the project “Locally controlled interactive system”. 2002 AUTRIQUE scholarship for graduate studies. 2001 Competition “The use of stainless steel pipe in urban furniture design” Organized by Techtube, a major stainless steel pipe manufacturer. First prize
Practice 2004 to date Materia. Principal 2011 WORM Partition View and sound control partition for a private flat. Plug-in with MM Leaf House
Geometric, structural and process consultancy for a studio rooftop Collaboration with Alberto Lara Pompa and Eduardo Cruz Rincón
The project was acknowledged by the Holcim Award 2008 Latin America. Parametric mapping and zoning. Generative protocols. Plug-in with LHB Architects
2010 River sanitation and remediation, Tuxtla Gutierrez. Chiapas.
Naucalpan new main plaza Collaboration with a10studio for the Naucalpan de Juarez Municipality
PRACTICE
Downfall rotation
Connection canopy for a commercial centre. For ACBC Architects
For ZDA Architects
2009 Turbulence Facade system for office building.
Papalote Children´s Museum, Monterrey Complex geometry optimization and advanced modeling
Plug-in with Iñaki Echeverria
2008 Spline Space
Interactive installation for Hector Esrawe´s showroom
Okidoki…!!! Stupid Things (Small physical zoological x-ray graffiti talks) Interactive illumination system for a choreography
Ux Onodanza Danza Bizarra company // Dir. Raúl Parrao
Interactive installation for the Motorokrfest rock festival
2007 Speed of light
UABJO School of fine arts
Conceptual phase explorations Plug-in with Taller de Arquitectura Mauricio Rocha
Project leader. Hotel competition in Monterrey Project leader. London Architecture Biennale entry
Collaboration with armE-studio
2005-2006 Rojkind Arquitectos
2005 America Football team training centre Techtube Collection
Private contemporary art collection gallery
Evolutionary component system for a children´s playhouse
2004-2005 Experimental ludic space
Guanajuato Inland Port canopies For IFA Asesores TRANSMAYA / Monorail stations For IFA Asesores 2004 Arts and crafts centre competition. San Luis Potosí old prison renovation.
Plug-in with Arquinteg
Terminal 2 competition. Mexico City International Airport
Plug-in with Arquinteg
Nicolau House
Refurbishing
Holanda/Unilever Showroom
Showroom design project
Design and fabrication
Furniture design and fabrication
2001-2002 Techtube de México office furniture 1999-2001 Galerías GARAN
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