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Buildings take 40% of our society’s energy budget and create our scenery. Computational architectural tools have been explored and developed for decades. Still, architecture schools don’t teach them and architecture firms don’t practice end to end use of design technology. We are working to improve tools, curricula and proactive to streamline architectural practice to improve the quality of work and reduce the negative impact of buildings.

We are a group of computational designers that meet once a month in San Francisco. The objective of the groups is to foster the exchange of innovative workflow, explore new technologies, share case studies of Computational Design based examples applied to real-world problems, and bring together a pool of local Computational Design users. The main focus is on new technologies and open-source in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry. Since several game companies, manufactures and bioinformatics are also looking for these skills and expertise we are open to any opportunity to cross-pollinate with different and diverse knowledge of our AEC industry.

SFCDI Board of Directors

The group is a non-profit with the 501(c)(3) Tax Exempt Status.

Cesar Escalante

President

Design Technology Director – Gensler

cesar.escalante@sfcdi.org

So Young Lee

Treasurer

Architect – HOK

soyoung.lee@sfcdi.org

Alberto Tono

Secretary

alberto.tono@sfcdi.org

Colin McCrone

Director of Communication

Product Manager Plasma – Autodesk

communication@sfcdi.org

Danny Bentley

Director of Education

Structural Engineer – SOM

danny.bentley@sfcdi.org

Dennis Eldridge

Director of Events & Program

Software Developer – Join Inc

dennis.eldridge@sfcdi.org

Jennifer Lew

Director of Marketing

marketing@sfcdi.org

Samuel Williams

Director of Research & Development

research@sfcdi.org

SFCDI Volunteers

Mark Perry – HOK

Andrea Zani – Eckersley O’Callaghan

Hannah Luxenberg Tono – Dreamship

Enrico Chionna – Heller Manus

Bryan McCaffrey – ARUP

Arman Hadilou – WRNS Studio

Alvaro Luna – WeWork

Interested in volunteering? We need you!

Send an email to SFCDI info@sfcdi.org

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Autodesk University 2019

SFCDI @ AUNovember 19th, 2019

Our group will have 4 classes at Autodesk University this year

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We are a programmers, developers, architects, engineers, and designers passionate about Technology in relation to Buildings. We meet once a month in San Francisco. The objective of the groups is to foster the exchange of innovative workflow, explore programming ideas, share case studies of Computational Design based examples applied to real world problems, and bring together a pool of local Computational Design users.

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