Kevin R. Klinger
Bio:
Kevin R. Klinger is Director of the Institute for Digital Fabrication (i.M.A.D.E) with the Center for Media Design at Ball State University, and Associate Professor of Architecture in the College of Architecture and Planning. He has served as a two-term President of the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) from 2003 to 2005. His research focuses on the advancement of digitally driven design through the use of new technologies and techniques of digital fabrication. Klinger is co-editor of Manufacturing Material Effects: Rethinking Design and Making in Architecture, an examination of various levels of engagement of new forms of architectural production that bring designers deeper into the complexities of making, assembly, and material formulation.