Time and Location

Time: 4:30pm
Location: Architecture and Urban Planning Building 170

“Design to Data” presentation by Joe Valerio, Founding Principal, and Randy Mattheis, Principal, Valerio Dewalt Train Associates, Chicago, Palo Alto and San Francisco.

Bio

Joseph Valerio is a founding Principal of VDTA. He received his B.Arch from the University of Michigan and M.Arch from UCLA. He taught as Associate Professor at UWM. Joe is an award-winning architect recognized for his creativity in project design. A tireless innovator with an enormous capacity for creation he oversees the design development of all firm commissions. Valerio’s portfolio, accumulated over a 40 year career, includes a wide variety of projects and numerous design awards. Corporate office, high-tech industrial, institutional, retail, healthcare, restaurant, residential and theater facilities are all represented.

Randall Mattheis is a Principal at Valerio Dewalt Train. He received his BS in Architectural Studies from UW-Milwaukee and his MArch from the University of Pennsylvania. Randy’s practice is grounded in research-driven design. His work integrates and elevates pragmatic needs with formal expression to reflect each client’s culture and identity. Randy has expertise across a variety of architectural typologies and planning projects, including higher education, residential, master planning, corporate work space, innovation spaces, flagship retail, and hospitality. He leads Valerio Dewalt Train’s research program which is currently investigating how science informs the physical environments for work, learning and hospitality.

Lecture Summary

Research Based Design is fundamental to Valerio Dewalt Train’s approach to making Architecture. A design process that builds on research completed by VDTA has been successful based on both quantitative and qualitative measures. The firm’s work has been the basis for an ongoing four year effort by UWM Architecture called “The Future of the Future.” Each summer focuses on a different typology; beginning with The Future of Work in 2013, followed by The Future of Learning this year, and the Future of Pleasure, the focus for the summer of 2015. The lecture will look back at the last three years and look forward to the upcoming study.

For more information about these speakers’ visit, contact Associate Dean Gil Snyder.