“HyperNatural” presentation by Marc Swackhamer, co-founder, HouMinn, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Vancouver, British Columbia; and, Head and Associate Professor, University of Minnesota School of Architecture, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Bio

Marc Swackhamer received a B. Arch from the University of Cincinnati and an M. Arch from Rice University. His research explores the relationship between performance and ornament through the lens of digital representation and fabrication. His design firm, HouMinn Practice, a partnership with Professor Blair Satterfield from the University of British Columbia, challenges in-place techniques of construction and material production. HouMinn won a 2014 Architect Magazine R+D Award and a 2014 Core77 Design Award for this work. In addition to core design courses, Professor Swackhamer teaches on the topic of “hypernatural” design. Student work from this effort won a 2007 AIA COTE (Committee on the Environment) national education award and was a finalist in the “Biomimicry Student Design Challenge,” sponsored by the Biomimicry 3.8 Institute in 2013. With Professor Blaine Brownell, he co-authored the book Hypernatural: Architecture’s New Relationship with Nature in 2015.

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