Association for Computer Aided Design In Architecture

The Association for Computer Aided Design In Architecture (ACADIA) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization active in the area of computer-aided architectural design (CAAD).

Mission statement
Begun in 1981, the organization's objectives are recorded in its bylaws:
"ACADIA was formed for the purpose of facilitating communication and information exchange regarding the use of computers in architecture, planning and building science. A particular focus is education and the software, hardware and pedagogy involved in education."

"The organization is also committed to the research and development of computer aides that enhance design creativity, rather than simply production, and that aim at contributing to the construction of humane physical environments."

Membership
Membership is open to anyone who subscribes to the objectives of the organization, including architects, educators, and software developers, whether resident in North America or not. An online membership registration form and directory is available via the organization.

The organization is primarily governed by the elected Board of Directors. The organization is led by the elected President, who presides over Board of Directors meetings, but does not vote except in the case of a tie.

Presidents (elected)

Years	President	Number of years serving
1981-82	Charles Eastman	1
1982-84	John Wade	2
1984-85	Chris Yessios	1
1985-86	Yehuda Kalay	1
1986-87	Elizabeth Bollinger	1
1987-88	Patricia McIntosh	1
1988-89	Robert E. Johnson	1
1989-90	Pamela J. Bancroft	1
1990-91	John McIntosh	1
1991-92	J. Peter Jordan	1
1992-93	Larry O. Degelman	1
1993-94	Skip Van Wyk	1
1994-95	M. Stephen Zdepski	1
1995-96	Karen M. Kensek	1
1996-97	Glenn Goldman	1
1997-98	Branko Kolarevic	1
1998-99	Douglas E. Noble	1
1999-2000	Brian Johnson	1
2000-01	Mark Clayton	1
2001-03	Ganapathy Mahalingam	2
2003-05	Kevin Klinger	2
2005-07	Wassim Jabi	2
2007-09	Mahesh Senagala	2
2009-10	Nancy Cheng	1
2010-13	Aron Temkin	3
2013-16	Michael Fox	3
2016-	Jason Kelly Johnson

Activities

Annual conference
ACADIA sponsors an annual national conference, held in the autumn of each year at a different site in North America. Papers for the conferences undergo extensive blind review before being accepted for presentation (and publication). Membership is not a prerequisite for submission of a paper.

Year	City, State/Province[5]	Country	Host university	Conference theme[5]
4th	1985	Tempe, Arizona	USA
5th	1986	Houston, Texas	USA
6th	1987	Raleigh, North Carolina	USA		Integrating Computers into the Architectural Curriculum
7th	1988	Ann Arbor, Michigan	USA		Computing in Design Education
8th	1989	Gainesville, Florida	USA		New Ideas and Directions for the 1990s
9th	1990	Big Sky, Montana	USA		From Research to Practice
10th	1991	Los Angeles, California	USA		Reality and Virtual Reality
11th	1992		USA		Mission - Method - Madness
12th	1993	Texas	USA		Education and Practice: The Critical Interface
13th	1994	Saint Louis, Missouri	USA	Washington University	Reconnecting
14th	1995	Seattle, Washington	USA	University of Washington	Computing in Design - Enabling, Capturing and Sharing Ideas
15th	1996	Tucson, Arizona	USA		Design Computation: Collaboration, Reasoning, Pedagogy
16th	1997	Cincinnati, Ohio	USA	University of Cincinnati	Design and Representation
17th	1998	Québec City, Québec	Canada		Digital Design Studios: Do Computers Make a Difference?
18th	1999	Salt Lake City, Utah	USA		Media and Design Process
19th	2000	Washington D.C	USA		Eternity, Infinity and Virtuality in Architecture
20th	2001	Buffalo, New York	USA		Reinventing the Discourse - How Digital Tools Help Bridge and Transform Research, Education and Practice in Architecture
21st	2002	Pomona, California	USA		Thresholds - Design, Research, Education and Practice, in the Space Between the Physical and the Virtual
22nd	2003	Indianapolis, Indiana	USA		Connecting >> Crossroads of Digital Discourse
23rd	2004	Cambridge, Ontario	Canada		Fabrication: Examining the Digital Practice of Architecture
24th	2005	Savannah, Georgia	USA		Smart Architecture: Integration of Digital and Building Technologies
25th	2006	Louisville, Kentucky	USA	University of Kentucky	Synthetic Landscapes
26th	2007	Halifax, Nova Scotia	Canada	Dalhousie University & NSCAD University	Expanding Bodies
27th	2008	Minneapolis, Minnesota	USA	University of Minnesota	Silicon + Skin: Biological Processes and Computation
28th	2009	Chicago, Illinois	USA	School of the Art Institute of Chicago	reForm(): Building a Better Tomorrow
29th	2010	New York, New York	USA	The Cooper Union & Pratt Institute	Life in:Formation
30th	2011	Calgary/Banff, Alberta	Canada	University of Calgary	Integration Through Computation
31st	2012	San Francisco, California	USA	California College of the Arts & UCSF	Synthetic Digital Ecologies
32nd	2013	Cambridge, Ontario	Canada	University of Waterloo	Adaptive Architecture
33rd	2014	Los Angeles, California	USA	University of Southern California	Design Agency
34th	2015	Cincinnati, Ohio	USA	University of Cincinnati	Computational Ecologies: Design in the Anthropocene
35th	2016	Ann Arbor, Michigan	USA	University of Michigan	Posthuman Frontiers: Data, Designers And Cognitive Machines
36th	2017	Cambridge, Massachusetts	USA	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Disciplines & Disruptions

Proceedings
Each year the conference papers are gathered into a proceedings publication which is distributed to members, and available to the public via the open access database CumInCAD.

Awards
Started in 1998, ACADIA Awards of Excellence are "the highest award that can be achieved in the field of architectural computing". The awards are given in areas of practice, teaching, research and service, with at most one award in each category per year. Past awards have recognized various significant contributors to the field of architectural computing.

The current awards given annually or biannually are the Lifetime Achievement Award, the Digital Practice Award of Excellence, the Innovative Academic Program Award of Excellence, the Innovative Research Award of Excellence, the Society Award for Leadership, and the Teaching Award of Excellence.

Lifetime Achievement Award

Year	Recipient	Affiliation
2016	Elizabeth Diller	Diller, Scofidio and Renfro / Princeton University
2014	Zaha Hadid	Zaha Hadid Architects

Digital Practice Award of Excellence

Year	Recipient (Person or Firm)	Affiliation
2016	Ron Rael and Virginia San Fratello	Emerging Objects / UC Berkeley / San Jose State
2015	KieranTimberlake	KieranTimberlake
2014	Jenny Sabin	Jenny Sabin Studio
2013	Cecil Balmond	Balmond Studio
2012	Gehry Technologies - Accepted by Dennis Shelden	Gehry Technologies
2011	Phillip Beesley	Phillip Beesley Architects / University of Waterloo
2010
2009	Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler	Gramazio Kohler Architects
2008	Fabian Scheurer	Design to Production
2007	Achim Menges	The Architectural Association (London)
2006	Evan Douglis	Evan Douglis Studio

Innovative Academic Program Award of Excellence

Year	Recipient (Academic Program)	University
2016	Centre for Information Technology and Architecture (CITA) - Accepted by Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen	The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
2015	Institute for Computational Design (ICD) - Accepted by Achim Menges	University of Stuttgart
2014	Columbia Building Intelligence Project (CBIP) - Accepted by Scott Marble	Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
2013	AADRL Design Research Laboratory - Accepted by Brett Steele and Theodore Sypropoulos	The Architectural Association (London)
2012	Center for Architecture Science and Ecology (CASE) - Accepted by Anna Dyson	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute / Skidmore Owings and Merrill
2011
2010
2009
2008	AA Emergent Technologies and Design - Accepted by Michael Weinstock	The Architectural Association (London)

Related organizations

Sister organizations
There are four sister organizations around the world to provide a more accessible regional forum for discussion of computing and design. The major ones are
eCAADe - The Association for Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe, since 1982.
CAADRIA - The Association for Computer Aided Architectural Design in Asia, since 1996.
SIGraDi - Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics, since 1997.
ASCAAD - The Arab Society for Computer Aided Architectural Design, since 2001.

Other related organizations
CAAD Futures - Computer Aided Architectural Design Futures, since 1985.
CUMINCAD - The Cumulative Index of Computer Aided Architectural Design, with public CumInCAD records available via an Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) feed and records are available via multiple bibliographic archives and citation indexes online.

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