Mike Silver holds a Masters of Building Design from Columbia University, and is both a LeFevre’ 29 research fellow for The Knowlton School of Architecture in Columbus Ohio, and a Sanders Fellow at the University of Michigan. He is the former Director of Digital Media at the Yale School of Architecture and has taught at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. Silver is also the author of numerous books and articles on the relationship between technology and design including "Pamphlet Architecture #19 Reading / Drawing / Building, AD’s “Mapping in the Age of Digital Media” and a new release by Wiley and Sons, entitled “Programming Cultures”. Silver currently directs a multidisciplinary design laboratory based in New York. In collaboration with mathematicians, computer scientists, and engineers his office has worked at a variety of scales and has extensive experience in the design of furnishings, consumer products, web sites and buildings. Today, Silver continues pioneering research in the field of digital mapping, advanced composite manufacturing and software development. His current work explores technologies like L.I.D.A.R., numerically controlled fiber-placement technology and high throughput modeling. As an experimental collaborative Silver's firm is deeply committed to the precise alignment of advanced technology, poetic consciousness, architectural theory, academic scholarship and the logistics of building construction. His work has been exhibited at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, in Manhattan, the IDC in Nagoya Japan, the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., the Architecture League in New York and Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.
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