Marcelyn Gow
MSc in Advanced Architectural Design from the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Currently working as Visiting Professor in Architectural Technology at Royal Institute of Technology.
| Headline: | Innocent Bystander |
| Website: | http://www.s-e-r-v-o.com |
| Interested in: | Helping members of my groups, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Offering Expertise, Professional opportunities |
| Schools: | Columbia University |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm School of Architecture and the Built Environment |
| Position: | Visiting Professor in Architectural Technology |
| Employer: | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Position: | Lecturer in the Department of Architecture and Urban Design |
| Time period: | January 2002 - December 2008 |
| Employer: | ETH, Zurich (Chair of Prof. Greg Lynn Machinic Processes in Architectural Design) |
| Position: | Lecturer in the Department of Architecture |
| Time period: | January 1999 - December 2002 |
| Employer: | Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm |
| Position: | Lecturer in Advanced Topics Design Studio, Diagrammatic practices with Ulrika Karlsson |
| Time period: | January 1998 - December 1999 |
| Employer: | Buckinghamshire College, Brunel University, UK |
| Position: | Part-time Lecturer in Interior Design, Landscape and Urban Design Department |
| Time period: | January 1995 - December 1995 |
| Description: | Guest Critic for design reviews at the Architectural Association - London, The Royal Danish Academy for Art and Architecture - Copenhagen, The Royal Institute of Technology - Stockholm, The ETH - Zurich, The Staedelschule - Frankfurt, The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - New York, Pratt Institute School of Architecture - New York, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture and Planning - New York, The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology - Melbourne, Rice University – Houston, The Southern California Institute of Architecture - Los Angeles, the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design - Los Angeles, Yale University - New Haven, and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design – Cambridge, Mass. |
EDUCATION
| University: | Columbia University |
| Time period: | 1997 - 1998 |
| Degree: | Advanced Architectural Design , MSc |
| University: | Columbia University |
| Time period: | 1996 - 1997 |
| Degree: | 1996-7 Master of Fine Arts program Fellow |
PUBLICATIONS
| Articles: | - 2008 “Networks and Environments,” in Networks and Environments, Design Document series 27. Seoul: DAMDI Publishing Co.
- “Invisible Environment: The Pepsi-Cola Pavilion at Expo ’70,” Via: Occupation, edited by Helene Furjan, Tonya Markiewicz, and Morgan Martinson. Philadelphia: School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, 2008. via books, Vol. 1. - “Coming of Age: A Soft Monstrosity,” Perspecta 40: Monster, Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press - 2007 „Cybernetic Anything.“ In Softspace: From a Representation of Form To a Simulation of Space, edited by Sean Lally and Jessica Young. London: Taylor & Francis Ltd., 2007 - 2006 ”Parallel Processing,” In Collective Intelligence in Design, edited by Christopher Hight and Chris Perry. London: Wiley-Academy Press, 2006 - 2004 “Soft- and Hard- wares: E.A.T.’s Environmental Feedback,” SITE, no. 12, Stockholm, 2004 - “Lattice Archipelogics,” In Digital Tectonics, edited by Neil Leach. London: John Wiley and sons, 2004 - 2003 “Purveyance Practices in Collaborative Design,” In ReShape, edited by Sara Arrhenius. Lund: Propexus, 2003 - “Greg Lynn: Intricacy,” Constructs: Yale Journal of Architecture, Spring 2003 - 2002 “Electronic Purveyance Practices in Architecture,” In Designing for a Digital World, edited by Neil Leach. London: John Wiley and Sons, 2002 - 2000 “Purveyance and the Hyper-mediated Commodities of Situationist Practice,” Trans Nr.7: Transreal – Wirklichkeit und andere Realitäten, Zurich, 2000 - “NURBIA,” Magazine for Modern Architecture - Stockholm, Nr. 26, 2000 - 1998 “The Migratory Impulse: Temporality and the Hyper-redundant,” Coil: Journal of the Moving Image 6, London, 1998 - “Vertiginous Symmetries: Representations of the Labyrinthine in the works of Arakawa-Gins, Jorge Luis Borges, and Alain Robbe-Grillet,” Precis 14: Representation-Reproduction, Student Journal of the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, New York, 1998 - 1997 “Berlin’s Vanishing Points,” Precis 13: Boxes Blocks and Urban Space, Student Journal of the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, New York, 1997 - 1996 “The Vitreous Chamber,” Coil: Journal of the Moving Image 3, London, 1996 PUBLICATIONS design journals - 2006 AD: Collective Intelligence in Design Parallel Processing: Design/Practice. Christopher Hight and Chris Perry, Eds. Wiley-Academy Press Art Review Grey Areas, John Rogers. February/March issue Frame Infostructure. Shonquis Moreno, May/June issue Frame Fancy Footwork. Shonquis Moreno, January/February issue - 2005 Metropolis Selected work, July issue Monitor Selected work Arkitekten New Ways for Architecture, Nina Gunne. Swedish Association of Architects. August issue - 2004 A+U Servo’s Non-object Oriented Urbanism, Christopher Hight. June issue Metropolis Defining Speed, Jade Chang. November issue Praxis 6 Constellations in Practice, Greg Lynn. Interior Design Form Follows Fantasy, Ian Philips. - 2003 Architectural Record Design Vanguard, selected work, December issue AD: Digital Tectonics Neil Leach and David Turnbull, Eds. Wiley-Academy Press A+U Design Intelligence, interview with Michael Speaks. - 2002 AD: Contemporary Techniques in Architecture Interactive Opportunities, selected work. Ali Rahim, Ed. Wiley-Academy Press AD: Designing for a Digital World Electronic Purveyance Practice in Architecture, Marcelyn Gow. Neil Leach Ed., Wiley-Academy Press JAE (Journal of Architectural Education) Selected research, Keller Easterling, Ed. Issue 13, Yale University Press - 2001 Trans 9/10 Launcher Telesymposium, Valentina Ackerman, Ed. Scroop 13: Cambridge Architecture Journal Culture Browser, selected work. Helen Ashley, Doreen Bernath et. al. Eds. Estonian Architecture Review 3 The Culture of Fusion, Inga Raukas. Oculus Young Architects at the League, Kentaru Tsubaki. American Institute of Architects. PUBLICATIONS exhibition catalogues Computational Architectures Philippe Morel, Ed. Paris: Editions HYX - 2008 YOUNIVERSE Peter Weibel and Marie-Ange Brayer, Ed. BIACS 3 - Sevilla Contemporary Art Bienniale Syn_Athroisis Yota Adilenidou, Ed. Technical Chamber of Greece – Helexpo, Thessaloniki - 2006 The Gen(h)ome Project Spoorg. Peter Noever and Open Source Architectures, Eds. MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles - 2004 Glamour: Fashion, Industrial Design, Architecture Selected work. Joseph Rosa, Ed. SFMoMA + Rizzoli Metamorph: 9th International Architecture Exhibition / Venice Biennale Selected work. Kurt W. Forster, Ed. Marsilio Press Fast Forward>>Hot Spot, Brain Cell Selected work. The Architecture Biennial Beijing, Map Book Publishers Archilab: New Experiments in Architecture, Art and the City Selected work. Mori Art Museum, Tokyo Sign as Surface Selected work. Peter Zellner, Ed. Artists Space, New York - 2003 Architectures Non Standard Selected work. Frederic Migayrou, Zeynep Mennan, Ed. Centre Pompidou Architectures Experimentales: 1950-2000 / the FRAC centre collection Selected work. Marie-Ange Brayer and Frederic Migayrou, Ed. Editions HYX ArchiLab’s Earth Buildings: Radical Experiments in the Architecture of Land Selected work. Marie-Ange Brayer, Beatrice Simonot, Ed. Thames & Hudson ReShape! Urban Toys v. 2. Sara Arrhenius, Karina Ercisson Wärn, Ed. Propexus - 2002 Mood River Thermocline. Jeffrey Kipnis and Annetta Massie, Ed. Wexner Center for Contemporary Art New Hotels for Global Nomads Lobbi-Ports. Donald Albrecht, Ed. Coooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York Latent Utopias: Experiments Within Contemporary Architecture Selected work. Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher, Ed. Steirischer Herbst, Graz City Limits: Young Architects 3 Selected work. Jennifer N. Thompson, Ed. Princeton Architectural Press MONOGRAPHS - 2008 Servo, Networks and Environments, Design Document series 27. Seoul: DAMDI Publishing Co. |
| Books: | - 2008 (forthcoming) Interactive Architecture
Michael Fox and Miles Kemp, Eds., Princeton Architectural Press - 2007 Network Practices: New Strategies in Architecture and Design Anthony Burke and Therese Tierney, Ed., Princeton Architectural Press - 2004 10x10_2 Frederic Migayrou, Ed. Phaidon - 2003 Next Generation Architecture: Folds, Blobs and Boxes Joseph Rosa, Ed., Rizzoli |
INFORMATION
| Awards: | - 2008 Cumulus Design Prize in Ecology, Kyoto 2008 –- International Student Design project Shanghai - Stockholm – Wetland Plaza for Expo 2010. Workshop led by: Gunilla Bandolin, Marcelyn Gow, Ulrika Karlsson, and Bob Lee
- 2006 Doctoral Research Grant - ETH Zurich - 2002 ETH Research Grant recipient with Prof. Philip Ursprung - ETH Zurich Artists Residency Stipend with servo at IASPIS - International Artists Studio Program, Art Academy, Stockholm Project Grant with servo, IASPIS - International Artists Studio Program, Art Academy, Stockholm - 2001 Recipient of Young Architects Award with servo, The Architectural League of New York - 2000 Projects Sponsorship Grant with servo - N2art Nordic Net Art Stockholm Exhibition Grant with servo - CRAC Creative Room for Art and Computing, Stockholm Small Projects Grant with servo - Cornell Council for Art, Ithaca - 1998 Lowenfish Memorial Prize - Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation, New York |
