Dr. David Jason Gerber
 | Doctor of Design, Harvard University, 2007 Master of Design Studies, Harvard University, 2003 M. Arch., Architectural Association, 2000 B.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1996 Bio: Dr. David Jason Gerber has worked as an architect in the US, Europe and Asia, including for The Steinberg Group, Moshe Safdie, Gehry Technologies, and as a Project Architect for Zaha Hadid. He has held appointments at MIT’s Media Lab as a research Fellow, numerous teaching and research fellowships at Harvard University Graduate School of Design and as Harvard University’s Frederick Sheldon Fellow. He has been an instructor at the Architectural Association’s Design Research Laboratory in London, Innsbruck University, the EPFL in Switzerland and has been a guest speaker and critic at Harvard and MIT. Currently he is a full time faculty at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI Arc) and concurrently works as the Vice President of Innovation who manages research and development for an AEC technology start up in California. While working for Zaha Hadid Architects, David worked on a number of the recently built projects including the contemporary art museum in Cincinnati, the Phaeno Science Museum in Wolfsburg Germany, the Hoenheim terminus in Strasbourg and a number of un-built projects. He was project architect and project manager for the one north masterplan Singapore. At SCI Arc he instructs courses in the studio sequence and Applied Sciences courses in design, design computation, AEC technologies, and fabrication emphasizing associative parametric design strategies and Building Information Modeling as a means of design exploration and realization. His doctoral research ‘Parametric Practices: Models for design Exploration in Architecture’ focuses on associative parametric design technology and its affect on Design, Theory, Processes, and contemporary Practice. Publications of his design work and research have been included in Young Blood,’ AD (2001); ‘Corporate Fields,’ AA Publications (2005); and most recently in ‘Interactive Cities,’ Hyx Publications (2006). He is currently publishing a Harvard University book “The Parametric Affect: Computation, Innovation and Models for Design Exploration in Contemporary Architectural Practice.” (Forthcoming 2008) Dr. Gerber holds a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from the University of California Berkeley (1996), a Master of Architecture from the Architectural Association DRL in London (2000) Master of Design Studies (2003) and Doctor of Design from Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2007). Links: djgerber.com djgerber@post.harvard.edu |
