Roland Snooks Workshops

Roland Snooks, the director of the architecture practice Studio Roland Snooks and research lab Kokkugia, will deliver a speech at the Computational Design: NEXT 7.0 conference. Roland received a Ph.D. from RMIT University, focused on behavioral processes of formation that draw from the logic of swarm intelligence, and the operation of multi-agent algorithms. He holds a master’s in advanced architectural design from Columbia University where he studied on a Fulbright scholarship. In addition to his work with algorithmic design, Roland directs the Architectural Robotics Lab at RMIT University.He is a senior lecturer at RMIT University having previously taught widely in the US, including at Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, SCI-Arc, and the Pratt Institute. Roland’s work has been published widely including recent articles in AD, Domus, L’Arca, World Architecture, and Urban Environment Design. His work has been exhibited internationally at venues in London, New York, Paris, Melbourne, Moscow, Kyiv, San Francisco, Shanghai, and Beijing. Roland was nominated for the Chernikhov Prize in 2006 and 2010 and was the Australian Curator for the Beijing Architecture Biennale in 2008 and 2010. Studio Roland Snooks is currently working on projects in the US and Australia.