Professor, Architecture Department; Director of the Center for New Media, UC Berkeley
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Professor Kalay is the editor-in-chief (for Architecture) of Automation in Construction (an international refereed journal published by Elsevier), and a founding member and past president of ACADIA (Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture). Twice he has held the Lady Davis Professorship at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. He has authored and/or edited six books, and published 71 refereed articles on various topics related to computer-aided design, including building representation, performance evaluation, multi-disciplinary collaboration, knowledge-based design, and virtual place-making. Professor Kalay teaches courses in computer-aided architectural design, evaluation and prediction in design, design collaboration, multi-user virtual environments, semantically-rich representation of design, the nature of design knowledge, design decision-making, design process management, and research methods in design theory and new media. His current research focuses on web-accessible multi-user virtual environments (MUVE) and multi-disciplinary collaborative design.
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Computing and telecommunication have become the new media of architecture. They impact the methods architects use to design buildings, the buildings themselves, and even how they are used. My efforts are directed towards understanding the impacts of New Media on the processes, and the products, and the profession of Architecture, towards educating students to become professionals who can operate in this new environment, and to have some measure of influence on its direction.
