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alisa andrasek is an experimental practitioner of architecture and computational processes in design. In 2001 she founded biothing, a trans-disciplinary laboratory that focuses on the generative potential of computational systems for design. In 2005 she initiated CONTINUUM, an interdisciplinary research collective focusing on advanced computational geometry and software development. Andrasek graduated from the University of Zagreb, and holds a Masters in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University. She has taught architecture studios and theory seminars at Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Pratt Institute, and has lectured at architecture schools in the U.S. and internationally. Andrasek was co-winner of the Metropolis Next Generation Design Competition, 2005 and received the FEIDAD Design Merit Award, 2004. Recent exhibitions of biothing's work include: Scripted by Purpose at the F.U.E.L. gallery in Philadelphia 2007; Maison Rouge gallery in Paris 2007; Ars Mathematica in Paris 2007; the 2003 Prague Biennale; the 2004 Sydney Biennial; Architectural Biennial Beijing 2004 and 2006; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Trento (MART); and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, 2005. She co-curated the exhibition “Emergent Talend Emergent Technologies” for the Beijing Biennial 2006. Andrasek was born in Croatia and presently lives and works in New York City.

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