NICOLE KOLTICK CURRICULUM VITAE, EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

N I C O L E K O L T I C K                          C U R R I C U L U M V I T A E , E X E C U T I V E S U M M A R Y

 

  EDUCATION 2004 2000

MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE University of California, Los Angeles, Architecture & Urban Design; Los Angeles, California BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS IN ART WITH UNIVERSITY HONORS, HIGHEST DISTINCTION Carnegie Mellon University, College of Fine Arts; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

ACAD E M I C APP O I N T M E N T S DREXEL UNIVERSITY Department of Architecture + Interiors, W e s t p h a l C o l l e g e o f M e d i a A r t s & D e s i g n , P h i l a d e l p h i a , P A 2012-Present 2011-Present 2008-2011

DIRECTOR, Design Futures Lab ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ASSISTANT TEACHING PROFESSOR

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2009-present

LUTZ/ KOLTICK PRINCIPAL, New York, NY and Philadelphia, PA D e s i g n R e s e a r c h F i r m Through this collaboration I pursue a trans-disciplinary approach to problem seeking and solving through writing, design speculation, competitions and consultation, without being constrained by the conventional roles and limitations of a traditional architectural practice.

R E L E V A N T P U B L I C A T I O N S , P R E S E N T A T I O N S A N D S YM P O S I A 2014

BETTER KNOW A VLO, REALIST APPROACHES TO VERY LARGE ORGANIZATIONS To be presented at Globalizing Architecture / Flows and Disruptions , ACSA (Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture) 102 n d National conference hosted by Florida International University, Miami, FL, April 2014 SYNTHETIC FUTURES: RENEGOTIATING THE TERRAIN OF PLAUSIBILITY Chapter in UnDesign, Print. Edited by Dr. Gavin Sade, Dr. Gretchen Coombs and Dr. Andrew McNamara, (under revision), late 2014.

2013

TED x TALK: WORK FROM THE DESIGN FUTURES LAB TEDx Phoenixville featured speaker Colonial Theatre, Phoenixville, PA. Oct 5, 2013 OCCUPY OBJECTS Essay in Fresh Punches : CreateSpace, 2013. Print. Edited by Nathan Hume and Abigail Coover Hume. TOMORROW’S ECOLOGIES// A SYNTHETIC APPROACH Presented at New Constellations, New Ecologies, ACSA 101st National Conference hosted by California College of the Arts. San Francisco, CA, March 2013 A FIELD GUIDE TO GENERATING ARCHITECTURAL SPECIES Co-authored with Matthew Lutz (Princeton University) Presented at New Constellations, New Ecologies , ACSA 101st National conference hosted by California College of the Arts. San Francisco, CA, March 2013 INTERIOR PROSTHETICS Presented at [En]coding Architecture, at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, February 2013 Essay in Encoding Architecture , Print. Edited by Liss Werner, February 2014

2012

A MATERIALITY OF AGENCY// SPECULATIONS ON THE IMPACT OF BIOLOGICAL COMPUTATION ON MATERIALITY Presented at Digital Aptitudes , ACSA 100th National conference hosted by MIT, Boston MA, April 2012 ENTROPIC ECOLOGIES: A PROSTHETIC APPROACH In VOLUME, 31, p.150-1. Print. ISBN: 9789077966310 Editor in chief: Arjen Oosterman. Contributing editors: Ole Bouman, Rem Koolhaas, Mark Wigley

2011

SYNTHETIC CAVES with Justin Diles (University of Applied Arts Vienna, Die Angewandte) and Thomas Wegener Presented at Proto/eco/logics: Speculative Materialism in Ar chitecture symposium, Rovinj, Croatia, August 2011. This presentation displayed a project resulting from a collaborative investigation of multi-agent systems using Processing and 3D modeling software.

2010

NASF: NORTH ATLANTIC SERVER FARM With Matthew Lutz (Columbia University) Presented at Input/Output Adaptive Materials and Mediated Environments Symposium, Tyler School of Art, Temple University. Philadelphia, PA, October 2010 The NASF is a speculative proposal for an ocean-based data center occupying international waters in the North Atlantic. The NASF seeks to inject itself into the oceanic climate feedback loop and provide a disruption, an upgrade in performance for multiple systems.

2009

SWAP WINNER of IMAGINING RECOVERY, INTERNATIONAL IDEAS COMPETITION with Matthew Lutz (Columbia University) International design competition juried by Mark Wigley, Barry Bergdoll, Michael Rock, Kate Orff, Damon Rich, Brian Loughlin, Mabel Wilson, and Bernard Tschumi, June 2009 Exhibited at the Berlage Institute, Rotterdam NL, June 2009