Francis Bitonti

_PUBLICATIONS/LECTURES/EXHIBITIONS

Exhibitions		Lectures	Press
DesCours 2009 on display from December 9th -13th 2009 in New Orleans. More Info:: Wild Child Exhibition: Bridge Gallery on display July 9th through September 2nd 2009. More Info:: Advanced Architecture Settimo Tokyo Biennale 2009-2001 on display from 7 April to 17 May 2009 in Turin, Italy. The exhibition will travel to Tokyo, Japan in May 2010. More Info:: “L’impossibile accade di rado, ma accade talvolta” on display from 23 June to 17 July 2009 in Turin, Italy.	“CityRacks” Exhibition: Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum: on display October 2008 Future.city.Past>FORWARD Exhibition on display April 11 - May 9, 2009 D3 Gallery Brookly, New York “script/INE” Exhibition: (F.U.E.L. Collection) Philadelphia PA. Project Title: “Universal Garden” on display September 2007	“Computational Tectonics” ACADIA Conference 2009 More Info:: “Unnatural Selection” Lecture given at the University of Indiana NKS Midwest Conference 2008 More Info:: "Building Energy Modeling with Ecotect" Invited Instructor New York City College of Technology "Processing Workshop: an introduction to decentralized, self-organizing systems." Invited Instructor New York City College of Technology website::	Bustler.net "Robots in the French Quarter "openHouse" at DesCours 2009" Cadalyst Magazine (Vol. 26) "Almost Real" Unbeige "What's That Squiggle?" Bustler.net “Alien” Bike Rack Selected in NYC Design Competition Time Out New York New York shows off her rack

_AFFILIATIONS

FADarch
FADarch is the experimental design and research entity for Francis Anthony Bitonti. FADarch is dedicated to the research and application of computational technologies such as algorithmic design methodologies and robotics to architectural design and construction.	Website Blog

Francis A. Bitonti is an architect and designer based in New York. Francis holds a Masters of Architecture from Pratt Institute and a BFA from Long Island University in Digital Media. Francis founded FADarch in 2007 as an experimental design and research entity. In addition to his work with FADarch Francis has been a visiting instructor at Pratt Institute in the Graduate Architecture and Urban Design department (GAUD). Francis has also worked for Buro Happold consulting engineers as part of the Computational Simulation and Analysis group (CoSA).

e_mail: frank@francisanthony.com

Recent Projects: SQUIGGLE_RACK; OPENHOUSE; LOKI BLOCKS

NEWS

DesCours 09

Francis Bitonti (FADarch) and Brian Osborn (bo-th) will be showing openHouse prototype 2 at this years DesCours event in New Orleans.

DesCours 09 Website

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ACADIA 09

Francis Bitonti will be presenting his paper titled “Computational Tectonics” at this years Acadia conference.

ACADIA 09 Conference Website

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Wild Child

FADarch will be showing work at the "Wild Child" exhibition at the Bridge Gallery in Manhattan. The Exhibition will run from July 9 to September 2.

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AAST Advanced Architecture Settimo Tokyo Biennale 2009-2011

FADarch was invited to exhibt work in the 2009-2011 Advanced Architecture Settimo Tokyo Biennale.The project will be exhibited from 7 April to 17 May 2009 in Turin, Italy.The exhibition will travel to Tokyo, Japan in May 2010.

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FADarch to Appear in Future.city.Past>FORWARD Exhibition

Francis Bitonti was selected to exhibit work in the Future.city.Past>FORWARD exhibition

http://www.d3space.org/
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NKS Midwest Conference 2008

Francis A. Bitonti will be speaking at the 2008 NKS Midwest Conference. His Lecture will be titled "Unnatural Selection."

NKS Midwest Conference 2008
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Cooper-Hewitt Exhibition

The City Racks Prototype will be on display at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum through October 15th in the garden.

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ECA with Network Neighborhoods

Francis A. Bitonti's demonstration of ECA with Network Neighborhoods has been accepted for publication in the Wolfram Demonstrations Project.

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CityRacks Design Competition Finalist

Francis A. Bitonti has been selected as one of
10 finalists for the CityRacks Design Competition. FADarch has begun the production of two full scale prototypes that will be exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum in Manhattan. The prototypes will then be installed on the streets of New York City for testing.

City Racks Design Competition
The Winning Design

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Script/INE (Universal Garden)

Francis A. Bitonti currently has work on display at the F.U.E.L. Gallery in Philadelphia Pennsylvania through the month of September 2007.

F .U.E.L. collection
script/ine
scriptedbypurpose.wordpress.com

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Processing MatrixMath Library

The MatrixMath library will let you perform a number of different matrix operations in the processing
development environment. For more information about processing go to processing.org

Source Code
download v1.1
This library can also be downloaded
from the processing wesite.

I have set up website for the library with complete documentation

http://pmatrix.blogspot.com/

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Processing Cellular Automata Library

This library allows you to quickly and easily implement cellular automata calculations in your processing applets.
The results from the library are accurate and have been validated against results from matematica. For more information about processing go to processing.org

Source Code
download v1.1

I have set up website for the library with complete documentation

http://www.fadarch.com/ca/index.html

more info...

RECENT PROJECTS

CityRacks Design Competition

Fabrication is nearing completion for the cityRacks prototype. The parts have been built by http://www.redeyearc.com/ The following photographs were taken at both the Red Eye facility in Eden Prairie, MN and Auto Body Specialties shop in Patchogue, NY.

ABS plastic parts fabricated by RedEye http://www.redeyearc.com/
Automotive Painting services provided by Auto Body Specialties

DesCours 09

PETG plastic fabricatio by Anyline Lasercutting ( http://anyline-ny.com/) in New York City. The following photographs were taken in New Orleans durring fabrication and installation.

Teaching


	Processing Workshop
	Ecotect Scripting Workshop
	ARCH 3591
	nCloth (Pratt 08)

CODE

Open Source Projects


	CellularAutomata Library (pde)
	MatrixMath Library (pde)
	ECA with Network Neighbors
	HexPrism Totalistic Cellular Automaton
	OctOuter Totalistic Cellular Automaton
	RomDod Totalistic Cellular Automaton

Scripts


	Squiggle Script v1
	Nearest Neighbor for D3
	polyPoint v1b (mel)
	CSFEM Feedback V7 (mel)
	Maya Cellular Automata Script (mel)
	PointToMesh alpha1 (mel)
	Script/INE Project Tools (mel)
	pointUnitVector (no GUI) (python)
	randMove v1 (mel)
	Vertex Search 0.1.0 (mel)

BLOG (Far From Equilibrium)

contact Francis A. Bitonti at
frank@francisanthony.com
fa@fadarch.com