Join us for a Midday Talk with new faculty member, Assistant Professor Brady Peters.

Brady Peters is a Canadian architect and researcher specializing in digital design and digital fabrication. Brady was an Associate Partner at Foster + Partners with the Specialist Modelling Group, the office's internal research and development consultancy. He designed many buildings with complex geometry using parametric modelling and performance simulation techniques. Primarily doing project-driven research, he developed many digital design methods and helped establish the office's rapid prototyping and digital fabrication capabilities. He has previously worked in the London office of design-led engineering practice Buro Happold.

Brady is completing his PhD at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture in Copenhagen where he is developing computational methods to integrate sound into architectural design. He has written software to measure acoustic performance using geometric methods, visualize sound using numerical algorithms, and evaluate design options using rapid prototype models. Beyond sound, Brady works with structural form-finding, optimisation algorithms, and environmental analysis.

He is the co-editor of Computation Works: The Building of Algorithmic Thought, a recent issue of AD journal that maps the current state of computational design in architectural practice. He is the co-editor of Inside Smartgeometry: Expanding the Architectural Possibilities of Computational Design. Brady has taught at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, the University of Ghent, and the University of Nottingham. He is a Director of Smartgeometry, an organization that promotes the creative use of computation in architecture and bridges professional practice and academic research.

Image: FabPod Project, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Collaborators: Brady Peters, Jane Burry, Nicholas Williams, and Daniel Davis.