DS.13 is a diploma design studio at University of Westminster in London with an emphasis on design-based research through digital methods and contemporary generative techniques such as associative modelling, computational geometry, scripting and simulation.

The unit is led by Andrei Martin, Andrew Yau and Anat Stern.

Andrei Martin

BArch MArch(GSD)
+44 /0/ 7979 991 258
andrei.martin@urbanfuture.org

Andrei Martin is a designer, researcher and academic with an interest in digital architecture, computation and fabrication. He holds a Master of Architecture degree from Harvard University Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor degree from University of Kansas. While at Harvard, Andrei was a research collaborator in Rem Koolhaas’ History of Communism Project, focusing on cybernetics, feedback systems and emergence in post-war Soviet urbanism and planning. Following this he was awarded the Frederick Sheldon Fellowship to continue his research.

Since then Andrei has lived in London and has been a design critic at Architectural Association, Columbia University, Pratt Institute, Bartlett, KTH, London Metropolitan University and University of Greenwich. He has lectured, published and exhibited internationally, including the Metamorph Venice Biennale and the Architectural Biennial Beijing.

He currently collaborates with other UFO members on several ongoing research projects and publications and is an Associate Principal at Kohn Pedersen Fox International in London.

Andrew Wai-Tat Yau

B Arch(Hons) GradDiplDes(AA) Dip Des (Int)
+44 /0/ 7956 609 453
andrew@urbanfuture.org

Co-founded urban future organization in 1996 after joining the Graduate Design Group under the direction of Jeff Kipnis and Bahram Shirdel in Architectural Association. Andrew worked with LAB Studio on the winning scheme for Federation Square in Melbourne and Ray King on the award winning Avenue of Arts. He was one of the leading members of the design team for the winning scheme of the Sarajevo Concert Hall, and, with Centola Associates, the Global Silver medallist and European Gold medallist for the Water Power Project in Mulini Valley on the Amalfi Coast in Italy.

Andrew research is focused on systemic design and performative prototyping and has lectured in the UK, Italy, Bosnia, Korea and China. He has published and exhibited his work internationally, the latest in Beijing Architectural Biennale 2006.