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Alisa Andrasek

Alisa Andrasek is an experimental practitioner of architecture and computational processes in design. In 2001 she founded biothing, a design/computation laboratory whose research focuses on generative potential of physical and digital computational systems for design.

Andrasek is teaching architecture at Columbia University and Pratt Institute in New York and has lectured worldwide. She is co-winner of the Metropolis Next Generation Design Competition, 2005 and received the FEIDAD Design Merit Award, 2004.

Biothing's works have been published in prestigious journals, including the AD issues on Digital Tectonics edited by David Turnbull, Designing for a Digital World edited by Neil Leach, a forthcoming AD issue on Network Practice, the AD issue on Architecture and Computation and MIT's publication on Non-Standard Praxis.

Recent exhibitions of biothing's works include Shimmer:Bifid at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, the 2003 Prague Biennale, the 2004 Sydney Biennial, the Architectural Biennial Beijing, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Trento (MART).