Curriculum Vitae for Billie Faircloth, AIA Practice Appointment 2008 ‐ present Partner and Research Director, KieranTimberlake, Philadelphia, PA 2002 ‐ present Registered Architect, State of Virginia, USA Selected Academic Appointments 2015 ‐ present Lecturer, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University 2011 ‐ present Lecturer, PennDesign, University of Pennsylvania 2015 ‐ present Visiting Professor, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts 2001 ‐ 2008 Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin Courses Taught 2016 2015 ‐ present 2011 ‐ present 2013 ARCH 6122: Energy in Architecture, Harvard University ARCH 6123: Construction Systems, Harvard University ARCH 638: Six Facts Six Scales, University of Pennsylvania ARCH 704: Research Studio, University of Pennsylvania Recognition 2016 2014 2013 2013 2008 2005 2004 2003 Architect Magazine R+D Award, Tally® AIA Building Information Modeling Award, Tally Architect Magazine R+D Award, Green Roof Vegetative Survey Architect Magazine R+D Award, Pointelist™ Graham Foundation Grant Recipient ACSA, New Faculty Teaching Award University of Texas School of Architecture, Faculty Teaching Award for Design Studio University of Texas, Alumni Teaching Award Publications 2016 2016 2015 2015 2014 2013 2013 2011 “Bounding. More or Less.” in Energy Accounts, edited by William Braham Goat Rodeo, edited by Daniel Friedman Plastics Now: On Architecture’s Relationship to a Continuously Emerging Material “How to build a bamboo protest chicken,” in Alluvium, edited by Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake “All Plastics in Building,” in Permanent Change, edited by Michael Bell and Craig Buckley “Pardon me, may I borrow your umbrella?” in the Journal of Architectural Education “Quantifying the Embodied Environmental Impact of Building Materials During Design: A Building Information Modeling Based Methodology,” presented at PLEA 2013 “Materials ad Infinitum,” in The Role of Material Evidence in Architecture, edited by Anne Beim and Mette Ramsgard Thomsen Recent Lectures and Symposia 2016 Invited Lecturer, “Near Future Practices,” CSoP Sympoisum, Oslo School of Architecture and Design 2016 Panelist, Processing Design: Making + Modeling Panel, Columbia University 2016 Keynote, New Languages of Wood Symposium, University of Arkansas 2016 Panelist, Interior Matters, Harvard University Graduate School of Design 2016 Panelist, Yale Built Environment Symposium, Yale School of Forestry 2016 Invited Lecturer, “On Research,” University of New Mexico 2016 Keynote Panelist, 104th Annual Meeting, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture 2015 Invited Lecturer, “Near Future Practices,” University of Illinois at Urbana‐
Champaign 2015 Keynote, 2015 International Conference, Building Technology Educators Society 2015 Invited Lecturer, “Search. Search Again,” University of Hawaii at Manoa 2014 Panelist, Innovation Panel Discussion, the Vinyl Institute Annual Meeting 2014 Panelist, New Software Panel Discussion, Reinvention Conference, Architect Magazine 2014 Keynote Speaker, Wood Urbanism Symposium, Harvard University Graduate School of Design 2014 Presenter, “Permanent Change,” American Institute of Architects New York Center for Architecture 2014 Invited Lecturer, “On KieranTimberlake,” The University of Buffalo Education 2001 1994 1992 Master of Architecture with Distinction, Harvard University Bachelor of Architecture, Summa Cum Laude, North Carolina State University Bachelor of Environmental Design in Architecture, Summa Cum Laude, North Carolina State University Publications (Expanded) Book Billie Faircloth. Plastics Now: On Architecture’s Relationship to a Continuously Emerging Material. Oxon: Routledge, 2015. Chapter Billie Faircloth and Ryan Welch. “Bounding. More or Less.” In Energy Accounts: Architectural Representations of Energy, Climate, and the Future, edited by William Braham. Oxon: Routledge, 2016. Chapter Billie Faircloth. “Interview with Billie Faircloth.” In Data Driven Design and Construction: Strategies for Capturing, Analyzing and Applying Building Data, edited by Randay Deutsch. New York: Wiley, 2015. Chapter Billie Faircloth. “Energy. Equity. Information. Infrastructure. Research.” In Goat Rodeo, edited by Daniel Friedman. Independent Press, 2015. Chapter Billie Faircloth. “How to build a bamboo protest chicken.” In Alluvium: Dhaka Bangladesh in the Crossroads of Water. San Francisco: Oro Editions, 2015. Chapter Chapter Chapter Billie Faircloth. “All Plastics in Building.” In: Permanent Change: Plastics in Architecture and Engineering, edited by Michael Bell and Craig Buckley. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2014. Billie Faircloth. “Materials Ad Infinitum.” In The Role of Material Evidence in Architectural Research, edited by Anne Beim and Mette Ramsgard Thomsen. Denmark: The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, 2011. Billie Faircloth. “Afterward: Notes on Cellophane.” In Cellophane House. San Francisco: Oro Editions, May 2011. Journal Articles  Faircloth, Billie. “Pardon me, may I borrow your umbrella?” Journal of Architectural Education, Cambridge: MIT Press, Vol. 67, Issue 2, October 2013.  Faircloth, Billie. “Recycling Vinyl: Discussion with a Chemist.” Materials Monthly, No. 13, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, July 2008.  Witte R, Chen Y, Faircloth B, Hodge J, Kim S, Lee C. “98% Nothing; Transparency by Degrees” Journal of Architectural Education, Cambridge: MIT Press, Vol. 56, Issue 4, May 2003. Proceedings  Carr S, Faircloth B, Frumpkin H. Building for Health and Well Being, Proceeding from the ACSA 2016 Fall Conference (Forthcoming).  Thomsen M, Tamke M, Gengnagel, C, and Faircloth, B. Modelling Behaviour: Design Modelling Symposium 2015. Cham: Springer International, 2015.  Bates R, Carlisle S, Faircloth B, Welch, R. “Quantifying the Embodied Environmental Impact of Building Materials During Design: A Building Information Modeling Based Methodology.” In: Werner Lang ed PLEA 2013 Munich: Sustainable Architecture for a Renewable Future, Munich: Fraunhofer IRB, 2013.  Bates R, and Faircloth B. “Assessing the applicability of building integrated organic photovoltaic modules through a surface area approach,” In: Solar Building Skins, Conference Proceedings of the 5th Energy Forum 02‐03 December 2010, Bressanone, Italy, Munich: Economic Forum, December 2010.  Moe K and Faircloth B. “Notes on Architecture and Computation(s) and Biology,” In: Proceedings from the 2008 ACADIA National Conference, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, October 2008. Publication of Design Work  ROAMroom. In: Philbrook Museum of Art ed. LANDed: Innovative Garden Structures, exhibition catalog, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, April 24 – October 16, 2005.  Substance: 98% Nothing. In: Toshiko More ed Immaterial/Ultramaterial. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. Curriculum Vitae for Billie Faircloth Billie Faircloth is a researcher, professor, and lecturer whose work centers around three main themes: the justification and research methods for transdisciplinary and trans‐scalar design practices; the design of novel methods, tools, and workflows that reveal new information about materials, climate, and thermodynamic phenomena; and how the history of plastics in architecture demonstrates architecture’s changing posture towards transdisciplinary practices and new knowledge. Faircloth’s interest in these topics was formed during her time at The University of Texas at Austin’s School of Architecture where, between 2002 and 2008, she developed and tested studio, seminar, and lecture teaching methods that supported a transdisciplinary and trans‐scalar design process. Her teaching methods were both locally and nationally acclaimed, earning her the university’s Texas Alumni Teaching Award and Faculty Teaching Award for Design Studio in 2004 and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture’s (ACSA) New Faculty Teaching Award in 2005. Faircloth’s unexpected departure from full‐time academia in 2008 was occasioned by the offer of the Research Directorship at KieranTimberlake, an internationally renowned architecture firm noted for its commitment to research, innovation, and invention. At KieranTimberlake, she has taken up the challenge of applying the design processes she theorized in academia to the organization of people and projects. Since joining the firm, Faircloth has worked to prove that architecture should produce knowledge, rather than merely consume it. In doing so, she has legitimized building projects as research test beds as she continues to define applied and empirical research processes for architectural practitioners. With the firm’s unequivocal support, she has also built and led KieranTimberlake’s Research Group (KTRG), a transdisciplinary team recognized for applying research, design, and problem‐solving processes from fields as diverse as environmental management, chemical physics, materials science, sculpture, and architectural design. This approach has resulted in peer commendation for a number of KTRG projects, including Pointelist™, a wireless sensor network, and Tally®, a Revit‐compatible custom life cycle assessment tool. Pointelist, along with KTRG’s Green Roof Vegetative Survey, were named Architect Magazine R+D Award winners in 2013, while Tally received honors from both the National American Institute of Architects, which gave the project its Building Information Modeling Award in 2014, and Architect Magazine, which named Tally its 2016 R+D Award winner. In addition to project development, structuring meaningful interrogations with students and faculty through academic course work and workshops is a pivotal part of Faircloth’s role as Research Director. She has been a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design since 2011 and a construction systems lecturer at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design since 2015. Faircloth has also taught targeted and themed workshops on materials, climate, or thermodynamics at the University of Minnesota (2008, 2013), Shenkar University (2009), Harvard University (2014), and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (2016). Faircloth’s articles have been published by the Energy Forum (2010), Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (2011), Journal of Architectural Education (2013), PLEA (2013), and the Princeton Architectural Press (2014). She is also the author of a book titled Plastics Now: On Architecture’s Relationship to a Continuously Emerging Material (2015). Each year she speaks nationally and internationally to numerous academic and professional audiences on the themes practice and research. Her past engagements have included conferences and symposia associated with ACADIA, ACSA, the American Institute of Architects, the Australian Institute of Architects, Chalmers University, Columbia University, Smart Geometry, TEDx Philly, the University of Nottingham, the University of Washington, and the Vinyl Institute.