Roland Snooks

Professor Roland Snooks

Professor

Details

Open to

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

About

Roland Snooks is a Professor of architecture in the School of Architecture and Urban Design at RMIT, where he directs the Tectonic Formation Lab.

Supervisor projects

  • Vibrant Enmeshment: Aesthetics & Strategies for an Ecocentric Architecture
  • 18 Jul 2024
  • CSIRO Industry PhD (iPhD)
  • 19 Jun 2024
  • Hybridised Metal Formation
  • 18 Apr 2023
  • Integral Architectural Design Synthesis in Metaverse
  • 14 Apr 2023
  • Where Function Follows Form: Combining Methodologies for Generalist Plasticity in a Vacuum of Specialists
  • 25 Nov 2022
  • Painterly Formation
  • 1 Mar 2022
  • Fibrous Tectonics
  • 17 Feb 2022
  • Digital design and advanced manufacturing of customized facade panels using sustainable materials
  • 2 Dec 2021
  • Interactive Structural Topology Optimisation Considering Subjective Preferences
  • 17 Sep 2020
  • Generative Practice Research in Design
  • 11 Nov 2019
  • Parts that Precede Buildings: Architecture in Large Quantities
  • 16 Sep 2019
  • Mixed Reality Fabrication
  • 24 Jun 2019
  • Generative Practice Research in Architecture Landscape Architecture and Urban Design
  • 13 Jun 2019
  • High Resolution Combinatorics of Space
  • 6 Jun 2019
  • Super-Composite: Carbon Fiber Reinforced 3D Printed Tectonics
  • 22 Mar 2019
  • Augmented Agency: Approaches for Enhancing the Capabilities of Generative Architectural Design Processes
  • 13 Dec 2018
  • The Urbansphere. Architecture in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing.
  • 26 Sep 2018
  • Interspecies Formations
  • 1 Aug 2018
  • Performance-driven Digital Design and Robotic Fabrication Based on Topology Optimisation and Multi-agent System
  • 1 Mar 2018
  • Mutations: Experiments in Process, Typology and the Instrumentality of Recognition
  • 1 Sep 2016
  • Field Tactics: Techniques, Types and Effects from a Practice Operating within the Architectural Field.
  • 28 Apr 2015

Teaching interests

Architectural design, Generative design, Robotic fabrication, Algorithmic design, Multi-agent systems, Swarm intelligence

Research interests

Architectural design, Generative design, Robotic fabrication, Algorithmic design, Multi-agent systems, Swarm intelligence
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