Herrera Polo, Pablo C.
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Pablo C. Herrera develops workshops and lectures incorporating emerging digital technologies in Latin America, and, from that point, the use of self-learning techniques in order to enhance local traditions and patterns, according to culture and reality. He has coordinated and researched space and shape problems using algorithms and programming, establishing since 2006 the implementation of these techniques in many Latin American universities with multidisciplinary post graduate students from USA and Europe. His research and ...
Biography
Pablo C. Herrera develops workshops and lectures incorporating emerging digital technologies in Latin America, and, from that point, the use of self-learning techniques in order to enhance local traditions and patterns, according to culture and reality. He has coordinated and researched space and shape problems using algorithms and programming, establishing since 2006 the implementation of these techniques in many Latin American universities with multidisciplinary post graduate students from USA and Europe. His research and workshops have been presented in several cities such as Santiago de Chile (2006-2007), Mexico (2007), Lima (2007, 2011), Havana (2008), Medellin (2008), Sao Paulo (2009), Bogota (2009-2010) and Valparaíso (2009, 2011). Since 2007, he has published refereed papers, journal articles, some of which won best presentation's awards. He is two‐term vice president and an elected board member of SIGraDi (Sociedad Iberoamericana de Gráfica Digital) and elected editorial board member of IJAC (International Journal of Architectural Computing). He is also peer‐reviewer at CAADRIA, eCAADe, ICDHS, CAAD Futures and SIGraDi. He was one of the six Latin Americans invited to exhibit and publish the results of their academic work at the III Architecture Biennial Beijing (2008) and at the IV Architecture Biennial Beijing: Machinic Processes (2010). In the last ten years he has provided independent consulting in various Latin American universities and companies (including the FABLab Lima), seeking to manage and implement digital technologies in design and manufacture. He has been Keynote Speaker in several conferences, including the XII Congress of SIGraDi (2008), at the XX Congress of ACFA (Association of Schools of Architecture, Bogotá, 2009), at the Politics of Fabrication Symposium (Sponsored by the Architectural Association, Valparaiso, 2011) and since 2011 is Workshop Coordinator at SIGraDi.
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- Arquitectura
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Researcher and Professor at Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas
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- Specialties: Architectural Research, Digital Fabrication, Scripting, Generative Design and Visualization
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Artesanía en Latinoamérica: Experiencias en el contexto de la Fabricación DigitalHerrera Polo, Pablo C.; [email protected] (Editora Edgard Blucher Ltda, 2016-11)In moments when the artisanship tradition seems to disappear because of industrial production, we analyze cases where digital fabrication and visual programming were used in Latin American craft, encouraged by architects with skills in digital tools. The situations confront artisans with access to digital platforms and internet, use of learned skills, and the need to modify the technological level in their products and processes. Regional initiatives, which could change contemporary design history in the region with the establishing of a trans-disciplinary systematized synergy, show that traditional materials are used and unique components maintain their originality, from a region that attempts to enter into new global markets.Acceso abierto
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Digital fabrication and revival craft in Latin America: Alliance between designers and artisansHerrera Polo, Pablo C.; [email protected] (Blucher Design Proceedings, 2016-10)Latin America has experienced scripting and digital fabrication, and the alliance between designers and artisans. Taking into account that the revival of crafts has proved very promising in Latin America (Borges, 2015), the objective of this research is to analyse the diversity of cases and select those where designers took an interest for strengthening the artisans’ jobs in the field of pottery and textiles. We found that both revitalised the identity and cultural tradition in their own countries, in a moment when craft seemed to drop in front of industrial production. By preserving traditional materials, pieces continue to be unique and customizable, transcending thus their local origin towards new global markets.Acceso abierto
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Fabricação digital na América do Sul: um mapeamento de linhas de ação a partir da arquitetura e urbanismoUniversidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC) (Blucher Design Proceedings, 2015-11)The article presents a mapping of digital fabrication laboratories in South America from the architecture and urbanism field. First, it draws a brief context of implementation of facilities and growing of expertise highlighting economic, academic and cultural aspects. Second, it presents some data mapped from 31 laboratories of the region, as infrastructure, and correlations between uses and applications. Third, it organizes the mapped laboratories in two significant approaches for the region’s context: works focused on technological development and actions directed to the social and environmental development. Fourth, it infers some possible steps of the field in the region in the near future.Acceso abierto
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Matemáticas y computación: Uso de programación visual para el desarrollo de material didáctico en un entorno educativoUniversidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC) (Blucher Design Proceedings, 2015-11)Acceso abierto
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Migratory Movements of Homo Faber: Mapping Fab Labs in Latin AmericaSperling, David M.; Herrera Polo, Pablo C.; Scheeren, Rodrigo (Springer International Publishing, 2015-07-08)The present paper is a mapping study of digital fabrication laboratories in Latin America. It presents and discusses results from a survey with 31 universities’ fab labs, studios and independent initiatives in Latin America. The objective of this study is fourfold: firstly, to draw the cultural, social and economic context of implementation of digital fabrication laboratories in the region; secondly, to synthesize relevant data from correlations between organizational structures, facilities and technologies, activities, types of prototypes, uses and areas of application; thirdly, to draw a network of people and institutions, recovering connections and the genealogy of these fab labs; and fourthly, to present some fab labs that are intertwined with local questions. The results obtained indicate a complex “homo faber” network of initiatives that embraces academic investigations, architectural developments, industry applications, artistic propositions and actions in social processes.Acceso abierto
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HOMO FABER: Digital fabrication Latin America CAAD Futures 2015 > the next citySperling, David M.; Herrera Polo, Pablo C. (Instituto de Arquitetura e Urbanismo de São Carlos, 2015-07)The Exhibition “Homo Faber: Digital Fabrication in Latin America” is an event related to the CAAD Futures 16th Conference, “The Next City”. The proposal to support this exhibition responds to the need to grasp more widely the Latin American digital fabrication context linked to the field of architecture. This was a rich and challenging process of capturing an ever changing scenario. Mapping, as Janet Abrams and Peter Hall remember us, “has emerged in the information age as a means to make the complex accessible, the hidden visible, the unmappable mappable (…) mapping refers to a process – ongoing, incomplete and of indeterminate, mutable form.” (Else/where: mapping. New cartographies of networks and territories, 2006) Our mapping highlights a recent context of starting and development of fab labs in Latin America. Beginning in university research centers, and consolidated in university platforms, this movement expands with the formation of laboratory networks and the emergence of studios and independent researchers investigating and exploring new uses for digital fabrication in architecture and in related fields.
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Rhinoscripting y Grasshopper a través de sus instructores: un estudio de patrones y usosUniversidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC) (Universidad de los Andes (Colombia), 2015-02-25)It is common today the use a graphical user interface and techniques to automate a process through compute - rization. By contrast, when trying to learn computational approaches, we have not overcome the learning curve and many of the workshops have not had the expected results to prolong their use. In this research we explore the trends in this process, from those that generate the generic object to those that appropriate it by modification. The set of case studies presents patterns and uses of those instructors who have come to be use algorithms intensively to solve a design problemAcceso abierto
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Tecnologías disruptivas: programación y fabricación en LatinoaméricaUniversidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC) (Universidad de los Andes (Colombia), 2015-02-25)Since 2008 the preference for using different programming methods (Rhinoscript) had been analyzed using blogs. Searching for answers to explain the negative tendency of this year (from 48,063 to 16,332), a second repository was created (Grasshopper) featuring interactive methods and techniques. It has been discovered that of the five geographic regions analyzed Latin America is the only one that preferred the interactive interface (18% over programming). This shows that we are still keeping a strong dependency on the use of stable and safe technologies over disruptive ones that proved to be more efficient in design and fabrication.Acceso abierto
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Patrones en la Enseñanza de la Programación en Arquitectura: De la Hetero-‐ Educación a la Auto-‐Educación en LatinoaméricaUniversidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC) (Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (Chile), 2015-02-25)Teaching programming to architects, in academic and professional contexts, occurs in Latin America through self-‐management, and focused on results, without analyzing the processes and establishing a follow-‐up to participants, to establish patterns of application. The pointing out of these problems and the proposal of how to make said education sustainable has allowed finding variables specific to the region and to the very same tools and instruments, which are constantly evolving. At the same time, it is proposed after the analysis, that hetero-‐education (shared learning) itself requires self-‐education (self-‐teaching processes) as a complementary process.Acceso abierto
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Computational Design Solutions in architectural education: The use of script language to design complex surfacesHerrera Polo, Pablo C. (Universidad La Salle, 2014-07-16)In this paper, the author explains why architects who know how to use scripts have an advantage over the ones who just know how to manipulate a specific software. The reason behind this affirmation is that knowing how to program frees the architect from the rules and language of the interactive software. To prove his point, the author organized two workshops where students at the school of architecture learned to use Rhinoscript. The students didn’t create a new interface, but used an existing one. They adapted the program (Rhino) to a design problem they had formulated at the beginning of the workshop. Students could have also used MaxScript (3DS Max) and MelScript (Maya).Acceso abierto