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Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center, 20 North Main Street, Providence RI 02903
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https://designscience.risd.edu
Start Date
September 2025
End Date
September 2025
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Olga Mesa is an Associate Professor of Architecture at Roger Williams University and co-founder of Nuvola Studio, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization with a mission to leverage research, architectural design, construction, and material innovation to enhance education, the environment, culture, and communities. Olga is interested in the accord between form, forces and performance and how this interaction has a physical manifestation in material systems. Her primary research involves the investigation on how formal orders result from processes and contextual forces and how, with the inclusion of cultural forces, architectural form can be developed in an analogous manner to respond to a given context. Her work in architectural design as well as her research on dynamic building skins, material systems and innovative fabrication techniques has been the subject of numerous conference presentations, publications, and workshops in the United States, Austria, Germany, Mexico, Colombia, Switzerland, Italy, and Singapore. She has taught architectural studios and seminars at RISD, MIT, TU Graz, Northeastern University Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo and at the Universidad Tecnológica Equinoccial.
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Olga Mesa, Associate Professor of Architecture, Roger Williams University
Design Science 2025 | Geometry of Uncertainty, Presentation: Olga Mesa
Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center, 20 North Main Street, Providence RI 02903
Olga Mesa is an Associate Professor of Architecture at Roger Williams University and co-founder of Nuvola Studio, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization with a mission to leverage research, architectural design, construction, and material innovation to enhance education, the environment, culture, and communities. Olga is interested in the accord between form, forces and performance and how this interaction has a physical manifestation in material systems. Her primary research involves the investigation on how formal orders result from processes and contextual forces and how, with the inclusion of cultural forces, architectural form can be developed in an analogous manner to respond to a given context. Her work in architectural design as well as her research on dynamic building skins, material systems and innovative fabrication techniques has been the subject of numerous conference presentations, publications, and workshops in the United States, Austria, Germany, Mexico, Colombia, Switzerland, Italy, and Singapore. She has taught architectural studios and seminars at RISD, MIT, TU Graz, Northeastern University Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo and at the Universidad Tecnológica Equinoccial.
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