Daniel Cardoso Llach

Daniel Cardoso Llach is Associate Professor of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University. He is interested in problems ranging from social and cultural aspects of automation in design, the politics of representation and participation in software, and new methods for using data to visualize design as a socio-technical phenomenon. His book Builders of the Vision: Software and the Imagination of Design is an intellectual history of Computer-Aided Design (CAD) that identifies and documents the emergence of a technological imagination of design in Cold-War era laboratories in the US, and traces critically its architectural repercussions. An interdisciplinary scholar focusing on critical histories, practices and pedagogies of technology in design, his work contributes to the fields of architecture, design, and science and technology studies and is frequently featured in journals, conferences, and collections. He holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá and a PhD and an MS in Design and Computation from MIT. He has also been a research fellow at MECS, and a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge. More information: www.dcardo.com.