Course Instructor
Instructor Profile:
Ping-Hsiang Chen is a highly experienced UK registered architect and a chartered member of RIBA with over 10 years of experience providing computational and geometric solutions for the AEC industry. He is currently a senior architect at Zaha Hadid Architects, where he specializes in data-driven design, complex geometry, multimedia, and digital fabrication in architecture. He was previously a computational designer and geometry specialist at the Applied Research Team at KPF, where he focused on geometry and rationalization solutions for complex building envelopes, task automation, and software development.
Ping-Hsiang Chen has extensive experience providing professional Grasshopper software training to various companies across urban, architecture, product design, and engineering disciplines. He has trained some of the most prestigious architectural and construction firms in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, including as a Grasshopper Level 1&2 trainer at SimplyRhino UK and currently a Grasshopper trainer at McNeel Europe, Barcelona, and DEZACT, Taiwan.
Ping-Hsiang Chen completed his RIBA Part 1 and Part 2 at the AA School of Architecture, and has a second master’s degree in Architecture and Digital Media and Part3 at the University of Westminster. He has worked as both architectural and computational designer at UK-based practices such as ShaGa Architects, A+T Partners, and Mamou-Mani Architects, where he was the lead computational designer. Academically, he teaches computational design courses at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, and has previously taught at Shih Chien University in Taiwan and the AA Visiting School in Israel, Dorset, Shenzhen, and with the Digital Prototyping Lab at the AA.
Ping-Hsiang Chen has contributed to various journals and conferences, including Smart Geometry, London Build Conference, MEED – Middle East Business Intelligence, and CAADRIA, and has given talks on the topic of advanced computation in architecture and digital fabrication regularly. He has been tackling highly complex architectural and engineering problems across all stages of RIBA from concept to construction.
Ping-Hsiang Chen computational design presentation
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