Philip Beesley 

• Canadian architect, artist, stage designer and professor of architecture at the University of Waterloo.
• architecture and digital art
• works collaboratively with cross-disciplinary teams of artists, engineers, designers, programmers and fabricators
• experimental work in responsive architecture–responds to human presence and movement
• digitally fabricated textile-like structures, kinetic and interactive
• materials: mylar, acetate, polycarbonate
• operated by microprocessors, sensors and actuator systems
• a meshwork that is immersive and breathes around participants
• applied architectural environments (air filtering and light shading)
• Hylozoic Ground to represent Canada at the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale in August

TEDxWaterloo – Philip Beesley – 2/25/10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onQkV8egGAI

CBC News “Future of Architecture” – Philip Beesley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYjGhftfAFo

Philip Beesley Architect
http://www.philipbeesleyarchitect.com/sculptures/sculptures.html

References

Hylozoic Soil [Detail] (Art Reproduction). Leonardo v. 42 no. 4 (2009) p. Front Cover