Randy Deutsch FAIA

Wednesday, November 10th, 2021 at 4 p.m. EST in Reinsch-Pierce Family Auditorium

Join us in the Reinsch-Pierce Family Auditorium as we welcome Randy Deutsch, keynote speaker for the 2021 SIGraDi Conference, “Designing Possibilities”. SIGraDi (Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics) gathers researchers, educators, and professionals in architecture, urban design, communication design, product design, and art, whose work involves new digital media. This year’s hybrid conference will take place, in part, on Georgia Tech’s campus, and will feature lectures, panels, workshops, and paper presentations, including some from Georgia Tech faculty and Ph.D. students.

Randy Deutsch FAIA, LEED AP is an educator, author, international keynote speaker, AI researcher and a licensed architect. Since 2011, Randy has authored six books, most recently “Convergence: The Redesign of Design” (AD, 2017); “Superusers: Design Technology Specialists and the Future of Practice” (Routledge, 2019), “Think Like an Architect: How to develop critical, creative and collaborative problem-solving skills” (RIBA, 2020) and “Adapt As an Architect: A Midcareer Companion” (RIBA, 2021,) the last two written and published during the pandemic.

In addition to teaching at University of Illinois at Chicago starting in 2001 and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign starting in 2012, Randy served as Associate Director for Graduate Studies in the School of Architecture at Illinois until 2019. Randy previously served on AIA Chicago Board as Director and Vice President; on ARCHITECT Magazine’s 2018 R+D jury; and led an annual Executive Education program at Harvard GSD. Randy is currently part of a team that received an NSF Grant and DPI Seed Grant for planning a first-of-its-kind Institute for the application of AI in design, construction and operations of buildings and infrastructure. In 2020 Randy was elevated to Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council.

For more information on the 2021 SIGraDi conference, please visit sigradi.org/sigradi2021. Georgia Tech students interested in attending the in-person portions of the conference will receive more information via email early next week. See you Wednesday at 4pm!

This event is free and open to the public. Per Georgia Tech guidelines, everyone is recommended to wear a mask or face covering while inside campus facilities. The School of Architecture encourages masks at all of our events.