_PUBLICATIONS/LECTURES/EXHIBITIONS

Exhibitions

Advanced Architecture Settimo Tokyo Biennale 2009-2001
on display from 7 April to 17 May
2009 in Turin, Italy
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The exhibition will travel to Tokyo, Japan in May 2010.

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“L’impossibile accade di rado, ma accade talvolta”
on display from 23 June to 17 July
2009 in Turin, Italy
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“CityRacks”
Exhibition: Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum:

on display October 2008


Future.city.Past>FORWARD
Exhibition

on display April 11 - May 9, 2009
D3 Gallery Brookly, New York

“script/INE”

Exhibition: (F.U.E.L. Collection)

Philadelphia PA.
Project Title: “Universal Garden” on display September 2007
Lectures

“Unnatural Selection”
Lecture given at the University of Indiana

NKS Midwest Conference 2008

"Building Energy Modeling with Ecotect"
Invited Instructor

New York City College of Technology

"Processing Workshop: an introduction to decentralized, self-organizing systems."
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Invited Instructor

New York City College of Technology

Press

Cadalyst Magazine (Vol. 26)
"Almost Real"

Unbeige
"What's That Squiggle?"

Bustler.net
“Alien” Bike Rack Selected in NYC Design Competition

Time Out New York
New York shows off her rack
_ABOUT/BIO

Francis Anthony Bitonti  
Francis A. Bitonti is an architect and designer based in New York. Francis holds a Masters of Architecture from Pratt
Institute and a BFA from Long Island University in Digital Media. Francis founded FADarch in 2007 as an experimental
design and research entity. In addition to his work with FADarch Francis has been a visiting instructor at Pratt Institute
in the Graduate Architecture and Urban Design department (GAUD).

Website
Blog
FADarch  
FADarch is the experimental design and research entity for Francis Anthony Bitonti.
FADarch is dedicated to the research and application of computational technologies such as
algorithmic design methodologies and robotics to architectural design and construction.
 



NEWS

AAST Advanced Architecture Settimo Tokyo Biennale 2009-2011

FADarch was invited to exhibt work in the 2009-2011 Advanced Architecture Settimo Tokyo Biennale.The project will be exhibited from 7 April to 17 May 2009 in Turin, Italy.The exhibition will travel to Tokyo, Japan in May 2010.


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FADarch to Appear in Future.city.Past>FORWARD Exhibition

Francis Bitonti was selected to exhibit work in the Future.city.Past > FORWARD exhibition

http://www.d3space.org/
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NKS Midwest Conference 2008

Francis A. Bitonti will be speaking at the 2008 NKS Midwest Conference. His Lecture will be titled "Unnatural Selection."


NKS Midwest Conference 2008

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Cooper-Hewitt Exhibition

The City Racks Prototype will be on display at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum through October 15th in the garden.


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Woodstock Museum Competition

Francis A. Bitonti from FADarch, currently collaborating with Severn Clay-Youman (Severn Clay Studio) and Daniel Ramirez (Form Farm) have been selected for phase two of the Woodstock Museum Architectural Design Competition.

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CityRacks Design Competition Finalist

Francis A. Bitonti has been selected as one of 10 finalists for the CityRacks Design Competition. FADarch has begun the production of two full scale prototypes that will be exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum in Manhattan. The prototypes will then be installed on the streets of New York City for testing.


City Racks Design Competition
The Winning Design

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Script/INE (Universal Garden)

Francis A. Bitonti currently has work on display at the F.U.E.L. Gallery in Philadelphia Pennsylvania through the month of September 2007.

F .U.E.L. collection
script/ine

scriptedbypurpose.wordpress.com


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Processing MatrixMath Library

The MatrixMath library will let you perform a number of different matrix operations in the processing
development environment. For more information about processing go to processing.org


Source Code
download v1.1
This library can also be downloaded
from the processing wesite.

I have set up website for the library with complete documentation


http://pmatrix.blogspot.com/

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Processing Cellular Automata Library

This library allows you to quickly and easily implement cellular automata calculations in your processing applets.
The results from the library are accurate and have been validated against results from matematica. For more information about processing go to processing.org


Source Code
download v1.1

I have set up website for the library with complete documentation

http://www.fadarch.com/ca/index.html

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FEATURED PROJECTS

SQUIGGLE RACK V1.0

SQUIGGLE RACK V2.0

LOKI BLOCKS

FLOAT
contact Francis A. Bitonti at fa@fadarch.com

Other Links:
FrancisAnthony.com

FarFromEquilibrium.blogspot.com










































































CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION

CityRacks Design Competition

Fabrication is nearing completion for the cityRacks prototype. The parts have been built by http://www.redeyearc.com/ The following photographs were taken at both the Red Eye facility in Eden Prairie, MN and Auto Body Specialties shop in Patchogue, NY.





ABS plastic parts fabricated by RedEye http://www.redeyearc.com/
Automotive Painting services provided by Auto Body Specialties