Associate Professor

Guy Gardner is an assistant professor at SAPL working at the intersection of digital fabrication and architectural design.  Gardner’s career has evolved from the trades to academia, where his deep-rooted understanding of fabrication and technology informs his approach to both teaching and research. He brings a distinctive blend of hands-on craftsmanship, digital innovation, and social consciousness to his work in architecture. His role involves facilitating research and developing tools and protocols for digital fabrication, and he currently serves as the Director of Fabrication with the Laboratory for Integrative Design. His work is characterized by a commitment to making architecture more accessible and relevant to broader society, particularly through the use of digital fabrication and community engagement. His research interests include circular materiality, additive manufacturing, architectural robotics, digital design, and critical making.

At SAPL, he has been involved in developing courses around architectural robotics. He was also instrumental in establishing the Lab for Integrative Design at the University of Calgary, to explore the possibilities of digital fabrication in architectural design.  “I had a lot of hands-on experience working with new technologies that I think have the potential to allow for more of a distributed type of manufacturing… putting it in the hands of people to allow them to customise and fabricate things at the local level.”

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Contact info

+1 (403) 471-0183
gegardne@ucalgary.ca

Keywords

• Circular materiality
• Additive manufacturing
• Architectural robotics
• Digital design
• Critical making