Roland Snooks

Roland Snooks is a Professor of architecture in the School of Architecture and Urban Design at RMIT, where he directs the RMIT Architecture Tectonic Formation Lab.

 

His research explores algorithmic generative design and the experimental approaches to additive manufacturing for architectural design. Roland’s algorithmic research explores behavioral processes of formation that draw from the logic of swarm intelligence and the operation of multi-agent algorithms.

  Roland has taught widely in the United States including at Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, SCI-Arc, and the Pratt Institute. He received a PhD from RMIT and a Master in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University, where he studied on a Fulbright scholarship.   In 2004 Roland co-founded the experimental architectural practice Kokkugia, with the intention of exploring the limits of algorithmic formation and its architectural potential. He directs the architecture practice Snooks + Harper in collaboration with Laura Harper. Roland’s work has been published and exhibited widely and acquired for the permanent collections of institutions including the Centre Pompidou, FRAC and National Gallery of Victoria.