High Definition: Zero Tolerance in Design and Production

Bob Sheil is?Professor in Architecture and Design through Production at UCL, and has been?Director of The Bartlett School of Architecture since 2014. He is a founding partner of sixteen*(makers), whose work in collaboration with Stahlbogen GmbH '55/02' won a RIBA award for design in 2010, and also includes a ten year catalogue of experimental projects both internationally published and exhibited. He is an educator, critic, researcher, collaborator and practitioner, as well as an experimental designer who is fascinated by transgression between making, craft, and technology, in architectural design practice.?He is the author of multiple book chapters, refereed papers, and articles on design, making and technology. He has co-designed and built 6 significant artefacts/built works, and been internationally exhibited on 11 occasions. He has edited five books, including three issues of Architectural Design; Design through Making (2005), Protoarchitecture (2008), and the forthcoming High Definition: Negotiating Zero Tolerance (2014), an AD Reader Manufacturing the Bespoke published in 2012, and 55/02: A sixteen*(makers) Monograph (also 2012). In 2011, he Co-Chaired the highly acclaimed international conference 'FABRICATE' with Ruairi Glynn, for which he also co-edited the substantial parallel publication. FABRICATE has now become an internationally established conference brand, with the 2014 event hosted by ETH Zurich.