AnnaLisa Meyboom is an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia’s School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. Her research focuses on the intersection of design, technology, and the environment, particularly in the areas of advanced architectural design processes and robotic fabrication of wood, and urban informatics and autonomous vehicles. She has a particular interest in the potential of digital fabrication and robotics to enable new modes of design and construction in wood, as well as the implications of future technologies on how we design our cities.
AnnaLisa has a Master’s in Architecture from the University of British Columbia, and a Bachelor of Applied Science from University of Waterloo. She has been a visiting professor, lecturer and invited critic at a number of universities, including the University of Stuttgart Institute for Computational Design, University of Toronto, Harvard University, University of Virginia, South-East University in China, and the University of Calgary. She is a frequent speaker at international conferences and workshops, and has published in a number of journals and books. She has authored two books – “Driverless Urban Futures” and “Design Capital: The Hidden Value of Design in Infrastructures.”
AnnaLisa is an active member of the academic and design community. She is a registered engineer and has worked on a range of speculative and realized projects both in engineering and architecture, from small-scale residential to bridges and large-scale urban design.
She teaches research studios, design-build classes, advanced structures and computing seminars, architectural structures courses, and robotic fabrication seminars, as well as architectural thesis students.
Education
M.Arch, University of British Columbia
BASc, University of Waterloo
Select publications
Meyboom, A. (2018). Driverless Urban Futures: A Speculative Atlas for Autonomous Vehicles. Routledge.
Correa, D., Krieg, O. D., Meyboom, A. (2018, October). “Beyond form definition: Material informed digital fabrication in timber construction.” In Digital Wood Design: Innovative Techniques of Representation in Architectural Design. Springer.
Costa Maia, S. & Meyboom, A. (2017). “Understanding the effects of autonomous vehicles on urban form.” Road Vehicle Automation, 4, 201.
Costa Maia, S., Meyboom, A., & Teicher, H. (2015). “Infrastructure as social catalyst: Electric vehicle station planning and deployment.” Journal of Technological Innovation and Social Change, 100, 53–65.
Martinez, M., Meyboom, A., Olson, J., Pitt, S., & Sina, A. (2015, October), Thermocatalytic metafolds: Experiments in the fabrication of a composite paper polymer shape changing material. Presented at the annual conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Meyboom, A., Neumann, O., & Tannert, T. (2015, September). Extending the vocabulary of wood: Research in large scale shell structures in wood. Presented at the annual conference of the Association for Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe, Vienna, Austria.
Bögle, A., Meyboom, A., & Romo Martin, J. (2015, September). Geometry and parametric modeling in the conceptual design of bridges. Presented at the annual conference of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Engineers, Geneva, Switzerland.
Costa Maia, S. & Meyboom, A. (2015, July). A framework for intelligent persuasive architecture. Presented at the annual CAAD Futures Conference, São Paulo, Brazil.
Cheng, A., Gaudin, T., Meyboom, A., Neumann, O., & and Tannert, T. (2015, April). Large scale wood surface structures. Presented at the annual Conference on Architecture and Civil Engineering, Singapore.
Meyboom, A. & Teicher, H. (2013, October). Level 2 siting methodology for municipalities. Presented at the annual EV/VÉ conference, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada.
Meyboom, A. & Teicher, H. (2013, October). Strategic siting of early fast charging stations to accelerate growth. Presented at the annual EV/VÉ conference, Gatineau, Quebec.
Meyboom, A. & Reeves, D. (2013, October). Stigmergic space. Presented at the annual conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture, Cambridge, Ontario.
Meyboom, A. (2012, September). Tuning heavy design: Parametric structural form generation. Presented at the annual Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe, Prague, Czech Republic.
Meyboom, A., Strzala, M., & Wojtowicz, J. (2012, September). reCHARGING w/ ROBO. Presented at the annual Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe, Prague, Czech Republic.
Meyboom, A. (2012, March). Expanding applications for responsive architecture: Applications to the marginalized spaces of seniors. Presented at the annual meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, San Francisco, California.
Meyboom, A. (2011). “Heavy design.” International Journal of Architectural Computing, 9(3), 251–258.
Johnson, G., Meyboom, A., & Wojtowitz, J. (2011). “Robostudio: Towards architectronics.” International Journal of Architectural Computing, 9(1), 77–98.
Meyboom, A. (2011, March). Architecture of infrastructures: Methodologies for expanding a discipline. Presented at the annual meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Montreal, Quebec.
Johnson, G., Meyboom, A., & Wojtowicz, J. (2010, September). Urban infrastructure and architectronics. Presented at the annual Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe, Zurich, Switzerland.
Johnson, G., Meyboom, A., & Wojtowicz, J. (2010, April). Robostudio: Towards architectronics. Presented at the annual conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Archtiectural Design Research in Asia, Hong Kong.
Meyboom, A. (2009). :”Infrastructure as practice.” Journal of Architectural Education, 62(4), 72–81.
Meyboom, A. & Neumann, O. (2009, March). Digital fabrication and design build. Presented at the annual meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Portland, Oregon.