AnnaLisa Meyboom is an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of British Columbia. Her area of expertise is integrated design of architecture and engineering. Her research and teaching looks at applications of technology in our environment where the highly technical meets the human environment. Her areas of teaching emphasize the ability to integrate the highly technical, the beautiful and the environmental simultaneously and seamlessly into a built form. She believes it is the ability to work with all these media fluently that creates projects of critical relevance.
Her research areas investigate the impact of advanced computing on the language of wood design and the design of future infrastructures and their critical and catalytic relationships to public space. She is Director of the Transportation Infrastructure & Public Space Lab (TIPSlab) as well as a practicing engineer with a civil engineering degree from the University of Waterloo and holds a Masters of Architecture from the University of British Columbia. Her background prior to architecture was in bridge engineering where she was a Senior Structural Engineer and Project Manager.
She teaches research studios, advanced structures and computing seminars, architectural structures courses and design fabricate courses.
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.