V Owen Bush introduced Winka Dubbeldam, a Dutch-born, New York-based architect and founder of Archi-Tectonics, who discussed her firm's "performance over form" ethos, exemplified by projects like the Asian Games Eco Park and their "file-to-factory" approach which integrates regulatory constraints into design. Dubbeldam also shared insights into her architectural education philosophy, emphasizing digital design integration and adaptive reuse, as well as her recent book, "Strange Objects, New Solids, and Massive Things", and an upcoming book, "Monsters and Mutants". This episode is brought to you by Scan2Plan — the measure of excellence for architects and engineers. From adaptive reuse to MEPF modeling, Scan2Plan delivers high-fidelity BIM and CAD documentation grounded in LiDAR precision and project-ready accuracy. Whether you're preserving heritage, coordinating across disciplines, or modeling for a net-zero future, their tailored workflows and rapid delivery help you focus on what matters most: design. Certainty lies in good data. Scan2Plan gives you both.

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Winka Dubbeldam is the Dutch-born, New-York-based architect behind Archi-Tectonics—a studio celebrated for turning parametric experiments into high-performance buildings, from Tribeca’s pixelated V33 condos to Hangzhou’s Asian Games eco-park. A longtime Miller Professor at UPenn and incoming Director & CEO of SCI-Arc, she bridges practice and pedagogy with an ethos she sums up as “performance over form.” Her book, Strange Objects, New Solids and Massive Things, chronicles that file-to-factory approach, wiring designers directly to manufacturers. Simply put, Winka designs envelopes that think and cities that breathe—exactly the mix of innovation and intentionality we explore on Practice Forward.

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