Congratulate DAVID RUTTEN on his ACADIA 2012 Award !!!

Join us in congratulating David Rutten who won a ACADIA 2012 "Innovative Research Award" on Saturday night in San Francisco. Over 400 enthusiastic ACADIA Awards Dinner attendees cheered as David's Acceptance Speech was projected in the nave of the CCA / California College of the Arts. Congrats David!!!

Quoting the Press Release:

The selection of David Rutten for the award in Innovative Research recognizes his profound impact to architecture and computation as the developer of the Logical Modeling plug-in, Grasshopper, for the Rhinoceros 3D CAD application. Grasshopper has been pivotal to the transformation of parametric design practices over the past five-plus years.

The Grasshopper environment is notable for empowering its users to generate behaviors and associations in digital models without the need to know conventional scripting techniques. Through the creation of this program, as well as Galapagos, he has made parametric design and system optimization easily accessible, and usable, to thousands of academics and practitioners. Mr. Rutten is known among his peers for being remarkably generous with his time. He provides continuous assistance to Grasshopper users through his tireless involvement on the Grasshopper blog and has remained actively supportive of the ACADIA community for many years.

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Permalink Reply by Michele Calvano on October 22, 2012 at 12:33pm

Congratulations, David!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Permalink Reply by Ángel Linares on October 22, 2012 at 12:56pm

Congrats David! Awesome video! I think that every single person here knows that the price is totally deserved :)

Permalink Reply by emlplsn on October 22, 2012 at 1:08pm

Congratulations David!

Permalink Reply by Victor Soto on October 22, 2012 at 1:14pm

My extremously happy congratulations to David!

Thanks for all your beautifull job on Grasshopper and joyfull stuff, cheers from Peru, and sure from many more than recognize your awesome work!

I will stay definitely thirsty for news from you David, and again Thank you very much!

Permalink Reply by Anders Holden Deleuran on October 22, 2012 at 1:21pm

Brilliant stuff right there! Congratulations David, much deserved indeed. You must write a tutorial on the zen of counting to 300 using just a single byte :)

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on October 22, 2012 at 1:38pm