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 djordje on October 22, 2012 at 2:38pm

-"Hey, why do you use Grasshopper?"

="Why Grasshopper?
David Rutten factor, that's why!"

Congratulations on award, once again.

Permalink Reply by Frans Magnusson on October 22, 2012 at 2:35pm

Congrats!

Permalink Reply by Tommaso Casucci on October 22, 2012 at 2:37pm

Congratulations David!!! ..very very very deserved!!

Permalink Reply by Victor Sardenberg on October 22, 2012 at 2:38pm

Congratulations David!

Thank you so much for your amazing work!

Permalink Reply by dvdrbls on October 22, 2012 at 2:40pm

Congratulations!! and thank you very much! =)

Enjoy your award with a few of those hundred and something bottles of wine you bougth tha past few months!

Permalink Reply by Erick Vásquez on October 22, 2012 at 3:02pm

Congratulations David!!! totally deserved!

Thanks for all!

Permalink Reply by GIL AKOS on October 22, 2012 at 3:14pm

Right on! Your hard work and dedication to this project have been top notch since Explicit History. Congrats David!

Permalink Reply by John Gulliford on October 22, 2012 at 3:19pm

Congrats David, incredible contribution! My vote is a statue in Poprad!

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on October 22, 2012 at 4:57pm

Interesting story, there's a statue of Lenin in Seattle near the McNeel HQ offices. I walk past it a lot when going to lunch when I happen to be working in Seattle. Turns out the statue actually came from Poprad, a few minutes from where I live now. I'd rather this town'd invest in a decent imported cheese shop rather than statues though... but thanks for the endorsement :)

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by kleerkoat on October 22, 2012 at 3:31pm