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 Patricio Ortiz on October 24, 2012 at 10:55am

Felicitaciones Maestro!!

Permalink Reply by Dale Fugier on October 24, 2012 at 11:15am

Awesome video David - I wish I were half as creative as you. And, thanks for the "shout out".

Congrats!

-- Dale

(He once ordered a Big Mac at Burger King -- and got one.)

Permalink Reply by Paulo Carvalho on October 24, 2012 at 11:26am

Congratulations David!

Wait for this recognition! you deserve much more! Thanks and continue this amazing job!

All the best from Brazil!

Permalink Reply by jorge sainz de aja on October 24, 2012 at 11:35am

congratulations

well done ;)

Permalink Reply by Frane Zilic on October 25, 2012 at 5:28am

Congratulations David!!

Absolutely deserved, as it says, not only for grasshopper but also for your generosity. Thank you.

Permalink Reply by zlyx on October 25, 2012 at 6:20am

一个祝贺！从杭州。

Permalink Reply by Stan Carroll on October 25, 2012 at 7:28am

Bravo David !!!!

Your efforts have changed the way I think.

Stan

Permalink Reply by Andrea Graziano on October 26, 2012 at 3:24am

Congrats David !!!!!

this blog post title says it all !!!

He's the Chuck Norris of algorithmic geometry

http://www.vitruality.com/2012/10/hes-the-chuck-norris-of-algorithm...

Permalink Reply by Behnood Eghbali on October 26, 2012 at 3:58am

Congrats David!!! You're The One! ;)

Permalink Reply by Thibault Schwartz on October 26, 2012 at 5:41am

Congratulations David,

This is an amply deserved award, and I join all the others to say a big thank you for all those things you alloweds us to discover through Grasshopper!

Thibault

Permalink Reply by Walt Lampert on October 26, 2012 at 8:06am

David, to only reiterate what every one else has said, congratulations and very well deserved. I am an old guy who loves digital fabrication . Grasshopper has brought me immense joy and usefulness to my little efforts in that area. Cant even begin to describe how much I enjoy Grasshopper. I am awed by it. Thank you, thank you for this wonderful tool.

Walt Lampert

Permalink Reply by ayman wagdy on October 27, 2012 at 5:25pm