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Chris Perry holds a Master of Architecture from Columbia University where he received an Award for Excellence in Design in 1997. After two years working as a project designer for Stan Allen (SAA) and ten years as principal of his first design practice servo, he co-founded his current practice pneumastudio in 2011. servo’s work has been exhibited at a number of prominent venues, including the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Centre Pompidou, the Wexner Center for the Arts, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Artists Space, the Storefront for Art and Architecture, and SFMoMA. Publications of the group’s work include servo: networks and environments, a monograph published by DAMDI Press in Korea, 10x10_2 (Phaidon), The New Mathematics of Architecture (Thames & Hudson), and Interactive Architecture (Princeton Architectural Press). servo’s work is also part of the permanent collections of SFMoMA and the Frac Centre in Orleans, France. Formed in 2011 and situated between the fields of landscape and architecture, pneumastudio has exhibited its work at the Design Museum in Barcelona and New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Recent publications featuring the group’s work include Global Design: Elsewhere Envisioned (Prestel), Architecture Inserted (Yale School of Architecture), and Bracket 2: Goes Soft (Actar). Forthcoming publications include Post-Sustainability: New Directions in Ecological Design (Metropolis Books/DAP). In 2010 Perry was the Louis Kahn Visiting Assistant Professor at the Yale School of Architecture, an endowed chairmanship. Since 2000 he has taught at Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell University, Rice University, Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, the University of Toronto, the Architectural Association in London, and RMIT in Melbourne. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Rensselaer School of Architecture where he is Head of Graduate Studies, director of the Geofutures MArch II program, and coordinator of the undergraduate thesis sequence, Final Project. Perry is a recipient of the Architectural League of New York’s Prize for Young Architects and Designers and The MacDowell Colony Fellowship. He is co-editor of Collective Intelligence in Design (Wiley-Academy), co-editor of a special issue of PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art (MIT Press), and has published essays in a variety of architecture journals and books, including Yale Perspecta, Architectural Design (AD), Architectural Review, Scroope (Cambridge University Architecture Journal), The Digital Turn in Architecture: 1992–2012 (Wiley-Academy), Architecture Inserted (Yale School of Architecture), Architecture In:Formation (Routledge), Autogenic Structures (Taylor & Francis), Lubricous Architectures: Studies in Hybridity (Columbia Books of Architecture), and Bracket 2: Goes Soft (Actar).