Michael A. Fox
Tel. +1 310.621.5685 Fax. +1 310.862.4555
34586 Calle Naranja, Capistrano Beach, CA 92624
mafox@foxlin.com

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.): SMArchS 1996
University of Oregon (BArch): 1992

Professional Experience

Fox Lin Inc., Principal, Los Angeles, CA 2005-Present.
Large Scale exhibits are listed below under “exhibitions”

 

Recent Projects

Past Experience:
Roart-KDG, Partner, New York – Los Angeles, CA 2001-2002
Kitamura Associates, Design Team Leader, Tokyo, Japan 1997-1998
Hoberman Associates, Design Prototyping of large-scale kinetic structures, NY, NY 199

Teaching Experience

Cal Poly, Pomona, Full Professor(2015), 2005-Present, Design Studios, Interactive/Experience Design, Space Architecture and Construction and Materials. https://www.cpp.edu/
Hong Kong Poltechnic University (HKPU), Regular Visiting Design Faculty, 2001-2014, Visiting Professor, 2016-18 Design and implementation of courses or embedded interaction design, “Interactive Architecture”.
USC, University of Southern California, Lecturer, winter 2011. Design and implementation of a class on Intelligent Building Facades.
SCI_ARC, Design faculty, 2004-2005. Also 2002. Southern California Institute of Architecture, Design, and implementation of a class on Interactive/Experience design. Thesis advisor for 8 Masters in Architecture Students.
Art Center College of Design, Design Faculty, 2003-2005.The Design and implementation of design studios dealing specifically with Interactive Design on an Environmental Scale. Also in charge of the construction and maintenance of the ESTUDO web domain at Art Center.
MIT, Research Fellow and Research Affiliate, 1998-2001. Founder of the MIT Kinetic Design Group. Also, design and implementation of coursework to develop the skills for designing intelligent kinetic solutions in architecture.

International Workshops:

KISS Institute (Caltech), Faculty Advisor for NASA workshop, Three Dimensional (3D) Additive Construction for Space using In-Situ Resources
http://www.kiss.caltech.edu/study/3D/3D.html
Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HKPU), Regular Design Faculty, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, Visiting Professor, 2015-2018 Design and implementation of courses on embedded interaction design, ”Interactive Architecture”
Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, July, 2014 “Design and implementation of a workshop on Gestural Sensing
Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, July, 2012 “Design and implementation of a workshop on Bio-robotic building facades
Tongji / USC / SCUT Workshop, Shanghai, China, July 2012; spent a week helping to develop several student projects for an exhibit at the Shanghai MOCA.
USC XED, LA, CA, June 2012, Design and implementation of a workshop on Digital Media and Architecture with Scott Fisher.
National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) Tainan Taiwan 2011, as part of 2011 IAD World Design Expo with international students from 5 additional universities
Shenyang Jianzhu University, May 2011,” Design and implementation of a workshop on Interactive Architecture, Shenyang, Liaoning China,
American University of Sharjah (AUS) Sharjah, UAE 2011, Design, and implementation of a workshop on Interactive Architecture
Toyohashi University of Technology (TUT) Toyoshi, Japan 2010, Design, and implementation of a workshop on Interactive Architecture
National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan Taiwan 2009, Design and implementation of a workshop on Interactive Architecture
Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HKPU), Regular Design Faculty, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 Design and implementation of two classes exploring intelligent kinetic solutions in architecture,” Interactive Architecture”
National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) Taipei 2008, Design and implementation of a workshop on Interactive Architecture

Research Activities

Primary: Research activities are centered on interactive and biomimetic architectural systems and spaces, specifically the issues of embedded computational infrastructures, human and environmental interaction, physical control mechanisms and the processes of architects designing such systems.
Kinetic Design Group, Research Fellow/ Research Affiliate 1998-2001, Previous Director and Founder of the Kinetic Design Group, M.I.T. Department of Architecture, Design Technology.
Secondary: Active Sustainable Systems and Space Architecture
Book: Interactive Architecture, Princeton Architectural Press with Miles Kemp and an Introduction by William J. Mitchell. 2009
Book: IA: Adaptive World, Princeton Architectural Press. 2015

Committee/ Affiliations

City of Dana Point Chamber of Commerce, Chairman of the  Board, 2018. Board of Directors 2013-2018; Member or Governmental Affairs Committee and Tourism Committee, Member of Executive Committee, 2017-2018
ACADIA, President 2013-15 (Member of the Board of Directors, Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture) 2009- ) Appointed Secretary (2011-12)) Various Sub-committees 2009-Present
City of Dana Point Homeless Task Force 2014-Present; Appointed by the Mayor
City of Dana Point Ambassador 2013-Present
Space Architecture Technical Committee (SATC) committee within the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) 2009-Present
SATC: Space Education Sub-committee 2009-2010
SATC: Space Construction Sub-committee 2009-Present
LEED AP 2009 Certified
State of California Contractor (CSLB) Lic# 917638
CSU, Member of the International Studies Advisory Board, 2008
CSU, Member of a Committee to develop an Architecture + Engineering Minor, 2008
CSU, Member and former Chair of Department of Architecture External Communications Committee, 2005-Present
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), Member, 2008-Present
American Solar Energy Society (ASES), Member, 2008-Present

Honors and Awards

Best Design Award, DIS2018 – SIGCHI Exhibit Curator @ HKPU, 2018
AIA OC Award, For Eco29: Wedding Hall/Event Space, 2015
Outstanding Faculty Member, Department of Architecture at Cal Poly Pomona, 2011
USGBC LA Natural Talent Design Competition: 2009: Directed separate groups of Students to win the First, Second and Third prizes.
AIA LA Honor Award, For Bubbles: Interactive Urban Environment, 2007
USGBC LA Natural Talent Design Competition: 2008: Directed separate groups of Students to win both First and Third prize.
Faculty Innovation Award at Cal Poly Pomona, 2007
US Environmental Protection Agency, P3 Competition, Honorable Mention, 2006
Outstanding Faculty Member Award by the Athletic Association at CPP, 2006
Domus BBJ International Design Competition, Second Prize, 2000
EDCO Grant competition for Research in Education, First Prize, 1999
Outstanding SMArchS Thesis, MIT: “Novel Affordances of Computation to the Design Processes of Kinetic Structures”
Kumamoto ArtPolis Design Award, Kumamoto, Japan
Thesis Design Award: University of Oregon

Funding/ Sponsorship:

NASA: “Mars Habitation Commonality” – X-Hab Prize, $30,000, 2017
Cal Poly Pomona, Lyle Center Regenerative Studies, to fund studio work for design-build pavilion. $12,000, 2018
CPP ENV Student Research Fund: “Wii in Zero G” 2013
NASA, X-Hab: “Habitation and Fabrication studies for Deep Space Missions, $30,000, 2012
NASA Space Grant Foundation: “Zero-G Flight” 2013: $5,000
CPP ENV Student Research Fund: “Wii in Zero G” 2013: $1,000
I received $1,000 from a crowdsourcing campaign to support the student initiative to fly a research mission in Zero-G
GofundMe Crowdsourcing Campaign: “Zero-G Flight” 2013: $1,125
I received from a crowdsourcing campaign to support the student initiative to fly a research mission in Zero-G
AECOM 4,000: for studio, 2013
Insomniac Productions: (for Neural-Sky Exhibit), 2010
Henry Woo Travel Grant, 2010
Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, 2009
RSCA Grant: California State University, 2008
Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival Grant, 2008
AIA New Orleans Exhibit Grant, 2008
Presidential Travel Grant, 2008, 2006, 2007
Cal Poly Pomona Research Mini-Grant, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005
US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), P3 Grant, 2006
Annenberg Foundation, 2006 (based on project at Materials and Application Gallery)
Pasadena Art Alliance, 2006 (based on proposal submitted to Materials and Application)
TAPPI Foundation Research Grant, 2000
Graham Foundation Research Grant, 1999
LEGO/DACTA Corporation, 1999
Adobe Systems Inc, 1999
MIT Space Planning and Organization Research Group (SPORG) 1998-2000

Selected Publications

By Michael Fox

Note: If only Michael Fox is listed then he was the principal author and presenter, names of co-authors are not listed here but can be found as credited on the actual publications.

Proceedings: ACADIA Conference Proceedings “Full Integration: Closing the Gap on Technology Readiness Levels”, 37th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture, Mexico City, Mexico
Proceedings: ICES 2018, François Levy, Georgi Petrov, Marc Cohen and Michael Fox.  International Conference on Environmental Systemss. “A Framework for Spacecraft Information Modeling”  8-12 July, Albaquerque, NM
Proceedings: 2018 AIAA SPACE ,COHEN Marc, FOX,Michael, SCHULITZ, Marc GERSHFELD, Mikhail.  International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures. “Results of the Cal Poly Pomona NASA X-Hab Project”  17 September, Orlando, FL
Proceedings: IASS 2018, SCHULITZ, Marc, FOX,Michael, GERSHFELD, Mikhail and COHEN Marc.  International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures. “Commonality of Mars IPV and Surface Habitats”  16-20 July, MIT, Boston
Proceedings: ACADIA Inno-Bubbles (Project from HKPU) 36th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture, University of Michigan, 2016
Book (Chapter): “Interactive Futures,” that will be published as a bilingual edition by Tongji University Press
Proceedings: ACADIA Conference Proceedings “Preface”, 35th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture, Cincinnati, OH, 2015
Proceedings: ACADIA Conference Proceedings “Preface”, 34th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture, Los Angeles, pp. 417-426, 2014.
Proceedings: ACADIA Conference Proceedings “Peristalsis: A Real-World Lesson in Adaptable Space,” 34th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture, Los Angeles, pp. 417-426, 2014.
Proceedings: ACADIA Conference Proceedings “Alloplastic Architecture: The Design of an Interactive Tensegrity Structure,” B. Bouzanjani, N. Leach, A. Huang, M. Fox Proceedings to the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture Conference, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. 2013
Proceedings: ICAMA Conference Proceedings “Pioneering and Adaptable World” Proceedings to the International Conference on Adaptation and Movement in Architecture, Toronto, Canada. 2013.
Proceedings: ACADIA Conference Proceedings “Conventions of Control: A Catalogue of Gestures for Remotely Interacting with Dynamic Architectural Space” Proceedings to the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture Conference, San Francisco, CA. 2012
Editor for IJAC (International Journal of Architectural Computing) Editor in Chief: Professor Andre Brown, University of Liverpool, UK, “Architectural Robotics: catalyzing new design opportunities” published quarterly, ISSN 1478 0771, 2012 volume 12, 2012
Proceedings: ACSA 100th Annual Conference: with Juintow Lin. “Haitian Rebuilding Initiative: Technological Solutions that Hinge on Empowerment”: Boston, MA, March 2012
Proceedings: 41st International Conference on Environmental Systems (ICES) “Viral Design: Conceptual Contributions to Architectural Attributes of Space Station Design”: Portland, OR, 2011
Proceedings: 14th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI 2011) “Self-Replicating Robotic Strategies as a Catalyst for Autonomous Architectural Construction”: Orlando, FL, 2011
Proceedings: Thirty Third Symposium on Computer Technology of Information Systems and Applications, “Catching up with the Past, A small Contribution to a Long History of Interactive Architecture: Sponsored by the Architectural Institute of Japan, Tokyo, Japan, 2010
Proceedings: Space 2010 “Creating Architectural Building Blocks with Autonomous Reconfigurable Robotics for Long-Term Lunar Habitat Construction: Proceedings to the AIAA: Space 2010 Conference, Anaheim, CA, 2010
Journal: Footprint, “Catching up with the Past: A Small Contribution to a Long History of Interactive Environment”, Published by Delft University, Delft, the Netherlands, 2010
Journal: Zhuangshi, “Interactive Architecture Will Change Everything”, Published by Academy of Art and Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing 2010
Proceedings: BESS 2010, High-Performance Building Enclosures – Practical Sustainability
“The GK Smart Window: Fenestration that responds effectively to real-time changes in temperature, sunlight and wind,” Cal Poly Pomona, CA, 2010
Proceedings: International Conference on Interaction Design (ICID)
“From the Mechanical to the Biological,” Proceedings to the First International Conference on Interaction Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 2009
Proceedings: ACADIA Conference Proceedings “Flockwall: A Full-Scale Spatial Environment with Discrete Collaborative Modules,” Proceedings to the 2009 Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture Conference, Chicago, IL. 2009
Proceedings: ARCHIBOTS (UBICOMP)
“The End of Robotics in Architecture (as we almost got to know it),” Published as a supplemental proceeding to the 11th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Orlando, FL. 2009
Proceedings: CAADRIA Conference Proceedings, “Redesigning the Brick: Creating a New Vocabulary of Basic Architectural Building Blocks with Autonomous Reconfigurable Robotics,” Proceedings to the 14th Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia, Yunlin, Taiwan 2009. (Presented by Other)
Proceedings: The American Solar Energy Society (ASES) With Erin Ezell, Lesley Felton, Pablo LaRoche, Presented by Jillian Epp “The PRIME Evaluation System: a Student Developed Eco Analysis Tool”. San Diego, CA, May 8, 2008
Proceedings: National Solar Energy Conference With Erin Ezell, Lesley Felton, Pablo LaRoche “Greenkit: A Modular Variable Application Cooling System. Cleveland, Ohio, July 7-12, 2007
Proceedings: Game Set Match Conference Starting From The Micro: A Pedagogical Approach to Designing Interactive Architecture, Delft, the Netherlands on March 29th, 2006
Proceedings: “ACADIA Conference, Savannah, Georgia, September 2005.
Journal: “Flaunt”, Original Drawing and story based on the “12 Cautionary Tales for Christmas by Superstudio”, Summer, 2004
Proceedings: CAADRIA Conference Proceedings “Starting from the Micro,” Bangkok, Thailand, October, 2003
Book: “Mobile Architecture”, Chapter Entitled “KDG” ed. Jennifer Siegal, Princeton Architectural Press. 2002.
Book: “Transportable Environments 2” ed. Robert Kronenburg, Joseph Lim and Wong Yunn Chii. Two Chapters entitled “Sustainable Applications of Intelligent Kinetic Systems” and “Beyond Kinetic”, SPON Press, London, UK. 2002.
Book: “Meta Media, Hyper Culture”, ed. Lisa Tilder and Beth Blostein. Excerpts from the symposium “Meta Media, Hyper Culture”, held at the Wexner Center Ohio State University, Columbus Ohio. January, 2002. Princeton Architectural Press, 2002.
Journal: “OZ”, Journal of Architecture, “Ephemeralization” Published by the Kansas State University Department of Architecture, spring 2001
Journal: “TAPPI” Technical Association of Pulp and Paper Products” Journal “Comparative Assessment of Corrugated Products for Kinetic Architectural Applications” Research Project Overview, spring 2001
Book (Chapter): MANSEE: “Managing Interactions for Intelligent Environments: Intelligent Kinetic Systems in Architecture”, Chapter in Dublin, Ireland; December 1999
Proceedings: Megacities 2000 “Deployable Multi-Story Settlements for Urban Environments”, Hong Kong, January 2000.

Selected Publications

Featured In

Book Chapter Contribution:  The Routledge Companion to Paradigms of Performativity in Design and Architecture: Using Time to Craft an Enduring, Resilient and Relevant Architecture, edited by Mitra Kanaani. “Dynamic Vocabularies: Technology of Expressive, Communicative and Responsive Surface Architecture and Design of Building Skin and Enclosure System in Performative Design Forms” Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group. 2019.
Polycentric: Architecture and Engineering Students Design Mars Habitat, , https://polycentric.cpp.edu/2018/10/architecture-and-engineering-students-design-mars-habitat/   October 23, 2018
Book Chapter Contribution: Understanding the relativity of recent technium advancements on architectural tools. “101 things we didn’t learn in Architecture School”  ED. Sadri, Hossein
iDeia Design Magazine: Arquitetura Interativa, Editor: Camilo Belchior, Editora PlexuDesign, Issue 13, Jan/Feb 2016.
GA Japan: Do Robots Realize Computational Dream? Takenaka, T., Okabe, A., 2014, No. 127, ADA Edita Tokyo CO., Ltd, pp. 192-196. (ISBN: 978-4871409261)
JA – Israel, Feature on Eco 29 project. June, 2015
Book: ACADIA Projects “Eco29”, 35th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture, Cincinnati, OH, 2015.
Design Curial: Sandcastles on Mars
http://www.designcurial.com/news/sandcastles-on-mars-4653019
Book: Building Dynamics, Editors: Branko Kolarevic, Vera Parlac, Routledge, 2016.
PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art: Neural Sky Exhibit, FoxLin Architects, Vol. 37, No. 1: 18-19, Jan 2015.
Furniture & Accessories Europe: Interactive Furniture, Editor: Pallabi Chakrabarty, Sep/Oct Issue, 2014.
Architectural Design: Space Architecture: The New Frontier for Design Research, Editor: Neal Leach, Vol. 84, Issue 6, Nov/Dec 2014.
Book: Inflatable Architecture and Design, Editor: Jacobo Krauel, LinksBooks Press
ISBN (English Edition): 978-84-92796-16-8, features “Bubbles”
Arcdaily: Architecture in Space: NASA Seeks Architects’ Opinions on Habitat Design for Astronauts http://www.archdaily.com/336844/architecture-in-space-nasa-seeks-architects-opinion-onhabitat-design-for-astronauts/
Archinect: Sky is far from limit in NASA architecture project
http://archinect.com/news/article/68391010/sky-is-far-from-limit-in-nasa-architecture-project
Realty Today: NASA Funds California Architect Students to Design Space Habitat for Mission http://www.realtytoday.com/articles/3812/20130305/nasa-funds-california-architect-studentsdesign-space-habitat-mission.htm
DesignBuild Source: Architecture Beyond Earth: NASA Enlists Students To Design Vertical Habitat http://designbuildsource.com.au
Television Movie, Discovery Chanel, “Can You Live Forever?” featured project from “Mobile Earth Base Design for the Space Elevator”: Cheuk Kwan. Yiu, Hosted by Adam Savage, Dangerous Films, October 16th.
Book: Matter: Material Processes in Architectural Production. Gail Peter Borden (Editor), Michael Meredith (Editor) Routledge, featured “FlockWall”: an interactive environment, August 2011
Book: LED – A Lighting Component with Architectural Potential, featured image of Interactive Facade Project “Power Modules” by Karina Munkholm Madsen, Institute of Technology, Lighting laboratory, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture in Copenhagen. 2011
LS:N Global, part of The Future Laboratory, Interview by Stephen Graves, www.LSNglobal.com, July 2011
C3 Magazine “Bubbles” project by FoxLin and NonDesigns was featured “Bubbles”, by Jina Park, Issue 301, Seoul, Korea. September, 2009.
Book: “Media Facades” Interactive Façade project featured, Mathias H Hausler, Media Facades, History, Technology, Content, AVEdition Press, Ludwigsburg, Germany. 2008
Book: “Digital Materiality in Architecture”, Contributed Text, Gramazio, Fabio and Kohler, Matthias, Digital Materiality in Architecture: Gramazio & Kohler 1:1”, to Q & A, Lars Müller Publishers. Released January 2009
Ad Astra Magazine Work from Topic Design Studio “Viral Structures initiative for Establishing Large Scale Colony on the Moon” McCullough, Edward, June 2008
Surface Magazine, “Automatic Architecture” Issue #69, December 2007.
Book: “Venice, CA: Art and Architecture in a Maverick Community”, Entitled “KDG” ed. Michael Webb, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 2007.
Architectural Record, “Space Invaders: Los Angeles Installation Inflates, Titillates”, David Sokol, February, 2007
Architect “No Ice” May 2007
Metropolis, “Shape Shifters”, September 2007
Form Magazine “Bubbles, May 2007
LA Architect, “Essential Elements”, Jennifer Caterino, January-February 2007
Cool Hunting, Ami Kealoha, January, 2007
LA City Beat, “Effervescent Architecture”, Dr. Rebecca Epstein, December 28, 2006
Los Angeles Times, “Designs on Inflation,”, September 2006
ReadyMade, “Space Inflators” Jen Trolio, February/March 2007
California Home & Design, Space Invaders, Elaine Santore, December, 2006
CNN, International Newspaper article “Buildings get Wise to the Future” September, 8, 2006.
Architectural Record, “Robo Buildings: featuring the work of Odesco and the KDG”, Paradis Press, Paris Summer, 2004.
Architecture&Movement, Chapter Entitled “KDG” ed. Pilar Echavarría, LinksInternational. Due out June, 2003.
Family Handyman, “Kitchen of the Future: Kitchen Talk” summer 2003
Perspecta, KDG and Odesco are featured. Yale School of Architecture, summer 2003
Aircraft Interiors International, First Quarter 2001
DOMUS, “New Visions for Business Jet Interiors” July 2000
LeMonde, “Elastic Architecture”, by Odile Fillion, June 2000
D’A, Highlight of the Kinetic Design Group Website, by Odile Fillion, March, 2000
PLAN, Publication of the MIT Department of Architecture, 2000
StudioVoice: “Architecture Beyond Architecture”, by Ryusuke Naka, Article on the Kinetic Design Group, Tokyo, Japan, 1999
Technology Review, Deployable Teleconference Station, Installation, 1997
Palimpsests of Stone; Redevelopment and Design for Public Spaces in Piaza Isolo, Book publication of International Competition Proceedings, Livio Dimitriu and Vincenzo Pavan, eds., USA Books 1997
Architecture: Telecollaboration in Design, Collaborative work from the Kumamoto ArtPolis, Kumamoto, Japan.

Selected Exhibitions

SF MOMA – “Far Out: Suits, Habs, and Labs for Outer Space. Exhibit of CPP Cal Roli X-HAB project July 20, 2019 -Jan 20, 2020, San Francisco, CA
Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum exhibit for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo missions Advanced Exploration Systems contribution to Apollo 50th on the Washington Mall. Exhibit of CPP Cal Roli X-HAB project,  Washington, DC
DIS2018 – SIGCHI Exhibit Curator and Exhibition of Student work, HKPU School of Design, 2018
Design Computing 2018 Exhibition at the Faculty of architecture of Czech Technical University in Prague. Curated by Henri Achten. Several projects exhibited.
HKPU School of Design – Interactive Exhibit with students of Interaction Design in the main entry Lobby of Zaha Hadid designed new School of Design, 2017
13th Venice Architecture Biennale – Space Architecture, as part of the 2112Ai [Architectural intelligence], Maribor 2012 European Capital of Culture, exhibiting several projects from Space Studio at CPP
NewSpace 2012 NASA Ames Research Center, SBSP: Space Based Solar Power (Student Work) Moffett Field, CA. July, 2012.
Art, Talks and Sensations featuring “Mobile Earth Base Design for the Space Elevator”, Abu Dhabi / Saadiyat Island, UAE, November, 2011
2011 IAD Congress World Design Expo, Taipei Taiwan 2011
SUPERFRONT: Pacific Design Center. “Nanocity” Los Angeles, CA. April-August, 2010.
NewSpace 2011 NASA Ames Research Center EVSS Space Station Designs (Student Work) Moffett Field, CA. July, 2011.
Object Gallery, “Interlace”: Large-Scale furniture environment, Claremont, CA. September, 2010.
LA Contemporary “Interlace”: in Rogue Design: 5 from CA, Los Angeles, CA. June-August, 2010.
Beyond Wonderland “Neural Sky”: an interactive environment, at San Bernardino, CA. March 2010.
Coachella “Neural Sky”: an interactive environment, at Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Coachella, CA. April 2010.
Tsinghua University “Interactive Architecture”, at School of Interaction Design. 2009
Coachella “FlockWall”: an interactive environment, at Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Coachella, CA. March 2009.
Materials and Applications “Bubbles”: an interactive spatial pneumatic environment at an urban scale, at Materials and Applications in Silverlake, CA.
DesCours: Ex-Com Couch, an interactive spatial environment in New Orleans, 2007
A + D Architecture and Design Museum, “Young Blood: Next Gen” LA, CA, 2006
Center for Contemporary Art “People Doing Strange Things with Electricity: NANO-CITY-2. Seattle, WA, 2004
Pasadena Wind Tunnel “Gardenlab Experiment”: NANO-CITY, Part of a group exhibit focused on Ecology and the Environment. Pasadena, CA, September 2004
Japanese American Cultural Museum: Recent work of Design Studios from Art Center College of Design including a full installation of an “Interactive Restaurant”, Los Angeles, CA, September, 2004
Knoxville Museum of Art, Student work and the work of FoxLin on “The Art of Structure, the Structure of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee, April, 2004.
Triennale di Milano, Exhibit of Boeing Business Jet Interior Design, June 2000
Gallery SLO, Los Angeles, CA. Exhibit of “Kinetic Design Group w/ Bryant Yeh: Work in Progress”, 1999
MindFest: Festival of Designing, Inventing and Learning, MIT Media Lab, Student work from the course “Intelligent Kinetic Systems” 1999
Lyon Biennialle, with Piotr Kowalski, Design and installation of deployable teleconference station, 1996.
Liang Gallery, Exhibit of Drawings and Paintings, Boston, MA. 1996
Gallerie LeLong, Design of Exhibit for/ with Krystof Wodziko, “Xenology: Immigrant Instruments” NY, NY, 1995

Selected Lectures

Keynote Lecture – AIAOC Design Awards, “Adaptive World”, Dana Point, CA, September, 2015
SEXD San Diego Experience Design (SDXD) “Interaction Design at Architectural Scale” San, Diego, CA, September, 2015
Fox, Michael. Lecture to the MIT Club of Southern California. “Interactive Architecture, December, 2014
CSU Long Beach, “Adaptable World”, Long Beach, CA, September, 2013
Gehry Technologies GTEAM Webinar: NASA XHAB, 2014, https://vimeo.com/90069456.
Keynote Lecture, ICAMA “Proceedings to the International Conference on Adaptation and Movement in Architecture, Toronto, Canada. “Pioneering and Adaptable World, 2013
Keynote Lecture, IE’13 The 9th International Conference on Intelligent Environments – IE’13, Athens, Greece, August, 2013
Keynote Lecture, The 8TH Conference on Digital Technologies in Architectural Education and International Symposium on Digital Architecture Design, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, July, 2013
HKPU, Hong Kong, “Catching Up with the Past”, March 2013
13th Venice Architecture Biennale – Space Architecture, as part of the 2112Ai [Architectural intelligence], Maribor 2012 European Capital of Culture, Presenting Space Architecture at CPP
HICSS (International Conference on System Science) Maui, Hawaii, Lecture in a symposium entitled “Revisiting Interactive Architecture” January, 2013
ACADIA Conference, “Conventions of Control: A Catalogue of Gestures for Remotely Interacting with Dynamic Architectural Space” CCA, San Francisco, “Flockwall: A Full-Scale Spatial Environment with Discrete Collaborative Modules,”
Tongji University, “Interaction Design” at PARAsite headquarters. Shanghai, China, July, 2012
Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, July, 2012 “Interactive Architecture”
ACM SIGCHI 2012 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Workshop entitled “Ar-CHI-tecture” Talk entitled “Spatial Gestures for Architecture” 2012, 2011
IAD Congress World Design Expo, Taipei Taiwan 2011
NTUST National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei Taiwan 2011
NCKU National Cheng Kung University, Tainan Taiwan 2011.
Tsinghua University, “Interaction and Sustainability”, Beijing China, May, 20011.
Shenyang Jianzhu University, “Interaction and Sustainability”, Shenyang ,Liaoning China, May 2011
American University of Sharjah (AUS) “Interactive Architecture”,  Sharjah, UAE 2011
Architectural Institute of Japan, “Interactive Architecture”, Tokyo, Japan. March 2011
Toyohashi University of Technology, “A Brief History of Interactive Architecture”, December 2010 Toyohashi, Japan.
OBJCT Gallery, “Recent work of FoxLin”, November 2010 Claremont, CA.
ETH, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, “Interactive Architecture”, April 2010 Zurich, Switzerland.
HKPU, Hong Kong, “Recent Work”, March 2009.
Dynamic Dimension Design, Tel Aviv, Israel, March 2010.
Tsinghua University, Beijing China, September 2009.
NCKU National Cheng Kung University, Tainan Taiwan 2009.
HKPU, Hong Kong, “History of IA”, March 2009.
Clemson University, Clemson, SC, “History of IA and FoxLin”, October, 2008.
University of Buffalo, SUNI, Buffalo, NY, “History of IA”, October, 2008.
NCTU, Taiwan, “Experimenting with Experience”, January, 2008.
Mobius LA, AIA Symposium, Los Angeles, CA, October, 2007.
Plenary Speaker, ACADIA Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, September, 2007.
Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HKPU), Taiwan, “Scale in Design”, January 2008
Situated Technologies Symposium in New York, on October 18th, 2006.
Plenary Session, ACADIA 06 Conference entitled “Smart Architecture at Otis College of Art and Design entitled “Promises and Pitfalls of IA” September 6, 2006
MAK Center, LA Forum Lecture Series, “New Horizons” Los Angeles, CA, November 2005
Woodbury University, “The End of Mechanics”, Los Angeles, CA, September 2005
International Conference on Sustainable Design, Bergamo Italy, Servitec, September, 2005
Taliesin West “IA”, Near Phoenix, AZ, Spring 2005
University of Utah “Horizons”, Salt Lake City, UT, Spring 2005
MIT “Design and Computation Lecture Series”, “A New Sense of Interactive Architecture”, Cambridge MA, spring 2005
UST “Building the Impossible: Architecture in Motion Symposium”, St. Louis, Mo, spring 2005
Harvard University, “A New Sense of Interactive Architecture”, Cambridge MA, spring 2005
Cal State University Pomona: “Living with IA”, Pomona CA, fall 2004
University of Bergamo, “Interactive Architecture”, Part of a lecture Series sponsored by Servitec, Bergamo, Italy.
University of Tennessee, School of Art and Architecture: Recent work of Odesco: Beyond Kinetic”, Knoxville, Tennessee, March, 2004
Art Center College of Design, Work of Odesco and the KDG, Pasadena, CA, fall 2003.
Guest: Discovery Channel: “Monster Nation” TV Program, Inventor/Builder. Fall, 2004
Guest: Discovery Channel: “Monster House” TV Program, Architect/Builder, screen name “Gadget God” spring 2003
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, “Recent Work, May, 2002
Chinese University of Hong Kong, “Recent Work, April, 2002
Meta Media, Hyper Culture Symposium, “Teletecture”, Baumer Symposium, Wexner Center, Ohio State University, Columbus Ohio, January, 2002.
TU Delft, GameSetandMatch” Symposium “Beyond Kinetic”, “at the Faculty of Architecture, Delft, Netherlands.
Singapore National University, “Sustainable Applications of Intelligent Kinetic Systems”, Second International Conference on Transportable Environments. Singapore.
Moderator: ASCA Technology Conference, Moderator, Cambridge, MA June 2000
Workshop for Boeing Business Jet Interiors, Athens, Greece, October 2000
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, “Intelligent Kinetic Systems, Live Video Lecture, Hong Kong-MIT, 1999
Waseda University, Lecture on the Evolution of Interactive American Architecture, Tokyo, Japan, 1998, September, 2007.