I used to write software for a living. If you like, you can include those items on this CV also.
Bryan Boyer
bryanboyer [at] gmail [dot] com
Education
Harvard Graduate School of Design. Cambridge, MA.
Master of Architecture I. Spring 2008.
Thesis: Our New Capitol (redesigning the US capitol). Advisor: Timothy Hyde
Thesis Jury: Diana Agrest, Henry Cobb, P. Scott Cohen, Wes Jones, Joe Macdonald, Detlef Martin, John McMorrough, Michael Meredith, Robert Somol, Sarah Whiting.
Options Studios: Music school in Fredonia, NY with Wes Jones. Housing in Almere, NL with Francine Houben.
Rhode Island School of Design. Providence, RI.
Bachelor of Fine arts with Honors in interior architecture. Spring 2004.
Professional Experience
f451 Arquitectura. Barcelona, Spain. Summer 2007 / Summer 2008.
Architectural designer on competition entries and private house comissions. Projects include: ordos house, Madrid campus of Justice, Zaragosa downtown development, archeological Museum of Teruel.
Toshiko Mori Architect. New York City, NY. Summer 2006.
Architectural designer on projects including Salzberg Sternbrauerei Competition (honorable mention), Josef & Annie Albers Museum, Syracuse University Link Hall, and Darwin D. Martin House Visitor's Center.
IDEO. San Francisco, CA & Palo Alto, CA. Summer 2005.
Designer on confidential interior, architectural, and product design projects.
Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill. San Francisco, ca. Summer 2003.
Designer on interior projects including Charles Schwab Bank prototype, US Embassy in China, and others.
Freelance consultant. 2000-2004.
Specialized in the development of prototypes for rich web applications. Clients include Sony Pictures Entertainment, the Nobel Lindau Foundation, CSC, and NetJets.
KnowNow, Inc. Menlo Park, CA. 2000-2001.
Developed community software for the developer website, built client-side applications in Javascript and Actionscript, and helped create a set of UI widgets to be used with KnowNow’s realtime event routing technology.
Deepleap. Austin, TX. 1999-2000.
Founder and primary developer of UI standards and implementation. Deepleap created a Rosetta Stone for web sites and services to offer interoperability before XML was a widespread standard on the web. Entirely web based and created with Javascript and Perl, Deepleap is a browsing companion application offering a contextual set of tools based on the contents of the page that one is currently visiting.
Teaching / Research
Studio Instructor. Harvard GSD Career Discovery Program. Summer 2008.
Taught introductory architecture studio for beginner students.
Core Studio teaching Assistant: Lluis Ortega Studio, Harvard GSD. Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2007.
Assisted with instruction of first, second, and fourth semester graduate studios.
Materials Researcher. Harvard GSD Materials Lab. Fall 2005-Fall 2007.
Conducted materials research and cataloging as well as redesigning the design/software for the materials database.
Teaching Assistant: History of Interior Architecture. RISD. Spring 2004.
Survey course taught by Henry D. Fernandez.
Teaching Assistant: History of Modern Architecture. RISD. Fall 2003.
Survey course taught by Christopher Bardt.
Teaching Assistant: Le Corbusier Seminar. RISD. Fall 2003.
Survey course with travel to Switzerland and France taught by Henry D. Fernandez.
Awards & Honors
PROGRAM Gallery Architect-In-Residence. Berlin, Germany. August 2008.
Collaborating with painter Katie Herzog on an art piece for exhibition at the Circus Gallery in Los angeles in the Fall of 2008.
Sir John Soane Museum Graduate Fellow. 2005.
Awarded research fellowship to conduct on-site survey and archival research at Sir John Soane's Museum in London, uK for 2005. Project title: Stripping away the decorations: the Spatial Logic of Sir John Soane's House & Museum.
1st Prize ID Magazine Global Identity Competition. 2004.
Took first prize in an open competition sponsored by ID Magazine asking entrants to "design a global identity card." Published in the April 2004 issue of ID Magazine.
Symposia / Conferences
MACE International Conference. "Making Architecture More Connected" presentation of Archinect.com as social experiment. Venice Biennale. September 21st, 2008.
Research-In-Progress. "Capitol Concerns" presentation of thesis research. MIT. Cambridge, MA. April 4th, 2008.
South By Southwest Interactive 2008. "Meet the architects" panelist. Austin, TX. March 9, 2008.
Space Rocks. Symposium on architectural representation at Harvard GSD. co-chair. November 9-10, 2008.
South By Southwest Interactive 2001. "Microcontent" panelist. Austin, TX. March 12, 2001.
South By Southwest Interactive 2000. "So You're Creating an Internet Start-up" panelist. Austin, TX. March 12, 2000.
Web '00. New York City & Los Angeles & Washington, DC & San Francisco. 2000.
Invited speaker at a series of traveling conferences held in the US. Presented about the use of layering to create visually rich, next generation user interfaces.
Web '00. Washington, DC & San Francisco. 2000.
Invited speaker at a series of traveling conferences held in the US. Moderated a panel discussion about the then-emergent field of web applications.
Web '99. San Francisco & Austin & Boston. 1999.
Invited speaker at a series of traveling conferences held in the US. Presented about the use of layering to create visually rich, next generation user interfaces.
Exhibitions
Internationale Architectuur Biennale Rotterdam. Kunsthal, Rotterdam. May 24-September 2, 2007.
StudioWorks. Gund Hall Gallery, Harvard GSD. october 17-november 14, 2007.
StudioWorks. Gund Hall Gallery, Harvard GSD. Forthcoming Fall 2008.
International Contemporary Furniture Fair. Javits Center, New York City. Summer 2005.
As a job captain for a group project: designed, constructed, and installed a 1000 square foot exhibition booth for the Swedish Trade Council under the direction of Toshiko Mori.
Interior Architecture Dept Review. Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School Of Design. Winter 2003.
Animations and drawings from Fall 2002 studio project on exhibit. Member of group that designed and fabricated the exhibition.
Editorial Positions
Senior Editor. Archinect.com. Fall 2004-ongoing
Editorial Assistant. StudioWorks 13. Harvard GSD. Summer 2008 (publication forthcoming)
Editorial Assistant. Valcucine: a Case Study in design ideology. Harvard GSD. Fall 2006-2008.
Selected Publications by Bryan Boyer
Archinect.com. "Putting Utopia Back To Work". October 28, 2008.
Shadows & Straws. Broadsheet newspaper. Run of 500 printed in Cambridge, MA. January 2008.
Archinect.com. "Blue Monday: AUDC Explores Empire". July 23, 2007.
Archinect.com. "Architecture's Second Life ". January 9, 2007.
ID Magazine Online. "Conference Report: Design Indaba 2004". 2004.
Selected Publications & Broadcast Media by others on the work of Bryan Boyer
Power Breakfast hosted by Todd Zwillich. NPR. WAMU 88.5 FM, Washington, DC. October 14, 2008. MP3 Link
StudioWorks 13. Ortega, Lluis. Harvard GSD, Cambridge, MA. Forthcoming Fall 2008.
StudioWorks 12. Meijerink, Paula. Harvard GSD, Cambridge, MA. 2007.
Boston Globe. "The Minimalist touch" by Muther, Christopher. March 8, 2007.
DesignSponge.com "It's A Boy!" by Bonney, Grace. February 16, 2007.
Smart Materials In Architecture, Interior Architecture And Design. Ritter, Alex. Birkhauser, Basel. 2006.
Studioworks 11. Macdonald, Joe. 2003-2005. Harvard GSD, Cambridge, MA. 2005.
I.D. Magazine. "Border Game" by Lasky, Julie. March/April 2004. Vol. 51 no. 2.
SOM Journal 3. Bunshaft, Gordon. Hatje Cantz Publishers, Ostfildern, Germany. 2004.
Playboy Magazine. "Living Online." September 2000. Vol. 47 no. 9.
Skills & Software
Rhino 3d, autocad, cinema 4d (including animation), Solidworks, Form Z
Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Final Cut, Flash
Good modelling and shop skills, inclucing preparation of files for 3d printing
Fluent in: Rhinoscript, PHP, MySQL, Javascript, Actionscript, HTML, CSS
Extensive archival research experience