William Martin

Current

• Cofounder at Anomalus Design
• Assistant Professor of Structures and Design at New York Institute of Technology

Past

• Urban Planner at Alex Garvin & Associates
• webmaster at Amman Imman
• Designer at Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects

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Education

• Yale School of Architecture
• Yale University

Connections

41 connections

Industry

Design

William Martin’s Summary

Designer with experience in architecture, urban planning, graphic design, interaction design, programming, web design and development, and teaching. Some experience with publishing and printing, editing, copy writing, information architecture, artificial intelligence, electronics, prototyping interfaces, and music.

Interested in interaction design and social media. Looking to work a multi-disciplinary environment that thrives on innovation, open exchange of ideas, and solving unique problems involving design and technology.

William Martin’s Specialties:

computational design in architecture, web interfaces, icon design, building information modeling (Revit), 3d modeling (Maya, Rhino, and SketchUp), rendering (Maxwell), HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, PHP, Ruby on Rails, Java, Processing, Wiring (electronics prototyping), C++, RhinoScript

William Martin’s Experience

• Cofounder

  Anomalus Design

  (Design industry)

  July 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

  Current projects include a creative social network called Ideafeed, a personal financial forecasting web application called Addimus, a social web application iThoughtfully, and some small industrial design projects.

• Assistant Professor of Structures and Design

  New York Institute of Technology

  (Educational Institution; Architecture & Planning industry)

  September 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)

  I am working to integrate structural engineering and architectural design both in the classroom and in the design studio.

• Urban Planner

  Alex Garvin & Associates

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Architecture & Planning industry)

  September 2007 — August 2008 (1 year )

  Involves research and analysis, planning, urban design, graphic and web design.

• webmaster

  Amman Imman

  (Design industry)

  2006 — 2007 (1 year )

• Designer

  Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Architecture & Planning industry)

  June 2000 — July 2002 (2 years 2 months)

  I worked an a miscellany of projects in all phases, building models, producing schematic design and design development drawings. I worked on construction documents on an institutional lab building at UCLA. I also designed and produced exhibitions of the firm's work.

William Martin’s Education

• Yale School of Architecture

  M.Arch. , Architecture , 2002 — 2006

  Received: AIA/AAF Scholarship for First Professional Degree Candidates (2005), presented by the American Institute of Architects and the American Architectural Foundation.
  Graduated with: Herman D.J. Spiegel Scholarship from the Yale School of Architecture ("For the student who best brings together both the study of structures and its implications in his or her design projects.").

  Activities and Societies:

  Retrospecta 2004-5 (annual journal of student work for the Yale School of Architecture): editor-in-chief,
  Palimpsest 3: Yale Graduate Arts and Literary Magazine: graphic designer + programmer

• Yale University

  B.A. , Architecture , 1997 — 2001

  Activities and Societies:

  Graduated with honors in the major: Honores in Architectura, awarded by Yale College.

Additional Information

William Martin’s Interests:

interaction design, algorithmic architecture, user interfaces, industrial design, digital design tooling, innovation processes, information design, new visualization technologies, tangible and spatial computing, generative and emergent design, evolutionary computation, artificial intelligence, artificial life, ubiquitous computing, ambient information systems, environments design, smart building design, piano, guitar, violin, photography, argentine tango, iaido, kendo

William Martin’s Groups:

Forum for Urban Design

•    Yale School of Architecture

William Martin’s Honors:

Herman D.J. Spiegel Scholarship, Yale School of Architecture, 2006
AIA/AAF Scholarship for First Professional Degree Candidates, American Institute of Architects and American Architectural Foundation, Yale School of Architecture, 2005
Distinction in the Major (architecture, design concentration), Yale University, 2001

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