Chris Chalmers

Current

Founding Partner at BIOS Design Collective

Past

Designer at Jensen Architects
consultant at IwamotoScott Architecture
Teacher's Assistant at California College of the Arts

Designer / Drafter at Siegel and Strain Architects

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Education

California College of the Arts
University of Oregon

Connections

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Industry

Architecture & Planning

Websites

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Chris Chalmers’s Summary

Chris Chalmers has a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Oregon in Eugene, and a Master of Architecture from California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Trained in context-sensitive and energy efficient design, as well as algorithmic and parametric techniques, Chris' work focuses on the combination of traditional and cutting edge paradigms.

His Work explores the use of agent-based processes, digital fabrication, biomimicry and systems theory in the design of structures and environments centered around enjoyment of the human experience and long-term sustainability.

Chris Chalmers’s Specialties:

parametric design, 3D CAD, modeling, scripting, environmental design, LEED, Energy Efficiency, Ecotect, Revit, Rhino, Grasshopper, Digital Fabrication, Stereolithography, Ecological Design

Chris Chalmers’s Experience

Founding Partner

BIOS Design Collective

(Architecture & Planning industry)

2009 — Present (less than a year)
Designer

Jensen Architects

(Architecture & Planning industry)

July 2008 — March 2009 (9 months)

Jensen Architects is an award-winning architecture and interiors firm based in San Francisco. We work closely with each client to thoroughly understand their needs and to develop solutions that are unique, appropriate, and poetic responses to the constraints and opportunities of the project. In all projects, extreme care is taken to conceptualize comprehensively from the general to the particular so that the end effect conveyed is one of thorough and thoughtful consideration. Numerous design awards and publications have recognized the consistent quality of the firm’s work.
consultant

IwamotoScott Architecture

(Architecture & Planning industry)

May 2008 — August 2008 (4 months)
Teacher's Assistant

California College of the Arts

(Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry)

2006 — 2008 (2 years )
Designer / Drafter

Siegel and Strain Architects

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Architecture & Planning industry)

July 2003 — August 2006 (3 years 2 months)