Jordan Geiger
Assistant Professor
office : Hayes Annex C 01B
phone : 716 829 5909
e-mail : jordang@buffalo.edu
websites: http://cast.ap.buffalo.edu and http://ga-ga.org
Assistant Professor Jordan Geiger holds a Master of Architecture from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Literature from UC Berkeley.
His research and design practice address time-based and temporary constructions, and collaborative, interdisciplinary methods of practice. Projects cross architecture and interaction design, considering implications of human computer interaction for social and environmental issues. He directs Ga-Ga (founded 2002), a design studio that has produced projects ranging in scale and type from installation and gallery design to urban design and agricultural land use proposals. The work has been exhibited and published internationally, including Exit Art (2010), the ZeroOne festival (2008), the American Institute of Architects (2005) and the Dieppe Biennial “Tide is High” (2005). Geiger contributes to conferences and symposia, including Performance Studies International (2010), UbiComp’s “ExUrban Noir” workshop (2006), “Philosophies of Architecture / Architectures of Philosophy” (2004) and “New Cities New Media” (2003). He has served on the curatorial committee at Southern Exposure (2007-9). In 2008, he co-organized the exhibition “Vapor” and the associated “Vapor Symposium” in San Francisco. Both of these presented architecture, design and art engaged with new technologies to address issues of air pollution and climate change.
At UB, he is a faculty member of the Center for Architecture and Situated Technologies (CAST) and of the Information and Computing Technologies Strategic Strength. Geiger has previously taught architecture, urban design and advanced interdisciplinary studios and seminars at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, at UC Berkeley, and at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco.
