Joshua G SteinJoshua G. Stein is the founder of Radical Craft and the co-director of the Data Clay Network (www.data-clay.org), a forum for the exploration of digital techniques applied to ceramic materials. Radical Craft (www.radical-craft.com) is a Los Angeles-bsed studio that advances design tactics steeped in history--from archaeology to craft--to produce contemporary urban spaces and artifacts while evolving newly grounded approaches to the challenges posed by virtuality, velocity, and globalization. Stein is co-editor of Dingbat 2.0, the first full-length publication on the iconic Los Angeles apartment building type and has received numerous grants, awards, and fellowships, including multiple grants from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the AIA Upjohn research award, and the 2010-11 Marion O. and Maximilian E. Hoffman Rome Prize Fellowship in Architecture. He is a former member of the LA Forum Board of Directors and has taught at the California College of the Arts, Cornell University, SCI-Arc, and the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design. He is Professor of Architecture at Woodbury University where he also directs The Institute of Material Ecologies (T-IME). Read More Read Less