STUDIO PROFILE
KRUYSMAN / PROTO, LLC
Brandon Kruysmand and Jonathan Proto is a San Francisco based studio working at the intersection of design and technology. Leveraging expertise in computational design, robotics, and interactive environments, the studio has extensive experience in bringing conceptual ideas to physical form across a range of scales.
Brandon and Jonathan both hold a Masters of Architecture from The Southern California Institute of Architecture, where they recieved the 2011 Thesis Prize for their research in design robotics. ...Bachelors of Architecture from Philadelphia University.
for general inquiries:
studio [at] kruysmanproto.com
Over the years we’ve had the privilege to collaborate with some amazingly talented people. Cheers to the incredible folks at Google X, Bot & Dolly, SCI-Arc, Point b Design, Skylar Tibbits and Jared Laucks, Marc Fornes and too many others along the way!
Selected Projects
2017 -- Lightweight Prototype @ One Night Stand, LA
2016 -- Belo Awards, Airbnb - SF
2015 -- Digital Sundial, Google - Mountain View
2014 -- Can’t Stop, Autodesk - Las Vegas
2014 -- Box, Bot & Dolly - SF
2013 -- Chandelier, K/P - LA
2012 -- Germany’s Next Top Model, SCI-Arc - LA
2012 -- Robot duet with Holley Farmer of Merce Cunningham Dance Company, LA
Selected Teaching / Workshops
2017 -- 3 day workshop at ACADIA: Disciplines & Disruption
2014 -- 3 day robotics workshop at Rob|Arch, UMichigan
2014 -- 1 day motion control workshop, Robot Film Festival, SF
2012 -- 3 day robotics workshop at Rob|Arch, Vienna AU
2012 -- 1 day robotics workshop at ACADIA: Synthetic Digital Ecologies, CCA
2012 -- Eye, Robot Seminar, SCI-Arc
2012 -- Co-taught Squished Skins Seminar w/ Tom Wiscombe, SCI-Arc
2012 -- Co-taught Real/Fake Studio w/ Peter Testa, SCI-Arc
Selected Lectures / Exhibits
2016 -- Panelist at Dwell on Design Conference, LA
2015 -- Exhibit ‘Chandelier 01’ at Maker Maker, Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture
2014 -- Industry Keynote Lecture, Rob|Arch UMichigan
2014 -- Lecture at Creative Architecture Machines Colloquium, CCA
2014 -- Peer Reviewed essay “ Impossible Objects” published in AD Journal
2012 -- Panelist at Design Computation Symposium, Autodesk University, Las Vegas
2012 -- SCI-Arc Fellows Talk
2011 -- Peer Reviewed essay “Machine Perturbations” published in PLAT 1.5 Architectural Journal
2011 -- Featured in Architectural Record article “A Fetish for Fabrication”