Studios

Teaching staff & structure 2019-20

Introduction to Genetics and Biodigital Architecture
Prof. Alberto T. Estévez (Director),
Biodigital Architecture
Prof. Josep Corcó,
The Emergent Character of Life
Prof. Gabriel Fernández,
Theories of Complexity &
Envisioning Futures Workshop
Prof. Agustí Fontarnau,
Intro to Genetics
Prof. Judith Urbano,
Gaudí & Dalí, Source of Biodigital
Prof. Ignasi Pérez Arnal,
Ecomaterials

Information Systems: Digital Tools and Organic Forms
Prof. Pablo Baquero,
Design with Nature using object oriented programming
Prof. Dragos Brescan,
Adapted & Adaptive: environmental evaluation for generative design (Ladybug)
Prof. Effimia Giannopoulou,
Computational basis of natural forms and patterns
Prof. Affonso Orciuoli,
Interconnections Design - Digital Fabrication Workshop & Tiny House
Prof. Angad Warang,
Rhino & Grasshopper Workshop

Genetic and Biodigital Architectonical Design
Prof. Alberto T. Estévez (Director),
Biodigital Architecture Studio
Prof. Yomna Abdullah,
Biological processes in design practice
Prof. Dennis Dollens,
Metabolic Architecture Studio
Prof. Abdul Harib,
Digital Strategies for Architecture
Prof. Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa,
The Politics of Big Data: from Survey to Ideal, back to an Informed Realism
Prof. Ariel Valenzuela,
Biodigital Robotics Workshop

Master Thesis
Prof. Alberto T. Estévez (Director)
Prof. Pablo Baquero
Prof. Agustí Fontarnau

Previous editions

Matias del Campo - Sandra Manninger Studio

Matias del Campo y Sandra Manninger son arquitectos por la Escuela de Artes Aplicadas de Viena Angewandte y actualmente son profesores en la University of Michigan. Juntos fundan y dirigen la firma de arquitectura Span.

Más información:
www.span-arch.org

"Floral Obsession" is an exploration in floral conditions as a matter of design. Reaching from the topological manyfold figures, to Surface Articulation (veining, rippling, frazzling, smooth etc.) to the coloration and various chromatic effects. It is not just about creating an understanding, but about explorations rooted within contemporary scientific insights.
The manyfold expression of form can result in various spatial conditions that will be explored by the students for their potentials as a performative surface as well as for the Economy of Form.

Digital Fabrication Workshop Prof. Affonso Orciuoli (with P. Baquero, E. Giannopoulou and A. Warang)

Karl S. Chu Studio

Arquitecto. Principal de la firma Metaxy y Co-Director del Máster Universitario en Arquitectura BioDigital de la ESARQ (UIC) así como director del Instituto de Arquitecturas Genéticas (IGA) en la Escuela de Arquitectura, Planeamiento y Restauración de la Universidad de Columbia en Nueva York.

Más información:
Karl Chu - Metaxy

Desarrollo de la arquitectura mediante sistemas morfogenéticos, que centran su interés en el modelado de la forma a través de la información genética, mediante el uso de la computación para la generación de algoritmos evolutivos.

Development of architecture through morphogenetic systems, which are centered on obtaining form from genetical information, through computational tools for the generation of evolutive algorithms.

Evan Douglis Studio

Arquitecto, diseñador e investigador por la Universidad Cooper Union y Master por la Escuela de Diseño de la Universidad de Arquitectura de Harvard. Principal de Evan Douglis Stuido LLC, y actualmente Director de la Escuela de Arquitectura en el Instituto Politécnico Rensselear de Nueva York.

Más información:
www.evandouglis.com

An architecture and inter-disciplinary design firm committed to innovative design.The firm's unique and cutting edge research into self-generative systems, membrane technology, contemporary fabricational techniques and multi-media installations as applied to a range of diverse projects. The emphasis of this multi-task research and design lab is aimed at synthesizing a broad-based ecology of theoretical and pragmatic concerns, en route to discovering new paradigms of haptic interaction.

Dennis Dollens Studio

Arquitecto, diseñador, investigador y editor. Principal de la firma de arquitectura biodigital Exodesic Architecture afincada en Santa Fe (EE.UU.) y Barcelona.

Más información:
Dennis Dollens - Tumbletruss

Bio-observación, código generativo, y software de crecimiento para hibridación digital y formas de emergencia, superficies, y estructuras arquitectónicas donde células vivas son testeadas como componentes vivos de futuras superficies constructivas.

Bio-observation, Generative Code, and Software Growth for digitally hybridizing & growing architectural forms, surfaces, structures, and emerging fields where living cells are being tested as components of future building surfaces.

Alberto T. Estevez Studio

Alberto T. Estévez (Barcelona, 1960), Architect (UPC, 1983), Architecture Ph.D. of Sciences (UPC, 1990), Art Historian (UB, 1994), Art History Ph.D. of Arts (UB, 2008): With professional office of architecture and design (Barcelona, 1983-today). Teaching in different universities for more than 35 years, in the knowledge’s areas of architectural design, architectural theory and art history, until founding the ESARQ (UIC Barcelona, 1996), where he teaches like Professor in Architecture, after being its first Director. He founded also two research lines with two masters’ degrees and Ph.D. programmes: “Genetic Architectures / Biodigital Architecture” (UIC, 2000- today) and “History, Architecture and Design” (UIC, 1998- today). He was also the Founder and 1st Director of the UIC PhD Program of Architecture. He has written more than two hundred publications and has participated in a large number of exhibitions, congresses and conferences around Europe, America and Asia. (www.albertoestevez.com) He was also Vice-Chancellor/General-Manager of UIC Barcelona (Universitat Internacional de Catalunya), and now he is the Founder and Director of iBAG-UIC Barcelona (iNSTITUTE FOR BiODiGITAL ARCHITECTURE & GENETICS).

Más información:
www.albertoestevez.com

Bio-learning: investigaciones en torno a la enseñanza que la naturaleza como libro abierto mantiene siempre presente a nuestros ojos, creando protocolos científicos de aplicación genética a la arquitectura, para un coherente y eficiente diseño de estructura, forma / espacio y piel.

Bio-learning: researches related to the teaching that nature, as an open book, keeps always visible to our eyes, creating "scientific protocols" of genetic applications to architecture, for a coherent and efficient design of architecture, form / space and skin.

François Roche Studio

Arquitecto. Principal de la firma de arquitectura R&Sie(n). Profesor en la Escuela de Arquitectura, Planeamiento y Restauración de la Universidad de Columbia, Nueva York, en la Escuela de Arquitectura de la Universidad USC de Los Angeles y en la Universidad de Artes Aplicadas de Viena Angewandte.

Más información:
www.new-territories.com

Escenarios de hibridación, injerto, clonación, morphing, dan lugar a una transformación perpetua de la arquitectura que lucha para romper con las antinomias entre objeto/sujeto, u objeto/territorio.

Scenarios of hybridization, grafting, cloning, morphing give rise to perpetual transformation of architecture which strives to break down the antinomies of object/subject or object/territory.