:::The 3rd Beijing Architecture Bienniale:::

Latin-America section curator Matias del Campo head and co-founder with Sandra Manninger of SPAN (Office based in Vienna Austria) invited R[e]thinking Architecture : R[e]thinking Academic Series as part of his selection for a total of six offices in Latin-America. This section included XerifoArch, PATTERNS, SUBdV, Pablo C. Herrera and SPAN. I am including some photographs from the opening ceremony, cover and index from the publication and some pictures from our entry.

(Im)material Processes: New Digital Techniques for Architecture: "Code, it would seem, is everywhere. We are beginning to understand that much of our natural environment is based on rule-based behaviors, from the emergent swarm intelligence of flocks of birds and schools of fish, to the complex patterns of snow flakes, ferns, sea shells and zebra skins. And nothing escapes. Not even the human body. The human genome is being mapped out and sequenced by scientist to provide a genetic blueprint of human life itself."[1].

R[e]thinking Architecture : R[e]thinking Academic Series work lies at the intersection of continuos information between computer science, through structural geometry and parametric design, to complex modelling, digital fabrication, material intelligence, evolutionary computation, physical computing and real-time interactivity. 

I want to extend my gratitude to Matias del Campo, Neil Leach and Xu Weiguo for the invitation and their enormous effort for making it happen!

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1. Leach, N., (Im)material Processes : New Digital Techniques for Architecture, China Architecture & Building Press, China 2008, 274 (a short extract from the introduction, p-7), ISBN 978-7-112-10395-9.