Matias del Campo
Matias del Campo is a Chilean born Austrian architect, designer and educator, co-founder of the architectural practice SPAN.
Education and Early Career[edit]
Matias del Campo graduated from the University of Applied Arts Vienna in 2003, receiving a Master of Architecture with distinction.
His ideology is a reflexion of the explorations he manifests towards contemporary tendacies, representing an alloy between “materialization protocols in nature, cutting-edge technologies and philosophical inquiry which together form a comprehensive design ecology” [1].
During his tenure within the Hans Hollein studio at Die Angewandte, he was first introduced to Computational Design, being one of the students chosen by Hollein to learn programming in UNIX and test 3D modeling packages.
Matias del Campo is one of the pioneers of generative design and one of the most prominent figures in the field. In an interview with Sabina Barcucci for Digicult.it, the interviewer noted:
"Let’s start from the beginning: conversing with an architect like Del Campo means questioning those that want to represent innovation in spatial terms without merely inventing or following a language. He is instead constructing an epistemological framework from practice and procedures that are based on the newly acquired knowledge that we increasingly dominate through science and technology."
Barcucci, Sabina, Digicult.it,[2].
SPAN[edit]
In 2003, alongside architect Sandra Manninger, he started the architectural practice SPAN, a bureau with offices in Vienna and Shanghai, and one of the first offices to focus on computational design in Vienna. The practice is currently developing projects in Jakarta, Malaysia, Wuhan, Chengdu, Guangzhou and Shanghai, China.
Initially, the practice started gaining a reputation in Vienna for its radically advanced projects, becoming supported by the Architecture Center Vienna, which showcased their work and commisioned the bureau with exhibition designs and for the remodeling of the center’s headquarters, and won an award from the Austrian Experimental Architecture awards. The studio thinks of architecture as a process [3].
SPAN started gaining international recognition in 2010, when the architects won the competition for the Austrian Pavilion within the Shanghai World Expo, as well as the newest Brancusi Museum in Paris, France[4] . In 2011, MAK (Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna) invited SPAN to conduct a solo show in their gallery[5]. , other architecture practices invited to the exhibition series include Greg Lynn, Asymptote, FOA, and Lebbeus Woods[6] .
Now a widely, internationally recognized practice, SPAN’s work was featured at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale, at ArchiLab 2013 at the FRAC Centre, Orléans, France[7] , the 2008 and 2010 Architecture Biennale in Beijing, and in the 2011 solo show ‘Formations’ at the Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) Vienna. Most recently, SPAN´s work was highlighted in a solo exhibit at the Fab Union Gallery in Shanghai China.
The practice is known for actively practicing in building design and at the same time elaborating the theoretical and discoursive base for novel developments. All projects are conceptualized as vehicles of exploration.
Teaching[edit]
Matias del Campo currently teaches as an Associate Professor of Architecture within the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. He has also been a Lecturer within the University of Pennsylvania, Penn Design Philadelphia, and a Guest Professor at the Dessau Institute of Architecture, Germany.
Research, Writing and Lectures[edit]
In 2015, Matias del Campo received the Accelerate@CERN[8] fellowship Award Research award, courtesy of the Swiss CERN Institute, a one month artist residency within CERN, aimed to artists which are spending for the first time within a science laboratory. Together with Sandra Manninger, the two architects spent the month of May 2016 within the Institute, their research being true to that of SPAN philosophy, aiming to “go beyond beautiful data to discover something that could be defined voluptuous data. This coagulation of numbers, algorithms, procedures and programs uses the forces of thriving nature and, passing through the calculation of a multi-core processor, knits them with human desire.”[9]
Matias del Campo has been a guest editor for Next Generation Building, by TU Delft, in March 2016, and in November 2016 for the AD Magazine in London, UK.
His newest book premiered on the 22nd of March 2017, entitled ''Sublime Bodies, Architectural Problems in the Postdigital Age'', published by Tokyo University Press, Shanghai, and is featured both in Chinese and English.
He has contributed to many publications in the field of Computational Design, such as Marjan Colletti’s Digital Poetics (Ashgate 2013) or Mark Burry’s Scripting Culture: Architectural Design and Programming (Wiley 2011).
In 2016, del Campo was Technical Chair of the ACADIA conference Material Frontiers 2 - Synthetic Biologies, currating and moderating the discussion. He has lectured worlwide, within institutions such as IAAC, [10] in January 2017, RMIT Australia in 2015, The Tokyo University in July 2015, La Sapienza Rome in February 2015, Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien, UCLA [11], TU Innsbruck in 2012 or Hyperbody Studio TU Delft, Netherlands in 2008.
Awards[edit]
2016 Innovation in Glass Award Research award of Guardian Glass
2016 Guardian Glass Research Gift, RGB Robotic Glass Blowing
2015 Accelerate @Cern [12] Award Research award of the Swiss CERN Institute
2013 Best Paper award, DADA Conference , Beijing[13]
2005 Traveling Award University of Die Angewandte
2006 MAK Schindler Scholarship[14]
References[edit]
- ↑ del Campo, Matias. https://taubmancollege.umich.edu/faculty/directory/matias-del-campo
- ↑ Barcucci, Sabina. Digicult.it. http://www.digicult.it/design/voluptuous-data-matias-del-campo-and-span-architects/
- ↑ https://www.archdaily.com/127503/formations-a-span-exhibition-at-the-mak-gallery
- ↑ designboom, https://www.designboom.com/architecture/span-to-design-new-brancusi-museum-in-paris/
- ↑ http://www.mak.at/en/program/event?event_id=1337668286676&article_id=974
- ↑ http://www.mak.at/en/program/event?event_id=1337668286676&article_id=974
- ↑ http://www.frac-centre.fr/_en/art-and-architecture-collection/span-316.html?authID=368
- ↑ Accelerate@Cern program. http://arts.cern/accelerate
- ↑ Barcucci, Sabina, digimag 64 http://arts.cern/accelerate-austria
- ↑ Lecture part of the IAAC Winter Lecture Series. https://iaac.net/matias-del-campo-winter-lecture-series-2017/
- ↑ http://www.aud.ucla.edu/lectures/detail/a-ud-lecture-series-2011-2012-matias-del-campo-.html
- ↑ Accelerate@Cern program, http://arts.cern/accelerate
- ↑ Conference organized by the Digital Architecture Design Association (DADA). http://www.dada.org.cn/html/
- ↑ The MAK Schindler Scholarship Program at the Mackey Apartments, Los Angeles / MAK Artists and Architects-in-Residence Program . https://www.mak.at/en/the_mak/mak_schindler_scholarship/call_for_applications__preamble
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