Emergent Architecture: SIMAE-Conference, Barcelona
On invitation by the ESARQ, Sandra and I joined into the SIMAE Conference in Barcelona. The intense, three day conference covered a wide range of issues involved in the field of contemporary architecture design. The speakers could be devided into three categories: Practitioners of the Architecture discipline, Theorists and figures involved in
It was also great to see the support of the conference for the younger generation of companies and persons focused on computational design in architecture, such as Marc Fornes (The VeryMany) and Andrew Kudless (MaterialSystems). The three days of the conference rushed bye in high speed, and I will only point out one or the other issue that grabbed my attention, such as a great discussion on the issues of beauty, elegance and sensibilities between Neal Leach, Ali Rahim and Evan Douglis; a great lecture by Biologist Julian Vincent on Biomimetics and Andrew Kudlesses lecture on Material Behavior and Formation.
