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Emergent Architecture: SIMAE-Conference, Barcelona

Apr 14, 2008
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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

Neil Leach

the information of the Architecture field. Whilst Ali Rahim, head of the New York based company CAP and Evan Douglis definitely belong into the first category, Neal Leach, Michael Winestock and Bernard Cache belong to the second. (Yes, I know, Bernard Cache is fabricating a lot around this days, but I still don´t consider him an entrepreneur.)

Ali Rahim

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.