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Tutor: Theodore Spyropoulos

Our research i based on the creation of a soft-‐ body architecture, which is made to challenge and discuss the notion of rigidity and motionlessness in architectural creation and thinking. In our research, we have defined soft as the in-‐ between line, linking static and dynamic, rigid and liquid. It is the constant shifting in this line where we find a soft-‐ body architecture. By rethinking some of the basic and fundamental aspects of architecture such as, how does the building meet the ground, how is the building able to continuously change and reconfigure itself1, and what does structural stability mean in relation to the notion of softness, we are able to create a soft inhabitable space capable of moving, merging and combining2 in order to create a larger organization with the capacity of structuring a soft-‐ body architecture.
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Design Research Laboratory (AADRL) and the experimental design studio Minimaforms examining a behavior-based agenda that engages experimental forms of material and social interaction. Cybernetic and systemic thinking through seminal forms of prototyping and experimentation will situate the work through continued experiments that have manifested since the early 1950s as maverick machines, architectures and computational practices exploring the generative potential of self-regulating phenomena as proto-architectural environments. Through explicit models of interactions, observable patterns and proto-animalistic agency; the research will discuss the capacity of these systems to evolve, adapt and self-structure through computation.
Theodore Spyropoulos is an architect and educator. He is the Director of the Architectural Association’s innovative team-based M. Arch program the Design Research Lab [DRL] (London). He has been a visiting Research Fellow at M.I.T.’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies working with the Interrogative Design Group and co-founded the New Media Research Initiative at the Architectural Association. He has taught in the graduate school of the University of Pennsylvania and the Royal College of Art, Innovation Design Engineering Department.