Curated by its founders, Marie-Ange Brayer, Director of FRAC Centre and Frédéric Migayrou, Deputy Director of the Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, this new event ‘Naturaliser l’architecture’ (Naturalizing Architecture) is devoted to the interaction between digital architecture and the sciences, exploring the
challenges faced in simulating the living world.
Today, through recourse to the most advanced digital tools, architects envisage projects which evolve according to principals similar to those found in nature. In close proximity to science, they develop a high level of proficiency in mathematics, which enables them to artificially simulate formation and growth processes unique to the kingdom of life.
The architecture is therefore designed like an organism in constant adaptation, with the ability to evolve in close interaction with the material conditions of its environment...
Broadly exceeding the boundaries of their practice, architects now develop a practice at the crossroads of design, computer science, engineering and biology. Conditions for production in the domain of architecture are radically redefined by this convergence, as well as by the constant evolution of the processes and tools for digital manufacturing.
For the first time, these new design processes which integrate the fields of robotics, nanotechnology, genetics and biotechnology are presented through research of a new generation.
The following is a list of the 40 architects, designers and artists that have collaborated with their projects in the exhibition:
Architects
[Ay]A Studio (Jorge Ayala) | B+U - Biothing (Alisa Andrasek) | ecoLogicStudio | Eragatory (Isaie Bloch) | EZCT Architecture & Design Research | Faulders Studio (Thom Faulders) | Gage / Clemenceau Architects | Gramazio & Kohler / Raffaello d’Andrea | Michael Hansmeyer (avec Benjamin Dillenburger) | Akihisa Hirata architecture office | junya.ishigami+associates | Kokkugia | MAD Architects | MarcosandMarjan | MaterialEcology (Neri Oxman) | Matsys (Andrew Kudless) | Achim Menges | Minimaforms | Plasma Studio | Ruy Klein | Jenny Sabin | servo | soma | SJET (Skylar Tibbits) | SPAN | Supermanoeuvre | Wendy Teo | MARC FORNES & THEVERYMANY™ | Daniel Widrig | X_TU Architects | Xuberance (Steven Ma).
Designers and fashion designer
Cmmnwlth | Iris van Herpen | Joris Laarman Lab
Artists
Federico Diaz | Perry Hall | Casey Reas | Marius Watz
Place.- Les Turbulences - Frac Centre, 88 rue du Colombier, 45000 Orléans (France).
Date.- From 14th September 2013 to 2nd February 2014.
