Matias del Campo
with Sandra Manninger as SPAN
Matias del Campo is an architect, designer, and theorist, currently serving as director of the MS ACT program (Architecture, Computational Technology) and as associate professor at New York Institute of Technology. He co-founded SPAN in Vienna in 2003 with Sandra Manninger, establishing a practice renowned for its integration of contemporary technologies in architectural production. SPAN's award-winning designs are shaped by the intersection of computational methodologies and philosophical interrogations, a conceptual framework they describe as "design ecology." del Campo's innovative contributions have been recognized through prestigious awards, including the Accelerate@CERN fellowship and the AIA Studio Prize. His pioneering work in the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in architecture design has yielded multiple accolades, including the ACADIA Innovative Research Award of Excellence. His work is part of the permanent collections of notable institutions such as the FRAC Orleans, the MAK in Vienna, the Luciano Benetton Collection in Treviso, the Pinakothek Munich, the Albertina, and multiple private collections. He has authored several books on AI and architecture such as "Neural Architecture" (ORO), "Diffusions" (Wiley), "Machine Hallucinations" (Wiley) and "Artificial Intelligence and Architecture" (Wiley).
JURY
Edek Bartz
Margaret Griffin
Elke Krystufek
Simon Rees
Peter Noever
FINAL PROJECT
