1st Edition

Biodesign in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Deep Green

By Claudia Pasquero, Marco Poletto Copyright 2023
364 Pages 150 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

364 Pages 150 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

364 Pages 150 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

Biodesign in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Deep Green investigates the potential of nature-based technology for shaping the evolution of contemporary architecture and design. It takes on the now pervasive topic of design intelligence, extending its definition to encompass both biological and digital realms. As in their first title, Systemic Architecture: Operating... Read more

Preface by Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto

Introduction by Sir. Peter Cook

Part 1: PhotoSynthetica

PhotoSynthetica

Projects 1.01: PhotoSynthetica test beds, pilot projects and early adoptions

Biotechnological architecture: On culturalizing the urban microbiome

Projects 1.02: Bio-digital sculptures. Designing the living

Environmentalism beyond ideology: Reprogramming the blue-green city

Projects 1.03: Cybergardening the city

Part 2: Deep Green

Polycephalum: A journey through architecture, bio-computation and cognition

Projects 2.01: Synthetic landscapes

Projects 2.02: Deep planning

Tomatoes and the Immortality of the Soul by Prof. Mario Carpo

Biography

Claudia Pasquero is co-founder and director of ecoLogicStudio, lecturer and director of the Urban Morphogenesis Lab at The Bartlett UCL, and professor and director of the Synthetic Landscape Lab at Innsbruck University.

Marco Poletto is an architect, educator and innovator based in London. He is co-founder and director of the architectural practice ecoLogicStudio and the design innovation venture PhotoSynthetica, focussed on developing architectural solutions to fight climate change.