Lecture date: 2014-02-03
Before the delineation of design manners, architecture upgrades modalities of material organization in a body of knowledge, structuring process of formation and introducing procedural consistency where there is systemic divergence, stability where there is dynamics, and order where there is differentiation. Architecture simultaneously programs materials and embodies material programs. It both guides and follows structuring processes, internalizing capabilities and constituting an abstract engine that transforms forces into poignant organizations.
Ciro Najle is the director of GDB General Design Bureau, an architectural office and research lab in Buenos Aires. He is Dean of the School of Architecture and Urban Studies of the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, and a visiting professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Najle is the founder and former Director of the Landscape Urbanism Graduate Design Programme and Diploma Unit Master at the AA School.
