This week our guest lecturer Matias del Campo, invited as part of the Winter Lecture Series 2016, inspired the audience with his lecture: The Ontological Catastrophe of Messy but Precise Aesthetics.

Matias del Campo’s lecture focused on the multiplicitous relationships between form, architectural lineages, materialization, the desires of things, and contemporary moods within the work of SPAN.

SPAN gained wide recognition for its winning competition entry for the Austrian Pavilion of the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, as well as the new Brancusi Museum in Paris, France.

Del Campo addressed in his talk one of the major differences between the processes and progresses achieved around the turn to the 21st century: the dismissal of the tool as a mean to shape the architectural conversation.