ED-Lecture: ecoLogicStudio

ED—LECTURE

Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto, Architects, London
ecoLogicStudio

Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto co-founded ecoLogicStudio in 2004; the office’s work focuses on the development and application of a design method capable of exploiting the latest innovations in digital computational design. The work deploys digital technologies as a means of developing hyper-realities, regimes of intense exchange between the artificial and the natural, the designed and the accidental. Ecology is seen as a conceptual as well as a material paradigm; it is a generative force capable of re-describing current paradigms of inhabitation and manipulation of the environment; methodologically it thrives to develop a new design equation where technological progress equals an intensified symbiotic engagement with natural forces, processes and ecosystems.
Intermediate Unit 10 (Claudia’s and Marco’s unit at the Architectural Association) has used this as a brief to explore architecture as the art of managing material processes unfolding in space and time, and to seek to channel the creative forces latent in this to re-describe common design paradigms. The direct and continuous feedback between the office’s work and the academic research is a fundamental force in the development of ecoLogicStudio’s potential for innovation.??

The innovative nature of ecoLogic’s work has allowed the office to practice internationally and to cooperate within a multidisciplinary network of highly regarded teams. Their clients include a variety of actors from art critics and curators, to academic institutions, to the private and public sector, both in the construction industry and the design realm.