Lars Spuybroek

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Lars Spuybroek has been researching the relationship between art, architecture and computing since the early 1990s. He received international recognition after building the HtwoOexpo in 1997, the first building in the world that incorporates new media and consists of a continuous geometry. With his Rotterdam-based office NOX he built the D-Tower, an interactive structure changing color with the emotions of the inhabitants of a city (in collaboration with Q. S. Serafijn), and the Son-O-house, a public artwork that generates music by visitors exploring the space (in collaboration with Edwin van der Heide). In Lille, France, he built a cluster of cultural buildings (Maison Folies) in 2004. He published his 400-page monograph with Thames & Hudson, NOX: Machining Architecture, and the first fully theoretical account of his work titled The Architecture of Continuity with V2_NAI publishers.

Lars Spuybroek has won several prizes and has exhibited all over the world, among them presentations at the Venice Biennale, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Victoria & Albert in London and the Guggenheim Bilbao. He taught at many different universities such as Columbia University in New York, the Bartlett in London, ESARQ in Barcelona and from 2001 to 2006 he was Professor of Digital Design Techniques in Kassel, Germany.

Since 2006 he is Professor of Architecture and the Ventulett Distinguished Chair at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. As the Ventulett chair he started the Research & Design book series with The Architecture of Variation (Thames and Hudson, 2009) and Textile Tectonics (NAI Publishers, 2011), publications that combine theoretical with methodological research and design. His latest publication (The Sympathy of Things: Ruskin and the Ecology of Design) is a theoretical revisiting of the ideas of John Ruskin.