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Material Discipline is a research series developed across several design studios to systematically explore the latent potentials that the work of key engineering practices from the XX century (Pier Luigi Nervi, Richard Buckminster Fuller, Robert Le Ricolais, Felix Candela, and Eladio Dieste, among others) has for architecture, in terms of the revision of its dominant conventions in the understanding of materials, organizations, and techniques, and the construction of new design models.

Nervian Iterations, the second investigation in the series, takes the techniques and logics embedded in Pier Luigi Nervi’s art of building into an operative model defined as machinic tectonics, a system of generation and production that transcends at once the encapsulation in the problem-solving ethics of traditional engineering and the idealism present in the representational attitude of the classical western architect, integrating both in a synergetic construction- driven practice.