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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.

Ottoist Diversions, the first investigation in the series, takes the techniques and ethics embedded in Frei Otto’s form finding procedures into the larger realm of what can be defined as pattern breeding, a method of generation of material organizations that transcends the association of structural systems to universal, absolute, self-evident, and fixed sets of relationships through the poignancy of the singular, the relative, the systematically contingent, and the adjustably assembled.