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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.

Ricolaisiac Propagations, the third investigation in the series, takes the techniques and experiments taking part in Le Ricolais’ automorphism into an aesthetic system characterized by controlled self-indulgence, a state of tense structural interactivity and loose architectural specificity that opens the territory of practice where structural rationality and architectural complex determinacy are mutually modulated without dependence on program, scale, site, material, or calculus.