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01-03-2024
External Examiner at the Architectural Association Design Research Lab (AADRL), London, UK.
Programme Director: Theodore Spyropoulos
Studio Leaders: Patrick Schumacher (founder); Shajay Bhooshan; Pierandrea Angius; Theodore Spyropoulos
Examiners: Winka Dubbeldam; Marcos Cruz
27-03-2024
Official launch of the Bioscope with installed biological panels at the St Andrews Botanic Garden, Scotland UK. Under Harry Watkins's leadership SABG is going through an impressive transformation, which the Bioscope is a small part of. On a rainy day, but with a great atmosphere and Gin tasting event, we presented the project to friends and trustess of SABG!
Director SABG: Harry Watkins. Team: Brenda Parker and Marcos Cruz. Collaboration (design): David Edwards. Microbial Pigment Biohybrid panels: Ella Hetherington, UCL Bio-ID. ELM panels: Prantar Tamuli, UCL Bio-ID / Tattva. CNC routing: Hamish Veitch, Lucy Flanders, Mark Burrows, UCL B-Made; McRobb Display Limited, Edinburgh. Construction and pre-assembly: David Watson and Peter Baxter, SABG; David Edwards, Ian Robinson, Ella Hetherington, Prantar Tamuli, Hannah Laeverenz-Schlogelhofer. Structural engineering: Clancy Engineering, Glasgow. Support: WCMT Activate Fund; AHRC Impact Accelerator Award
21-22.03.2024
Bio-ID end-of-term project reviews in Here East at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London UK.
Students: (Year
2) Farida
Radwan; Sophie Kirkpatrick; Maria Creuheras Gonzalez; Natalie Rizk;
Nathanael Myers; Edward Khoury; Yumeng Wei; Gayatri Jain; Xinrui Cai;
Fang-Yu Liu; Rashneet Chhabra; Sahda Salsabila; Daisy Rani Xavier;
Sophia Saleki; Aitch Hunt; Isik Ogutcu; Rida Mughal; Keren Permutti;
Andrita Orbandi; Choi Wing Tse; Chao Chun Kung; (Year 1) Juhi
Dhanesha; Miranda Xiyao Shou; David Humberto Gil Garzon; Robin Kown;
Suchi Chai; Basil Frost; Yingying Yan; Yi-Ning Loh; Grace; Aaushi Mehta;
Ping-Chun Shih; Jana Bakr; Kayan Patel; Arin Aydogdu; Parisa Azizi
Shamami; Xinning; James Zengjie Lang; Sarvin Farhangi; Roba Alfraih;
Xiaomeng Fang
19.03.2024
End-of-term project reviews of C-Biom.A / Marcos Cruz and Ricardo Mayor Luque at Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia / IaaC, Barcelona Spain
Students: Carlos
Alejandro Herrera Flores; Somaih Medhat Abdelaziz Elsayed Bakr; Ruining
Xie; Zhixing Tian; Anish Hatekar; Sunny Manish ChopdaCritics: Alexander Dubor; Francesco Polvi; Laura Civetti; Jessica Dias; Ricardo Mayor Luque; Marcos Cruz
14-03-2024
Opening of Water Pressures exhibition with Augmented Polycultures featured at the Museum of Arts & Crafts / Museum für Kunst & Gewerbe, Hamburg Germany.
Curator: Jane Withers
Design direction: Ria HawthornTeam: Brenda Parker, Marcos Cruz, Nina Jotanović. Robotic ceramic extrusions: Yao Yao Meng, Guillem Perutxet Olesti, Pradeep Devadass. Computational design: Tony Le. Collaboration (robotic extrusions): Yifan Shi. Ceramic slipcast (Belgrade): Nina Jotanović with Dejan Petrović at Stari Zanat. UCL B-Made support: Hamish Veitch, Claudia Toma, Alice Foxen, Mark Burrows. Sponsorship: EPSRC VaxHub Sustainable , University College London
14-15.12.2023
Bio-ID end-of-term project reviews in Here East at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London UK.
Students: (Year
2) Farida Radwan; Sophie Kirkpatrick; Maria Creuheras Gonzalez; Natalie Rizk; Nathanael Myers; Edward Khoury; Yumeng Wei; Gayatri Jain; Xinrui Cai; Fang-Yu Liu; Rashneet Chhabra; Sahda Salsabila; Daisy Rani Xavier; Sophia Saleki; Aitch Hunt; Isik Ogutcu; Rida Mughal; Keren Permutti; Andrita Orbandi; Choi Wing Tse; Chao Chun Kung; (Year 1) Juhi Dhanesha; Miranda Xiyao Shou; David Humberto Gil Garzon; Robin Kown; Suchi Chai; Basil Frost; Yingying Yan; Yi-Ning Loh; Grace; Aaushi Mehta; Ping-Chun Shih; Jana Bakr; Kayan Patel; Arin Aydogdu; Parisa Azizi Shamami; Xinning; James Zengjie Lang; Sarvin Farhangi; Roba Alfraih; Xiaomeng Fang
Tutors/critics: Alexandra Lacatusu; Anete Salmane; Ella Hetherington; Ian Robinson; Tony Le; Javier Ruiz; Pradeep Devadass; Nina Jotanović; Andreas Körner; Brenda Parker; Marcos Cruz
Bacterial culture in petry dish by Parisa Azizi Shamami
Photo credit: Marcos Cruz
13.12.2023
End-of-term project reviews of C-Biom.A / Marcos Cruz and Ricardo Mayor Luque at Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia / IaaC, Barcelona Spain
Students: Carlos Alejandro Herrera Flores; Somaih Medhat Abdelaziz Elsayed Bakr; Ruining Xie; Zhixing Tian; Anish Hatekar; Sunny Manish ChopdaCritics: Ilaena Napier; Oriol Carrasco; Jessica Dias; Mathilde Marengo; Kevin Matar; Ricardo Mayor Luque; Marcos Cruz
13-12-2023
Winning grant for international network focused on Building with Blue Biomass, Copenhagen Denmark.
Principal Investigator: Paul Nicholas
Partners: Paul Nicholas, Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen - CITA / Royal Danish Academy, Copenhagen; Brenda Parker, Marcos Cruz - Bio-ID / The Bartlett School of Architecture & Department of Biochemical Engineering UCL, London; Ben Hankamer - Centre for Solar Biotechnology / University of Queensland, Brisbane; Tim Schork, Fred Teixeira, Muge Teixeira - School of Architecture & Built Environment / University of Queensland, Brisbane; Anders Egede Daugaard - The Danish Polymer Centre / Technical University of Denmark; Peter Normann Vangsbo, Michael Pontoppidan - Arup Denmark, Copenhagen; Lasse Lind - GXN
From algae to seagrass to shellfish. How can renewable marine blue-biomass reduce the carbon footprint of the building industry?
A new international and interdisciplinary network “Building with Blue Biomass” will explore the potentials of marine and aquaculture-based biomass. The aim is to help reduce the carbon footprint of buildings and accelerate the building industry’s transition towards circular and renewable bio-based materials.
A new international and interdisciplinary network “Building with Blue Biomass” will explore the potentials of marine and aquaculture-based biomass. The aim is to help reduce the carbon footprint of buildings and accelerate the building industry’s transition towards circular and renewable bio-based materials.
How can we 3D print building components made from seagrass or algae? Could substitutes for concrete and masonry made from fast growing micro algae help to turn our buildings into carbon sinks? And how can blue biomass contribute to a circular economy of materials?
The international network “Building with Blue Biomass” establishes research collaborations between leading experts from Denmark, Australia and the UK.
The network creates a platform to connect local knowledge and share solutions between countries rich in regenerative blue biomass resources and identify future pathways and research to reduce the environmental impact of the building industry. It is led by the Royal Danish Academy – Architecture, Design, Conservation and includes 3XN/ GXN Architects, the Danish Technical University, Arup, University College London, Queensland University of Technology and University of Queensland.
Paul Nicholas, Associate professor at the Royal Danish Academy – Architecture, Design, Conservation and head of “Building with Blue BioMass” states:
“Our future building culture will be one of bio construction and bio renovation. Marine based materials and advanced manufacturing should play a key role, but we need to consolidate knowledge and translate research to speed up implementation'.
The international network “Building with Blue Biomass” establishes research collaborations between leading experts from Denmark, Australia and the UK.
The network creates a platform to connect local knowledge and share solutions between countries rich in regenerative blue biomass resources and identify future pathways and research to reduce the environmental impact of the building industry. It is led by the Royal Danish Academy – Architecture, Design, Conservation and includes 3XN/ GXN Architects, the Danish Technical University, Arup, University College London, Queensland University of Technology and University of Queensland.
Paul Nicholas, Associate professor at the Royal Danish Academy – Architecture, Design, Conservation and head of “Building with Blue BioMass” states:
“Our future building culture will be one of bio construction and bio renovation. Marine based materials and advanced manufacturing should play a key role, but we need to consolidate knowledge and translate research to speed up implementation'.
04-12-2023
External examination / viva of Anosh Butt's PhD thesis Developing a transdisciplinary collaboration framework (TCF) for nature-based design (NBD) of sustainable buildings, at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow UK.
External Examiner: Prof Marcos Cruz
Internal Examiner: Dr Andrew Agapiou
Convener: Dr Cristina Gonzalez-Longo
Internal Examiner: Dr Andrew Agapiou
Convener: Dr Cristina Gonzalez-Longo
Dec 2023
Book
Chapter: Parker, B.; Cruz, M. 'Symbiotic Tectonics of the Biocene'. In Integrative Facades: Everything that can happen between inside and outside (eds Cristina Pardal, Enrique Corbat), Recolectores Urbanos Editorial, Málaga.
31-03-2023
Guest presentation at the BIODIG conference, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC), Barcelona, Spain.
Host: Alberto Estevez
Speakers: Karl Chu, Marcos Novak, Neil Leach, Kas Oosterhuis, Maria Voyatzaki, Francois Roche, Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto, Emeline Ragbin Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa, Eric Goldberg, Marcos Cruz
02/03-03-2023
External Examiner at the Architectural Association Design Research Lab (AADRL), London, UK.
03-02-2023
Meeting of Critical Friends to develop the future Masterplan of the St Andrews Botanic Gardens, Scotland, UK.
Host/Director: Harry Watkins
Participants: Tom Meagher, Sabine Hotho, Richard Keating, Beccy Middleton, Rebecca Duncan, Brenda Parker, Marcos Cruz
04-01-2023
Article and project illustrations: Cruz, M; Parker; B. 'Microbial to Tectonic'. In Microbial Ecologies / Antennae Journal #59 (ed Giovanni Aloi and Ken Rinaldo), Chicago, USA.
27-10-2022
Keynote presentation at ACADIA conference / prologue panel discussion, University of Pennsylvania, USA.
Organiser: Robert Stuart-Smith
Speakers: Winka Dubbeldam, Mette Ramsgard Thomsen, Rashida Ng, Marcos Cruz
Speakers: Winka Dubbeldam, Mette Ramsgard Thomsen, Rashida Ng, Marcos Cruz
12-10-2022
Guest Lecture at CAAD / American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE.
Host: George Katodritis and Juan Roldan
30-04-2022
Online publication: Cruz, M. Poikilohydric Living Walls, Bartlett Design Research Folio, London, UK.
23-04-2022
External critic at the Final Project Awards Review and Peck Prize Final Selection at the School of Architecture / Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA.
01-04-2022
Book Chapter: Cruz M., Parker BM. ‘From Anthropocene To Biocene: Novel Bio-Integrated Design as a means to respond to the current biodiversity and climate crisis’, in Working at the Intersection: Architecture after the Anthropocene (eds Harriet Harriss & Naomi House), RIBA Publications, London UK.
04-03-2022
External Examiner at the Architectural Association Design Research Lab (AADRL), London, UK.
03-12-2021
Guest lecture at University of Laval, Quebec City, Canada.
Hosts: Pedro Ressano Garcia; Luis Casillas
26-11-2021
Keynote speaker at SAUL 2021 international and interdisciplinary conference, University of Silesia, Katowice Poland.
25-11-2021
Lord Norman Foster and Lady Elena Foster visit the Bio-ID lab during their visit to UCL Here East, London UK.
Present: Norman Foster, Elena Foster, Christoph Lindner, Bob Sheil, Peter Scully, Anjali Signh, Brenda Parker, Marcos Cruz
Marcos Cruz and Brenda Parker explaining work to Norman and Elena Foster
Photo credit: Chao Chun Kung
24-11-2021
Inaugural Lecture at the Bartlett International Lecture Series, The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London UK.
11-11-2021
Round table discussion at the opening of the Mias: The Making of Making (Architecture), Disseny Hub, Barcelona Spain.
Moderator: Izaskun Chinchilla
Introduction: Josep Mias, Bob Sheil
Speakers: Josep Maria Montaner, Francesco Santoro, Sebastiano. deUrso, Bob Sheil, Marcos Cruz
Opening of Josep Mias's exhibition, Disseny Hub Barcelona
Photo credit: Marcos Cruz
11-11-2021
Keynote presentation at the Responsive Cities Conference / Design with Nature, Caixa Forum, Barcelona Spain.
Organisers: IaaC
Chairs of Symposium: Areti Markopoulou; Mathilde Marengo; Chiara Farinea; Fiona Demeur
Speakers: Elora Hardy; Ramon Canal-Oliveras; Daniel Christian Wahl; Ana Coello; Feifei Zhou; Mitchell Joachim; Belinda Tato/Ecosistema Urbano; Chiara Farinea; Skylar Tibbits; Petra Gruber; Jonathan Mitchin; Brenda Parker; Marcos CruzDebate on Design with Nature / Education: Anna Ramos; Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen; Claudia Pasquero; Jose Pedro Sousa; Martha Thorne
4-5-11-2021
Co-organiser of Design with the Living Conference at the Design Museum, London UK.
Organisers: Carole Collet; Olivia Bailey; Brenda Parker; Marcos Cruz
Provocateurs: Frederic Migayrou; Brenda Parker
Speakers: Anete Salmane; Anthony Acciavatti; Brigitte Kock; Cassie Quinn; Duncan Cameron; Ehab Sayed; Harry Watkins; Henna Burney; Irene Roca Moracia; Juia Jueckstock; Lara Drouet & Olivier Lacrouts; Mriam Josi & Stella Lee Prowse; Monika Brandic Lipinska; Orkan Telhan; Paula Camina Eiras; Peg Rawes; Prantar Mahanta Tamuli; Raquel Prado; Tiago Almeida
3-11-2021
Online Interview about Bio-ID (Marcos Cruz and Brenda Parker), Interior Design and Academy magazine, Istanbul Turkey.
Interviewer: Osman Arayici
21-10-2021
Bio-ID at Waste Age exhibition, Design Museum London UK.
Venue: Design Museum
Curators: Justin McQuirk, Gemma Curtis
Bio-ID Team: Marcos Cruz and Brenda Parker with Yao Yao Meng, Anete Salmane, Pradeep Devadass, James Lawrence, Dali Alnaeb
Technical Support: B-Made UCL
Sponsorship: ASR / Tate & Lyle
CALCAREOUS ARABESQUE – a sustainable wall made from materials generated from the sugar refining process. The robotically extruded structure explores how calcium carbonate and bagasse waste, by-products of the sugar-refining process at Tate & Lyle, can be transformed and scaled-up into and architectural wall prototype. The material and geometric features are highly ornamental, offering important thermal and acoustic properties for indoor spaces. The complex surface morphology was produced with the use of novel self-generative computational designs and digital fabrication, which in turn suggest future outdoor applications as ‘scaffolds for inhabitation’ where ridges and crevices can be occupied by plants and wildlife, helping them to thrive within an urban environment.
TECTONIC CONFERVIANCE - four biomineralised silica-based components generated through the photosynthetic activity of filamentous Cyanobacteria. The biomineralization of recycled glass and silica particles produces a bio-composite with structural integrity that can be used as a new type of tectonic material in architecture. The newly patented components offer unique translucent qualities that can be applied as photosynthetically-active wall components that mediate light from/to indoor spaces.
Anete Salmane, Yao Yao Meng, Brenda Parker, Marcos Cruz at private view
Photo credit: Prantar Tamuli
19-10-2021
Guest-talk at the Sustainability Workshop at the Norman Foster Foundation, Madrid Spain.
Host: Lord and Lady Foster
Organiser/Mentor: Vishaan Chakrabarti
Speakers: Jan Boelen (Atelier LUMA); Frédérick Bordry (CERN); Jacqueline Glass (The Bartlett/UCL); Guillaume Habert (ETH Zürich); Kieren Jones (Central Saint Martins/UAL; Christoph Lindner (Dean The Bartlett/UCL); Henk Ovink (International Water Affairs); Gil Penalosa (8 80 Cities)
28-09-2021
Bio-ID Open House exhibition with final work of 2020-21, Bartlett School of Architecture, LondonUK.
Venue: UCL Here East
Programme Directors: Brenda Parker; Marcos Cruz
Tutors: Nina Jotanovic, Shneel Malik; Bastian Beyer; Sofoklis Giannakopoulus; Harry Watkins; Andreas Koerner; Junichiro Horikawa; Barry Wark; Alex Lacatusu; Ian Robinson, Aurora Tairan Li
Design: Marcos Cruz and Nina Jotanovic with Bio-ID students
Students: (Year 2) Prantar Tamuli; Ella Hetherington; Vasiliki Panagiotidou; Ayelen Francsschini Caouceiro; Daniel Ningkang Wen; Guillem Perutxet Olesti; Gitanjali Ravi; Shivani Rastogi; Dona AlAlula; Nonna Shabanova; Sitthitouch Surabotsopon; Zheyang Yao; Ekaterina Baliaeva; Madeline Maker; Charles Boyd; Jorge Soto; Saumya Gupta; Wen-Chi Huang; Prathiksha Ravi; Ouyang Tinghong; Isabelle Asakura; Alexandros Angelidis; Leyli Kursun; Sohyun Ahn - (Year 1) William Scott; Philia Chua; Junmei Chen; Faraz Alian; Arnav Kele; Sarah Aljishi; Zain Ansari; Ophelie Tousignant; Ebyan Rezgui; Mangesh Kurund; Agathe Chevee; Sarah Olsen; Shenghan Chen; Winnie Lau
17-09-2021
Bio-ID filed first material patent for a Engineered Living Material, UK
UK Patent Application No. 2113331.9
Applicant: UCL Business Ltd
Date of filing: 17 September 2021
Short Title: Engineered Living Materials
Team: Prantar Tamuli; Brenda Parker; Marcos Cruz; Anete Salmane; Nina Jotanovic
Photo credit: Prantar Tamuli
9/10-09-2021
Bio-ID Final Crit at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London UK.
Students: (Year 2) Prantar Tamuli; Ella Hetherington; Vasiliki Panagiotidou; Ayelen Francsschini Caouceiro; Daniel Ningkang Wen; Guillem Perutxet Olesti; Gitanjali Ravi; Shivani Rastogi; Dona AlAlula; Nonna Shabanova; Sitthitouch Surabotsopon; Zheyang Yao; Ekaterina Baliaeva; Madeline Maker; Charles Boyd; Jorge Soto; Saumya Gupta; Wen-Chi Huang; Prathiksha Ravi; Ouyang Tinghong; Isabelle Asakura; Alexandros Angelidis; Leyli Kursun; Sohyun Ahn
Critics: Robert Stuart Smith (UPenn); Frederic Migayrou (Pompidou/UCL); Garett Sutherlin Santo (Sutherlin Santo LA); Wendy Teo (Architect, Borneo); Phillip Gough (University of Sydney); Salvador Perez Aroyo (Architect, Hanoi); Kostas Girgoriadis (UCL)
21-07-2021
Webinar talk Bio-integrated Design for SPOSAD workshop, at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan.
Organiser: Valery Lin, Shnee-Ren Liu
28-06-2021
Final Crits of C-Biom.A / Marcos Cruz Studio at the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia / IaaC, Barcelona Spain.
Tutors: Marcos Cruz; Khunaljit Chahda
Students: Ilaena Mariam Napier; Vatsal Kapadia; Madhavi Ojha; Stefana Florina Zapuc; Aditya Ambare; Michel L'Elise Quintana; Lea Garguet-Duport
Technical Support: Ricardo Mayor Luque
MAA2 coordination: Nikol Kirova
Critics: Phil Ayres; Areti Markopoulou; Shneel Malik; Mathilde Marengo; Khunaljit Chahda; Ricardo Mayor Luque; Marcos Cruz
MAA2 coordination: Nikol Kirova
Critics: Phil Ayres; Areti Markopoulou; Shneel Malik; Mathilde Marengo; Khunaljit Chahda; Ricardo Mayor Luque; Marcos Cruz
9/10-09-2021
Bio-ID Table Discussions - Beyond the Incubator at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London UK.
Students: (Year 2) Prantar Tamuli; Ella Hetherington; Vasiliki Panagiotidou; Ayelen Francsschini Caouceiro; Daniel Ningkang Wen; Guillem Perutxet Olesti; Gitanjali Ravi; Shivani Rastogi; Dona AlAlula; Nonna Shabanova; Sitthitouch Surabotsopon; Zheyang Yao; Ekaterina Baliaeva; Madeline Maker; Charles Boyd; Jorge Soto; Saumya Gupta; Wen-Chi Huang; Prathiksha Ravi; Ouyang Tinghong; Isabelle Asakura; Alexandros Angelidis; Leyli Kursun; Sohyun Ahn
Critics: Graham Rook (UCL); Pedro Font (KPF); Andrew Gregson (Greenlab); Blanche Cameron (UCl/EUGIC); Narinder Sagoo (Foster and Partners); Elli Keshavarz-Moore (UCL); Josep Mias (Mias Architecture); Justin Nicholls (Fathom Architects); Ruby Law (RULA); Mike Tonkin (Tonkin Liu Architects); Alice Taylor (CSM)
22-23-04-2021
Presentation at the MIGI workshop
Host/organisation: Brenda Parker; Jake Robinson
Speakers: Graham Rook (UCL); Ross Cameron (University of Sheffield), Araceli Camargo (Centric Lab); Marja Roslund (University of Helsinki); Remco Kort (University Amsterdam); Craig Liddicoat (University of Adelaide); Martin Breed (Flinders University); Marcos Cruz
16-12-2020
Online external critic, Final Reviews at the University of Pennsylvania / Weitzman School of Design, Philadelphia, USA.
Host: Rob Stuart-Smith
5-6-11-2020
Presentation at Design with the Living Conference at the Design Museum, London UK.
Organisers: Carole Collet; Bernard Hay; Brenda Parker; Marcos Cruz
Provocateurs: Emeka Okafor; Jeremy Till
Speakers: Jen Kaene; Phil Ayres; Yessica Mendez; Natalie Alima; Jenny Molloy; Jane Scott; Mitch Joachim; Claudia Pasquero; Paulo Bombelli; Sheila Cooke; Lucy Montgomery; Naomi Nakayama; Fernán Federici Noe; Nada Tarkhan; Irene Agrivina Widyanigrum; Flora Girard, Marcos Cruz
28-10-2020
INDUS v2.0 nominated for the Beasley Designs of the Year, in exhibition at the DESIGN MUSEUM, London.
Team: Shneel Malik, Brenda Parker, Marcos Cruz
Manufacturing: Richard Miller
Collaboration: Dali Al-Naeb, Tairan Lee
Team: Brenda Parker, Shneel Malik, Marcos Cruz
13-10-2020
Guest lecture 'Poikilohydric Design - Self-regulated growth in bio-integrated design' at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Host: Lucija Azman Momirski
Speakers: Andrew Witt, Molly Wright Steenson, Manuel Jimenez, Marcos Cruz
9-13-09-2020
Bio-ID 'Hyperobject' and 'Luminous Crust' as part of the London Garden of Heterotopias / Bartlett School of Architecture UCL at the Ars Electronica Festival (in Keplers Garden), Linz, Austria.
Bartlett curator: Fiona Zisch
Bio-ID Organiser: Nina Jotanovic
Bartlett Participants: Interactive Architecture Lab, Automated Architecture Ltd/Automated Architecture Labs, Bio-ID, Unit 24, Unit 9, RC14. In partnership with Alexander Whitley Dance Company, Jason Bruges Studio, ScanLAB Projects, and guests
22-07-2020
Webinar talk Bio-integrated Design for SPOSAD workshop, at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan.
Organiser: Shnee-Ren Liu
3-07-2020
Bio-ID FINAL Year 2 CRITS - Day 2, at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London UK (streamed online on youtube)
Students: Ian Robinson; Yara Gadah; Timothy Ryan; Julian Rodriguez; Vivek Sanu; Jin Ziying; Dali Alnaeb; Erfan Pour Ahmad; Jingyuan Meng; Jasmina Salam; Tairan Li; Erh-Chia Hsu; Yandongxue Chen; Shankar Saanthakumar
Critics: ChingHwa Chang, Taipei; Carlos Hernandez Correa, Bogota; Natsai Chieza, London, Suzanne Lee, New York; Amy Congdon, New York; Cobus Bothma, London; Gary Lye, London; Andrew Porter, London; Brenda Parker; Anete Salmane; Javier Ruiz; Nina Jotanovic, Shneel Malik, Marcos Cruz
2-07-2020
Bio-ID FINAL Year 2 CRITS - Day 1, at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London UK (streamed online on youtube)
Students: Ian Robinson; Yara Gadah; Timothy Ryan; Julian Rodriguez; Vivek Sanu; Jin Ziying; Dali Alnaeb; Erfan Pour Ahmad; Jingyuan Meng; Jasmina Salam; Tairan Li; Erh-Chia Hsu; Yandongxue Chen; Shankar Saanthakumar
Critics: Mitchel Joachim, New York; David Benjamin, New York; Jane Withers, London; George Katodrytis, Dubai; Claudia Pasquero, London; Brenda Parker; Anete Salmane; Javier Ruiz; Nina Jotanovic, Shneel Malik, Marcos Cruz
22-06-2020
Final Crits of C-Biom.A / Marcos Cruz and Kunal Chadha Studio at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia / IaaC, Barcelona Spain.
Students: Daria Ciobanu-Enescu; Hena Micoogullari; Pratik Girish Borse; Doruk Yildrim; Manan Jain; Logesh Mahalingam
Technical Support: Ricardo Mayor Luque
Synthetic Biology: Nuria Conde Pueyo
MAA2 coordination: Marco Ingrassia
Critics: Ana Goidea, Chiara Fariena, Nina Jotanovic, Areti Markopoulou; Alex Dubor, Raimund Krenmueller, Mathilde Marengo; Nuria Conde Pueyo; Khunaljit Chahda
Synthetic Biology: Nuria Conde Pueyo
MAA2 coordination: Marco Ingrassia
Critics: Ana Goidea, Chiara Fariena, Nina Jotanovic, Areti Markopoulou; Alex Dubor, Raimund Krenmueller, Mathilde Marengo; Nuria Conde Pueyo; Khunaljit Chahda
12-06-2020
Webinar talk Bio-integrated Design for Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) - London and New York offices
Moderator: Cobus Bothma
11/12-06-2020
Bio-ID Year 1 CRIT, at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London UK.
Students: Vicky Panagiotidou, Charles Boyd, Madeline Baker, Shivani Rastogi, Gitanjali Ravi, Ella Hetherington, Mac van Dam, Prantar Tamuli, Isabelle Asakura, Nonna Shabanova, Sitthitouch Surabotsopon, Jorge Soto Parejas, Yao Zheyang, Ayelen Franceschini, Prathiksha Ravi, Saumya Gupta, Leyli Kursun, Dona Alalula, Perutxet Olesti, Ekaterina Baliaeva, Sohyun Ahn, Alexander Angelidis, Barna Soma Biro, Wen-chi Huang, Ouyang Ting Hong, Ningkang Wen
Critics: Bill Watts; Kunal Chadha; Carolina Ramirez; Barry Wark; Andreas Koerner; Iris Aquilina; Bogdan Zaha; Hina Lad; Damian Iliev; Deepak Rawat; Mauro Chiacchia; Gosia Pawlowska; Laura Stoffels; Bastian Bayer, Brenda Parker; Anete Salmane; Javier Ruiz; Nina Jotanovic, Shneel Malik, Marcos Cruz
Critics: Bill Watts; Kunal Chadha; Carolina Ramirez; Barry Wark; Andreas Koerner; Iris Aquilina; Bogdan Zaha; Hina Lad; Damian Iliev; Deepak Rawat; Mauro Chiacchia; Gosia Pawlowska; Laura Stoffels; Bastian Bayer, Brenda Parker; Anete Salmane; Javier Ruiz; Nina Jotanovic, Shneel Malik, Marcos Cruz
9-06-2020
Webinar presentation at the Concrete Futures, The Concrete Centre / Building Centre, London
Speakers: Ciaran McNally, University College Dublin; Elizabeth Gilligan, Queen's University Belfast; Marcos Cruz, Bio-ID/UCLModerator/organiser: Elaine Toogood
22-05-2020
External Critic at CITA / Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KADK), Copenhagen Denmark.
Organiser: Paul Nicholas
Critics: Phil Ayres, Martin Tamke, Marcos Cruz
Critics: Phil Ayres, Martin Tamke, Marcos Cruz
27/28-05-2020
External Examiner at University College Cork (CCAE), Cork Ireland.
Head: Kevin McCartney
Examiners: Lorraine Farrelly, Reading University; John Parker, UCD; Marcos Cruz, Bartlett/UCL
26-04-2020
Poikilohydric Living Walls mentioned in the article 'Reasons to be cheerful: 11 great ideas from British universities that could change the world' by Rosie Kinchen and Katherine Forster, in THE SUNDAY TIMES, London UK.
"All the externally exposed surfaces of buildings and urban infrastructures, from blank walls and facades to roofs, retaining barriers and fences, offer vast quantities of area to absorb and store water," says Marcos Cruz, Professor of Innovative Environments at UCL's Bartlett School of Architecture. The answer is "bio-integrated architecture", specifically walls friendly to poikilohydric plants - algae, mosses and lichens. These plants such up water and pollutants, pump out oxygen and, unlike traditional "green walls", can deal with lengthly dry spells. The team at UCL has developed a poikilohydric wall made of porous concrete, which is being tested in London at East Putney Tube station and a primary school in Lambeth.
Open until 31th July 2020
Bio-ID
Applications open for the MArch / MSc in Bio-Integrated Design, The Bartlett UCL, London UK.
Instagram: Bio-ID
These two design-led Master's degrees respond to the impact of biotechnology, computation and climate change on the built environment. Bio-Integrated Design (Bio-ID) takes these fields of study as the foundation for developing novel and sophisticated design solutions to shape the future of our cities.
Taught jointly by The Bartlett School of Architecture and UCL’s Biochemical Engineering Department, Bio-ID combines design experimentation with scientific methods, seeking new modes of simulation and production, and exploring how advances in the fields of synthetic biology, material science and digital fabrication is changing future design practices.
Two distinct Bio-ID programmes are available: an MArch degree and an MSc degree. Applicants will be able to apply depending on their background and whether they seek to specialise in more exclusively design or more science-driven outputs.
Bio-Integrated Design is part of B-Pro, a group of five programmes at The Bartlett with a unique shared philosophy.
HIGHLIGHTS
• Work with an interdisciplinary team of designers and scientists to establish new forms of design
• Develop an advanced knowledge of technologies and working methods, which may include digital simulations, synthetic biology and biotechnology and digital fabrication
• Design innovative bio-integrated systems with a variety of applications in architecture
KEY STAFF
• Professor Marcos Cruz (Programme Director MArch and MSc Bio-ID, Year 1/2 tutor)
• Dr Brenda Parker (Programme Director MSc Bio-ID, Year 1/2 tutor)
• Javier Ruiz (Year 1/2 Tutor / Computation)
• Nina Jotanovic (Year 1 tutor)
• Shneel Malik (Year 1 tutor)
• Anete Salmane (Bio-ID lab)
• Dr Bastian Beyer (Year 2 tutor)
• Dr Harry Watkins (Year 1 tutor / Thesis)
• Shogo Suzuki (Year 1 computation)
• Dr Bastian Beyer (Year 2 tutor)
• Dr Harry Watkins (Year 1 tutor / Thesis)
• Shogo Suzuki (Year 1 computation)
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
• Please check the Bartlett website for more information
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/architecture/programmes/postgraduate/bio-integrated-design-bioid-march-msc
3/4/5-03-2020
Poikilohydric Living Wall panel in exhibition at FUTUREBUILD 2020, as part of The Concrete Centre / MPA exhibition - Concrete Futures / Remixed, London UK.
Organisation: The Concrete Centre
Venue: ExCeL centre, London
Team: Marcos Cruz with Javier Ruiz and Richard Beckett, with collaboration of Nina Jotanovic and Anete Salmane.
Biology: Alex Lacatusu, Giovanna Lanius-Pascuzzi
Manufacturing: Pennine Stone Limited
Speaker: Dr Brenda Parker
Photo credit: Brenda Parker
03-03-2020
Poikilohydric Living Walls published in Concrete Futures (cover and mentioned in article by Tony Whitehead), The Concrete Centre, London UK.
23-02-2020
Bartlett Bio-ID and PhD candidate, Shneel Malik, presents INDUS project at TEDxGateway, Mumbai India.
Photo credit: TEDxGatway
27-01-2019
Presentation at CNIE - advisory board conference, London UK.
Venue: Prince Room, BMA House, Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9JP
Lead of CNIE/introduction: Prof Marc-Olivier Coppens (UCL Chemical Engineering)
Speakers: Prof Eugene Goldfield (Harvard); Prof Philip Treveaven (UCL Computer Science); Prof Richard Day (UCL Medical Sciences); Prof Marcos Cruz (UCL The Bartlett); Prof Hugh Stitt (Johnson Matthey); Dr Niall Kent; Malica Schmidt; Matthew Chin; Dr Nazanin Owji; Dr Ye Yang; Dr Yang Lan; Dr Jason Cho
Guest Speakers: Anna Liu (Tonkin Liu)
January 2020
Publication of Poikilohydric Living Walls / Marcos Cruz, in Étapes pp.168-170, Paris France.
Text: Leo Bufi
Photo credit: Marcos Cruz
Photo credit (walls): Sarah Lever
10-01-2020
External Examination / PhD VIVA of Dr Areti Markopoulou - Design Behaviours / Programming the Material World for Resposnive Architecture (Cum Laude), at the Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura (ETSAB), Barcelona Spain.
Examiners: Marcos Cruz (Chair); Jose Ballesteros (deputy chair); Jaime Coll (secretary); Jaume Valor (deputy secretary); Lydia Kallipoloti; Javier Nieto; Ignacio Borrego;
Supervisors: Eduardo Bru, Manuel Gausa
Photo credit: Mathilde Marengo
12/13-12-2019
Bio-ID Crit at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London UK.
Students: (Year 2) Ian Robinson; Yara Gadah; Timothy Ryan; Julian Rodriguez; Vivek Sanu; Jin Ziying; Dali Alnaeb; Erfan Pour Ahmad; Jingyuan Meng; Jasmina Salam; Tairan Li; Erh-Chia Hsu; Yandongxue Chen; Shankar Saanthakumar; (Year 1) Vicky Panagiotidou, Charles Boyd, Madeline Baker, Shivani Rastogi, Gitanjali Ravi, Ella Hetherington, Mac van Dam, Prantar Tamuli, Isabelle Asakura, Nonna Shabanova, Sitthitouch Surabotsopon, Jorge Soto Parejas, Yao Zheyang, Ayelen Franceschini, Prathiksha Ravi, Saumya Gupta, Leyli Kursun, Dona Alalula, Perutxet Olesti, Ekaterina Baliaeva, Sohyun Ahn, Alexander Angelidis, Barna Soma Biro, Wen-chi Huang, Ouyang Ting Hong, Ningkang Wen
Critics: Prof Omar Kahn, Prof Phillip Beasley, Prof Jon Yoder, Justin Nichols, Barry Buckland, Dr Naveraj Gill, Andreas Koerner, Barry Wark, Lilah Fowler, Sofoklis Giannakopoulos, Prof Mike Hoare, Dr Mike Sulu, Dr Bastian Bayer, Dr Brenda Parker; Anete Salmane; Javier Ruiz; Nina Jotanovic, Shneel Malik, Prof Marcos Cruz
Venue: Here East
Critics: Prof Omar Kahn, Prof Phillip Beasley, Prof Jon Yoder, Justin Nichols, Barry Buckland, Dr Naveraj Gill, Andreas Koerner, Barry Wark, Lilah Fowler, Sofoklis Giannakopoulos, Prof Mike Hoare, Dr Mike Sulu, Dr Bastian Bayer, Dr Brenda Parker; Anete Salmane; Javier Ruiz; Nina Jotanovic, Shneel Malik, Prof Marcos Cruz
Venue: Here East
Photo credit: Marcos Cruz
14-11-2019
Bio-ID with work of Nina Jotanovic 'Biogenic Luminosity' in exhibition at Share X, Bucharest, Romania.
14-11-2019
Interview for 'Designing the profile fo the Future Architecture' by Andrea Robu-Movila, Bucharest, Romania.
14-11-2019
Keynote speaker at Share X - Conference of Advanced Architecture, Bucharest, Romania.
Speakers: Sanjai Puri; Spela Videcnik; Bogdan Zaha; Mariano Efron; Pepe Gascon; Vlad Temu; Lara Zureikat; Natalie Redford; Anna Wendt
Photo credit: Vlad Dediu
08-11-2019
Design with the Living, Design Museum, London UK.
Organisers: Barnard Hay, Carole Collet, Brenda Parker, Helene Steiner, Marcos Cruz
Speakers: Brenda Parker, Carole Collet, Nina Jotanovic, Helene Steiner, Elvin Karana, Marcus Walker, Nancy Diniz, Thomas Meany, Martyn Dade-RobertsonChairs: Marcos Cruz, Carole Collet, Helene Steiner
Introduction: Justin McGuirk
Keynote lecture: Natsai Audrey Chieza
19-10-2019
Bioreceptive component in show at Beyond the Horizon - Design for Different Futures, Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA.
Photo credit: Philadelphia Museum of Art
October 2019
Bioreceptive Lightweight Concrete featured in 'Designs for Different Futures - catalogue of the Beyond the Horizon - Design for Different Futures exhibition, Philadelphia Museum of Art / Yale University Press, USA.
Editors: Kathryn B Hiesinger, Michelle Millar, Fisher, Emmet Byrne, Maite Borjabad Lopez Pastor, Zoe Ryan
September 2019
Bio-Integrated Design - Marcos Cruz interviewed by Jordi Vivaldi, in IaaC Bits / Black Ecologies pp. 76-89, Barcelona Spain.
Editors: Manuel Gausa, Areti Markopoulou, Jordi Vivaldi
24-09-2019
Bio-ID in show at B.PRO Final Exhibition, London UK.
Students: Ian Robinson; Yara Gadah; Timothy Ryan; Julian Rodriguez; Vivek Sanu; Jin Ziying; Dali Alnaeb; Erfan Pour Ahmad; Jingyuan Meng; Jasmina Salam; Tairan Li; Erh-Chia Hsu; Yandongxue Chen; Shankar Saanthakumar
Venue: Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
Venue: Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
Photo credit: Marcos Cruz
19-09-2019
Bio-ID with work of Nina Jotanovic 'Biogenic Luminosity' in exhibition at Biodesign Here and Now, Open Cell (as part of the London Design Week), London UK.
Exhibition: Nina Jotanovic with Gea van der Kerkhof and Silvia Vignolini (Cambridge University)
Photo credit: Marcos Cruz
14-09-2019
Bio-ID with INDUS in exhibition at Brompton Design Festival (as part of the London Design Week), London UK.
Project: Shneel Malik, Brenda Parker, Marcos CruzTechnical Collaboration: Laura Stoffels, Anete Salmane, Kayan Patel
Fabrication: Froyle Tiles
Support: Pure Earth and Delhi University India; Algae UK and EPSRC Global Challenges Research Fund
Photo credit: Marcos Cruz
Marcos Cruz, Shneel Malik, Brenda Parker
Photo credit: Wanda Hu
August 2020
INDUS/Bio-ID project (winner of Future Systems and Infrastructure + wiiner of Audience Award) published in 'Where will the water come from / One Year of Water Futures' pp. 181-184, A/D/O research 0001, New York USA.
Team: Shneel Malik, Dr Brenda Parker, Prof Marcos Cruz
12-07-2019 (15-07-2019 - 13-09.2019)
Opening Bio-ID in exhibition at the 'New Forms of Practice / Drivers of Change' show, ARUP gallery, London UK.
Exhibition curators: Ruairi Glynn, Jennifer Greitschus
Exhibition teams: Design for Manufacturing (DfM); Design for Performance and Interaction (DfPI); Bio-Integrated Design (Bio-ID) from the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
Table design: Marcos Cruz with Shneel Malik and Nina Jotanovic
Table assembly/curation: Marcos Cruz; Brenda Parker; Nina Jotanovic; Shneel Malik; Anete Salmane; Javier Ruiz with Bio-ID students
Bio-ID participants: Ian Robinson; Yara Gadah; Timothy Ryan; Julian Rodriguez; Vivek Sanu; Jin Ziying; Dali Alnaeb; Erfan Pour Ahmad; Jingyuan Meng; Jasmina Salam; Tairan Li; Erh-Chia Hsu; Yandongxue Chen; Shankar Saanthakumar; Nina Jotanovic; Shneel Malik; Anete Salmane/Marcos Cruz
Exhibition teams: Design for Manufacturing (DfM); Design for Performance and Interaction (DfPI); Bio-Integrated Design (Bio-ID) from the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
Table design: Marcos Cruz with Shneel Malik and Nina Jotanovic
Table assembly/curation: Marcos Cruz; Brenda Parker; Nina Jotanovic; Shneel Malik; Anete Salmane; Javier Ruiz with Bio-ID students
Bio-ID participants: Ian Robinson; Yara Gadah; Timothy Ryan; Julian Rodriguez; Vivek Sanu; Jin Ziying; Dali Alnaeb; Erfan Pour Ahmad; Jingyuan Meng; Jasmina Salam; Tairan Li; Erh-Chia Hsu; Yandongxue Chen; Shankar Saanthakumar; Nina Jotanovic; Shneel Malik; Anete Salmane/Marcos Cruz
Panel discussion: Brenda Parker (Bio-ID/UCL Biochemical engineering); Sara Caddik (Thalamic); Bob Sheil (Bartlett); Tristram Carfrae (Arup)
Bio-ID Table of Curiosities
Photo credit: Marcos Cruz
The Amazing Bio-ID team!
Photo credit: Ram Shergill
The whole Bio-ID group with students, Paolo Bombelli, Lena Asai (only Javier Ruiz missing)
Photo credit: Ram Shergill
Table Ecology
Photo credit: Marcos Cruz
Brenda Parker and Marcos Cruz
Photo credit: Ram Shergill
Photo credit: Ram Shergill
10-07-2019
Guest lecture at the IaaC Global Summer School, 2019.
Simultaneous broadcasting: Manila/Philippines, Monterrey/Mexico, Pune/India, Barcelona/Spain, Melbourne/Australia, Dubai/UAE, Istanbul/Turkey, Tehran/Iran, Beirut/Lebanon.
Organisers/hosts: Aldo Sollazzo, Laura Ruggeri, Rodrigo Aguirre
Simultaneous broadcasting: Manila/Philippines, Monterrey/Mexico, Pune/India, Barcelona/Spain, Melbourne/Australia, Dubai/UAE, Istanbul/Turkey, Tehran/Iran, Beirut/Lebanon.
Organisers/hosts: Aldo Sollazzo, Laura Ruggeri, Rodrigo Aguirre
28-06-2019
CRIT of Bio-ID at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London UK.
Students: Ian Robinson; Yara Gadah; Timothy Ryan; Julian Rodriguez; Vivek Sanu; Jin Ziying; Dali Alnaeb; Erfan Pour Ahmad; Jingyuan Meng; Jasmina Salam; Tairan Li; Erh-Chia Hsu; Yandongxue Chen; Shankar Saanthakumar
Critics: Ricardo de Ostos, Maj Plemenitas, Bastian Bayer, Andrew Porter, Bob Sheil, Bill Watts, Brenda Parker; Anete Salmane; Javier Ruiz; Lena Asai; Marcos Cruz
Venue: Here East
Critics: Ricardo de Ostos, Maj Plemenitas, Bastian Bayer, Andrew Porter, Bob Sheil, Bill Watts, Brenda Parker; Anete Salmane; Javier Ruiz; Lena Asai; Marcos Cruz
Venue: Here East
Photo credit: Marcos Cruz
24-25.06.2019
Bio-ID in exhibition at the SYNBITECH 2019, London.
Venue: Queen Elizabeth II Centre, Westminster London
Bio-ID work exhibited: Nina Jotanovic
Bio-ID work exhibited: Nina Jotanovic
Bio-ID panel discussion speaker: Brenda Parker
Curator: Helene Steiner
Photo credit: Nina Jotanovic
Curator: Helene Steiner
25-06-2019
Final Crits of C-Biom.A / Marcos Cruz Studio at the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia / IaaC, Barcelona Spain.
Students: Elliott Santos; Yasmina El Helou; Marc Bou Assaf; Umit Ceren Bayazitoiglu; Abishek Soman
Technical Support: Khunaljit Chahda; Ricardo Mayor Luque
Synthetic Biology: Nuria Conde Pueyo
MAA2 coordination: Marco Ingrassia
Critics: Aldo Sollazzo; Paolo Bombelli; Areti Markopoulou; Mathilde Marengo; Nuria Conde Pueyo; Khunaljit Chahda; Marco Ingrassia
Synthetic Biology: Nuria Conde Pueyo
MAA2 coordination: Marco Ingrassia
Critics: Aldo Sollazzo; Paolo Bombelli; Areti Markopoulou; Mathilde Marengo; Nuria Conde Pueyo; Khunaljit Chahda; Marco Ingrassia
work by Umit Ceren Bayazitoiglu
work by Elliott Santos
work by Abishek Soman
Photo credit: Marcos Cruz
10-05-2019
Presentation and panel discussion - Nature Salons / Encouraging Growth - as part of the Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York USA.
Chair: Andrea Lipps
Speakers (second session): Amy Congdon, Richard Beckett, Marcos Cruz
9-05-2019
2 bioreceptive panels in exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial - Nature (in collaboration with CUBE GALLERY, Netherlands), Smithsonian Design Museum, New York USA.
Bartlett Team: Marcos Cruz with Richard Beckett and Javier Ruiz
Curators: Caitlin Condell, Andrea Lipps, Matilda McQuaid Participants: UNDERSTAND NATURE - Kim Albrecht and Barabási Lab, Northeastern University (Germany and United States); Stella Mutegi and Kabage Karanja, Cave Architects (Kenya); Antón García-Abril and Débora Mesa, Ensamble Studio (Spain and United States); Tracy Fullerton, Game Innovation Lab, University of Southern California (United States); Aliki van der Kruijs (The Netherlands); Giorgia Lupi, Accurat and Kaki King (Italy and United States); Katharina Mischer and Thomas Traxler, Mischer’Traxler Studio (Austria); Eric Rodenbeck, Stamen Design for Banfield Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley (United States)
Thomas Thwaites (United Kingdom); Charles Reilly, Wyss Institute for Biologically-Inspired Engineering, Harvard University (United States); James Weaver, Wyss Institute for Biologically-Inspired Engineering, Harvard University (United States) - SIMULATE NATURE -
Airbus, Autodesk, and APWorks (The Netherlands, United States, and Germany); Ramille Shah and Adam E. Jakus, Dimension Inx LLC & Adam Jakus Technology as Art (United States); Festo AG & Co. KG (Germany); Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Sissel Tolaas, and Christina Agapakis, Ginkgo Bioworks (United Kingdom, Norway, and United States); Alexandra Kehayoglou (Argentina); Mathieu Lehanneur (France); Jifei Ou and Hiroshi Ishii, Tangible Media Group, MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States); Michelin (France); Modern Meadow (United States); Gabriel Asfour, Angela Donhauser, and Adi Gil, threeASFOUR and Travis Fitch (United States); David Mooney, Mooney Lab for Cell and Tissue Engineering, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Wyss Institute for Biologically-Inspired Engineering, Harvard University (United States) - SALVAGE NATURE - Adidas and Parley (Germany and United States); Studio Eric Klarenbeek and Atelier Luma (The Netherlands and France); Nadine Sterk and Lonny van Ryswyck, Atelier NL (The Netherlands); Anirudh Sharma, Graviky Labs (India); Shahar Livne (The Netherlands); Julia Lohmann, Violaine Buet, and Jon Lister (Finland, France, and New Zealand); Kirstie Van Noort (The Netherlands) - FACILITATE NATURE - Ginger Krieg Dosier, bioMASON (United States); Amy Congdon (United States); Natsai Audrey Chieza, Faber Futures (United Kingdom); Alex Goad, Reef Design Lab (Australia); Caleb Harper and Hildreth England, Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg), MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States); Erez Nevi Pana (Austria); Arturo Vittori, Architecture and Vision and Warka Water Inc. (Italy and United States); Xu Tiantian, DnA_Design and Architecture (China) - AUGMENT NATURE - Sam Van Aken (United States); Sputniko! and Masaya Kushino, Another Farm (Japan); Guillermo Parada, Tamara Pérez, Sebastián Rozas, and Victor Imperiale, gt2P (great things to People) (Chile); Josiah Zayner, The Open Dictionary Institute (The ODIN) (United States); Neri Oxman and the Mediated Matter Group, MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States); Living Materials Silklab, Tufts University Biomedical Engineering (United States); Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr, The Tissue Culture and Art Project (Australia); Richard Novak, Elizabeth Calamari, and Chuck Hoberman, Wyss Institute for Biologically-Inspired Engineering, Harvard University (United States) - REMEDIATE NATURE - Coeio (United States); Ulrika K. Stigsdotter, University of Copenhagen (Denmark); Harvard Biodesign Lab, Harvard University (United States); Nienke Hoogvliet, Studio Nienke Hoogvliet (The Netherlands); Fernando Laposse (United Kingdom); Sheng-Hung Lee (Taiwan); Max Liboiron, CLEAR (Canada); Charlotte McCurdy (United States); Terreform ONE (United States) - NURTURE NATURE - Marcos Cruz with Richard Beckett and Javier Ruiz, Bartlett UCL (United Kingdom); Teresa Van Dongen (The Netherlands); Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg (United Kingdom); Jorge Gamboa (Mexico); MASS Design Group (United States); Michael Strano and Seon-Yeong Kwak, MIT Chemical Engineering and Sheila Kennedy, MIT Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States); Sambuichi Architects (Japan); Vo Trong Nghia (VTN) Architects (Vietnam)
22-04-2019
Interview with Marcos Cruz on bioreceptive walls mentioned in article 'The home of the future could be powered by microbes', published in One Zero (article by Thomas McMullan) 2019.
12-04-2019 (until 12-09-2019)
Bio-ID in exhibition at the 'Worda / Water' show, Zamek Ceiszyn, Poland.
Venue: Zamek Ceiszyn
Bio-ID work exhibited: INDUS / Shneel Malik, Brenda Parker and Marcos Cruz
Curator: Katarzyna DordaBio-ID work exhibited: INDUS / Shneel Malik, Brenda Parker and Marcos Cruz
4-04-2019
Bio-ID wins the Water Design Future's international competition (category Systems and Infrastructures + Public Vote!) with project INDUS - the future of water remediation + exhibition at ADO gallery, New York USA.
Organisation: A/D/O
Team: Shneel Malik, Brenda Parker, Marcos Cuz, with collaboration of Laura Stoffles
Photo credit: Shneel Malik
Photo credit: Marcos Cruz
30-03-2019
Presentation at the symposium Vertigo / La Fabrique du Vivant, at IRCAM / Centre Pompidou, Paris France.
Organisation: Marie-Ange Brayer, Olivier Zeitoun
Speakers: Eric Klarenbeek and Maartje Dros (artist), Maurizio Montalti (Officina Corpuscoli, The Netherlands), David Benjamin (architect), Teresa van Dongen (designer), Guillian Graves (designer), Stéphane Douady (physicist, director of research CNRS), Amy Karle (artist), Hongjie Yang (designer, researcher), Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg (artist, designer), Julian Melchiorri (engineer, designer), Donald Ingberg (biologist and director of the Wyss Institute, University of Harvard), Philippe Marlière (biologist), Claudia Pasquero (architect, EcologicStudio), Anouk Legendre (XTU Architects, Paris), Spela Petric (artist), Jean Luc Hervé (composer), Annick Lesne (physicist, director of research CNRS), and Marcos Cruz (architect, Bio-ID).
5/7-03-2019
Bioreceptive Panel in exhibition at FUTUREBUILD 2019, as part of The Concrete Centre / MPA exhibition - The Shape of Things to Come, London UK.
Organisation: The Concrete Centre
Venue: ExCeL centre, London
Team: Marcos Cruz with Javier Ruiz and Richard Beckett, with collaboration of Nina Jotanovic and Anete Salmane.
Biology: Rushi Mehta
Manufacturing: Pennine Stone Limited
Photo credit: Marcos Cruz
18-02-2019
Bio-ID (Marcos Cruz, Brenda Parker with Shneel Malik) in exhibition at 'La Fabrique du Vivant', Centre Pompidou, (as part of the series Mutations/Creations 3), Paris France.
Curators: Marie-Ange Brayer; Olivier Zeitoun
Participants: Shamees Aden ; Laure Albin Guillot ; François Azambourg ; Heather Barnett ; Sonja Baümel et Manuel Selg ; BCL (Georg Tremmel + Shiho Fukuhara); Hicham Berrada ; Burton Nitta (Michael Burton et Michiko Nitta) ; Julian Charrière ; Natsai Audrey Chieza ; Carole Collet ; Amy Congdon ; Marcos Cruz & Brenda Parker (Bio-ID Lab, The Bartlett School); The Disease Biophysics Group de l’Université d’Harvard ; Alexandre Echasseriau ; Jonas Edvard ; Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Christina Agapakis et Sissel Tolaas ; Lia Giraud ; Guillian Graves (Big Bang Project) ; Andreas Greiner ; Ernst Haeckel ; Perry Hall ; Jean-Luc Hervé ; Marlène Huissoud ; Eduardo Kac ; Amy Karle ; Allison Kudla ; Joris Laarman ; The Living (David Benjamin) ; Julia Lohmann ; Julian Melchiorri ; MIT Media Lab (Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao) ; Mogu ; Isaac Monté ; Gabriela Munguia ; Officina Corpuscoli ; Neri Oxman & The Mediated Matter Group, MIT ; Jean Painlevé ; Claudia Pasquero et Marco Poletto (EcoLogicStudio); Institut Pasteur ; Špela Petrič ; PILI (Marie-Sarah Adenis) ; Pamela Rosenkranz ; Daan Roosegaarde ; Karl Sims ; Studio Formafantasma (Andrea Trimarchi et Simone Farresin) ; Studio Nienke Hoogvliet (Nienke Hoogvliet) ; Studio Klarenbeek & Dros ; Studio Libertiny (Tomas Libertiny) ; The Tissue Culture & Art Project (Oron Catts & Ionat Zurr) en collaboration avec Robert Foster ; Samuel Tomatis ; Urban Morphogenesis Lab (The Bartlett UCL) ; Tim van Cromvoirt ; Teresa van Dongen ; Elaine Whittaker ; Worcester Polytechnic Institute ; Wyss Institute de l’Université d’Harvard ; XTU Architects (Anouk Legendre et Nicolas Desmazières) ; Hongjie Yang ; Tokujin Yoshioka
Venue: Centre Pompidou, Paris
Dates: 20.02.19 - 15.04.19
Participants: Shamees Aden ; Laure Albin Guillot ; François Azambourg ; Heather Barnett ; Sonja Baümel et Manuel Selg ; BCL (Georg Tremmel + Shiho Fukuhara); Hicham Berrada ; Burton Nitta (Michael Burton et Michiko Nitta) ; Julian Charrière ; Natsai Audrey Chieza ; Carole Collet ; Amy Congdon ; Marcos Cruz & Brenda Parker (Bio-ID Lab, The Bartlett School); The Disease Biophysics Group de l’Université d’Harvard ; Alexandre Echasseriau ; Jonas Edvard ; Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Christina Agapakis et Sissel Tolaas ; Lia Giraud ; Guillian Graves (Big Bang Project) ; Andreas Greiner ; Ernst Haeckel ; Perry Hall ; Jean-Luc Hervé ; Marlène Huissoud ; Eduardo Kac ; Amy Karle ; Allison Kudla ; Joris Laarman ; The Living (David Benjamin) ; Julia Lohmann ; Julian Melchiorri ; MIT Media Lab (Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao) ; Mogu ; Isaac Monté ; Gabriela Munguia ; Officina Corpuscoli ; Neri Oxman & The Mediated Matter Group, MIT ; Jean Painlevé ; Claudia Pasquero et Marco Poletto (EcoLogicStudio); Institut Pasteur ; Špela Petrič ; PILI (Marie-Sarah Adenis) ; Pamela Rosenkranz ; Daan Roosegaarde ; Karl Sims ; Studio Formafantasma (Andrea Trimarchi et Simone Farresin) ; Studio Nienke Hoogvliet (Nienke Hoogvliet) ; Studio Klarenbeek & Dros ; Studio Libertiny (Tomas Libertiny) ; The Tissue Culture & Art Project (Oron Catts & Ionat Zurr) en collaboration avec Robert Foster ; Samuel Tomatis ; Urban Morphogenesis Lab (The Bartlett UCL) ; Tim van Cromvoirt ; Teresa van Dongen ; Elaine Whittaker ; Worcester Polytechnic Institute ; Wyss Institute de l’Université d’Harvard ; XTU Architects (Anouk Legendre et Nicolas Desmazières) ; Hongjie Yang ; Tokujin Yoshioka
Venue: Centre Pompidou, Paris
Dates: 20.02.19 - 15.04.19
Marcos Cruz and Shneel Malik
looking at 50cm dishes for bioremediation/biosorption/biophotovoltaic research
Photo credit: Marcos Cruz
Bioreceptive Wall panels
Design for the St Anne's Catholic Primary School in London
Photo credit: Sarah Lever
January 2019
Interview 'Interdisciplinary Architecture Approaches - with Marcos Cruz', published in Arredamento MIMARLIK (ed Idil Yucel Inal), Turkey, 2019 (pp. 51-57).
03-12-2018
Shortlisted project submission INDUS - the future of water remediation for the Water Design Futures, NY USA.
Category: Systems and Infrastructure
Team: Bio-ID Shneel Malik, Brenda Parker, Marcos Cruz with Laura Stoffels, In partnership with Grymsdyke Farm
Collaboration: Timothy Ryan; Julian Rodriguez; Vivek Sanu; Jin Ziying; Ian Robinson; Dali Alnaeb; Yara Gadah; Erfan Pour Ahmad; Jingyuan Meng; Jasmina Salam; Tairan Li; Erh-Chia Hsu; Yandongxue Chen; Shankar Saanthakumar
Support: Bartlett School of Architecture and UCL Biochemical Engineering
Photo credit: Shneel Malik
30-10-2018
Guest Lecture at American University of Sharjah, UAE.
Host: Juan Roldan
19-10-2018
CRIT of Bio-ID at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London UK.
Students: Timothy Ryan; Julian Rodriguez; Vivek Sanu; Jin Ziying; Ian Robinson; Dali Alnaeb; Yara Gadah; Marie Pontais; Erfan Pour Ahmad; Jingyuan Meng; Jasmina Salam; Tairan Li; Erh-Chia Hsu; Yandongxue Chen; Shankar Saanthakumar
Critics: Brenda Parker; Anete Salmane; Javier Ruiz; Lena Asai; Marcos Cruz
Venue: Here East
Critics: Brenda Parker; Anete Salmane; Javier Ruiz; Lena Asai; Marcos Cruz
Venue: Here East
Photo credit: Marcos Cruz
10.10.2018
Guest talk at Biomaterial Platform / Fashion Department, Royal College of Art, London UK.
Host: Thomas Meany
06.10.2018
Book chapter 'Paramateriality - Novel Biodigital Manifolds' published in Architectural Materialisms - Nonhuman creativity (ed. Maria Voyatzaki), Edinburgh University Press, 2018.
Contributors: Lars Spuybroek, Julienna Preston, Jen Archer-Martin, Fernando Zalamea, Mark Burry, Pia Ednie-Brown, Luciana Parisi, Manuel de Landa, Vera Buhlman, J Parikka, Kas Oosterhuis, Marcos Cruz
03-10-2018
C-BIOM.A - computation, bio-materials and architecture
Kick start of Marcos Cruz studio MAA 02, at Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia / IaaC, Barcelona Spain.
Tutor: Marcos Cruz
Synthetic Biology: Nuria Conde Pueyo
Students: Marc Bou Assaf; Umit Ceren Bayazitoglu; Elliott Santos; Abhishek Soman; Yasmina El Helou
Synthetic Biology: Nuria Conde Pueyo
Students: Marc Bou Assaf; Umit Ceren Bayazitoglu; Elliott Santos; Abhishek Soman; Yasmina El Helou
29-09-2017
Bio-ID, Bartlett UCL, London UK.
Kick-start of 2018/19
Tutors: Prof Marcos Cruz; Dr Brenda Parker, Javier Ruiz, Nina Jotanovic,
Tutors: Prof Marcos Cruz; Dr Brenda Parker, Javier Ruiz, Nina Jotanovic,
Students : Timothy Ryan; Julian Rodriguez; Vivek Sanu; Jin Ziying; Ian Robinson; Dali Alnaeb; Yara Gadah; Marie Pontais; Erfan Pour Ahmad; Jingyuan Meng; Jasmina Salam; Tairan Li; Erh-Chia Hsu; Yandongxue Chen; Shankar Saanthakumar
Photo credit: Shneel Malik
21.09.2018
Speaker of Round table discussion at Designjunctions - London Design Festival, London UK.
Speakers: Marin Sawa, Natsai Chieza, Marcos Cruz
Moderator: Carole Collet
21.09.2018
Chair of talks at BioDesign/Here and Now - London Design Festival, Open Cell, London UK.
Speakers: Barry Wark, Carolina Ramirez Figueroa, Shneel Malik, Ehab Sayed, Jackie Marshall
25-09-2018
B.PRO Final Exhibition, London UK.
Tutors: Marcos Cruz; Richard Beckett; Javier Ruiz
Students: Chen Shen; Yufei Lin; Lingwei Shi; Qi Cheng; Dan Liu; Yixin Liu; Xiaoqi Wang; Wenxuan Li; Junpeng Lyu; Xiaoqi Yu; Tian Du; Kexin Zhang; Yanghui Yan
18-09-2018
Bio-ID: Exhibition opening at BioDesign - Here and Now, as part of the London Design Festival, London UK.
Venue: The Laundry Yard, Shepherds Bush Market, W12 8DW
Organisers: Open Cell
http://biodesignherenow.webflow.io/exhibitors
Curators of Bio-ID show: Marcos Cruz and Nina Jotanovic
Design of structure: Javier Ruiz
Participants at Bio-ID show: Nina Jotanovic, Shneel Malik, Malika Schmidt, Brenda Parker, Javier Ruiz, Richard Beckett, Paolo Bombelli
Organisers: Open Cell
http://biodesignherenow.webflow.io/exhibitors
Curators of Bio-ID show: Marcos Cruz and Nina Jotanovic
Design of structure: Javier Ruiz
Participants at Bio-ID show: Nina Jotanovic, Shneel Malik, Malika Schmidt, Brenda Parker, Javier Ruiz, Richard Beckett, Paolo Bombelli
Photo credit: Marcos Cruz
July 2018
Book chapter 'Bio-Integrated Design' published in Meeting Nature Halfway (ed. Marjan Colletti), Innsbruck University Press, 2018.
Contributors: Robert Stuart Smith, Yael Reisner, Kristina Schinegger, Theodore Spyropoulos, Stefan Rutzinger, Bart Lootsma, Peter Cook, Marcos Cruz, et al.
22-06-2018
Opening of Unit 20 exhibition at Bartlett Summer Show 2018, London UK.
Guest opener: Eva Jiricna
Opening of Unit 20 exhibition at Bartlett Summer Show 2018, London UK.
Guest opener: Eva Jiricna
Venue: 22 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0QB
Unit 20 tutors: Marcos Cruz; Marjan Colletti; Javier Ruiz
Installation design: Javier Ruiz
Unit 20 installation with work of: Shi Qi Kiki Tu; Yi Liong; Fadhil Fadhil; Yinghua Chen; Daryl Brown; Cristina Manta; Yulia Amaral; Egmontas Geras; Sophie Tait; Toby Petyt; Brian Cheung; Levent Ozruh; Naomi de Bar; Tran Hon Lien; Daniel Krajnik; Hsin Tsai; William Ashworth
Installation design: Javier Ruiz
Unit 20 installation with work of: Shi Qi Kiki Tu; Yi Liong; Fadhil Fadhil; Yinghua Chen; Daryl Brown; Cristina Manta; Yulia Amaral; Egmontas Geras; Sophie Tait; Toby Petyt; Brian Cheung; Levent Ozruh; Naomi de Bar; Tran Hon Lien; Daniel Krajnik; Hsin Tsai; William Ashworth
20.06.2018
Speaker of round table discussion 'Digital Matter' - Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, Barcelona Spain.
Speakers: Maria Aiolova (Terreform ONE); Laia Mogas (TUFTS/MIT); Giovanni Perotto (Smart Material Group/IIT); Irene Gallou (Smart Modelling Group / Foster and Partners); Marcos Cruz (Bartlett UCL)Moderator: Areti Markopoulou (IaaC)
29-05-2018
Validation of Masters of Architecture and Urbanism - AADRL, Architectural Association, London UK.
Organisation: Open University
Validation panel: Rachael Luck (Chair, OU); Prof Marcos Cruz (Bartlett); Dr Harriet Harriss (RCA); Prof Flora Samuels (Reading University/RIBA); Dr Anthony Lloyd (Westminster University)Organisation: Open University
25/26-04-2018
Jury Chair of the international architecture competition Hsinta Ecological Power Plant (conceptual stage 2 - final selection), Taipei Taiwan.
Organiser: Barry Cheng / Taiwan Power
Organiser: Barry Cheng / Taiwan Power
Venue: Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial, Taipei
Jury: Chinghwa Chang (Bio-Architecture Formosana); Charles Waldheim (Harvard University); Sungkyun Kim (Seoul National University); Monica Kuo (Digital Earth Research Centre/Chinese Culture University Taiwan); Chung Twn Kuo (LEB); Marcos Cruz (Bartlett)
Jury: Chinghwa Chang (Bio-Architecture Formosana); Charles Waldheim (Harvard University); Sungkyun Kim (Seoul National University); Monica Kuo (Digital Earth Research Centre/Chinese Culture University Taiwan); Chung Twn Kuo (LEB); Marcos Cruz (Bartlett)
Competition Entry by Morphosis Architects, Los Angeles (1st prize)
1st prize - Morphosis (Thom Mayne), Los Angeles USA
2nd prize - Leers Weinzapfel (Andrea Leers & Jane Weinzapfel), Boston USA
3rd prize - Marine Environment and engineering Institute / National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
Honorable Mention - Rassano Garcia Arquitetos (Pedro Rassano Garcia), Lisbon Portugal
Honorable Mention - Sung Goo Yang, Korea/USA
30-03-2018
Marcos Cruz and BiotA Lab mentioned in article "Concrete is Becoming Smarter, More Sustainable and Beautiful" (by Elizabeth Pagliacolo), in Azure magazine, Toronto Canada. 
19-02-2018
Newly launched MArch / MSc in Bio-Integrated Design (Bio-ID), Bartlett UCL.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/architecture/programmes/postgraduate/bio-integrated-design-bioid-march-msc
These two new design-led Master's degrees respond to the impact of biotechnology, computation and climate change on the built environment. Bio-Integrated Design takes these fields of study as the foundation for developing novel and sophisticated design solutions to shape the future of our cities.
Taught jointly by The Bartlett School of Architecture and UCL’s Biochemical Engineering Department, Bio-integrated Design combines design experimentation with scientific methods, seeking new modes of simulation and production, and exploring how advances in the fields of synthetic biology, material science and digital fabrication is changing future design practices.
Two distinct Bio-Integrated Design programmes are available: an MArch degree and an MSc degree. Applicants will be able to apply depending on their background and whether they seek to specialise in more exclusively design or more science-driven outputs.
Bio-Integrated Design is part of B-Pro, a group of five programmes at The Bartlett with a unique shared philosophy.
HIGHLIGHTS
• Work with an interdisciplinary team of designers and scientists to establish new forms of design
• Develop an advanced knowledge of technologies and working methods, which may include digital simulations, synthetic biology and biotechnology and digital fabrication
• Design innovative bio-integrated systems with a variety of applications
KEY STAFF
Programme Directors
• Professor Marcos Cruz (MArch and MSc BioID)
• Dr Brenda Parker (MSc BioID)
STARTING DATE
• September 2018
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
• Please check the Bartlett website for more information
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/architecture/programmes/postgraduate/bio-integrated-design-bioid-march-msc
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/architecture/programmes/postgraduate/bio-integrated-design-bioid-march-msc
These two new design-led Master's degrees respond to the impact of biotechnology, computation and climate change on the built environment. Bio-Integrated Design takes these fields of study as the foundation for developing novel and sophisticated design solutions to shape the future of our cities.
Taught jointly by The Bartlett School of Architecture and UCL’s Biochemical Engineering Department, Bio-integrated Design combines design experimentation with scientific methods, seeking new modes of simulation and production, and exploring how advances in the fields of synthetic biology, material science and digital fabrication is changing future design practices.
Two distinct Bio-Integrated Design programmes are available: an MArch degree and an MSc degree. Applicants will be able to apply depending on their background and whether they seek to specialise in more exclusively design or more science-driven outputs.
Bio-Integrated Design is part of B-Pro, a group of five programmes at The Bartlett with a unique shared philosophy.
HIGHLIGHTS
• Work with an interdisciplinary team of designers and scientists to establish new forms of design
• Develop an advanced knowledge of technologies and working methods, which may include digital simulations, synthetic biology and biotechnology and digital fabrication
• Design innovative bio-integrated systems with a variety of applications
KEY STAFF
Programme Directors
• Professor Marcos Cruz (MArch and MSc BioID)
• Dr Brenda Parker (MSc BioID)
STARTING DATE
• September 2018
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
• Please check the Bartlett website for more information
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/architecture/programmes/postgraduate/bio-integrated-design-bioid-march-msc
13-02-2018
BiotA Lab / rC7 Crits, Bartlett School of Architecture, London UK.
Critics: Maj Plemenitas, Gilles Retsin, Richard Beckett; Javier Ruiz; Anete Salmane, Carolina Ramirez-Figueroa, Marcos Cruz
Critics: Maj Plemenitas, Gilles Retsin, Richard Beckett; Javier Ruiz; Anete Salmane, Carolina Ramirez-Figueroa, Marcos Cruz
25/26-01-2018
Jury Chair of the international architecture competition Hsinta Ecological Power Plant (conceptual stage 1), Kaohsiung Taiwan.
Organiser: Barry Cheng / Taiwan Power
Organiser: Barry Cheng / Taiwan Power
Venue: Grand Hi-Lai Hotel Kaohsiung
Jury: Chinghwa Chang (Bio-Architecture Formosana); Charles Waldheim (Harvard University); Sungkyun Kim (Seoul National University); Monica Kuo (Digital Earth Research Centre/Chinese Culture University Taiwan); Chung Twn Kuo (LEB); Marcos Cruz (Bartlett)
Jury: Chinghwa Chang (Bio-Architecture Formosana); Charles Waldheim (Harvard University); Sungkyun Kim (Seoul National University); Monica Kuo (Digital Earth Research Centre/Chinese Culture University Taiwan); Chung Twn Kuo (LEB); Marcos Cruz (Bartlett)
21-12-2017
C-Biom.A end-of-term Crits, Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia / IaaC, Barcelona Spain.
Venue: IaaC Barcelona
Critics: Areti Markopoulou; Maria Kuptsova; Kunaljit Singh Chadha; Valentina Toscano; Marcos Cruz
Venue: IaaC Barcelona
Critics: Areti Markopoulou; Maria Kuptsova; Kunaljit Singh Chadha; Valentina Toscano; Marcos Cruz
8-12-2017
Interview by Elizabeth Pagliacolo for the Azure magazine, Toronto Canada.
7-12-2017
BiotA Lab exhibits at Biofabricate 2017, New York USA.
Venue: New Lab
Venue: New Lab
Chief Organiser: Suzanne Lee
Exhibition curator: Amy Congdon
Exhibits: BiotA Lab / Shneel Malik - Viscous Biomaterials for Application in Architecture; BiotA Lab / Hoda Eskandar Nia, Eleni Dourampei, Yuan JHuang, Ziwei Zhao with Dr Paolo Bombelli and Dr Brenda Parker - Architecture Biophotovoltaics
BiotA Lab / Shneel Malik
Viscous Biomaterials for Application in Architecture
BiotA Lab / Hoda Eskandar Nia, Eleni Dourampei, Yuan JHuang, Ziwei Zhao
with Dr Paolo Bombelli and Dr Brenda Parker
Architecture Biophotovoltaics
Photo credit: Core77
5-12-2017
Workshop/seminar session with Bartlett students held at the Shukhov Lab, Moscow Russia.
Venue: Shukhov Lab
Venue: Shukhov Lab
Organiser: Elena Mitro
Photo credit: Shukhov Lab
December 2017
Published interview "La imperfeccion como oportunidad" (by Martin Cobas), in Entrevistas 3, Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo Uruguay, pp.70-91
Editor: Sandra Moresino
Other interviews: Giancarlo Mazzanti, Pekka Korvenmaa, Felipe Correa, Francesca Zampollo, Jose Rosas Vera, Benoit Peeters, Marcelo Ferraz
27-11-2017
Interview by Carlos Aguirre Diez for the Radio Circulo - Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid Spain.
Venue: The Bartlett School of Architecture
23/24-11-2017
Jury member of the selection panel for the Professorship 'Bildnerische Gestaltung und Entwerfen' Leopold-Franzens University, Innsbruck Austria.
Chair: Prof Marjan Colletti
Members: Prof Barts Lootsma (Dean); Prof Kristina Schinegger; Prof Gabriela Seifert-Kavan; Clements Plank; Rames Najjar; Maria Sadner; Verena Rauch; Simone Rautschek; Prof Marcos Cruz
Chair: Prof Marjan Colletti
Members: Prof Barts Lootsma (Dean); Prof Kristina Schinegger; Prof Gabriela Seifert-Kavan; Clements Plank; Rames Najjar; Maria Sadner; Verena Rauch; Simone Rautschek; Prof Marcos Cruz
15-11-2017
Interview by Jordi Vivaldi and Chiara Cesareo for the journal IaaC Bits / Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, Barcelona Spain.
Venue: IaaC Barcelona
26-10-2017
Interview by George Bull for the Bartlett Review, London UK.
Venue: The Bartlett School of Architecture
19-10-2017
Keynote lecture at the Stone Design Show, Antalya Turkey.
Host: Osman Arayici
Host: Osman Arayici
10-10-2017
Lecture 'Bio-integrated Design', as part of the Future Making / Future Materials talks, Royal College of Art, London UK.
Venue: Royal College of Art
Speakers: Chris Lefteri and Marcos Cruz
Moderator: Evan Raskob
Organisation: MA Design Products and the School of Design
Venue: Royal College of Art
Speakers: Chris Lefteri and Marcos Cruz
Moderator: Evan Raskob
Organisation: MA Design Products and the School of Design
05-10-2017
BiotA Lab / rC7 MArch Architectural Design, Bartlett UCL, London UK.
Start of Biotechnology and Architecture Lab 2017/18 - Extreme Environments
Tutors of rC7: Prof Marcos Cruz, Richard Beckett, Javier Ruiz
Thesis tutor: Shneel Malik
Students: Qi Cheng; Tian Du; Wenxuan Li; Yufei Lin; Dian Liu; Yixin Liu; Junpeng Lyu; Chen Shen; Lingwei Shi; Xiaoqi Wang; Yanghui Yan; Xiaoqing Yu; Kexin Zhang
Tutors of rC7: Prof Marcos Cruz, Richard Beckett, Javier Ruiz
Thesis tutor: Shneel Malik
Students: Qi Cheng; Tian Du; Wenxuan Li; Yufei Lin; Dian Liu; Yixin Liu; Junpeng Lyu; Chen Shen; Lingwei Shi; Xiaoqi Wang; Yanghui Yan; Xiaoqing Yu; Kexin Zhang
04-10-2017
C-BIOM.A - computation, bio-materials and architecture
Kick start of Marcos Cruz studio MAA 02, at Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia / IaaC, Barcelona Spain.
Tutor: Marcos Cruz
Synthetic Biology: Nuria Conde Pueyo
Students: Catalina Puello; Johana Monroy; Shalini Brahma; Zina Alkhani; Antoniette Elchidiac; Evelina Ilina; Fabio Rivera
29-09-2017
Unit 20 MArch Architecture, Bartlett UCL, London UK.
Kick-start of 2017/18
Tutors: Prof Marcos Cruz; Prof Marjan Colletti; Javier Ruiz
Tutors: Prof Marcos Cruz; Prof Marjan Colletti; Javier Ruiz
Students: Shi Qi Tu; Yi Liong; Fadhil Fadhil; Yinghua Chen; Daryl Brown; Cristina Manta; Yulia Amaral; Christina Grytten; Daniel Krajnik; Egmontas Geras; Hong Lien Tran; Hsin Fang Tasi; Naomi de Barr; Sophie Tait; William Ashworth; Yan Cheung; Levent Ozruh; Tobias Petyt; Jevgenij Rodionov; Howell
Photo credit: Alexander Semenov (Cyanea Nude)
CONSTRUCTING THE AVANT-GARDE
In a time of radical change, we architects are asked to develop a new attitude in which design adjusts to a new world order, determined by environmental transformations, socio-political confrontations and technological advances. We need to rethink our practice in search of a new disciplinary Avant-garde that is in tune with the challenges of the 21st century.
This year's field trip across the vast Russian landscape, from Saint Petersburg to Moscow, will act as departure point for our investigations. Historically, we will take the Constructivist legacy as a key inspiration for how to break away from outmoded or simply obsolete traditions. We will delve into its visionary approach, investigating the proclaimed social agendas, and explore the conceptual and formal influence that this pivotal movement had on so many leading contemporary architects. Most notably, Deconstructivism finds some of its roots in early 20th century Soviet Constructivism...
As one of the few real Avant-garde moments of our history, Constructivism was obsessed with abstract and dynamic compositional values that were embedded within a mechanistic culture. Today, however, we live in a post-digital era where cultural and technological parameters have fundamentally shifted. Instead of 'machine' we have machine-learning, AI (artificial intelligence) and robotisation. In parallel, 'nature' has taken on a new role on the frontline of design, research and innovation.
Unit 20 has looked for many years into nature as source of inspiration and subject of design. We have explored it with the use of physical model making and advanced digital tools, searching for new environmentally-driven designs that are typologically and tectonically novel.
This year we are asking students to define the emergence of their own architectural Avant- garde. We will embrace design paradigms that look at nature 2.0 as an open toolbox of and for innovation and area of action. We will explore nature’s extraordinary geometric and material complexity; find environmentally-sensitive solutions in the extreme climate of Russia; work with its unpredictable and adaptable intelligence; and make use of its immense beauty. Programmatically we will focus on projects that will tackle various critical contemporary issues: from artificial to natural, from mobility to housing, from industry to landscape, from high-tech to low-tech, from State to Church... The projects will be sited in Saint Petersburg - Russia’s cultural hub and imperial city (for 4th years), and Moscow - Russia’s sprawling capital of mighty power (for 5th years).
29-09-2017
Filmed Interview: Marcos Cruz on future architecture for the Venice Biennale, Bartlett UCL, London UK.
Interview by Tom Kovac
26-09-2017
BiotA Lab at B.PRO Final Exhibition, London UK.
GOLD AWARD for Bioreceptive Hydrogel Photovoltaics (tutors: Prof Marcos Cruz and Dr Chris Leung with support of Dr Brenda Parker, Dr Paolo Bombelli, Prof Mario Carpo and Oliver Wilton)
Installation design: Javier Ruiz, Marcos Cruz; Richard Beckett
Students: Hoda
Eskandar Nia; Wei
Ziwei Zhao; Mirella
Eleni Dourampei; Yuan Huang; Hao
Ding; Jeng-Ying
Li; Idil
Seren Yucel Inal; Sara
Eljamal; Marisa
Dewi; Yi
Li; Sung
Min Rhee; Ciao
Xiao; Mia Leyi Qi; Jian
Zhou; Lingyu
Gou; Xinyu
Wu; Gang Mao; Xu
Si; Bowen
Zhang; Shengtao
Luo; Mu-Ching
Tsai
BIOTA LAB EXHIBITION SPACE
BIORECEPTIVE HYDROGEL PHOTOVOLTAIC COMPONENTS
Hoda Eskandar Nia; Wei Ziwei Zhao; Mirella Eleni Dourampei; Yuan Huang
BIORECEPTIVE ACOUSTIC PANEL WITH MOSS GROWTH
Yi Li; Sung Min Rhee; Ciao Xiao; Mia Leyi Qi
Photo credit: Chris Leung
14-09-2017
Lecture at International Symposium 'Polycephalum City', Tallinn Architecture Biennale 'BioTallinn', Estonia.
Venue: Balti Jaam Pavilion
Speakers (Day 1): Lucy Bullivant (moderator); Bart Lootsma; Marco Poletto; Marcos Cruz; Mitchel Joachim
Speakers (Day 2): Emmanouil Zaroukas (moderator); Rachel Armstrong; Areti Markopoulou; Heather Barnett; Renee Puusepp; Matias del Campo
Photo credit: Claudia Pasquero
Venue: Balti Jaam Pavilion
Speakers (Day 1): Lucy Bullivant (moderator); Bart Lootsma; Marco Poletto; Marcos Cruz; Mitchel Joachim
Speakers (Day 2): Emmanouil Zaroukas (moderator); Rachel Armstrong; Areti Markopoulou; Heather Barnett; Renee Puusepp; Matias del Campo
13-09 to 27-10-2017
BiotA Lab exhibits at Tallinn Architecture Biennale 'BioTallinn', Estonia.
Venue: Museum of Estonian Architecture
Venue: Museum of Estonian Architecture
Curator: Claudia Pasquero
Participants: BiotA Lab, London; Experimental Architecture Lab, Newcastle; Ecologic Studio, London; IaaC, Barcelona; Urban Morphogenesis Lab, London; Linkscale; Heather Barnett
Pavilion: Gilles Retsin
Pavilion: Gilles Retsin
VISCOUS BIOMATERIALS FOR APPLICATION IN ARCHITECTURE
Algae-laden hydrogel scaffolds: Shneel Malik - Supervision Prof Marcos Cruz and Dr Brenda Parker
Bioreceptive Biophotovoltaics: Hoda Eskadar Nia; Eleni Dourampei; Yuan Huang; Ziwei Zhao - Supervision Prof Marcos Cruz and Dr Chris Leung with support from Dr Brenda Parker (UCL) and Dr Paolo Bombelli (Cambridge)
Photo credit: Shneel Malik
29-06-2017
C-Biom.A group exhibits at 'Living (in) Future Cities exhibition - End of Year Exhibition', Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia / IaaC, Barcelona Spain.
Venue: MUHBA Oliva Artes, Poblenou
Organisation: Mathilde Marengo; Maria Kuptsova
Supervision: Marcos Cruz
Students: Jessica Dias; Thorahafdis Arnardottir; Noor Elgewely; Yasamin Khalilbeigikhameneh; Inthat Useasakaree; Nikolaos Argyros; Christopher Wong
Venue: MUHBA Oliva Artes, Poblenou
Organisation: Mathilde Marengo; Maria Kuptsova
Supervision: Marcos Cruz
Students: Jessica Dias; Thorahafdis Arnardottir; Noor Elgewely; Yasamin Khalilbeigikhameneh; Inthat Useasakaree; Nikolaos Argyros; Christopher Wong
Hyper-articulated Mycomorph
Jessica Dias
Inlucent Resin and Cellulose Manifolds
Noor Elgewely
Photo credit: Jessica Dias; Noor Elgewely
23-06-2017
Opening of Unit 20 exhibition at Bartlett Summer Show 2017, London UK.
Guest opener: Ross Lovegrove
Opening of Unit 20 exhibition at Bartlett Summer Show 2017, London UK.
Guest opener: Ross Lovegrove
Venue: 22 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0QB
Unit 20 tutors: Marcos Cruz; Marjan Colletti; Javier Ruiz
Installation design: Javier Ruiz; Marcos Cruz; Marjan Colletti
Unit 20 installation with work of: Matthew Pratt; Patrick Mawson; Helen Siu; Tom Bush; Mon Thi Han Han; Man Chung Wong; Ching Yiu Wong; Shi Qi Kiki Tu; Yi Liong; Fadhil Fadhil; Yinghua Chen; Daryl Brown; Cristina Manta; Yulia Amaral
Installation design: Javier Ruiz; Marcos Cruz; Marjan Colletti
Unit 20 installation with work of: Matthew Pratt; Patrick Mawson; Helen Siu; Tom Bush; Mon Thi Han Han; Man Chung Wong; Ching Yiu Wong; Shi Qi Kiki Tu; Yi Liong; Fadhil Fadhil; Yinghua Chen; Daryl Brown; Cristina Manta; Yulia Amaral
16-06-2017
Final Crits of C-Biom.A / Marcos Cruz Studio at the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia / IaaC, Barcelona Spain.
Students: Jessica Dias; Thorahafdis Arnardottir; Noor Elgewely; Yasamin Khalilbeigikhameneh; Inthat Useasakaree; Nikolaos Argyros; Christopher Wong
Assistant Tutor: Nina Jotanovic
Assistant Tutor: Nina Jotanovic
Technical Support: Khunaljit Chahda
Synthetic Biology: Nuria Conde Pueyo
Critics: Manuel Gausa, Martyn Dade-Robertson, Areti Markopoulou, Maria Kuptsova; Mathilde Marengo; Maite Bravo; Carmelo Zappula
Synthetic Biology: Nuria Conde Pueyo
Critics: Manuel Gausa, Martyn Dade-Robertson, Areti Markopoulou, Maria Kuptsova; Mathilde Marengo; Maite Bravo; Carmelo Zappula
14/15-06-2017
External Examination, Royal academy of Fine Arts / KADK, Copenhagen, Denmark.
External Examination, Royal academy of Fine Arts / KADK, Copenhagen, Denmark.
06-06-2017
Presentation at VISION 2017 Future of the Built Environment, London UK.
Presentation at VISION 2017 Future of the Built Environment, London UK.
Venue: Olympia London
Theatre: Materials Innovation & Technological Insights
01-06-2017
Presentation at the Responsive Matter conference: De L'impression 3D 'a la matiere 4D, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris France.
Organisation Committee: Dominique Peysson, Samuel Bianchini, Emanuele Quinz
Speakers: Eduardo Kac (artist); Roger Malina (Chair of Physics, University of Texas); Jerome Bibette (Director of Biochemistry, ESPCI); Stefane Perraud (artist); Teresa can Dongen (designer); Benoit Roman (Director of Research, CNRS); Corentin Coulais (University of Amsterdam); Jean-Marc Chomaz (physician, Ecole Polytechnique Paris); Aurerie Mosse (designer); Dominque Person (artist); Emile de Visscher (designer); Ianis Lalemand (artist); Lia Giraud (artist); Jeanne Vicerial (designer); Selma Lepart (artist); Marcos Cruz (Bartlett).
28-03-2017
C-Biom.A Crits, IAAC, Barcelona Spain.
Critics: Alex Dubor; Maite Bravo; Mathilde Marengo; Maria Kuptsova; Marcos Cruz
Critics: Alex Dubor; Maite Bravo; Mathilde Marengo; Maria Kuptsova; Marcos Cruz
23-03-2017
Guest Lecture 'Biointegrated Design' at Leicester School of Architecture, UK.
Venue: de Montfort University
Host: Ben Cowd and Mary Johnson
Venue: de Montfort University
Host: Ben Cowd and Mary Johnson
17-03-2017
BiotA Lab / rC7 Crits, Bartlett School of Architecture, London UK.
Critics: Richard Beckett; Javier Ruiz; Chris Leung; Marcos Cruz
Critics: Richard Beckett; Javier Ruiz; Chris Leung; Marcos Cruz
06/08-03-2017
BiotA Lab exhibits at ECOBUILD 2017, London UK.
Organisers: ARCC/UKCIP
Venue: Excell Centre / BRE area
Sponsored: EPSRC
Organisers: ARCC/UKCIP
Venue: Excell Centre / BRE area
Sponsored: EPSRC
EPSRC funded research on bioreceptive materials (front left); Bioreceptive MPC casts (Z.Wang; Y.Jiang; X.Lin; Q.Zeng - middle back); Robotically printed hydrogel prints (J.Hagopian; S.Mohite; X.Zhou; H.Qian - back right)
Photo credit: Marcos Cruz
02-03-2017
Seminar Talk for the 1st year History and Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London UK.
Host: Mario Carpo
01-02-2017
BiotA Lab exhibits at Super Material exhibition, The Building Centre, London, UK.
Organisor: The Built Environment Trust
Venue: The Building Centre, Store Street, London, WC1E 7BT
Venue: The Building Centre, Store Street, London, WC1E 7BT
Participants: 4D printed programmable materials - Self-Assembly Lab/MIT; Prototype glass brick section, MVRDV's Crystal Houses - Poesia Glass Bricks, Delo Industrial Adhesives, TU Delft, Rosso Dotto; Transparent Wood - KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm; Bioreceptive Concrete - BiotA Lab, The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL; Silk Pavilion - Mediated Matter Group, Media Lab, MIT; Digital Grotesque Grotto - Michael Hansmeyer with the ETH Zurich and Voxeljet AG; Urban Algae Folly / Plaited Microbial Cellulose / Microbial Cellulose Structure Prototype - ecoLogicStudio, London; Shrilk Bioplastic - Wyss Institute, Harvard University; Black Graphene Radiation Protecting Paint - GraphenStone with The Grapheme Company; Torsional Stone Floor Slab - Webb Yates Engineers and Interrobang with the Stonemasonry Company and Artisteel Ltd.; Aluminium Foam - Cymat Technologies; Facade made of pollution - Made of Air, Elegant Embellishment, Berlin; Electricity-generating floorboards - University of Wisconsin-Madison; 3D Printed Steel Nodes - Arup with WithinLab, CRDM/3D Systems and EOS; Silk Violin - Luca Alessandrini with Imperial College London, Royal College of Art, Oxford Silk Group, ANLAI and Taroni srl.; Interactive Printed Graphene drum poster - Cambridge Graphene Centre, University of Cambridge with Novalia; Biologically transformed Venice Brick Fragment - Rachel Armstrong, University of Newcastle; Airflow Bioplastic - Urban Morphogenesis Lab, The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL; Radiant Heat Basalt Fibre Concrete - Techniker, London and Cornish Concrete Products, Truro; Agar Plasticity (Bowls and Tiles) - AMAM, Tokyo; Nanocellulose Samples - Aalto University, Helsinki; Bamboo-reinforced Concrete - ETH Zurich; Stabilized Soil from Peru using Aggrebind - Aggrebind, Connecticut; Aerogel Particles - Structura; Aerogel Insulation Wall Panel - Kalwall and Structura; Fire-retardant Plywood - Specialised Panel Products; Crustic Bioplastic Casings - Jeongwon Ji, London; Coconut Husk Board - Goodhout, Delft; Bullet-proof Film - Rosso Dotto, C-Bond; Photovoltaic Transparent Glass - Polysolar; Stone Wool Insulation - Rockwool
Bioreceptive concrete facade component - EPSRC funded (panels on left) Marcos Cruz, Richard Beckett, Sandra Manso, Chris Leung, Bill Watts (components on right) Taehyun Lee, Wen Cheng, Soo Hyung Kim, Dan Lin)
Photo credit: Marcos Cruz
13-01-2017
BiotA Lab prototypes installed at Camley Street Natural Park, London, UK.
Venue: Camley Street Natural Park, Camden, 12 Camley Street, London N1C 4PW
Organiser: Karolina Leszczynska-Gogol
Installation: Marcos Cruz and Richard Beckett with Hao Ding, Yi Li, Jerry Jian Zhou, Leo Bowen Zhang, Steve Shengtao Luo, Wei Ziwei Zhao, Kyle Ciao Xiao
Bioreceptive Calcareous Composites facing Regent's Canal
Crystal Xinhe Lin, Yuxin Jiang, Andy Zhili Wang, Qungyue Zeng
Bioreceptive Calcareous Composites
Crystal Xinhe Lin, Yuxin Jiang, Andy Zhili Wang, Qungyue Zeng
De-carbonated concrete column with Canal in the background
Hillier Yue Li, Tommy Zheng Tang
Bioreceptive Claycrete panel
Jiarui Liu, Chong Hong, Yi Liu, Nan Huang
Bioreceptive concrete facade component EPSRC funded Marcos Cruz, Richard Beckett, Sandra Manso, Chris Leung, Bill Watts
Photo credit: Marcos Cruz
