Matias del Campo is a registered architect and designer, currently serving as Associate Professor of Architecture at the Alfred A Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan. His obsessive explorations of contemporary moods are fueled by the opulent repertoire of materialization in nature together with cutting-edge technologies, as well as form, as a driving force in design at large. He cofounded the architectural practice SPAN in Vienna, together with Sandra Manninger.
The practice is best known for its speculative projects dealing with the sophisticated application of contemporary schools of thought as well as advanced fabrication methods within the architectural discipline. SPAN gained wide recognition for its winning competition entry for the Austrian Pavilion of the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, as well as the new Brancusi Museum in Paris, France. The practice’s work was featured at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale, at ArchiLab 2013 at the FRAC Centre, Orléans, France, the 2008 and 2010 Architecture Biennale in Beijing, and in the 2011 solo show ‘Formations’ at the Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) in Vienna. Most recently Matias del Campo was awarded the Accelerate@CERN fellowship, served as Technical Chair of the ACADIA 2016 Conference and guest edited an edition of AD, Architectural Design published by Wiley in London, UK.
The practice is best known for its speculative projects dealing with the sophisticated application of contemporary schools of thought as well as advanced fabrication methods within the architectural discipline. SPAN gained wide recognition for its winning competition entry for the Austrian Pavilion of the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, as well as the new Brancusi Museum in Paris, France. The practice’s work was featured at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale, at ArchiLab 2013 at the FRAC Centre, Orléans, France, the 2008 and 2010 Architecture Biennale in Beijing, and in the 2011 solo show ‘Formations’ at the Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) in Vienna. Most recently Matias del Campo was awarded the Accelerate@CERN fellowship, served as Technical Chair of the ACADIA 2016 Conference and guest edited an edition of AD, Architectural Design published by Wiley in London, UK.