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SUPERMANOEUVRE is an architectural practice that sees computation as a means of opportunistically collaborating with the heterogeneity and flux of social, cultural and ecological substrates. Employing both genetic and phenotypical strategies of formation in which multiple intelligences and behaviours compete for the gift of instantiation, supermanoeuvre seeks to move beyond the diagram as the dominant of architectural understanding. The resulting complex and adaptive morphologies achieve their definition performatively as the emergent outcome of highly specific architectural concerns embedded within generating rulesets.
The practice was co-founded in 2006 by Dave Pigram [New York] and Iain Maxwell [London] as a collaborative studio through which contemporary architectures may be engaged. The practice has exhibited in the UK, USA, China, Australia and South America and have lectured on their work at the AA School, Royal College of Art, Columbia University, Princeton, University of Michigan, The Pratt Institute, Aalborg University, University of Technology Sydney and the University of Canberra.
This blog is intended as a active repository of knowledge pertaining to contemporary architectural resources, techniques and theory. It is an open platform intended for not only our collaborators, peers and students, but also for the greater design community.
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