Augusto Gandia

Augusto is an architect and researcher with interests in design computation methods for fabrication-aware architecture. While his early work deals with the rationalization of robotically assembled space frames he later focussed on the co-rationalization of digitally fabricated composite dwellings, as part of the MIT Carbon House initiative. Additionally, he has  collaborated with Dr. Aileen Iverson on the investigation of cybermodelling, a novel digital design methodology that combines digital form finding with smart physical objects. He completed his studies at Mendoza University and the Bauhaus University Weimar, where he attained a postgraduate master of science in Media-architecture. He successfully conducted his doctoral investigation at ETH Zurich, within the NCCR Digital Fabrication (phase I and II) and under the supervision of Prof. Fabio Gramazio, Matthias Kohler and Wes McGee. He has collaborated at pioneering rationalization firms such as designtoproduction and worked at architecture offices in Argentina, Spain and Germany. He received grants from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to pursue his master and ETH Zurich to finalized the doctoral dissertation. Augusto has tutored the MAS as part of the NCCR, organized workshops at MIT and ACADIA, as well participated in relevant exhibitions at the Venice Biennale of Architecture.