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The study of the relationship between information, architecture and complexity can be accomplished through the study of patterns of relationships, opening up the field for the understanding of architecture as organization.
Pau de Solà-Morales was born in Barcelona, where he graduated in architecture from the ETSAB in 1993. He received a doctoral degree from Harvard University (2000). His research focuses on the relationships between architectural theory and the use and application of information technologies in design, in particular on the different approaches to architecture from the sciences of complexity, about which he has written several articles and participated in various international conferences. He has been visiting professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Accademia di Architettura, Mendrisio, Switzerland (USI), as well as in other international schools. At present he is professor of architectural theory and of informatics at the Architecture School at Reus (URV).
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de Solà-Morales, P. (2012). Information, Architecture, Complexity. In: Williams, K. (eds) Architecture, Systems Research and Computational Sciences. Nexus Network Journal, vol 14,1. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-0393-9_3
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