MANUEL JIMENEZ GARCIA
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ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE (MADRID, SPAIN - SEPTEMBER 2013-2015)
COAM - AA VISITING SCHOOL MADRID 2013 (MADRID, SPAIN - SEPTEMBER 2013)
Director - AA Visiting School Madrid 2014
Lecture: Digital Realities and soft systems
Manuel Jimenez Garcia is currently Course Master of Research Cluster 4 at the MArch Graduate Architectural Design (GAD) and Unit Master of MArch Unit 19, both at The Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL)(London); he is also curator of the Bartlett Computational Plexus and Programme Director at the Architectural Association's Visiting School in Madrid (AAVSM). He has taught and run workshops at Architectural Association's Design Research Laboratory (AADRL) (London), Polytechnic University of Architecture (Madrid), European University Madrid and L’École Spéciale d’Architecture (Paris).
ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE (MADRID, SPAIN - SEPTEMBER 2013-2015)
STRELKA INSTITUTE (MOSCOW, RUSSIA - AUGUST 2014)
Curator/Organiser - Symposium (10 days) - AA Visiting School Madrid 2014
Main Exhibitions and Competitions DEZACT - SHIH CHIEN UNIVERSITY (TAIPEI, TAIWAN - JULY 2015)
Large Scale Installation - Project: Soft-Modelling / Offshore Bezier CLERKENWELL DESIGN WEEK (LONDON, UK - MAY 2015)
Manuel graduated in Architecture from the European University of Madrid, he holds a masters in Architecture + Urbanism (AADRL) from Architectural Association and a masters in Design and Computer modeling from CICE new technologies professional school. He has worked as an architect for the offices of Rogers Stirk Harbour Partners, Minimaforms, Amid(cero9) and Naja deOstos, participating actively in multiple international recognised projects.
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Manuel Jimenez is a registered Architect at the ARB Architects Registration Board. He is the co-founder of Ctrl+M and madMdesign, an architecture practice based in London. His work has been featured widely in Ecaade 2015 (Viena), Design Exchange Canada´s Design Museum (Toronto), Acadia 2014 (Los Angeles), Acadia 2012 (San Francisco), Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (London), X Bienal Española de Arquitectura (Spain), and Rethinking the Human in Technology Driven Architecture 2011 (Crete).
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Education
Installation at Actiu London Showroom 3DXL - DESIGN EXCHANGE, CANADA´S DESIGN MUSEUM (TORONTO, CANADA - MAY 2015)
Installation + Exhibition - Project: WireMass INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, ACADIA 2014, DESIGN AGENCY (LOS ANGELES, USA - OCTOBER 2014)
Solo Exhibition – Project: SoftModelling
Studio 1 - Studio Leader JOHN H. DANIELS FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE, LANDSCAPE AND DESIGN (TORONTO, CANADA - MARCH 2015)
Workshop Leader: Soft Fibrosity ACADIA 2014, DESIGN AGENCY HACKATHON (LOS ANGELES, USA - OCTOBER 2014)
Exhibition – Project: DigitalPlaster SUMMER EXHIBITION, ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS (LONDON, UK - MAY 2012)
Exhibition – Project: DigitalPlaster
PLADUR CONSTRUCTIVE SOLUTIONS (MADRID, SPAIN - JUNE 2004)
Honorable Distinction
Assistant tutor – Esteban Penelas Unit – Diploma
Enabling and Curatorial Work THE BARTLETT, UCL (LONDON, UK - SEPTEMBER 2013-ONGOING)
Module Coordinator - Bartlett Architecture Skills Elective - (September 2015 - ongoing) Coordinator - Open Classes - (September 0 - ongoing) Curator Organiser - Lecture Series - The Bartlett Ple us (September 0 3-ongoing) CLERKENWELL DESIGN WEEK (LONDON, UK - APRIL 2014 & APRIL 2015)
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Curator Organiser - Symposium ( day event) at Actiu London Showroom
Cherry Blossom Palace – Caceres (Spain), under construction – Structure coordination Giner de los Rios Foundation – Madrid (Spain), under construction – Facade Design Pine Grove Park – Madrid (Spain), competition – 3D modeling and visualization National Energy Museum - Ponferrada (Spain), competition – 3D modeling and visualization Diagonal 80 Industrial Building – Madrid (Spain), finalized – Membrane coordination ARCHITECTURAL ASSISTANT, DATA ARCHITECTURE (MADRID, SPAIN - JUNE 2007)
ARCHITECTURAL ASSISTANT, PENELAS ARCHITECT (MADRID, SPAIN - SEPTEMBER 2007- DECEMBER 2007)
Congress palace, Singapore , competition - Lead Designer Trial court’s administration, justice campus of Madrid, competition Honorable distinction – Design Team, modeling and visuals ARCHITECTURAL ASSISTANT, INGOS ARCHITECTURE + VOID9 (MADRID, SPAIN - FEBRUARY 2007)
CICCM – Madrid (Spain), competition – Modeling and visuals
On-Line Publication - Project: WireMass On-Line Publication - GAD - RC4 On-Line Publication / Article - GAD-RC4 / Computational design methodologies for large-scale 3D printing ACADIA 2014, DESIGN AGENCY (LOS ANGELES,USA - OCTOBER 2014)
Project: SoftModelling
ARCHITECTURAL ASSISTANT, RGN ARCHITECTURE (ALICANTE, SPAIN - JULY 2006 - SEPTEMBER)
Congress palace - Petrer,Alicante (Spain), competition – Lead Designer ARCHITECTURAL ASSISTANT, GUILLERMO RESINA (AVILA, SPAIN - SEPETMBER 2001 - SEPTEMBER 2008)
Various residential projects – Avila (Spain), all stages architectural packages – Lead Designer
Additional Education OFFICIAL COURSE OF PARAMETRIC DESIGN IN GENERATIVE COMPONENTS (MADRID, SPAIN - APRIL 2009)
Bentley Systems Iberia S.A., Official Bentley certificate OFFICIAL COURSE OF DESIGN MODELING IN RHINOCEROS (MADRID, SPAIN - JULY 2007)
Full Paper Lecture: Design Methods for Large Scale Printing
P.E.A.R. ISSUE N.7 MEANING IN MATERIAL - A PARTNERSHIP WITH THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS (LONDON, UK OCTOBER 2014)
OFFICIAL COURSE OF ARCHITECTURE DESIGN MODELING (MADRID, SPAIN - SEPTEMBER 2004 - JUNE 2005)
DEZACT - SHIH CHIEN UNIVERSITY (TAIPEI, TAIWAN - JULY 2015)
Project: SoftModelling
Keynote Lecture: Soft Computation 2.0
URBAN FLUX (CHINA 2012)
CLERKENWELL DESIGN WEEK (LONDON, MAY - 2015)
Architecture Magazine
Lecture: emeidiem + OLO
III SAMPLE PFC, X BIENNALE OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN PLANNING (MADRID, SPAIN - NOVEMBER 2009)
ECAADE 2015 - (VIENNA, AUSTRIA - SEPTEMBER 2015)
SCI-ARC (LOS ANGELES, USA - APRIL 2015)
Private lecture and discussion with Neil Leach JOHN H. DANIELS FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE, LANDSCAPE AND DESIGN (TORONTO, CANADA - MARCH 2015)
Lecture: Soft Fibrosity Lecture: Computing, Making, Sensing; A Fresh Take on Beauty INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, ACADIA 2014, DESIGN AGENCY (LOS ANGELES, USA - OCTOBER 2014)
EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY OF MADRID (UEM) (MADRID, SPAIN - NOVEMBER 2008 TO JUNE 2009)
ARCHITECT, AMID(CERO9) (MADRID, SPAIN - NOVEMBER 2008 - SEPTEMBER 2009)
Peer Review Paper: Digital Plaster: A Prototypical Design System Project: DigitalPlaster
Conferences, lectures and Symposiums
IAAC INTERNATIONAL LECTURE SERIES (BARCELONA, SPAIN - NOVEMBER 2014)
Assistant tutor – Cristina Diaz + Efren Garcia Unit – Intermediate
Brazil at Heart 2012 Exhibition – Brazilian Embassy - London (UK) – Design Team File 2011, Electronic Language International festival, Sao Paolo (Brazil) – Design Team
ACADIA 2012, SYNTHETIC DIGITAL ECOLOGIES (SAN FRANCISCO, USA - OCTOBER 2012)
HARVARD GSD (BOSTON, USA - APRIL 2015)
ESCUELA TECNICA SUPERIOR DE ARQUITECTURA (ETSAM) (MADRID, SPAIN - NOVEMBER 2008 TO JUNE 2009)
ARCHITECT, NAJA & DEOSTOS (LONDON, UK - FEBRUARY 2011 - SEPTEMBER 2012)
DESIGNBOOM (MAY 2015)
CREATIVEAPPLICATIONS (DECEMBER 2015)
Competition First Prize - Project: Uncertain Nervous System
Confidential Infrastructure project, Scheme Design Stage
Peer Review Paper: Design Methods for Large Scale Printing
PROCESSING EXHIBITION (DECEMBER 2015)
Competition First Prize
ARCHITECT, ROGERS STIRK HARBOUR + PARTNERS (LONDON, UK - SEPTEMBER 2011 - SEPTEMBER 2012)
Europan 09 – La Laguna,Tenerife (Spain), competition first prize – Modeling and visuals
ECAADE 2015 - (VIENNA, AUSTRIA - SEPTEMBER 2015)
RESONATE 2014 (BELGRADE, SERBIA - APRIL 2014)
Modeling workshop series – Ricardo de Ostos nit - Diploma
Paper Lecture – Project: DigitalPlaster
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, ACADIA 2012, SYNTHETIC DIGITAL ECOLOGIES (SAN FRANCISCO, USA - OCTOBER 2012)
Private lecture and discussion with Marcelo Spina
ECOLE SPECIALE D’ARCHITECTURE (ESA) (PARIS, FRANCE - APRIL 2011)
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, RETHINKING THE HUMAN IN TECHNOLOGY DRIVEN ARCHITECTURE (CRETE, GREECE - AUGUST 2011)
Project: SoftModelling
Hackathon Champion orkshop Leader Programming matter for Non-Digital Realities
Paper Lecture – DigitalPlaster Project Lecture – Project: DigitalPlaster
Exhibition – Project: Transcomputational Pavilion
III SAMPLE PFC, X BIENNALE OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN PLANNING (MADRID, SPAIN - NOVEMBER 2009)
DEZACT - SHIH CHIEN UNIVERSITY (TAIPEI, TAIWAN - JULY 2015)
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, ACADIA 2012, SYNTHETIC DIGITAL ECOLOGIES (SAN FRANCISCO, USA - OCTOBER 2012)
BLIND SPOT (LOS ANGELES, USA - 2015)
Teaching
Programme Director - AA Visiting School Madrid (2013/ongoing) Course tutor - AADRL (Design Research Laboratory AADRL) – March + Urbanism (2012/13) Technical tutor - AADRL (Design Research Laboratory AADRL) – March + Urbanism (2011/12)
Lecture: Common ground
MAS EXHIBITION - SEOUL TOWARDS A MEGA-CITY (SEOUL, KOREA - OCTOBER 2012)
School of Architecture, European University of Madrid
ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE (LONDON,UK — SEPTEMBER 2011-ONGOING)
THE BARTLETT PLEXUS 7 , UCL (LONDON, UK - JULY 2014)
Main Publications
CRISIS Y UTOPIAS (ARQUITECTURAS DEL SIGLO XXI) (MADRID, SPAIN - APRIL 2011)
Unit Master -– M.Arch Graduate Architectural Design - Research Cluster 4 (2013/ongoing) Unit Master -– M.Arch Architecture (ARB/RIBA Part 2) - Unit 19 (2013/ongoing) Unit Master -– M.Arch Architecture (ARB/RIBA Part 2) - Unit 18 (2012/13)
Lecture: madmDesign + digital matters
Soft-Modelling Exhibition at Actiu London Showroom
MASTERS OF ARCHITECTURE (MADRID, SPAIN — 2000-2008)
THE BARTLETT, UCL (LONDON, UK — SEPTEMBER 2011-ONGOING)
ETSAB - AA VISITING SCHOOL BARCELONA 2013 (BARCELONA, SPAIN - JULY 2013)
CLERKENWELL DESIGN WEEK (LONDON, UK - MAY 2014)
MASTERS OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM (LONDON, UK — 2009-2011)
Architectural Association School of Architecture,AADRL (Project Distinction)
Lecture: Soft Computation
Emotive House - The Secret life of Buildings, Documentary, Channel 4 (UK)– Lead Designer Talk to Me Exhibition, 2011- MoMa, New York (USA) – Design Team
Paper Lecture - Towards the Irreducibility of Architectural Methodologies PAUL DAVIES AND PARTNERS (LONDON, UK - JUNE 2014)
Lecture: Coding Architecture CLERKENWELL DESIGN WEEK (LONDON, UK - MAY 2014)
Lecture: Soft-Modelling RESONATE 2014 (BELGRADE, SERBIA - APRIL 2014)
Lecture: DigitalPlaster
CICE Professional School of new technologies,Autodesk official certificate
On-Line Publication FILE 2011 - ELECTRONIC LANGUAGE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL (SAO PAOLO, BRAZIL - JULY 2011)
Book - consulting for Naja & deOstos MOMA TALK TO ME (NEW YORK, USA - JULY 2011)
Book - consulting for minimaforms AD TERRITORY (LONDON, UK - APRIL 2010)
Architecture Magazine - consulting for Amid(Cero9) EL CROQUIS VOL.148 COLLECTIVE EXPERIMENTS (MADRID, SPAIN - SEPTEMBER 2010)
Architecture Magazine - consulting for Amid(Cero9)
Project Lecture - Project: SoftModelling INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, WHAT´S THE MATTER (BARCELONA, SPAIN - SEPTEMBER 2014)
CREA Formation, Official McNeel certificate
Consulting and Professional Experience ARCHITECT, MINIMAFORMS (LONDON, UK - JANUARY 2011 - SEPTEMBER 2014)
Naturalising Architecture Exhibition - Frac Centre (France) – Project leader Soft Cast Pavilion - Kjøsnesfjorden, Fjords (Norway) – Project leader Petting Zoo Installation - Barbican Centre (London) – Lead Designer Petting Zoo Installation - Frac Centre, Orléans (France) – Lead Designer Petting Zoo Installation - Selfridges (London) – Lead Designer Thematic landmarks for National Park - Athens (Greece) – Lead Designer
EMAIL manuel.j@madmdesign.com WEB www.madmdesign.com http://bartlett-rc4.com/ http://unit-19.net/ http://bartlettplexus.com/ REEL https://vimeo.com/87914667
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PERSONAL WORK
>>> >>> DIGITAL CONCRETE - PROTOTYPE FOR ORGANIC MARKET.......................................................................... >>> MEDEA HYPOTHESIS - IDEAS FOR VERTICAL INHABITATION.......................................................................... >>> HD-PHYSICS 1.0 - JAVA AGENTS/PHYSICS APPLICATION.......................................................................... >>> SOFT-MODELLING - OPEN SOURCE MODELLING SOFTWARE.......................................................................... >>> FLEXIBLE TECTONICS V1.0 - AAVS MADRID 2014 PAVILION .......................................................................... >>> FLEXIBLE TECTONICS V2.0 - AAVS MADRID 2015 PAVILION .......................................................................... >>> FLEXIBLE TECTONICS V3.0 - CLERKENWELL DESIGN WEEK 2015 .......................................................................... >>> OFFSHORE BEZIER - EXTRA FABRICA 2015 - DEZACT .......................................................................... >>> SEAM PAVILION - THE BARTLETT APF.......................................................................... >>> WIREMASS - 3DXL - DESIGN EXCHANGE, CANADA ́S DESIGN MUSEUM.......................................................................... >>> STIFFENING SOFTNESS - THE BARTLETT U19 2014 SHOW DESIGN.......................................................................... >>> UNCERTAIN NERVOUS SYSTEM - CITY OF PEACE IN “CUATRO VIENTOS”.......................................................................... >>> AIR(LINK)WAY - URBAN REVITALIZATIONAL SYSTEM (competition).......................................................................... >>> MICKEYTECH - ACADIA 2014, DESIGN AGENCY HACKATHON.......................................................................... >>> OO
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>>> >>> O BECOMING ANIMAL - MOMA NEW YORK EXHIBITION.......................................................................... >>> O THE SECRET LIFE OF BUILDINGS - channel 4 documentary.......................................................................... >>> O NAJA & DEOSTOS.......................................................................... >>> O BRAZIL AT HEART - embassy of brazil exhibition.......................................................................... >>> O ECTOPLASMATIC HOUSING - file sao paolo 2011 exhibition.......................................................................... >>> O AMID (cero9).......................................................................... >>> O DIAGONAL 80 - INDUSTRIAL BUILDING.......................................................................... >>> O NATIONAL ENERGY MUSEUM - SYSTEM FOR HANDLE ENERGY.......................................................................... >>> CHERRY BLOSSOM PALACE - CHAPEL FOR THE BLOSSON FESTIVAL.......................................................................... >>> O PINE GROVE PARK - PUBLIC SPACE FOR COLECTIVE GROUPS.......................................................................... >>> O
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OO ACADEMIC WORK ......................................................................... >>> 128 O UCL - THE BARTLETT SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE.......................................................................... >>> 128 O M.ARCH GRADUATE ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN (GAD) - RESEARCH CLUSTER 4 .......................................................................... >>> 128 O M.ARCH ARCHITECTURE (ARB/RIBA PART 2) - UNIT 19 .......................................................................... >>> 136 O M.ARCH ARCHITECTURE (ARB/RIBA PART 2) - UNIT 18 .......................................................................... >>> 140 O ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE.......................................................................... >>> 142 O DESIGN RESEARCH LAB (AADRL).......................................................................... >>> 142 O AA VISITING SCHOOL MADRID.......................................................................... >>> 144
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PERSONAL WORK DIGITAL PLASTER..........................................................pag.008 DIGITAL CONCRETE..........................................................pag.028 MEDEA HYPOTHESIS...................................................pag.030 HD PHYSICS V1.0.........................................................pag.034 SOFT-MODELLING........................................................pag.036 FLEXIBLE TECTONICS V1.0......................................pag.042 FLEXIBLE TECTONICS V1.0......................................pag.044 FLEXIBLE TECTONICS V1.0......................................pag.046 OFFSHORE BEZIER......................................pag.048 SEAM PAVILION......................................pag.050 WIREMASS......................................pag.054 STIFFENING SOFTNESS.............................................pag.056 UNCERTAIN NERVOUS SYSTEM............................pag.060 AIR - (LINK) - WAY..........................................................pag.068 MICKEYTECH..........................................................pag.084
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CONSULTING MINIMAFORMS...............................................................pag.088 NAJA & DEOSTOS........................................................pag.114 AMID(cero9)....................................................................pag.118
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ACADEMIC WORK UCL - BARTLETT MARCH GAD - RC4....................pag.128 UCL - BARTLETT MARCH ARCH - U19.................pag.136 UCL - BARTLETT MARCH ARCH - U18.................pag.140 AA-DRL (DESIGN RESEARCH LAB).......................pag.142 AA-VISITING SCHOOL MADRID...............................pag.144
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