Deep Green

Join us for the book launch of Deep Green

Biodesign in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Deep Green investigates the potential of nature-based technology for shaping the evolution of contemporary architecture and design. It takes on the now pervasive topic of design intelligence, extending its definition to encompass both biological and digital realms.

As in their first title, Systemic Architecture: Operating Manual for the Self-Organizing City, the authors engage the topic through the specific lens of their innovative design practice, ecoLogicStudio, and their research at the University of Innsbruck and at the Bartlett, UCL. In the age of catastrophic climate change, such perceptual expansion helps to clarify that change cannot simply be stopped or rolled back. We must instead establish more positive dynamics of change within the living world. To this end, this book proposes to engage with design and architecture as an extended cognitive interface, a sentient being that is co-evolutionary and symbiotic with the living planet, contributing to its beauty and to our continued enjoyment of it.

Claudia Pasquero is an architect, curator, author and educator; her work and research operates at the intersection of biology, computation and design. She is co-founder of ecoLogicStudio in London, Professor of Landscape Architecture, founder of the Synthetic Landscape Lab and

Head of Institute for Innsbruck University, Associated Professor and Director of the Urban Morphogenesis Lab at the Bartlett UCL in London.

Marco Poletto is an architect, educator and innovator based in London. He is co-founder and Director of the architectural practice ecoLogicStudio and the design innovation venture PhotoSynthetica, focused on developing architectural solutions to fight Climate Change. In the past ten years ecoLogicStudio, has designed and built several living installations and architectures, demonstrating how microorganisms such as algae can become part of the biocity of the future.

Mario Carpo, Reyner Banham Professor of Architectural History and Theory, the Bartlett, University College London; Professor of Architectural Theory, Die Angewandte (University of Applied Arts), Vienna (emeritus since 2023). Mr. Carpo's research and publications focus on the history of early modern architecture and on the theory and criticism of contemporary design and technology. His award-winning book Architecture in the Age of Printing (MIT Press, 2001) has been translated into several languages. His most recent titles are The Alphabet and the Algorithm (2011); The Second Digital Turn: Design Beyond Intelligence (2017); and Beyond Digital. Design and Automation at the End of Modernity (2023), all published by MIT Press.

Peter Cook (b. 1936) is a graduate of the Bournemouth School of Art and the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London. He is an architect, lecturer, writer, and curator, and was a founder member of the English experimental group Archigram, where his projects included the celebrated Plug-in City and Instant City. He is a Royal Academician and a Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of the French Republic, and recipient of the Royal Institute of British Architects Gold Medal award. He is Emeritus Professor of the Royal Academy, UCL and the Frankfurt Stedelschule. In 2007, he was awarded a knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to architecture. He continues to practise with CHAP, of which he is a director.

We are delighted to welcome Claudia and Marco, plus guests Mario Carpo and Peter Cook to the AA Bookshop to celebrate the launch of this new publication over refreshments.

The book will be sold on the evening at a special price of £26 (RRP £31.99).