Claudia Pasquero is an architect, curator, author, and educator; her work and research operate at the intersection of biology, computation, and design. She is the founder and co-director of ecoLogicStudio in London, Associate Professor and director of the Urban Morphogenesis Lab at Bartlett UCL, Professor of Landscape Architecture, founder of the Synthetic Landscape Lab, and Head of the Institute for IOUD (Institute of Urban Design) at Innsbruck University. Claudia was the Head Curator of the Tallinn Architectural Biennale 2017 and was nominated in the WIRED smart list in the same year. She is co-author of “Systemic Architecture – Operating Manual for the self-organizing city”published by Routledge in 2012. Her work has been published and exhibited internationally: at the FRAC Centre in Orléans, the Venice Architectural Biennale, ZKM Karlsruhe, and the MilanoExpo2015, among others.ecoLogicStudio has, in recent years, completed a series of photosynthetic architectures, such as the BioTechHut Pavilion for Expo Astana 2017, HORTUS Astana 2017, Urban Algae Folly Aarhus 2017, PhotoSynthEtica Dublin 2019, HORTUS XL 2020 for the Center Pompidou in Paris, PhotosSynthEtica Helsinki 2020 upon others. Claudia is writing a new book with Marco Poletto, ‘DeepGreen: Biodesign in the Age of Artificial Intelligence’ due to be published by Routledge in early 2022, and collecting the last 10 years of work and research.
