10/22/2025 - 10/24/2025
EAAD - Campus de Azurém
In October,
EAAD and CAAA welcome architect and researcher Marcelo Ertorteguy, who will be
giving an open lecture and workshop.
Open Lecture — Paralogical Machines
October 22
| 2:30 p.m. | Auditorium 2 of EAAD
Free
admission
Paralogical
Machines are projective, digital, and analog tools that function as “brainstorming
machines,” created to stimulate and question human (and artificial) creative
processes.
𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 — Artificial Imagination and the Genetics of Creativity
October 24
(October 24 - 10:00 a.m./1:00 p.m. and 2:30 p.m./5:30 p.m.) at Room 0.27
Note: you
must bring your own computer | Price: €10 | Participant limit: 15 |
Registration: geral@centroaaa.org
The goal of
the workshop is to promote the dynamics of co-creative collaboration and
develop new skills that enhance AI tools in the field of architecture and
design.
Marcelo
Ertorteguy is a professor at Florida International University's School of
Architecture. He is the supervisor of the Fabrication Lab and is a doctoral
candidate in FIU's DDES program. Marcelo obtained his undergraduate degree from
the School of Architecture at the Central University of Venezuela. He
subsequently completed a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design at
Columbia University's GSAPP in the US. During his studies at Columbia, he was
awarded the Lucille Smyser Lowenfish Memorial Prize and the Prize of Honor for
Excellence in Design.
In New
York, he collaborated with Grimshaw Architects, where he worked on public
transportation projects, including the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre Station for
the Spadina subway extension in Toronto and the reconstruction of the Fordham
Plaza intermodal station in NYC. In addition, Marcelo served as an associate at
LOT-EK Architecture & Design, where he was instrumental in the reuse of
standard ISO containers in innovative projects such as the Qyun Mountain Camp
in China.
Alongside
his architectural activities, he co-founded the STEREOTANK studio with his
partner Sara Valente. This studio is dedicated to the exploration and creation
of public art installations, hybrid objects, and instruments, often using
reclaimed materials and prefabricated systems.
This studio
is dedicated to the exploration and creation of public art installations,
hybrid objects, and instruments, often using repurposed materials and
prefabricated systems. STEREOTANK has participated in international urban art
festivals and public art programs, working with organizations such as Oolite
Arts in Miami, the New York Department of Transportation, the Architectural
League of New York, the Times Square Alliance, the Kobe Biennale in Japan, CAAA
(Center for Art and Architecture Affairs) in Guimarães, Portugal, among others.
