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16–29 (appearing partly in revised form in Chapter 1). I thank as well MIT
Press for giving me the permission to republish the paper The Platonic
Backhand and Forehand of Cybernetic Architecture from: Leonardo 52
(2019): 429–434 (appearing partly in revised form in Chapter 6). My
gratitude is also due to the organizers of the conferences Materiality in its
Contemporary Forms, the International Conference Arquitectonics: Mind,
Land, Society, the International Conference on Biodigital Architecture and
Genetics, and the IAAC Global Summer School – Quito Lecture Series,
coordinated by my friend Seiichi Suzuki, where I have found spaces and
pairs to discuss my work.
During my doctoral studies, I had the chance of being invited by Phillippe
Liveneau to make part of the teaching team of the master “Ambiances,
Architecture, and Culture Numérique” at the Grenoble School of
Architecture, in France. I thank him, and the students of the master, for
an experience that was enriching both personally and for my research.
During those nomad times, in which I lived partly in Barcelona and partly
in Grenoble, I was the guest of many dear friends to whom I thank for
their hospitality and friendship. Carolina Almeida, Tomás Piquero, David
Abondano, Manuela Ianini, Daniel Sadaba, Alvaro Liendo, Ximena
Colipan, Gislaine Etié, Dries Verheyen, Sara Bynens, Angélique Gudefin,
and Thomas Thivent offered me quite often bed and breakfast. They also
comforted me during the difficult times. I thank all the other friends in
Barcelona, Grenoble, and Bogotá for making my days outside the libraries.
Across the ocean, at La Salle University, my present academic home, I
thank the Faculty of Habitat Sciences for granting me the time required to
finish this book. I also thank my colleagues of the LAB LAHC, with whom
I have found a stimulating space to think about the digital production of
architecture and to make architecture. To my other colleagues and friends
from the Faculty of Habitat Sciences, I thank for the refreshing and enter-
taining talks in the coffee room. Last but not least, I am very grateful to my
talented former student, Luisa Gongora, for the beautiful graphic work that
accompanies this book. All the images included here were recreated by her.
At Routledge, I thank Francesca Ford, who enthusiastically backed my
proposal and invited me to publish this book in the Routledge Research
in Architecture series, and Trudy Varcianna, for her help through all the
procedural aspects of the publishing process. I also thank the anonymous
readers who commented the book proposal and gave me a valuable and
positive feedback that helped me to move on with this project.
Finally, my greatest debt is to my family in Colombia and France. To my
parents, who taught me the love of books, to my brothers, who have always
been there for me, and to my family-in-law, who generously welcomed me
as one of them. Céline has been my home during a journey in which we
have passed through various cities and too many houses. I dedicate this
book to her, who, like some cybernetic architects, is truly committed to
making of this world a more coherent and more whole place.