Arquitectura y diseño biodigital, siglo 21: “del ADN al planeta”

Abstract

The Zeitgeist of the 21st century, and the signs of our time, deserve due attention also from Design, Architecture, Urbanism and Art, that is, from these disciplines that are our own. And at the moment in which the human being has begun to be aware of the appearance of the so-called Anthropocene, then considerations and actions are required that are already radically different from how things have been lived until now. And even more so when these have changed so much in such a short time, that there has hardly been time for a correct analysis and assimilation. Thus, while the Modern Movement of the 20th century worked to design “from the spoon to the city”, we, the inhabitants of the 21st century, in order to better face the enormous current challenges, can already transcend that work only on the surface of the things, as has been done for millennia. Now, with the current technological possibilities, it is time to design “from DNA to the planet”. From the cell and the bit to the Solar System, going through all the intermediate scales. Some of the multiscale and transdisciplinary projects and works of Alberto T. Estévez, “from DNA to the planet”, are then shown in this paper. Pages that in this line briefly present some of the most unique milestones reached by architecture and design, which after all are doors to unusual frontiers of knowledge, with the hope of having served to broaden the fields and horizons of the architecture and design, for the benefit of our planet and of humanity as a whole.