Join Assistant Professor Benjamin Dillenburger for a lecture featuring Manuel Jimenez Garcia and Gilles Retsin.

Manuel Jimenez Garcia is Course Master of Research Cluster 4 at the MArch Graduate Architectural Design (GAD) and Unit Master of MArch Unit 19 at The Bartlett School of Architecture. He is also curator of the Bartlett Computational Plexus and Programme Director at the Architectural Association's Visiting School in Madrid. He has taught workshops at Architectural Association's Design Research Laboratory in London, the Polytechnic University of Architecture in Madrid, European University Madrid and L'École Spèciale d'Architecture in Paris. Manuel hods a masters in Architecture and has worked at offices such as Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, Minimaforms, Amid(cero9) and Naja & deOstos. He is the co-founder of madMdesign, an architecture practice based in London. His work has been featured in Acadia 2012, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition or X Bienal Española de Arquitectura.

Gilles Retsin is a London based architect and designer investigating new architectural models which engage with the potential of increased computational power and fabrication to getnerate buildings and objects with a previously unseen structure, detail and materiality. His work is interested in the impact of computation on the core principles of architecture — the bones rather than the skin. Gilles Retain graduated from the Architectural Association in London, and prior to founding his own practice he worked in Switzerland as a project architect with Christian Kerez. He also co-founded SoftKill Design, a collective design studio investigating generative design methodologies for additive manufacturing and 3D-printing. Alongside his practice, Gilles directs research sluster 4 at UCL/the Bartlett school of Architecture, and senior lecturer at the University of East-London. He has been a long-time tutor at the AA visiting school in Shanghai and was invited professor at Texas A&M.