is a Vienna based practice for architecture, design and research. The studio is committed to the reciprocal relation between today’s provocative and innovative spatial speculations and its manifestation into tangible, efficient, and logical matter. A platform for conceptual and strategic thinking devoted to contemporary cultural, natural, and technological challenges and its transportation into spatial qualities. Design-related philosophical approaches, speculative aesthetics, forms of complexity, error-based techniques, curiosity, surprises, or indeterminations represent an interest for generating off-center architectural discourses and results capable of unfolding and accommodating the unpredictable.
Gonzalo VAILLO
is a registered architect in Spain and practising in Austria. He graduated with Honors by the ETSAG Universidad de Alcala, Spain (2010), studied at the University of Innsbruck (AT) and post-graduated with Distinctions by the University of Applied Arts Vienna in 2014, where he also taught as Teaching Assistant in the Postgraduate Program Excessive. Since 2016 he is a faculty member at the University of Innsbruck, formerly at the Institute of Urban Design IOUD, currently as an University Assistant at the Institute for Experimental Architecture Hochbau and Spring 2020 Visiting Adjunt Professor of Architecture at Texas A&M University. Here some of his teaching activities. Parallel to his academic work, Gonzalo has extensive experience in international projects at different scales throughout all their design phases. He was Design Director at Wolfgang Tschapeller ZT GmbH (2010-2018) prior to founding MORPHtopia in 2017.
PUBLICATIONS & MEDIA
2020 ‘On Default: A Conversation with Gonzalo Vaillo’. Paprika! 6, no. 1, Yale School of Architecture. Weblink
2019 ‘The Oxymoron of “Jectivity”. ACADIA 2019. The University of Texas at Austin. Conference paper Weblink
2019 Allner, Lukas, Christoph Opperer, Karolin
Schmidbaur, and Gonzalo Vaillo (eds). Ideen für konkrete Raum-Prototypen :
Project Research Report 2017-2019 - Institut für experimentelle Architektur
Hochbau, Universität Innsbruck. Vienna: Verlagshaus Hernals
2017 Architektur der Täuschung. MORPHtopia / Gonzalo Vaillo - LWZ 38 Rooftop House Project. In: polis. Magazin
fuer Urban Development 2017/4, 34 - 35.
2017 Otto, schau owe. Architektur
Fachmagazine 8/2017
2017 Morphtopia reimagines classical Wagner facade in LWZ38 project. Designboom. Weblink
2017 LWZ 38, a reinterpretation
of the ornament. Metalocus. Weblink
2017 Morphtopia Reinvents Facade in Vienna. Dornob. Weblink
2017 LWZ 38 – futurystyczna wizja biura Morphtopia. Sztuka Architektury. Weblink
2017 Morphtopia Predlaže Radikalne Načine Renoviranja. Dizjn
Doma. Weblink
2017 This Crazy Liquid Blob
Could Be The House Of The Future. Futurism. Weblink
2017 The Liquid Blob House of the Future. wordlessTech. Weblink
2016 House in the Future. Update Productions. Canal+, Servus TV and
RTBF.
2015. ‘Towards Unstable
Moments’, in Aling, Schafschetzy, Sommeregger (eds) Silver Linings, 57-62.
Vienna: Breite Gasse Publishing.
2015 Casas Magazine. Visiones del Futuro. Peru. November Nr. 216.
Pages 26-27
2015 Gonzalo Vaíllo Martínez ontwerpt biogenetisch huis.
Architectura.be. Weblink
2014 Futuristic Familiy Home. Dezeen. Weblink
2014 2217 NPL. Metalocus. Weblink
2014 Underground Space. Planning & Design. Ed. Ifengspace Media
Co. Pages 284-291
2014 Salon Magazine. Kiev, Ukraine. May 2014. Pages 92-93
2014 Is The Blob The Future Of The Housing Market? Giant
Freakin Robot. Weblink
2014 The Homes Of The Future
Are Nothing Like You Imagined Them To Be. The Huffington Post. Weblink
2014 2217 NPL House. Suckerpunch Daily. Weblink
2014 Ceci n'est pas un blob liquide, mais une maison du future.
Slater. Weblink
2014 Découvrez 2217 NPL 2014, cette étrange maison du future.
Planet. Weblink
2014 Ετσι ακριβώς θα είναι τα σπίτια μας στο μέλλον. Iefimerida. Weblink
2014 Estructuras de aspecto alienígena. Gizmodo. Weblink
2014 Архитектор предложил концепцию «биологического» дома. Loot at me. Weblink
2014 Концепция «биологического» дома. Naked Science. Weblink
2014 This Crazy Liquid Blob Is Actually The House Of The Future.
Fast Company. Weblink
2014 Futuristic home by Gonzalo Vaíllo Martínez based on biogenetic
forms. Rushi. Weblink
2011 Azure Awards Annual Issue. Azure Magazine (Toronto). June 2011
2011 IV Muestra PFC BEAU XI
2011 ArchMagazine-Taiwan. Hwa Ker Publishing Co.
2011 "21st Century Habitat", Ed. Loft Publication
(Barcelona) and Page One (Singapore).
2011 Vision.DZN_Abu Dhabi TV Channel 1. Episode 22 (min. 20:30)
2010 The Cave. Dezeen. Weblink
EXHIBITIONS
2020 ‘Metaphors: resemblances vs. replicas’ in IARC Show 2020, Innsbruck (Austria)
2017 ‘Two Projects’ in Angst Barrock, ICARCH. Hinterland Gallerie. August. Vienna (Austria)
2015 ‘Towards unstable moments‘ in Silver Linings, 9-17 October, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Austria)
2014 ‘2217 NPL House’ in The Essence, Künstlerhaus Wien. 26 June-13 July. Vienna (Austria)
2013 ‘WBSH 52 House’ in Experimental Architecture Biennal. Prague (Czech Republic)
2013 ‘WBSH 52 House’ in The Essence, Künstlerhaus Wien. 26 June-14 July. Vienna (Austria)
2011 ‘The Cave’ in AZ Awards, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto (Canada). June 17-Sept.25