MORPHtopia
is a Vienna
based design and research practice for architecture and product design. The studio is committed
to today’s most avant‐garde, provocative and innovative
projects. Offering a global perspective on design issues and passionate interest
in cities as field of chance. The office focuses in new sciences of complexity,
self‐organization, indeterminate processes and uncommon methodologies of design
production as main vehicle to generate off-centre architectural discourses capable of accommodating the unpredictable.
Gonzalo VAILLO
is a
registered architect in Spain. 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 afterwards taught as assistant in the Postgraduate Program. Since 2016 he is
faculty member at the University of Innsbruck, first at the Institute of Urban Design IOUD and currently at the Institute for Experimental Architecture Hochbau. Vaillo founded MORPHtopia in 2017.
PUBLICATIONS
2017 polis Magazin REALITY
Architektur der Täuschung
4/2017
2017 architektur fachmagazine “Otto, schau owe” 8/2107
2017 Crazy Liquid Blob futurism.com
2016 House in the Future. Update Productions. Canal+, Servus TV and RTBF.
2014 Casas Magazine. Visiones del Futuro. Peru. N° 216. November 2014. Pages 26-27
2014 Underground Space. Planning & Design. Ed. Ifengspace Media Co. Pages 284-291
2014 Salon Magazine. Kiev, Ukraine. May 2014. Pages 92-93 2014 2217NPL Online Publications: Dezeen, Metalocus, SuckerPunch, Fast Company, Salon, Look at me, Yahoo Homes, Slate, Gizmodo, Naked Science, Curbed, The Huffington Post, Planet. 2011 Azure Awards Annual Issue. Azure Magazine (Toronto). June 20112011 IV Muestra PFC BEAU XI2011 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 Dezeen.com The Cave by Gonzalo Vaíllo Martínez
2008 UAH Proyectos 06-07_3 Cabo de Gata. Institute of Architecture, Universidad de Alcalá
EXHIBITIONS
2017 Angst Barrock, ICARCH. Hinterland Gallerie. August. Vienna (Austria)
2015 Silver Linings. Towards unstable moments. 9-17 October. Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Austria)
2014 The Essence. Künstlerhaus Wien. 26 June-13 July. Vienna (Austria)
2013 Experimental Architecture Biennal. Prague (Czech Republic)
2013 The Essence. Künstlerhaus Wien. 26 June-14 July. Vienna (Austria)
2011 AZ Awards, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto (Canada). June 17-Sept.25
AWARDS
2011 Accesit IV MUESTRA PFC of the XI BEAU (Bienal Española de Arquitectura y Urbanismo)
2011 Finalist in the AZ Awards A+Awards Category
2010 Extraordinary Final Degree Prize (Universidad de Alcalá)
2009 Second Prize in the Competition "Rethinking Zirl" (Austria)