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 principal founder of the Vienna-based studio MORPHtopia. He holds a degree from the University of Alcalá (Spain, 2010), a postgraduate degree from the University of Applied Arts Vienna (2014) and a PhD from the University of Innsbruck and the Polytechnic University of Madrid (scheduled for fall 2021). Gonzalo is a university assistant at the Institute for Experimental Architecture.Hochbau at the University of Innsbruck. He has also been a visiting professor at Texas A&M University (2020) and a lecturer at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (2015). Here some of his teaching activities. His work intertwines practice, applied research, and theory, focusing on aesthetics, technology, and philosophy for a design theory and methodology of the unknown side of the architectural project as a design material. He was Design Director at Wolfgang Tschapeller ZT GmbH (2010-2018) prior to founding MORPHtopia in 2017.