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SPAN, Matias del Campo & Sandra Manninger

Vienna based Architecture Firm SPAN, headed by Matias del Campo and Sandra Manninger, is driven by a compulsive desire to speculate about architectural opportunities in the presence of animated matter, organic entities and their underlying geometrical and mathematical logics. Their award winning architecture designs fuse these obsessions into projects applying the most advanced digital design tools and cast them into form by computer-controlled machinery. Their activities include Architecture Design, exhibitions and lectures as well as teaching in various countries and institutions such as the ESARQ in Barcelona, The Dessau Institute of Architecture at the Bauhaus and the Postgraduate Course of the Angewandte in Vienna.

Mag.arch Matias del Campo

Matias del Campo was born in Santiago, Chile in 1970. He studied architecture at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna under the auspices of Hans Hollein. From 1995 to 1998 he was editorial journalist for the magazine "Falter", and from 1998 to 2001 correspondent for the ORF. Numerous exhibitions and publications, as single featured artist, or together with Sandra Manninger under the Label SPAN. Since 2004 he has been Doctorate candidate under the auspices of Greg Lynn.

DI Sandra Manninger

Sandra Manninger was born in Graz, Austria in 1970. She studied architecture at the Technical University Vienna. Numerous exhibitions and publications together with Matias del Campo under the Label of SPAN. Since 2004 Doctorate candidate under the auspices of Greg Lynn.


Recent publications:

• FEIDAD Award 2005 (exhibition catalogue), due to be published in fall 2006, incuding SPAN´s contribution.
• AustriArchitecture, seven debuts from Austria (exhibition catalogue) Galerie Aedes, Berlin, Germany 2005
• Reflecting Tracks Book, Paper on "Relative Informations" the art of Fritz Biedermann. Schlebrügge, Vienna, 2005
• Interview about recent works, Architekt (Prague)
• Holes, Cuts ´n Bones! on architecture, digital fabrication and the medical field. Architektur und Bauforum, 2005
• Function is everywhere, form is everywhere. ST/A/R, 2005
• Nomansland: Experiments for public spaces
(exhibition catalogue) including SPAN´s Installation "I'm not here"
Künstlerhaus Vienna, Austria, 2004
• Interview about the label artwork of Central Records.2004
X-Funs Magazine (Taiwan)
• Individuality and Series (exhibition catalogue) Architecture Museum Frankfurt 2002
• Querschnitt 01, (exhibition catalogue), Vienna 2001
• New Design for the OEBB, (exhibition catalogue)
• ORF-Online
• Falter (Wien)

Recent exhibitions:

• AustriArchitecture, Seven Austrian Debuts
Zumtobel Staff, Vienna, Austria
November 20th to December 20th 2005
• AustriArchitecture, Seven Austrian Debuts
AEDES East, Rosenthalerstr. 40-41, Berlin Germany
June 17th to September 4th 2005
• Fluctuated Images - Installation
"Ichbinnichtda", FLUC, Vienna, Austria, August 12th to September 21st 2004
• Nomansland: Experiments for public spaces,
Künstlerhaus Vienna, Austria, April 21st to June 13th 2004
• Ephemeral Disruptions,
RIBA - London, April - Mai 2003
• Results of Ephemeral Structures Competition,
Byzantine Museum Athens, February 2003
•Individuality and Series, Red Dot Design Museum Essen, Germany 2003
• Individuality and Series, Deutsches Architekturmuseum
Frankfurt, Germany Mai 12th to June 24th 2002
• Syndrom Babylon - Kunsthaus Muerz, Austria
April 28th to August 4th 2002
• Mega- Manifests of hubris, Künstlerhaus Vienna, Austria
April10th to June 2nd 2002
• Art, Architecture and Design
Shanghai art Museum, China, November 2nd to November 30th 2001
• Fit on Screen, Vienna, Galerie Arc, Austria 2001
• Vitra - Working Hotel, Vienna, Austria 2000