Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa

Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa, Ph.D., is a tenured associate professor; current director of the AI Lab, and first director of the Master of Science in Architecture, Computational Technologies program, which he co-developed including NYSED approvals, after authoring its curriculum. He is an international architect and scholar in the fields of architecture, urbanism, ecology, and computation. His work innovates in information-based representation and construction systems through materials, robotics, and digital fabrication.

He received his Doctor in Architecture from UIC Barcelona, his M.Arch II from Princeton University (with full scholarship), and his architecture degree from the University of Buenos Aires, where he completed studies for his second master's degree and a post-graduate seminar at the Superior School of Fine Arts de la Carcova.

He has won several awards, honors, distinctions, nominations, competitions and grants, including the Fulbright and the National Endowment for the Arts (Argentina, 2001–2004); granted O-1 Visa status by USCIS (2004); Honors by El Correo Gallego (2023); Municipal Arts Society New York City Summit (2017); several New York Institute of Technology and School of Architecture and Design incentives, awards, and grants (2019–2023); Butler Prize and EC-US Award from Princeton University (2001–2004); several professional national and international competitions, first and second prizes (1998-Present: CU, TAV), and finalist submissions (LMDC WTC 2002).

Professionally, Lorenzo-Eiroa is the design lead, along with research and development, of the experimental practice e-Architects (New York/Buenos Aires). e-Architects develops software, information "mapping" and "visualizations" implementing big data, including machines to "draw" and machines to "build," understanding them as proto-architectural. His built work includes parks, buildings, and installations in Buenos Aires, New York, and Europe.

Lorenzo-Eiroa's projects have been exhibited, installed, and presented in several publications and institutions, including The Venice Biennale (VIII, IX, XVI, XVII, XVIII); The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA, 2003, 2011); MAK Museum (2005); L'Arsenal de Paris (2007); The American Mathematical Society Bridges Conference and Joint Mathematics Meeting (AMS, 2018); Disenny Hub Barcelona (2011); NYC Media Lab (NYU, 2017); The New Museum Festival Ideas NYC (2011); The Instituto Cervantes (NYC); ACADIA; The Storefront for Art and Architecture; The Cooper Union Houghton Gallery (2014, 2015, 2017, 2018); and The Cooper Union Dean's Wall (2017).

Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa authored and edited six books and more than 40 articles, several of which are indexed and were peer reviewed. Lorenzo-Eiroa's projects, articles, and interviews have been published in The New York Times (2002, 2008); RTV Galicia Bos Dias News (2023); Ethic Magazine (Interview, 2023); El Correo Gallego (2023); El Faro de Vigo (2023); Clarin ARQ (2002, 2008, 2012); La Nacion (1998); Constructs (Yale University SoA, 2011); Paradigms in Computation (eVolo); Imagining Ground Zero; The Generic Sublime (Actar/Harvard GSD); Plataforma Arquitectura; Arch Daily; Suckerpunch; Pidgin (Princeton), and many others.

Previously, he was an adjunct associate professor at The School of Architecture of Cooper Union (2004–2018). He was also the director of an innovative interdisciplinary digital representation and fabrication program (CE). He has been appointed visiting associate professor at University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, UIC Barcelona, Sapienza University in Rome, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, and the University of Buenos Aires.

He was invited to lecture and present on many occasions, including keynote conference lectures and invited lectures spanning more than 60 opportunities at institutions globally including: New York Institute of Technology, The Cooper Union, Princeton University, Harvard University GSD, Rice University, Art Institute of Chicago, ETH-Zurich, ENSA-Strasbourg, UIC Barcelona, University of Alicante, Sapienza University in Rome, Tongji University, University of Buenos Aires, Hong Kong University, Tel Aviv University, Universidad Catolica de Puerto Rico Ponce, UCE, and others.

Selected Recent Projects/Research

Blockchain Zoning Platform
Fluid Interscalar Fluidity, Installation and Exhibition, ECC, Venice Biennale 2021
Site-Specific Robotic 3D Printer and e-Chaise Longue, European Cultural Center, Venice Biennale 2018
Rezoning NYC Through Big Data Processing, GAA Foundation, Group Exhibition Venice Biennale 2018
Vicente Lopez Shore Park, Argentina National Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2018
Canvas Scraper, Robotic Metal Piece Exhibition, The Cooper Union
Guggenheim Helsinki Competition
House II version C, Built Phase I, Shinnecock Hills, Southampton, N.Y.

Book Publications

Lorenzo-Eiroa, P. Digital Signifiers in an Architecture of Information: From Big Data and Simulation to Artificial Intelligence, Book Publication, Routledge, London 2023
Lorenzo-Eiroa, P.; Sprecher, A.; Architecture in Formation, Routledge/Taylor and Francis, London, 2013
Sprecher, A.; Yeshayahu, S.; Lorenzo-Eiroa, P. Life in Formation: On Responsive Information and Variations in Architecture, ACADIA, New York, 2010
Lorenzo-Eiroa, P. Analog and Digital Strategies Between Interfaces, SP, 2006
Lorenzo-Eiroa, P. Instalaciones: Sobre el trabajo de Peter Eisenman, DLO/RE, Buenos Aires, 2008

Selected Publications

Lorenzo-Eiroa, P. "Space-Environment Commons: From Big Data Survey to AI, to a Post-capitalist Blockchain Zoning Platform" in ed. Carta M., Perbellini, M., Lara-Hernandez, J.A. in Resilient Communities and the Peccioli Chapter, Springer, 2022
Lorenzo-Eiroa, P. "Rezoning NYC Through Big Data" in Data, Matter, Design: Strategies in Computational Design ed. Frank Melendez, Nancy Diniz, Marcella Del Signore, Routledge 2020
Lorenzo-Eiroa, P. "Towards a Biodigital City Through Big Data Evolutionary Simulation" in Conference Proceedings of 4th International Conference of Biodigital Architecture and Genetics, ed. Alberto Estevez, iBAG-UIC, Barcelona, 2020
Lorenzo-Eiroa, P. "Multidimensional Space: From Perspective to Big Data," in Graphic Imprints, The Influence of Representation and Ideation Tools in Architecture, ed. Carlos Marcos, EGA, Alicante 2019
Lorenzo-Eiroa, P. "Post-Digital as Design Authorship" in Instabilities and Potentialities, ed. Chandler Ahrens and Aaron Sprecher, Routledge, 2019
Lorenzo-Eiroa, Pablo "Data and Politics of Information: Rezoning New York City through Big Data," in Data, Architecture and the Experience of Place, ed. Anastasia Karandinou, Routledge, London 2019

Selected Professional Honors and Awards

Cuadro de Honor; honorary frame feature at the newspaper El Correo Gallego (2023)
New York Institute of Technology Institutional Support of Research and Creativity Grant, 2022
S-LAB Funding and Dean's Incentive Award, New York Institute of Technology School of Architecture and Design, 2020
Group Exhibition: American Mathematical Society, Bridges Conference and Joint Mathematics Meeting, San Diego, Calif., 2018
MAS Summit Innovation Exhibition NYC, Morgan Library, 2017
Exhibition Selection: NYC Media Lab, NYU, 2015
Portfolio Finalist: OSAKA Competition, Japan, 2014
Fulbright Commission 50 Years Anniversary Featured Scholar, Argentina, 2006
Butler Prize and EC-US Award, Princeton University, 2001–2003
Fulbright Commission Scholar, 2001–2004
National Endowment for the Arts Scholar, Argentina 2001–2004
Several national and international professional architecture competition entries and awards, 1998–present