Curriculum Vitae, August 2022

Jordi Vivaldi

PhD Architect, University of Innsbruck.

PhD Philosopher, European Graduate School (cand.).

www.jordivivaldi.com
Vienna - Barcelona
+436603806943
jordivivaldipiera@gmail.com

Jordi Vivaldi is a writer, philosopher and theorist based in Vienna.

PhD Architect (IOUD, Austria) and PhD Philosopher cand. (EGS, Switzerland), his areas of research
include 21st century’s theory of experimental architecture, art and technology, as well as various
forms of Speculative Realism and New Materialism. His current field of investigation orbits around
the notion of “limit” together with associated terms such as “finitude”, “determination” and
“reduction”, both in its philosophical and architectural registers. Jordi’s philosophical work focuses on
contextualizing the notion of “Limit” within the framework of the New Realisms, conceiving the
notion of limit as limitation, liminality and limitrophy in pursuit of “sibylline” forms of objectivity.
From an architectural perspective, Jordi’s research focuses on instrumentalizing the limit as a spatial
device of differential sameness and auto-referential difference in order to reconsider the notion of
hospitality with respect to the Anthropocene.

Jordi is currently working as theory faculty and researcher in several international universities such as
IaaC in Barcelona, UCL Bartlett in London, IOUD in Innsbruck and TU-Wien in Vienna. Besides his
curatorial tasks as editor in chief of the architectural magazine IaaC Bits, his work has crystallized in
several articles, essays and lectures. Jordi is the co-author of the book The Threefold Logic of
Advanced Architecture (Barcelona: Actar Publishers, 2020) and the author of the forthcoming book
Limit-Space: Agency and Form in a Xenological World (Actar Publishers, 2023).
Education

Architecture

- 2014-2018. PhD in Architecture. University of Innsbruck, Austria.

Continuous while Discrete: Resonant piling as an architectural method applied to the
problem of the floor. Supervised by Peter Trummer.
Distinction (1)

- 2012-2013. MArch (Honors). IaaC, Spain.

Final Thesis supervised by Hernan Díaz Alonso and Willy Müller.

- 2004-2012. Bachelor & Master in Architecture. ETSAB, Spain.

Final Thesis supervised by Jaime Coll and Cristina Jover.

- 2009-2010. Erasmus exchange (12 months).

La Cambre Architecture. Belgium.

Philosophy

- 2018-.... PhD (cand) in Philosophy. European Graduate School (EGS), Switzerland

Supervised by Graham Harman. In progress, expected 2023.

- 2020-.... Master in Contemporary Philosophy. UNED, Spain (45/60 ECTS)

- 2011- 2020. Degree in Philosophy (Honors). UNED, Spain (240/240 ECTS).

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Academic Practice

- Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia

Barcelona, 2015 - 2022

Faculty - Theory Seminars in MAA01, MAA02, CIEE, MoEC, MAEEB
Faculty - Studio Urban Design in MAA01 (2016 - 2019)

- UCL Bartlett

London, 2017 - 2022

Faculty - Theory Seminars in B-PRO
General Coordination - B-PRO Theory Clusters (2021 - 2022)

- Faculty of Architecture of Innsbruck

Innsbruck, 2019 - 2022

Faculty - Theory Seminars in Institute of Urban Design (IOUD)

- Technischen Universität Wien

Wien, 2022
Guest Faculty - Theory Seminar in Architekturtheorie und Technikphilosophie (ATTP)

- Shenzhen International School of Design

Shenzhen, 2022
Guest Faculty - Theory Seminar in Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT)

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Main Publications

- 2022 (Forthcoming Paper) / “Cosmetics of Hospitality: A Question of Limits”

Convivia, Issue 1 “Filth” (ed. Vera Bühlmann). Print, 2022.

- 2022 (Forthcoming Paper) / “Machine Strangement: On Leo Tolstoy, Algorithmic Otherness

and Urban Design”
IaaC Bits, Issue 10 (ed. Areti Markopoulou). Print, 2022.

- 2022 (Forthcoming Book-Chapter) / “Anotherness: One Hypothesis and Four Keywords for a
Poly-Plural Hospitality”
Deep Vista (ed. Gabriel Esquivel). Print, 2022.

- 2021 (Paper) “Xenological Subjectivity: Rosi Braidotti and Object Oriented Ontology”.
Open Philosophy “Object Oriented Ontology and its Critics III”. (ed. G. Harman), 2021.
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/opphil-2020-0187/html

- 2021 (Book) / The Threefold Logic of Advanced Architecture: Conformative, Distributive and
Expansive Protocols for an Informational Practice. 1990-2020.
Barcelona: Actar Publishers, Print, 2021. Co-authored with Manuel Gausa.
https://actar.com/product/the_threefold_logic_of_advanced_architecture/

- 2020 (Field Note) / “There has never been a Patient-0”

ACADIA proceedings “Distributed Proximities”. Texas: ACADIA, 2020.
Co-Authored with Gonzalo Vaillo, Tiziano Derme and Daniela Mitterberger
https://proximities.acadia.org/m/5f909dbfe7280855b0e934a2?fbclid=IwAR3x-pAchpmf8NG
7Y0DyY4iMJ1DwqplBktyuggp3kxf4mOiHSVjjPZ3L7ac

- 2020 (Paper) “The Twofold Limit of Objects”

Open Philosophy “Object Oriented Ontology and its Critics II”. (ed. G. Harman), 2020.
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/opphil-2020-0102/html

- 2020 (Paper) “Matter versus Parts: The Immaterial Basis of Architectural Part-Thinking”
London: Bartlett Prospectives, Issue 1 (ed. Daniel Kohler), 2020.
https://journal.b-pro.org/article/matter-versus-parts/

- 2020 ( Edited Issue) / “Black Ecologies”

IaaC Bits, Issue 09 (eds. Manuel Gausa Areti Markopoulou, Jordi Vivaldi). Print, 2022.
https://actar.com/product/iaac-bits-9/

- 2020 ( Paper) / “Matterlessness: On Architecture, Materiality and Form under the

Allonomous Condition.”
IaaC Bits, Issue 09 (eds. Manuel Gausa Areti Markopoulou, Jordi Vivaldi). Print, 2022.
https://actar.com/product/iaac-bits-9/

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- 2020 (Essay) / Black Gaia
Otherwise Engaged A Literature and Arts Journal Volume 5. Summer 2020. Quarantine
Edition.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B089CLPG69?fbclid=IwAR07OvFKb5AmrU1nuMry0vuKiCc
NWsGPOeYA_Tg8yT8CNJWvfK_TNNot-nU

- 2019. (Paper) Surrealism and Second-Order Cybernetic Architecture ACADIA proceedings

“Autonomy and Ubiquity”. Texas: ACADIA, 2019.
http://papers.cumincad.org/data/works/att/acadia19_000.pdf

- 2016. (Paper) Can Advanced Cities rethink Democracy? Urban real time politics Barcelona:
IaaC Bits n.1, 2016.
https://issuu.com/iaac/docs/iaac_bit_1.2.3

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Main Events

- 2021, 12 December, Instituto de Arquitectura de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Debate Forma

Exquisita. With Gonzalo Vaillo y Gabriel Esquivel

- 2021, 02 July, TU Berlin, Germany, Matterless Matter. Eco-Technology Series.

- 2020, 18 November, University of Varsovia, Poland. Earthing with Others. ArchitekTour

Series.

- 2020, 28 Oct, University of Texas, USA. Surrealism and Second-Order Cybernetic

Architecture. ACADIA Conference “Autonomy and Ubiquity”.

- 2020, 16 May, Barcelona. Debate on Black Ecologies.

IaaC + Actar Organizers.

- 2020, 19 February, University of Genova, Italy.

The Threefold Logics of Advanced Architecture

- 2019, 26 October, University of Texas, USA. Surrealism and Second-Order Cybernetic

Architecture. ACADIA Conference “Autonomy and Ubiquity”.

- 2019, 26 April, Bartlett Shool of Architecture, England. Matterlessness: On parts, fields and
particles. Symposium “Mereologies”.

- 2019, 28 March, University of Trento, Italy. The Allonomous Condition and its Aesthetics.
Lecture Series Acropoli Rethinking Architecture.

- 2019, 22 January, University of Innsbruck, Austria. Continuous while Discrete. Open

Phd Presentation supervised by Peter Trummer.

- 2018, 17 January, University of Innsbruck, Austria. New Urban Paradigms. Lecture Series
“Reading the City and the Landscape”. Together with Willy Müller.

- 2017, 23 July, IaaC, Spain. New Urban Paradigms. Lecture Series “Global Summer School”.
Together with Willy Müller.

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Architectural Practice

- 2016-2019. Senior Researcher and Designer in Urban Sciences Laboratory in Institute of

Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IaaC) lead by Willy Müller. Focus related to the
proposal of “Ten new urban paradigms for the 21st century cities”.

- 2016-2017. Project Manager and Senior Architect in Willy Müller Architects (WMA). Focus
on international competitions related to residential housing and public equipments.

- 2014-2016. Senior Architect in Barcelona Regional Urban Agency (BR).

Focus on international urban developments and water-fronts, with particular atten- tion to the
territory of “Morrot”, located in Barcelona.

- 2013-2014. Junior Architect in Ros-Falguera Studio.

Focus on residential housing and interiorism projects in the area of Costa Brava.