Daniel Bosia is an experienced structural engineer with a degree in architecture. He leads the research-focused design group Advanced Geometry Unit (AGU) within consultant engineers Arup. Founded by Cecil Balmond, AGU explores the structural dynamics of form and pattern, including naturally occurring phenomena, with a view to creating exciting new solutions. Projects include the Weave with UNStudio, the Taichung Opera House with Toyo Ito and the Serpentine Gallery Pavilions. More recently Daniel has supported younger practices like Big on the Danish Pavilion and Astana Presidential Library and Lava on the Jebel Hafeet Glacier. His collaboration…
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Daniel Bosia is an experienced structural engineer with a degree in architecture. He leads the research-focused design group Advanced Geometry Unit (AGU) within consultant engineers Arup. Founded by Cecil Balmond, AGU explores the structural dynamics of form and pattern, including naturally occurring phenomena, with a view to creating exciting new solutions. Projects include the Weave with UNStudio, the Taichung Opera House with Toyo Ito and the Serpentine Gallery Pavilions. More recently Daniel has supported younger practices like Big on the Danish Pavilion and Astana Presidential Library and Lava on the Jebel Hafeet Glacier.
His collaboration with artist Matthew Ritchie began in 2006. Together with architectural studio Aranda\Lasch they developed the -Line series, which includes The Morning Line commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary and shown at CAAC, Seville Biennale (2008), The Evening Line, shown at the Venice Architecture Biennale (2008) and The Midnight Line, shown at the Rejkyavik Art Museum (2008). The latest in the series, The Dawn Line was commissioned together with The Last Scattering for Phase 2 - Arup, London (2009). Daniel has lectured at UPenn, IIT, Yale, Architectural Association and The Bartlett. He is a Fellow of the Non Linear Systems of Organisation research center at UPenn.
Matthew Ritchie was born in London and currently lives and works in New York City. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art and numerous other institutions worldwide; including a permanent large-scale installation at MIT. His catalogue "Incomplete Projects" was awarded "best graphic design of the year" by ID Magazine in 2007.
He has had solo exhibitions at White Cube, London (2008); Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York (2006); Portikus, Frankfurt (2005); Mass MoCA, North Adams Mass. (2004); Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (2003); Dallas Museum of Art (2001); Miami MoCA (2000) and Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art (1999). His work has also been included in the São Paulo Bienale (2004), Sydney Biennial (2002) and the Whitney Biennial, New York (1997).
He has worked on several projects with architects, musicians and scientists at various venues including with Hèctor Parra and Lisa Randall for IRCAM, Centre Pompidou (2009) and on the -Line series with Daniel Bosia and architectural studio Aranda\Lasch. In 2001, Time magazine listed Ritchie as one of 100 innovators for the new millennium, for exploring "the unthinkable or the not-yet-thought".
