Jury-GRANDS PRIX DU DESIGN / Published on January 8, 2021
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Giancarlo Di Marco
Computational Designer & Professor
Giancarlo Di Marco STUDIO
Italy / Mexico
PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE – PEOPLE OF DESIGN VERSION!
What prescient youthful memory relates to your present career?
I remember drawing architectural plans of my house when I was 6 years old.
What are three basic rules you learned from your mentors?
■ Be skilled
■ Be committed
■ Be true
What project launched your career?
My book, Simplified Complexity – Method for Advanced NURBS modeling with Rhinoceros…
Simplified Complexity – Method for Advanced NURBS modeling with Rhinoceros, Brienza, Italy, 2017.
Photo credit: Le Penseur.
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Do you listen to music while you work and what music is that?
For sure. Any music from classic piano to hip hop, from funk to jazz, from soul to heavy metal.
Do you work in PJs or three-piece suits?
Both. Sometimes at the same time (top vs bottom) in COVID times!
What is your current design state of mind?
I’m on a nerdy-computational design trip.
What is your most marked design ability and or quality?
The ability to think geometrically, mathematically, and computationally.
How would you like your designs to go down in history?
I try to create connections between traditional design and advanced parametric and computational design methods. There is no reason to separate discipline from method: discipline gives a sense to the method; the method strengthens the discipline.
What peer quality do you most value?
Culture.
Which project is the epitome of your work?
Analysis and simulation of a tensegrity structure for the dome of the Sports Palace in Mexico City (Félix Candela). Performant (structural) fibers.
Sports Palace in Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico, 2018.
Photo credit: Giancarlo Di Marco.
Tensegrity model and structural analysis.
Performant (structural) fibers, Mexico City Mexico, 2020.
Photo credit: Giancarlo Di Marco. Performant (structural) fibers.
How are your country of belonging’s values reflected in your work?
Design Culture – embedding history, traditions, know-how, vision inside every concept and product.
What always inspires you?
Silence.
If a spell were to transform you into an object, by all means, what would you like to be, and why?
A super-computer with an AI getting information, learning, and evolving.
What is your favorite place in the world?
The World.
