Bio
Jordi Vivaldi is an architect and philosopher based in Vienna.
PhD Architect (IOUD, Austria) and PhD Philosopher cand. (EGS, Switzerland), his areas of research include various forms of Speculative Realism and New Materialism, as well as 21st century’s theory of experimental architecture, art and technology. His current field of philosophical investigation puts in relation the notion of ‘reason’ with the concepts of ‘mimesis’, ‘finitude’ and ‘fortune’ in pursuit of plastic modes of rationality. From an architectural perspective, Jordi’s research focuses on mobilising the notion of limit as a spatial device of limitude, liminality and limitrophy in order to recreate the concept of hospitality in the context of the Anthropocene.
Jordi works or has worked as theory faculty/researcher in several international universities such as the University of Innsbruck (IOUD) and the Vienna University of Technology (TuWien – ATTP) in Austria, the UCL Bartlett in Great Britain, the IAAC-UPC in Spain and the Shenzhen University in China. In addition to several articles, essays and lectures, Jordi is the co-author of the book The Threefold Logic of Advanced Architecture (Barcelona: Actar Publishers, 2021).