Dennis Dollens

Dennis Dollens has developed a generative theory for bio-intelligent architecture he calls an Extended Autopoietic Operating System (EAOS). It is intended as a theoretical and practical system for design research based in biological theories mixing autopoiesis, extended cognition, and extended phenotypes for application to computation, simulation, form finding, and system’s research to extract data from nature using electron scanning microscopes and CT scans. "Metabolic Architectures: Turing, Sullivan, Autopoiesis, & AI" — his new book — guides designers between theory and its application to bioremedial, biomimetic, and AI usages in experimental architecture design. Finding that an earlier book, "Digital-Botanic Architecture II" (D-BA2) serves as a prequel to "Metabolic Architectures," he has reissued the book as a companion edition.

Dollens lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Barcelona, Spain, where he teaches in the BioDigital Architectures Master program at the school of architecture (ESARQ), Universitat International de Catalunya. He has an MSc in e-learning from the school of education, and a Ph.D. from the school of architecture (ESALA), University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Blog: https://autopoietix.blogspot.com