Living Architecture: Tomás Saraceno’s Cosmic Spider Webs Propose an Alternative to Human Structures An artist trained as an…
Living Architecture: Tomás Saraceno’s Cosmic Spider Webs Propose an Alternative to Human Structures
An artist trained as an architect, Tomás Saraceno deploys insights from engineering, physics, chemistry, aeronautics and materials science in his work. He creates inflatable and airborne biospheres with the morphology of soap bubbles, spider webs, neural networks or cloud formations, which are speculative models for alternate ways of living. Spider webs, which Saraceno has experimented with for several years, have featured as the central theme of several major environmental installations and spark inquiry into possible modes to redefine relationships between humans and nature, proposing utopian conditions for sustainable societies. For the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial, he will present his latest explorations into the architectural, engineering, social, cosmological and symbolic values of these structures.