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Hernán Díaz Alonso

Argentine

1969, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Biography

A native of Argentina and a graduate of Columbia University's architecture program, Hernán Díaz Alonso moved to Los Angeles and founded Xefirotarch, an architecture, product, and motion design firm, in 2001. A onetime aspiring filmmaker who continues to find inspiration in the grotesque forms and nonlinear narratives of science fiction, Alonso often uses animation software to create amorphous frames for what he calls "cinematic experience."

Such was the guiding concept for his well known 2005 installation at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in Queens. Crowds gathered among carbon-fiber-coated seating areas and socialized beneath petal-shaped canopies made of lycra stretched over a system of sinuous aluminum framing.

Alonso belongs to the second wave of designers associated with 'blobitecture,' a more unrestrained, organic form of architecture generated through the use of advanced modeling techniques.

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