vision of the body in architecture by exploring ‘Flesh’ as a new concept that allows rethinking our common and more traditional understanding of architecture.8 Marcos Cruz got into the idea of flesh in 98 as a masters student at the Bartlett who had to design an artifact. He decided to create a space that he had not net architecturally experienced so he built a latex model, shaved his head, and got naked to demonstrate this process. This ‘artifact’ developed into his current architectural obsession on skin and flesh. Central is the investigation about our Human Flesh and a new emerging Architectural Flesh; a broader discussion about Aesthetics of Flesh; along with a vision of a new Urban, Digital and Neo-Biological Flesh. Now with the emergence of a Neo-Biological Flesh, unprecedented semi-living conditions are such phenomena that Cruz defines in broad terms as Neoplasmatic Architecture and could soon become a reality. Hence, in a time when the impact of digital technologies risks turning the architectural skin ever more disembodied, the aim is to put forward a ‘thick embodied flesh’ by creating architectural interfaces that are truly inhabitable
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