CINEMATIC ARCHITECTURE

Jack Oliva-Rendler is an architect and design technologist working between tectonic form, ecological systems and the image — fractal geometry, digital twins and geospatial worlds built as environments you can enter.

Trained at SCI-Arc and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, his practice runs on a single conviction: architecture is a system of relationships across scales, and algorithms are how those relationships become visible. Fractal formulas orchestrate organization from the aggregate to the aperture. Geospatial data turns terrain from site into structural member. What results reads less like a building on a landscape and more like a landscape that has learned to hold occupation.

That work runs in parallel across practice and infrastructure — co-founding AURA to build XR interfaces for engaging hydrological systems and urban fabrics; directing the AEC Industry Cluster at the California Center for Climate Change on digital twins with NASA JPL, USGBC and the Baldwin Hills Conservancy; designing megastructures at Morphosis; modeling interdependent infrastructures at Metabolic Studio; and teaching GIS, Rhino, Grasshopper and fractal workflows to inner-city students at LATTC.

The frames archived here descend from Helios Arc — first-place winner of the Mars City Design 2018 Urban Design category, judged by NASA Johnson Space Center, NASA JPL, Boeing and the Dassault Systèmes US Foundation. He is the author of Terrestrial Architecture.

DISCIPLINE

ARCHITECTURE · DESIGN TECHNOLOGY · ECO-COMPUTATION

EDUCATION

M.ARCH HARVARD GSD 2020 · B.ARCH SCI-ARC 2017

TOOLS

GIS · CITY ENGINE · RHINO · GRASSHOPPER · UNREAL ENGINE · MANDELBULB 3D

SUBJECTS

MEGAFORM · TERRAIN · SANCTUM · ARTIFACT · FRACTAL SYSTEMS

BASE

LOS ANGELES, CA

STATUS

OPEN TO COLLABORATION