David Tapias Monné

'aixopluc' questions how we dwell with the world, by crafting custom-made, site-specific and low energy habitats. 'aixoplucs' is its hands-on, self-build, post-industrial, fabrication, open source techniques twin. 'camp commons' is a net of reclaimed communal lands, improving their biotopes' health and searching for endogenous resources in them. 'little maps' is a walking architecture unschool, cartographing how we can really learn to plan and construct our living environment.



David graduated from the ETSAB in 1999, and completed his PhD dissertation on the maison Prouvé in the same institution in 2013, in collaboration with the MNAM at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. He is accredited as a Full Professor by the ANECA (Spanish Ministry of Education). David has learnt and taught at the ear URV (Reus), ESARQ UIC (Barcelona), The Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture (Taliesin West, Arizona).

He is currently a Lecturer in Architecture and Industrialised Building at the School of Architecture, Design and Planning of the University of Sydney, where he is collaborating on a CRC-P research project on Innovation in Advanced Multi-storey Housing Manufacture. He has lectured in numerous national and international architecture schools, institutions and congresses.

His works have been exhibited in Venice, Chicago, Berlin, Lisbon, Madrid, Brussels, Tokyo, Barcelona, Sydney.