Beyond the idealistic tradition of modern architecture towards standardization and repetition, the protostructures correspond to a paradigm where organization is regarded as dynamic and interactive. In such a program, generality is achieved through over-specificity, technique through iteration, robustness through redundancy, and novelty through adaptation. Technological instrumentalization and material creativity are treated as continuous and in a perpetual transition to each other. Prototype development is thus regarded as the generation of a system of production, the invention of a practice of normative yet responsive architectural organizations, through the engineering of attributes and their range of tolerance to changing conditions and desires. Protostructures provide of fluid tectonic-based infrastructure for a vast array of specimens. The openness and trans-scalarity of their organizational system allows flexibility to a large operational scope, ranging from furniture to long-span structures, from repetitive spatial components to large and complex building typologies.
— Ciro Najle

Ciro Najle is director of the Landscape Urbanism Graduate Design Program and Diploma Unit Master at the Architectural Association in London, He has taught at Columbia University, Cornell University, the Berlage Institute and the University of Buenos Aires. Since 1991, he practices in several associations in Buenos Aires, New York and London, where he resides. His publications include theoretical essays and projects published in After the Sprawl, Oris, Architectural World, Egg Magazine, the introduction to the 2G FOA Monograph, the editing, design and research of the Tokyo Bay Experiment and of the forthcoming “Landscape Urbanism: A Manual for a Machinic Landscape”.