Esiste una architettura genetica? L'Università di Barcellona non solo lo crede ma anche creato un laboratorio e un master in Biodigital Architecture che vede nel digitale la possibilità che l'architettura diventi genetica che nasca e cresca in maniera indipendente. Possiamo leggere dalla presentazione: "Genetic Architecture, a Consolidated Research Group, works on applying genetics to the field of architecture in an interdisciplinary way, from two perspectives: the real, natural, and direct, and also the metaphorical, artificial, and digital. It takes a fresh look at ecology, the environment and digital media in architecture based on a biodigital fusion. The Group focuses on the importance of the new digital paradigms in the design process, on digital architecture and the most advanced experimental architecture. New technologies bring us closer to new production processes (Data Driven Production, CNC) which create non-standard architecture – more in line with the logic that governs genes (variation, mutation) – rather than focusing on industrialised chain processes."