Imma Bofill is an architect and independent researcher working at the intersection of architectural thought, systems theory and ecological transformation. Her work investigates how new conceptual languages can reshape the way architecture is imagined, designed and understood in a time of planetary change.She is the founder of the Symbiocene Architecture Project, a long-term research practice exploring architecture as part of complex living systems. Rather than treating sustainability as a technical problem, the project examines the deeper epistemological structures that organize architectural thinking.Bofill’s research starts from a simple premise: architectural change does not emerge only from new technologies, but from new ways of perceiving relationships. Architecture is therefore approached not as an isolated object, but as a field of interactions within ecological, social and cultural systems.Her work develops diagrammatic models, conceptual frameworks and visual thinking tools that attempt to map these relational structures. Through diagrams, speculative writing and cross-disciplinary references—from biology and systems theory to philosophy and visual culture—she explores how architectural thought might evolve toward a more symbiotic and relational paradigm.Within this framework, the Symbiocene Architecture Project investigates how architecture might move beyond the anthropocentric logic that shaped much of modern design culture. Instead of focusing solely on performance or optimization, the research proposes architecture as a medium of transformation within evolving networks of life.Before developing her independent research practice, Imma Bofill worked for more than two decades on international architectural projects of high complexity, collaborating with architects such as Enric Miralles and Josep Miàs, and later leading her own architectural practice. This experience informs her current research, which moves between practice, theory and experimental forms of architectural inquiry.Alongside this work, she also runs Mentoring Projects, where she helps architecture students and young professionals structure their design processes and unlock conceptual blockages. This practice functions as a parallel laboratory for understanding how architectural ideas emerge, evolve and transform during the creative process.Through the Symbiocene Architecture Project, Bofill is developing a body of work that combines theory, diagrams and visual language in order to contribute to new conceptual tools for architecture in the age of ecological transformation.
The Symbiocene Architecture Project aims to develop new conceptual and visual tools for understanding architecture as part of evolving systems of life.