Naturalisation can no longer signify the return to an Arcadia, a mythical status of nature in accordance with the immanence of the biological context of life. The world, turned to an anthropocene, has imposed the technologies of human activities over all other natural or geological forces. Nature is no longer a resource open to mechanical and technological regulation. A profound transformation of the very concept of nature has been set in motion; it is now inseparable from artificiality, technological and digital production. Moving far beyond the discipline's borders, architecture and urbanism are currently developing a praxis at the intersection of design, computer science, engineering and biology. As in biotechnology, physics, economics, social control, politics, the systematisation of computational simulation has opened new fields of research. Between nature and technology, the material condition of the 'artefact' is henceforth transferable to other materials and other scales.
Architects and urbanists can generate complex models resting on self-generation processes of matter and integrating computational, social, material, political and environmental variables. Architecture imposed itself on to other production scales, from the nano to the macro, intersecting other disciplinary fields and initiating new professional skills. Architecture redefines itself as an 'ecophysics' of heterogeneous domains, a condition that is as much architectural as it is political and cultural.
