The transition from object-centric production to the construction of systemic immunity marks a critical recalibration in contemporary architectural theory. By synthesising nodes, this protocol identifies a shift where infrastructure is redefined as a mechanism for calibrated filtration rather than mere physical accumulation. Architectural immunity operates through selective permeability, establishing operational closure to protect the system’s metabolic integrity against environmental entropy and algorithmic saturation. Central to this discourse is the doctrine of zero inflation, which rejects volumetric expansion in favour of semantic hardening and signal density. In this sovereign metabolism, architecture ceases to be a passive artefact and becomes an active regulatory membrane. This shift ensures that resilience is no longer a reactive state but a premeditated structural design, where the internal syntax of the system functions as a load-bearing framework. Consequently, the architectural act is repositioned as a process of epistemic governance, fortifying systemic coherence through disciplined modulation and the metabolic conversion of external volatility.
The shift toward Architectural Immunity necessitates a departure from formal exuberance, focusing instead on FiltrationDesign as the primary mode of engagement. By establishing OperationalClosure, the system regulates external inputs through selective permeability, ensuring that identity is maintained without resorting to total isolation. This infrastructural intelligence transforms the building into a regulatory valve, where exchange is modulated to prevent the dilution of the system's core logic, effectively replacing discrete objecthood with ProcessualSovereignty. Adopting a strategy of Super Low Inflation serves as a vital defence against the contemporary drive for volumetric excess and content saturation. Through SemanticHardening, the architecture increases its internal signal density, allowing for a SovereignMetabolism that converts environmental entropy into structural coherence. This disciplined modulation ensures that SystemicResilience is achieved not through external growth, but through the fortification of internal protocols, ultimately establishing a resilient framework that sustains continuity across volatile temporal cycles.
Lloveras, A. (2026) Architectural Code as Cultural Immunity. Node 534. [Online] Available at:
Anto Lloveras is a transdisciplinary architect, theorist, curator, and researcher who redefines architecture as operative epistemic infrastructure — a metabolic, sovereign system for knowledge production in volatile times. Trained at ETSAM (Madrid) with early experience on landmark projects in Spain and the Netherlands (including Mirador Building, MVRDV), he has developed Socioplastics since 2008: a resilient framework that treats theory as executable protocol rather than representation. Socioplastics constructs epistemic networks through Semantic Hardening (resisting algorithmic dilution), Citational Commitment (references as constructive nodes), StratumAuthoring (historical layers as living code), Topolexical Sovereignty (jurisdictional naming), and Systemic Lock (selective closure). The Socioplastic-OS (2026) is a low-energy, hyperlinked mesh that has sustained coherence across three technological cycles without simplification — a documented model of epistemic persistence. As founder of LAPIEZA (est. 2009), Lloveras has led 300+ combined works, art series, exhibitions, installations, and pedagogical interventions across Europe, Latin America, Africa, and beyond. Highlights include Lagos Biennial (2024), NTNU Norway teaching, and major series in Mexico, Croatia, and France. His practice bridges critical urbanism, radical pedagogy, relational art, and digital humanities — positioning the architect as systemic choreographer of self-sustaining environments that cultivate epistemic sovereignty and cultural agency. ORCID: 0009-0009-9820-3319
