Benoît Descamps is an architectural engineer specializing in the computational design and optimization of lightweight structures. He holds a PhD from the Université libre de Bruxelles in Belgium, where he is now a researcher in the Building, Architecture & Town Planning Department. His research activities are concerned with architectural design, form finding, structural optimization, mathematical programming, and parametric modeling. He is currently working on a spin-off project which aims to introduce computational optimization tools into construction practice.