JulianLienhard
Karen Marie Hasling
Affiliation: Research Associate and PhD Candidate at the Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE), University of Stuttgart, Germany.
Affiliation: B.Sc.E Textile Technology, Swedish School of Textiles, M.Sc.E Design & Innovation, Technical University of Denmark. March 2012-: PhD student, Institute for Product Design, Kolding School of Design. Contact: marie@tekstilingenior.dk
Contact: j.lienhard@itke.uni-stuttgart.de www.itke.uni-stuttgart.de/ Julian Lienhard earned his Diploma in Civil Engineering at the University of Stuttgart in 2007. He his currently writing his PhD on bending-active structures at the Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE), supervised by Prof. Jan Knippers. He has been an active part of the academic environment at the ITKE since 2007 engaging in research and teaching. He is leading the German ministry funded research project “Pliable Surface Structures on the Basis of Bionic Principles” which was recently awarded the Techtextil Innovation Prize 2011.
Karen Marie Hasling combined a bachelor in textile technology with a master in design & innovation with the aim of enhancing the knowledge, awareness and use of textiles in markets outside apparel and interiors, e.g. in architecture. She has been researching in aesthetical and functional fiber composites, which emphasize the importance of using the textile component actively, creating a visual attractive formflexible material. She works with materials in a broad sense and has a strong interest in ensuring that potentials of new materials and technologies are exploited with a holistic and sustainable mindset.
Karin Bech
Karl Christiansen
Affiliation: Cand.Arch, Research Assistant CITA - Centre for Information Technology and Architecture Royal Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture
Affiliation: Arkitektskolen Aarhus Contact: karl.christiansen@aarch.dk
Contact: karin.bech@karch.dk Karin Bech is an architect working with practice based research at the Centre for IT and Architecture in Copenhagen. She has been a collaborator on projects as Slow Furl, Thaw and ‘How would it be to live in a soft space’. In her work she explores the boundaries and relations between architecture and textile, asking how textile thinking and new digital design and production tools challenges architecture. Karin Bech is also the co-founder of the architectural office Byen Sover, working with urban ideas and conceptual design projects. Byen sover seeks to discuss the experience of the architectural landscape by proposing 1:1 interventions and conceptual designs in an urbane context.
Karl Christiansen er arkitekt og lektor ved Arkitektskolen i Aarhus og tilknyttet Dansk Center for Integreret Design (CID)
Marco Poletto
Mark Burry
Affiliation: ecoLogicStudio and Architectural Association (AA)
Affiliation: sial – Spatial Information Laboratory – rmit, australia
Contact: research@ecologicstudio.com www.ecoLogicStudio.com
Contact: mark.burry@rmit.edu.au www.sial.rmit.edu.au
ecoLogicStudio is an architectural and urban design studio cofounded in London by Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto. In the past few years the studio has built up an international reputation for its innovative work on ‘systemic’ design; ecoLogicStudio’s method is defined by the combination and integration of systemic thinking, bio-ecologic design, parametric design and rapid prototyping techniques. Completed projects include a public library, private villas, large facades and parametric roofs. Claudia and Marco are Unit Masters at the Architectural Association in London and Visiting Master tutors at IAAC in Barcelona.
Professor Mark Burry is Director of RMIT’s Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory (SIAL), which has been established as a holistic transdisciplinary research environment dedicated to almost all aspects of contemporary spatial design activity. As consultant architect to the Temple Sagrada Família since 1979, he has been a key member within the local design team based on site in Barcelona, untangling Gaudí’s compositional strategies for his greatest work, especially those coming from his later years, the implications of which are only now becoming fully apparent as they are resolved for building purposes.