ECAADE 2023

Fabian Scheurer

Fabian Scheurer studied informatics with subsidiary studies in architecture, and began his professional career as an assistant in the CAAD department at the Technical University in Munich. Appointments followed as a software engineer in Munich, as well as a consultant for new media in Zurich. He was a research assistant at the CAAD Chair at the ETH Zurich, where the idea to set up his own company evolved. Fabian Scheurer has been a managing partner at Design-to-Production since 2007, alongside which he has taught as a guest lecturer at the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA, London), the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalunya (IAAC, Barcelona), amongst others. Since 2023 he is professor for “Digital Building Technology and Fabrication” at Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences.

Kristina Schinegger

Kristina Schinegger (Univ.-Prof. Mag.arch.) is founder and principal of soma. She studied architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL London. She is a professor for structure and design at University of Innsbruck. Prior to this position she was a teaching fellow at the Bartlett School of Architecture, where she ran MArch Unit 15 (RIBA Part II) together with Stefan Rutzinger. From 2007 until 2016 she was teaching at the TU Vienna as an assistant professor at the department for architecture theory. She won several awards and recognition, such as the Austrian Baupreis 2005, the recognition award for experimental tendencies 2006 in Architecture by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Arts and Education, the MAK Schindler scholarship, and the START Award by the BMUKK.

Stefan Rutzinger

Stefan Rutzinger (Univ.-Prof. Mag. Arch, ZT) is a registered architect and founder and principal of soma. He studied architecture at the University of Innsbruck, the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL London. In 2016 he was appointed as professor for structure and design at the University of Innsbruck. Prior to this position he was an interimistic professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich and a guest professor at the Aacdemy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He was a teaching fellow at UCL, Bartlett School of Architecture where he ran together with Kristina Schinegger the MArch Unit 15 (RIBA II). Stefan Rutzinger won several awards and recognition, such as the Austrian Baupreis 2006, the recognition award for experimental tendencies in Architecture 2008 by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Arts and Education, the MAK Schindler scholarship, and the Recognition Award by the Federal State of Tyrol.

Milena Stavric

Milena Stavric graduated from the University of Belgrade and worked as an assistant and lecturer at the University of Belgrade from 1994 to 2004. Since 2004 she has taught at the Graz University of Technology, at the Faculty of Architecture, at the Institute of Architecture and Media. She was a visiting scholar at Harvard University joining MaP+S group. She lectured at many Universities like Vienna, Mexico City, Istanbul, Belgrad, Hamburg, Novi Sad, Banja Luka... The focus of her work is on architectural geometry, new sustainable building materials, digital methods and presentation, robotic in architecture, parametrical modeling and digital fabrication. She successfully completed her habilitation in 2018 and has been Associate Professor at Graz University of Technology since 2019.

She is the author of the book “Architectural Scale Modelling in the digital Age” published by Springer Verlag and worked on several research projects: “Geometric Processing in Architectural Education” (2010-2013), “Non-standard architecture using ornaments and plane elements” (2009-2012), SFB “Advanced Computational Design“ (2020-2024) financed by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).

Karolin Schmidbaur

Originally from Würzburg, Germany, Karolin Schmidbaur was raised and educated in Munich. She received her Diploma in Architecture at the Technical University of Munich. Since 1992 she has worked internationally with Coop Himmelb(l)au in their offices in Austria, México, and the USA. From 1993 she was based at Coop Himmelb(l)au Los Angeles and was heading the practice’s business activities from 2003 till 2017 as Director of the studio. Karolin has been a Partner and Head of Research at Coop Himmelb(l)au since 2009 and is jointly responsible for the design portfolio. She has held key roles on the Groningen Museum East Pavilion, Netherlands, the Central Los Angeles Area High School #9 for visual and performing arts in downtown Los Angeles, USA, and the Paneum near Linz, Austria, among others. Throughout her career, Karolin has remained active in education and has a wide range of academic experience. She has held teaching positions in design at the University of Southern California (1997 – 1998), the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc, 1998 – 1999, 2014) and the University of Applied Arts in Vienna (2010 – 2012). She teaches at the University of Innsbruck, Austria where she holds a professorship at the Institute of Experimental Architecture, Building Construction and Technology, since 2017. Karolin is the author of various articles on topics such as design innovation and technology, including artificial intelligence.

Fabio Gramazio

Fabio Gramazio is an architect with multidisciplinary interests ranging from computational design and robotic fabrication to material innovation. In 2000, he founded the architecture practice Gramazio Kohler Architects in conjunction with his partner Matthias Kohler, where numerous award-winning designs have been realised. Current projects include the design of the NEST building of Empa and Eawag, a future living and working laboratory for sustainable building construction. Opening also the world’s first architectural robotic laboratory at ETH Zurich, Gramazio Kohler’s research has been formative in the field of digital architecture, setting precedence and de facto creating a new research field merging advanced architectural design and additive fabrication processes through the customised use of industrial robots. This ranges from 1:1 prototype installations to the design of robotically fabricated high-rises. The recent research is outlined and theoretically framed in the book “The Robotic Touch: How Robots Change Architecture” (Park Books, 2014). Fabio Gramazio joined the NCCR Digital Fabrication in 2014 as a principal investigator.