Teaching

Summer school »Lightweight Structures«
Teaching
2018

Summer School „Lightweight Structures“, with support by DAAD and Altair, taking place at Biberach University of Applied Sciences with guests from NTNU Trondheim. Students of architecture and structural engineering from the two Universities cooperated during this five-day workshop. Taking off with two excursion days to Munich (Olympic park and stadium, „BMW Welt“) and Stuttgart (Institute […]

IASS Special Issue „Frei Otto“
Teaching
2018

Frei Otto, pioneer of lightweight structures, initiator of new attitudes and concepts in architecture, crossing borders of architecture, engineering and design: this inspirational person has left us.

Workshop »Architecture and Structure« Kaernten
Teaching
2016
Workshop Architecture and Structure in Kaernten

Following an invitation to the Hochschule Kaernten, Spittal an der Drau, Austria, we gathered teaching staff and students from Kaernten, Cottbus / Germany and Biberach / Germany for a ten-day workshop.

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Modular Frameworks
Teaching
2013
Modular Frameworks Modell

In the second semester of the „structures“ course, the goal is to re-deepen the insight of structural geometries and performances. The students work with the vocabulary and the systematics of structural engineering and with their application to design processes.

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Workshop »Digital Design«
Teaching
2010
Workshop Digital Design

For this workshop, I had the pleasure to invite specialists in the field of digital design tools for a three-day workshop. The specialists included Dr Chris Williams, Bath University (UK) and Daniel Wentzlaff, Nissen Wentzlaff Architects, Basel (CH).

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