Yichen Mo
mo@arch.ethz.ch
cand. dr. sc. SEU
JOINT DOCTORAL PROGRAM
Yichen Mo is currently a PhD student at Southeast University advised by Prof. Biao Li. She started the Joint Doctoral Program at the chair as a visiting student in 2022. Her research focuses on architectural representation learning and geometry processing. She creates a web-based 3D editor ArchiWeb and corresponding protocol ArchiJSON for designing algorithms and data structures for computational architecture. Yichen studied architecture and computer science at Zhejiang Sci-Tech University and graduated with double degrees. She received DigitalFUTURES YOUNG STAR (2019) and Google Girl Hackathon Season V Battle Winner in Shanghai.
Dennis Lagemann
lagemann@arch.ethz.ch
Dipl. - Ing. BU Wuppertal
MSc Arch BU Wuppertal
cand. PHD
Dennis Lagemann is currently pursuing his doctorate at the chair. He graduated with a Diploma in Architectural Engineering from the University of Wuppertal in 2006 and earned his master’s degree in 2007. He was teaching Elements of Statics and Structural Design and was a research assistant in Urban Design. On the side he was a founding member of an architectural collective concerned the revitalization of vacant residential property. He started his PhD in Wuppertal by doing a research project on the question how to encode spatial attributes in a computer program which later transferred to the chair. He has presented his work at conferences such as ArchTheo, ACADIA and CAADRIA and published several essays on CARTHA Magazine. His main interest is to find out what it actually is that makes the domain of architecture different from the machinic reproduction of artificial environments for pre-specified purposes.
Miro Roman
roman@arch.ethz.ch
Dr. Sc. ETH
MAS CAAD ETH
MA Arch Univ. Zagreb
Miro Roman is an architect and a scholar. His main focus is the overlap of information technologies and architectural articulations. Miro explores, designs, codes, and writes about architecture while playing with a lot; with all the buildings, books, movies, and images; with clouds, avatars, streams, lists, indexes, and pixels. What is this abundance of information about, how to handle it, and how does it shape the way we think about the world? To navigate and surf these vast flows, Miro codes and articulates synthetic alphabets.
Miro is currently a lecturer and a postdoctoral researcher at the chair for CAAD at ETH Zurich. From 2004 to 2017 he was a part of the project romanvlahovic. From 2013 to 2015 he was a part of the Future Cities Laboratory, the interdisciplinary research program of the Singapore ETH Centre for Global Environmental Sustainability (SEC), where he coedited the publication “A Quantum City”.
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Karla Saldaña Ochoa
saldana@arch.ethz.ch
cand. dr. sc. eth
mas la eth
arch. uc
Karla is an Ecuadorian architect. In April 2017 she was awarded a scholarship of excellence from the Government of Ecuador to pursue her doctorate “Event Protocols, Application of Machine Intelligence in Disaster Response” at the chair. With her research, she aims to integrate machine intelligence with Intelligent humans to have a clear and agile response to natural disasters; changing the role of the architect from one that is designing unique artifacts to another, that is curating a massive set of data and deriving architectural interventions. In 2015 Karla was awarded two scholarships to study her Master of Advanced Studies at the chair of Landscape Architecture at ETH Zurich. During her studies, I worked as assistant in the Design-Lab at the chair of Prof. Christoph Girot. In 2014 she founded CA-SA, an architectural office that has a focus on landscape and urban design. Currently, she is finishing her Ph.D., and works as a part-time lecturer for the chair of Digital Architectonics in subjects related to Artificial Intelligence and architecture
Mohamed Zaghloul
zaghloul@arch.ethz.ch
Dr. Sc. ETH
MSc Arch
University of Alexandria
Mohamed Zaghloul is a postdoc researcher at the chair and was awarded his Doctor of Science from ETH in April 2017. He is interested in developing machine-learning based tools that start from abstract features of any model and proceed into indexing, synthesizing designs, and developing probabilistic-based emulators of building performances in order to create intuitive and fast design performance. He joined the chair in November 2012. He holds MSc degree in architecture from and worked as a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Fine Arts Department of Architecture at Alexandria University from 2003 to 2017 and lecturer from 2017 to 2019. He is Co-founder and Research Director at Encode Studio.
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Adil Bokhari
bokhari@arch.ethz.ch
MA Arch
CAND. DR. SC. ETH
Adil Bokhari is currently a ITA PhD fellow at the chair, interested in documentary vs. projective practices and tools in architecture and their implications on design and pedagogy. Previously he has been a guest professor at the Peter Behrens School of Arts in Düsseldorf, and has worked as a visual studies and studio tutor at the Dessau Institute of Architecture, Städelschule Architecture Class, and National College of Arts. Professionally he has also worked for Najmi Bilgrami Collaborative in Karachi, Zvi Hecker Architect in Berlin and Atelier Manferdini in Los Angeles.
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Pierre Cutellic
cutellic@arch.ethz.ch
Architect DPLG (F)
PhD ITA Fellow
cand. Dr. Sc. ETH
Pierre is an ITA PhD Fellow at the Chair of Computer-Aided Architectural Design since 2016.
His research focuses on the integration of peculiar neuro-signals together with machine
learning, for decision-making and learning-automation of design processes.
Pierre graduated in Architecture from E.N.S.A. Paris-Malaquais (summa cum laude) in 2007. He joined the AEC consulting firm Gehry Technologies (nka. Trimble Consulting) from 2008 to 2010 as a consultant for large culture & arts projects in the EU and UAE, such as the Qatar National Museum (Doha) or the Luma Foundation (Arles), while also being involved with renowned design firms and general contractors such as Gehry Partners, Zaha Hadid Architects, Ateliers Jean Nouvel, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Oger International, Bouygues Construction and Hyundai Construction. From 2010 to 2015, Pierre was teaching as Adjunct-Assistant Professor in digital knowledge and practices, integrative design and production, human computation and algorithmics at the Digital Knowledge Dept. of Paris-Malaquais. In 2013, Pierre co-founded his first innovative company in neuroscience and computational design. His past professional experience and academic research have been frequently published in AEC related journals and conferences since 2010. Prior to joining ETH, Pierre was a lecturer in innovations and computation for the building industry at the CNPA Laboratory of EPF Lausanne since 2014.
Nikola Marincic
marincic@arch.ethz.ch
Dr. sc ETH
MAS CAAD ETH
Dipl.-Ing. Arch
Nikola Marincic is a senior postdoctoral researcher at the chair of CAAD. He graduated as an architect from the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade and obtained his Master of Advanced Studies degree at ETH Zurich, chair for Computer-Aided Architectural Design. His PhD thesis – defended in 2017 – was awarded the ETH Medal of distinction. During his doctoral studies, he spent one year as a guest researcher at the Future Cities Laboratory, an interdisciplinary research program of the Singapore ETH Centre for Global Environmental Sustainability. Nikola’s research focuses on the relation between Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence and Architecture. His current ambition is to develop and promote a new kind of digital literacy suitable for architects and other non-engineers, that would allow them to redefine their fields in the context of challenges posed by machine intelligence. Main ideas of this work can be found in the book "Computational Models in Architecture: Towards Communication in CAAD," published by Birkhäuser in 2019.
Jorge Orozco
orozco@arch.ethz.ch
Dr. Sc. ETH
MAS CAAD ETH
MAA IAAC-UPC
Arch. UMSNH
Jorge is a senior lecturer and researcher working at the intersection of model and design practices that speak of a digitally connected world, and AI-powered search engines for architectural education and practice. He is assistant at the chair’s design studio METEORA and developer of its search engines and databases—Panoramas of Cinema, Mark, Paradiso and Panorama App.
Jorge is also a lecturer at University of Innsbruck’s Institut für Gestaltung Studio2, where he co-leads and develops the design studio 0-MORE and its search engine Search 0-MORE. Previously, Jorge was a guest researcher at Future Cities Laboratory in Singapore, lecturer at TU Vienna’s ATTP group, and lead of summer workshops at UdK Berlin, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences and Aalto University.
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Gonzalo Rezola
gonzalor@arch.ethz.ch
cand. dr. sc. eth
LA CAIXA FELLOW
MA Architecture
Gonzalo Rezola is currently a "La Caixa" Fellowship Ph.D. candidate at the chair. He is an architect with a strong interest in the intersection of architecture and new technologies. He is exploring manners in which borders, contracts, and information technologies could be articulated architecturally through coding. Previously he was awarded the Best Master Thesis by the COAM, the official society of architects of Madrid. In his last four years, he has been leading an interdisciplinary team researching, creating, and developing new products around Digital Twins for cities for a technology startup in Zurich. He has participated in multiple exhibitions, such as Biennale di Venezia 2018, curated by Becoming in the Spanish Pavillion.
Mario Guala
guala@arch.ethz.ch
BA Performing Arts
JMU MAZ
Project Coordinator
Mario Guala has been working for the chair as project coordinator since 2012.
He is interested in electronic media and arts. He joined the chair as freelance online editor in 2009.
Katia Ageeva
ageeva@arch.ethz.ch
MAS CAAD ETH
MAA IAAC
ARCH DIPLOMA MARCHI
Katia is an architect and project coordinator in the Department of Digital Architectonics. Since 2013 she has been responsible for organising seminar weeks for ETH architecture students and has taken more than a hundred people to such faraway and non-generic countries as Armenia, Uzbekistan, Georgia, Belarus and Azerbaijan, as well as to such global world capitals as Moscow and Mexico City.
She has given the Moscow Urban Stories lecture series for Urban Think Tank and lately for the Department of Architecture and Urban Design. She has lectured at Strelka Institute in Moscow and held workshops at the Research Unit of Architecture Theory and Philosophy of Technics at TU Vienna (Prof. Vera Bühlmann).
Guo Zifeng
guo@arch.ethz.ch
MS Arch SEU
cand. Dr. Sc. ETH
At the chair since 2017, Guo Zifeng has been pursuing his PhD on the topic of modeling and simulation techniques in architecture titled “From Simulation to Synthesis”. His research interest is what conceptual and technical opportunities data-driven modeling has brought to architectural practices– particularly how to approach simulation tasks in a data-driven way. He joined the chair after graduating from Southeast University, Nanjing in 2017, where he focused on computational design, modeling and optimization of form and topology in architecture, and obtained his master’s degree in architecture.
Ludger Hovestadt
hovestadt@arch.ethz.ch
Prof. DR.
Ludger Hovestadt is Professor of Architecture and CAAD (Computer-Aided Architectural Design) at the Institute for Technology in Architecture, ETH Zurich.
Between 1997 and 2000 Ludger Hovestadt was a visiting professor in the Department of CAAD at University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. In 2000, he was appointed Full Professor at the Department of Architecture at ETH. Since 2018 he is a Visiting Professor at Southeast University in Nanjing, China.
He studied architecture at the RWTH Aachen, Germany and the HfG in Vienna, Austria. Upon completion of his diploma in 1987, he started his academic career with Prof. Fritz Haller at TU Karlsruhe for whom he worked as a scientific researcher for over ten years. Under his supervision Ludger Hovestadt completed his doctorate at TU Karlsruhe and Carnegie Mellon in 1994, expanding Haller’s school of thought of minimalist-functional mannerism into the digital domain, thereby laying the foundations for digital architectonics.
Agostino Nickl
nickl@arch.ethz.ch
cand. dr. sc. eth
ITA FELLOW
MArch UCL (DIS)
Agostino invents new ways of dealing architectonically with emerging technologies such as Mixed Reality, Machine Learning and the metaversian layers between them. Previously, he worked at Arup Digital Studio in London, an interdisciplinary design innovation team, and taught Architectural Design, Landscape Design and Videogame Urbanism Theory at Oxford School of Architecture and the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. His academic work was awarded with the Sir Banister Fletcher Medal, the Bartlett School of Architecture Medal and the Saint Gobain Innovation Prize.
Chenyi Cai
cai@arch.ethz.ch
cand. dr. sc. SEU
JOINT DOCTORAL PROGRAM
Chenyi Cai is an architect and computational designer interested in the interfaces of computation, artificial intelligence, and architecture. In this context, her Ph.D. research associates multi-dimensional urban aspects for diverse design decisions with data-driven modeling approaches. She is a Ph.D. candidate from Inst. AAA and joined the chair with a Joint Doctoral Program in 2021. Prior to this, she obtained her master’s degree from Southeast University where she was involved in architectural practices. She received academic funds from China Scholarship Council and Jiangsu Province Fundamental Research Funds and was awarded China National Awards for Distinctive Doctoral Students.
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Prof. Dr. Vera Bühlmann
professor OF Architecture Theory at the the Technische Universität Wien
HEAD OF DEPARTMENT FOR ARCHITECTURE THEORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNICS AT THE TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT WIEN
Prof. Dr. Elias Zafiris