Staff

Assistant Professor Oliver Tessmann is an architect with a collaborative design approach. His teaching and research revolves around computational design, digital manufacturing and collaborative design in architecture. He has been a Guest Professor at Staedelschule Architecture Class (SAC) in Frankfurt and he worked with the engineering office Bollinger + Grohmann in Frankfurt at the interface between architecture and structural design, after working with various architectural firms in Mexico, Austria and Germany. In 2008 he received a doctoral degree for research in the field of “Collaborative Design Procedures for Architects and Engineers” at the University of Kassel.

Lecturer Jonas Runberger is a practicing architect, researcher and educator, with a focus on the implications of digital design in conventional and experimental practice. He was part of the team initiating the studio in 2010, and previous teaching experience includes the KTH, the Architectural Association, the London Metropolitan University and ETHZ, Zürich. He has been participating in the SmartGeometry network since 2005 and is the director of Dsearch, an environment for digital design development within White Arkitekter. He recently completed his doctoral thesis in architecture and project communication titled Architectural Prototypes II: Reformations, Speculations and Strategies within the Digital Design Field, and is currently the academic coordinator of the Digital Fabrication Lab at the school.
www.runberger.net