About
Geometry lies at the core of the architectural design process. It is omnipresent, from the initial form-finding stages, to novel manufacturing techniques, to the construction, and to post occupancy monitoring. But the role of geometry in architecture and engineering is also continuously evolving.
Geometry increasingly plays a role in modeling environments and processing sensing information. Modern geometric computing provides a variety of tools for the efficient design, analysis, and manufacturing of complex shapes. Besides descriptive geometry controlling form, algorithmic processes play a crucial role in integrating disciplinary input.
On the one hand this opens up new horizons for architecture. On the other hand, the architectural context also poses new problems to geometry. Around these problems the research area of architectural geometry has emerged. It is located at the common border of architecture with applied geometry, computational design, mathematics, and manufacturing.
Conference
Advances in Architectural Geometry (AAG) is a conference where both theoretical and practical work linked to new geometrical developments is presented. It involves architects, engineers, computer scientists, mathematicians, software and algorithms designers and contractors. We aim at connecting researchers from architectural and engineering practices, academia and industry.
AAG has become a reference both in research and in practice and is supported by the direct participation of the most renowned architectural design and engineering offices along with research laboratories.
The symposium is a biennial event. It was held first in 2008 and 2010 in Vienna, 2012 in Paris, 2014 in London, 2016 in Zurich, 2018 in Gothenburg and 2020 in Paris.
In 2023, it will take place in Stuttgart from October 4 – 7, organized by the Cluster of Excellence IntCDC (Integrative Computational Design and Construction for Architecture).
Program
Wednesday, October 4
09:00 – 09:30: Welcome to Workshop Participants
09:30 – 12:00: Workshops
12:00 – 13:00: Lunch
13:00 – 16:00: Workshops
16:00 – 18:00: Socialising Tour
Thursday, October 5
09:00 – 12:00: Workshops
12:00 – 13:00: Lunch
13:00 – 17:00: Workshops
17:00 – 18:30: Presentation Workshop Results
19:00 – 21:00: OPENING RECEPTION
Friday, October 6
09:00 – 09:15: Welcome
09:15 – 10:30: KEYNOTES LECTURE I
10:30 – 11:00: Coffee break
11:00 – 12:00: PAPER SESSION
13:00 – 14:00: Lunch
14:00 – 15:00: KEYNOTES LECTURE II
15:00 – 16:00: PAPER SESSION
16:00 – 16:30: Coffee break
16:30 – 17:10: PAPER SESSION
17:50 – 18:50: KEYNOTES LECTURE III
18:50 – 19:00: Conclusion Day One
19:90 – 21:00: Get together
Saturday, October 7
08:45 – 09:00: Welcome
09:00 – 10:00: KEYNOTES LECTURE IV
10:00 – 11:00: PAPER SESSION
11:00 – 11:30: Coffee break
11:30 -12:30: PAPER SESSION
12:30 – 13:30: Lunch
13:30 – 14:30: KEYNOTES LECTURE V
14:30 – 15:10: ITECH Session
15:10 – 16:10: PAPER SESSION
16:10 – 16:40: Coffee break
17:20 – 18:00: PAPER SESSION
18:00 – 19:00: KEYNOTES LECTURE VI
19:00 – 19:10: Conclusion Day Two
Keynote Speakers
Sigrid Adriaenssens
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Princeton University
In her cross-disciplinary work, Sigrid has initiate and nurtured collaborations with researchers from diverse fields, including computer and material science, biology, robotics, architecture, philosophy, art history, visual arts, graphic design and choreography.
She is the co-editor of the International Journal of Space Structures, a fellow of the Structural Engineering Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and vice-president of the International Association of Shell and Spatial Structures. A 2023 Myron Goldsmith Fellow at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Sigrid has also received the DigitalFUTURES Matthias Rippmann Award from Tongji University, Shanghai, and the Pioneers Award from the Spatial Structures Research Centre of the University of Surrey, U.K.
As a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Princeton University, Sigrid directs the Form Finding Lab, teaching courses on the (non-)linear mechanics of solids and slender structures, structural design, and the integration of engineering and the arts.

Wolf Mangelsdorf
Partner and Global Head of Design, Technology and Innovation, at Buro Happold
Professor of Structural Design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.
Trained as an architect and civil engineer, Wolf has worked with leading architects on numerous high-profile projects, worldwide.
He is leading the development and application of computational design at Buro Happold.
He is Professor of Structural Design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.
Abstract
There is increasing demand for building performance to be more predictable beyond programmatic and aesthetic considerations. Bringing together multidisciplinary analytical modelling and simultaneously testing for several, often conflicting parameters, allows us to feed the consideration of performative aspects into the design process from the outset and make informed design choices based on integrated engineering analytics. We call this digital rapid prototyping.

Kristina Shea
Professor for Engineering Design and Computing in Mechanical and Processing Engineering at ETH Zürich

Kazuyo Sejima
Director of SANAA

Molly Wright Steenson
Vice Provost for Faculty at Carnegie Mellon. Associate Professor in the School of Design and the K&L Gates. Associate Professor of Ethics & Computational Technology

Michael Wimmer
Professor at the Institute of Visual Computing and Human-Centered Technology at TU Wien
His research interests are real-time rendering, computer games, real-time visualization of urban environments, point-based rendering, reconstruction of urban models, procedural modeling, shape modeling and computational design.
He has coauthored over 145 papers in these fields. He also coauthored the book Real-Time Shadows. He regularly serves on program committees of the important conferences in the field, including ACM SIGGRAPH and SIGGRAPH Asia, Eurographics, IEEE VR, Eurographics Symposium on Rendering, ACM I3D, SGP, SMI, HPG, etc. He is currently associate editor of IEEE TVCG, CGF, and Computers & Graphics. He was papers co-chair of EGSR 2008, Pacific Graphics 2012, Eurographics 2015, Eurographics GCH 2018, and VMV 2019.
He is also the director of the Center for Geometry and Computational Design (GCD, gcd.tuwien.ac.at)

Workshops
Scientific Chair
Paper Committee
Aleksandra Anna Apolinarska, ETH Zurich
Iro Armeni, CEE Stanford University
Axel Kilian, MIT Cambridge
Tobias Bonwetsch, ROB Technologies
Daniel Bosia, IStructE
Jean Francois Caron, Ecole des Ponts Paris Tech
Jeroen Coenders, White Lioness Technologies
Matias Del Campo, University of Michigan
Bailin Deng, Cardiff University
Philipp Eversmann, University of Kassel
Billie Faircloth, KieranTimberlake
Isak Worre Foged, Royal Danish Academy
Florian Gauss, knippershelbig
David Jason Gerber, University of Southern California
Marcelyn Gow, servo los angeles
M. Hank Haeusler, University of New South Wales
Markus Hudert, Aarhus University
Sam Conrad Joyce, Singapore University of Technology and Design
Toni Kotnik, Aalto University
Riccardo La Magna, University of Karlsruhe
Julian Lienhard, University of Kassel
Rupert Maleczek, University of Innsbruck
Romain Mesnil, Ecole des Ponts Paris
Roi Poranne, University of Haifa
Helmut Pottmann, KAUST
Christopher Robeller, Augsburg University
Marc Schnabel, Aurel FORUM8
Bob Sheil, University College London
Paul Shepherd, University of Bath
Martin Tamke, Royal Danish Academy – CITA
Xavier Tellier, Champs-sur-Marne
Oliver Tessmann, University Darmstadt
Martha Tsigkari, Foster + Partners
Amir Vaxman, University of Utrecht
Venue
The conference and workshops take place at the city campus of the University of Stuttgart:
University of Stuttgart
Keplerstr. 17
70174 Stuttgart
AAG 2023 Socializing Tour
SFB 1244 Demonstrator
Pfaffenwaldring 14
70569 Stuttgart
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