Giuseppe Bono is an Italian and British registered architect and computational designer. He is Associate Director in Computational Design and Emerging Technologies at TP Bennett (London, United Kingdom) where he leads the implementation and deployment of computational tools and methods inside the company. He holds an MSc in Architectural Computation from The Bartlett School of Architecture – UCL, and a MArch(Hons) in Architecture and Construction Engineering from Politecnico di Milano.

With over ten years of international experience in the construction industry from conceptual design to built realizations, he combines professional work with academic research. He has worked in several countries around the world, and has contributed to lectures and international conferences at a number of important universities. He has published several papers on the relationship between digital technologies and human progress, and he is the author of the book Blue Papers. Studies on Digitational Architecture (Applied Research + Design Publishing, 2022).

Samuel is a doctoral candidate at the Institute for Computational Design and Construction at the University of Stuttgart. He holds a Bachelor of Design in Architecture, summa cum laude, as well as a Bachelors of Applied Science in Systems Science and Engineering, magna cum laude, from Washington University in St. Louis. He received a Masters in Science in Architecture through the Integrative Technologies and Architectural Design Research (ITECH) program at the University of Stuttgart. During which he was a recipient of both German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Award for Outstanding Achievement and the Deutschlandstipendium. His Master’s thesis together with Ramon Weber was awarded a sonderpreis through the Hochschulpreis Holzbau 2019. Before joining the Institute, Sam worked as an architect in Munich, Germany as well as a designer at a graphic design/ branding firm outside of San Francisco, CA.

His current research at ICD is part of the EXC 2120: Cluster of Excellence IntCDC – Integrative Computational Design and Construction for Architecture. As part of the Cluster, Sam’s current research is interested in the creation of bespoke distributed robotic systems for on-site construction. His work explores the notion of the minimal machine required to create complex spatial assemblies and specifically on the co-design of the machines and the design of structure they produce.

https://www.icd.uni-stuttgart.de/team/Leder/

Ioannis Mirtsopoulos is a researcher with multidisciplinary background. He holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from EPFL, Switzerland, a MAS in Digital Fabrication from ETH, Switzerland, a MSc in Building Technology from TUDelft, the Netherlands, and a Diploma in Architectural Engineering from AUTh, Greece. Prior to his doctoral studies, Ioannis worked as research assistant at Block Research Group (BRG) in ETH, Switzerland.

During his PhD he developed a grammar tailored to the design space exploration of conceptual structural design, implemented into a Grasshopper plugin, named Libra. Since the public release of Libra, Ioannis has presented and distributed the tool to eCAADe and simAUD communities where he held similar workshops, as well as university students in the framework of their studies. He has also taught mathematics (geometry, calculus, linear algebra) and conceptual structural design courses to bachelor and master students.

https://www.food4rhino.com/en/app/libra
https://github.com/StructuralXplorationLab/Libra

F. Peter Ortner is Assistant Professor and MArch and PhD Coordinator for Architecture and Sustainable Design at the Singapore University of Technology and Design. Peter’s research leverages computational techniques to create sustainable architecture and urban design. His current research introduces optimization into the process of design for circularity, augmenting the ability of the architect to contribute to zero-waste, carbon neutral cities. Predicting urban metabolism data for urban design scenarios is another on-going research pursuit. In recent research Peter has applied computational design to challenges of urban resilience and automated mobility.

His doctoral research built on insights from critical data studies and computational design to elucidate the changing role of architecture and architect in complex, data-driven urban systems.

Peter received a PhD from EPFL where his doctoral thesis was nominated for the EPFL and City of Lausanne prizes. At EPFL Peter was a collaborator with Media x Design Lab, a cross-disciplinary team of designers and computer scientists. He holds a Master’s in Architecture from Harvard University where he was recipient of the Faculty Design Award, and a Bachelor of Arts cum laude with distinction in architecture from Yale University. Peter has practiced architecture in the United States and Switzerland.
Peter has experience running computational design workshops at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, MxD Lab for MArch students (2012-2019), Singapore University of Technology and Design for undergraduate and graduate students (2018-2023), and digital design + fabrication workshops at the University of Applied Arts Vienna as part of their summer DDF series (2014).

Tomohiro Tachi is a professor of Arts & Sciences at the University of Tokyo. His expertise is in computational origami and structural morphology. He has led workshops at AAG 2010 (co-organized with Gregory Epps) on “One DOF linkage manipulation using rigid origami” based on curved folding, at AAG 2014 (co-organized with Duks Koschitz, Yusuke Oono, and Daniel Piker) on “Tessellated Flexible Surface” dealing with auxetic structures, and at IASS 2018 (co-organized with Niels De Temmerman) on structural morphology. He is involved in STEAM education at the School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo.

https://origami.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/

Matthew Tam is a computational designer based in Vienna, having studied architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, SCI Arc and University of Melbourne. He is core to the Karamba3D team, regularly holding workshops at conferences and institutions such as DigitalFUTURES, CAADRIA, AAG, Design Modeling Symposium, Smart Geometry and McNeel. Matthew works leads the Advanced Geometry department in Bollinger+Grohmann Vienna working at the interface of architectural, structural and computational design. He has previously taught the TU Innsbruck, TU Graz & Swinburne University of Technology.

https://www.karamba3d.com/