Lecture's IaaC - IaaC Lecture Series 2008-2009 > Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler

05_06_09 “Digital Materiality in Architecture ” Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler are partner in the award-winning Zurich practice Gramazio & Kohler. The office’s projects include the Gantenbein vineyard façade, the Tanzhaus theatre, the Christmas lights for the Bahnhofstrasse in Zurich and the sWISH* Pavilion at the Swiss National Exposition Expo.02. Together they hold the Chair for Architecture and Digital Fabrication DFAB at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Their research focuses on the exploration of highly informed architectural elements and processes and produces design strategies for full-scale automated fabrication with their robotic construction units. Digital materiality evolves through the interplay between digital and material processes in design and construction. Materiality is increasingly being enriched with digital characteristics, which substantially affect architecture’s physis. Image caption: R/O/B Venice Biennale. Swiss pavilion.

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