ICD Expert Lecture WS 2011/12
01.03.2012 - 18.00 pm
Hörsaal 18.11
Azenbergstraße 18, 70174 Stuttgart
Christian Veddeler is Associate Director and Senior Architect at UNStudio in Amsterdam, at present lead architect of the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) project. Concurrently, he is the progenitor and head of UNStudio’s Design Research Platform IOP, with a focus on emergent (proto-)typology in digital design processes. At UNStudio, Christian has collaborated on several projects, as the Galleria, Seoul, the Lelystad Theater, the Star Place in Kaohsiung and the St. Petersburg Dance Theatre. He was project architect for a series of pavilion projects, that focused on digital design and fabrication, including: The Holiday Home at UPenn's ICA, the Changing Room for the 2008 Venice Biennale, Chicago’s Burnham Pavilion, the U-turn pavilion in Sao Paulo, Motion Matters at Harvard GSD and the New Amsterdam Pavilion in New York City. Christian has taught and lectured widely, amongst other places at TU Delft, the Berlage Institute, University of Illinois in Chicago and Städelschule Architecture Class, Frankfurt. In 2003 he launched ‘genericdesignlab’ together with Holger Hoffmann and Sven Pfeiffer as an independent research platform for the exploration of digital design methodology. He received the degree Master of Science in Architecture from TU Delft, with Honours.