Tuesday 15 Dec 2009
19:00
Kepplerstrasse 11, K1
Room 4.08
Oliver Tessmann is an architect working at the interface of architecture and structural engineering. He is working for the engineering office Bollinger + Grohmann in Frankfurt and teaching at the Städelschule Architecture Class (SAC) in Frankfurt. After graduating in 2001 at the University in Kassel he was working with Coop Himmelb(l)au in Mexico and Vienna and Bernhard Franken in Frankfurt. In 2008 Oliver Tessmann received a doctoral degree after four years of research in the field of "Collaborative Design Procedures for Architects and Engineers" at the University of Kassel. The research sought for novel strategies to use structural analysis as a design driver in architecture by establishing digital interfaces between the disciplines. His work has been published and exhibited in Europe, Asia and the US.
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