Staff

After graduating in architecture (1998) from the University  of Karlsruhe in Germany, Henriette Bier has worked with Morphosis (1999-2001) on internationally relevant projects in the US and Europe. She has taught digitally-driven architectural design (2002-2003) at universities in Austria, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands and since 2004 she mainly teaches and researches at Technical University (TU) Delft with focus on advanced computational design and robotics integrated into buildings and building processes. She initiated and coordinated (2005-06) the workshop and lecture series on Digital Design and Fabrication with invited guests from MIT and ETHZ and finalized (2008) her PhD on System-embedded Intelligence in Architecture. She coordinated EU projects E-Archidoct and F2F Continuum (2007-10) and led 4TU projects RDCB/ SP and Adaptive Joints/ VS (2015-18), NL-, ESA- and industry-funded projects CW4N, BCP Planetoid, Rhizome 1.0 and 2.0 (2019-27). 2014 she initiated and since then she has led the Robotic Building lab involving 4-6 researchers and technical assistants. 2017-19, she has been appointed visiting professor at Dessau Institute of Architecture. Since 2020, she has been visiting professor at the Vietnamese German University in Hanoi, visiting researcher at PoliMi, and currently she is honorary associate professor at University of Sydney. She has 3 PhD students who defended successfully 2021-22 and currently she co-promotes 6 PhD students from within and outside TU Delft. Results of her research are presented at workshops and symposia and are published in books, journals and conference proceedings internationally.

Involved as a designer and researcher in academic research and education implemented in the Robotic Building lab since 2017 involving both additive and subtractive methods, Arwin Hidding has graduated Cum Laude at TU Delft with focus on 3D printing. Currently he implements PhD research involving 3D printing approaches that achieve programmable material properties, by using various materials and geometries.

Researching on AI-supported low CO2 circular design with the aim for reusing, recycling, and reprocessing materials, components, and buildings, Peng Lee, is pursuing a PhD as part of the Extra-/Terrestrial and Situated Architecture groups. With her strong interest in material cultures, construction, vernacular architecture and typologies, she finds both challenging and intriguing to explore AI for advancing architectural conventional and innovative building knowledge.