ALEXANDERGRASSER
Alexander Grasser is an austrian architect, crypto artist and researcher with focus on computational design strategies, collaborative objects, sustainability and elastic architecture.
Currently Alexander is Assistant Professor teaching and researching at the Institute of Architecture and Media, Graz. During his academic architectural education at the TU Vienna, and the University of Innsbruck, Dipl.Ing, he developed skills in computational architecture, robotic fabrication and contemporary theory. Besides deep academic research, Alexander had the chance to share his knowledge teaching computational software courses as well as assisting design studio courses in Innsbruck and Vienna.
Furthermore Alexander gained professional experience at the architectural offices Graft(Berlin), Span(Shanghai) and CoopHimmelb(l)au(Vienna), as well as ongoing collaborations with Heron-Mazy and Bart//Bratke.
The works of Alexander Grasser were widely published and received recognitions in open architectural competitions. Additionally some projects have been exhibited in Munich, Berlin, Washington DC, Frankfurt, Madrid, London, Innsbruck, Graz and Vienna.
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Awards & Exhibitions & Lectures
2021
ECAADE 2020
Lecture
title ‘Reappraising Configuration and its Potential for Collaborative Objects’
title ‘Reappraising Configuration and its Potential for Collaborative Objects’
full paper presentation by Alexander Grasser, Alexandra Parger
at ‘Towards a new, configurable architecture’ -ECAADE 2021 Conference Novi Sad
Link to News: ECAADE21
at ‘Towards a new, configurable architecture’ -ECAADE 2021 Conference Novi Sad
Link to News: ECAADE21
2020
CLT Induction Competition
2nd Price
project CLT Homing
International Open Architcture Competition
Link to: Award Ceremony
Link to: Results
project CLT Homing
International Open Architcture Competition
Link to: Award Ceremony
Link to: Results
2020
Future Headquaters Competition
Finalist
project FITT Heartquaters
International Open Architcture Competition
Link to Results: Young Architects Competitions
project FITT Heartquaters
International Open Architcture Competition
Link to Results: Young Architects Competitions
2020
ACADIA 2020
Exhibition Video
title ‘Realtime Architecture Platform: Collab Wood’
title ‘Realtime Architecture Platform: Collab Wood’
Video online exhibition by Alexander Grasser, Alexandra Parger, Hirschberg at ‘Distributed Proximities’ - ACADIA 2020 Conference, US
Link to Acadia Platform Video: CollabWoodVideo
Link to News: Collab Wood
Link to Acadia Platform Video: CollabWoodVideo
Link to News: Collab Wood
2020
ACADIA 2020
Exhibition Project
title ‘Realtime Architecture Platform: Collab Wood’
title ‘Realtime Architecture Platform: Collab Wood’
peer reviewed project online exhibition by Alexander Grasser, Alexandra Parger, Hirschberg at ‘Distributed Proximities’ - ACADIA 2020 Conference, US
Link to Acadia Platform Project: CollabWoodProject
Link to News: Collab Wood
Link to Acadia Platform Project: CollabWoodProject
Link to News: Collab Wood
2020
ECAADE 2020 Best Presentation Award
Award
Best Presentation Award, sponsored by Bentley at ECAADE 2020.
title ‘Pervasive Collaboration and Tangible Complexity in Realtime Architecture’
Best Presentation Award, sponsored by Bentley at ECAADE 2020.
title ‘Pervasive Collaboration and Tangible Complexity in Realtime Architecture’
full paper presentation by Alexander Grasser, Alexandra Parger. at ‘Anthropologic - Architecture and Fabrication in the cognitive age’ - ECAADE 2020 Conference Berlin, GER
Link to Awards: BestPresentationAward
Link to News: ECAADE20
Link to Awards: BestPresentationAward
Link to News: ECAADE20
2020
ECAADE 2020
Lecture
title ‘Pervasive Collaboration and Tangible Complexity in Realtime Architecture’
title ‘Pervasive Collaboration and Tangible Complexity in Realtime Architecture’
full paper presentation by Alexander Grasser, Alexandra Parger
at ‘Anthropologic - Architecture and Fabrication in the cognitive age’ - ECAADE 2020 Conference Berlin, GER
Link to News: ECAADE20
at ‘Anthropologic - Architecture and Fabrication in the cognitive age’ - ECAADE 2020 Conference Berlin, GER
Link to News: ECAADE20
2020
AAVS NEW YORK
Lecture
title ‘Collaborative Objects’
title ‘Collaborative Objects’
keynote lecture by Alexander Grasser
at ‘AAVS NY Urban Futures: Resiliency’, AA Visiting School New York, 2020 New York, US
Link to News: AAVS NY
at ‘AAVS NY Urban Futures: Resiliency’, AA Visiting School New York, 2020 New York, US
Link to News: AAVS NY
2019
DIGITAL PRACTICE
Lecture
title ‘VoxelCO - Playing with Collaborative Objects’
title ‘VoxelCO - Playing with Collaborative Objects’
project presentation by Alexander Grasser
at ‘DIGITAL PRACTICE - emerging possibilities in a shifting architectural profession’, 5th ARENA Annual Conference - DR_SoM Session 7, 2019 Graz, AT
Link to News: Digital Practice
at ‘DIGITAL PRACTICE - emerging possibilities in a shifting architectural profession’, 5th ARENA Annual Conference - DR_SoM Session 7, 2019 Graz, AT
Link to News: Digital Practice
2019
LISBON ARCHITECTURE TRIENNALE
Exhibition
title ‘VoxelCO - Playing with Collaborative Objects’
project presentation by Alexander Grasser
at ‘ARTIFICIAL REALITIES: VIRTUAL AS AN AESTHETIC MEDIUM IN ARCHITECTURAL IDEATION’ at Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2019 Lisbon, PO
Link to News: TRIENNALE
at ‘ARTIFICIAL REALITIES: VIRTUAL AS AN AESTHETIC MEDIUM IN ARCHITECTURAL IDEATION’ at Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2019 Lisbon, PO
Link to News: TRIENNALE
2019
ECAADE SIGRADI 2019
Lecture
title ‘Towards an Architecture of Collaborative Objects’
title ‘Towards an Architecture of Collaborative Objects’
full paper presentation by Alexander Grasser
at ‘Architecture in the Age of the 4th Industrial Revolution’ - ECAADE SIGRADI 2019 Conference Porto, PO
Link to News: ECAADE19
at ‘Architecture in the Age of the 4th Industrial Revolution’ - ECAADE SIGRADI 2019 Conference Porto, PO
Link to News: ECAADE19
2019
Mananaland
Exhibition
project The Whale in collaboration with Heron-Mazy, quirkd33, Ryan Vincent Manning
at Fort Worth Community Art Center, 2019 Fort Worth, US
project The Whale in collaboration with Heron-Mazy, quirkd33, Ryan Vincent Manning
at Fort Worth Community Art Center, 2019 Fort Worth, US
2019
FIFTEEN SECONDS FESTIVAL
Exhibition
project VOXELSTAGE Stage Design in collaboration with Institute of Architecture and Media, Fifteen Seconds, NanaDesign
at Fifteen Seconds Festival 2019 Graz, AT
project VOXELSTAGE Stage Design in collaboration with Institute of Architecture and Media, Fifteen Seconds, NanaDesign
at Fifteen Seconds Festival 2019 Graz, AT
2018
DATATOPIA, Project Bauhaus
Lecture
title ‘Collaborative Objects’
at Datatopia, Project Bauhaus Werkstatt, Floating University, Berlin, GER
title ‘Collaborative Objects’
at Datatopia, Project Bauhaus Werkstatt, Floating University, Berlin, GER
2018
KATERVA Awards
2017
LAKA Architecture that Reacts
Honorable Mention
project Fuzzy Cloud
International Open Architcture Competition
www.lakareacts.com/competition-2017
project Fuzzy Cloud
International Open Architcture Competition
www.lakareacts.com/competition-2017
2017
CAMBOO Bamboo Landmark Competition
2017
Spektrum Gallery
Exhibition
project Polyvalent Embodiment
at Spektrum Gallery Berlin, Dark Bodies Exhibition, Germany, in collaboration with Bart//Bratke
project Polyvalent Embodiment
at Spektrum Gallery Berlin, Dark Bodies Exhibition, Germany, in collaboration with Bart//Bratke
2017
MOCO17
2016
‘a call for objects’
Finalist
project OOO
"a call for object"-secretlife competition, in collaboration with Heron-Mazy, J. Maruszczak, R.Connah, R.V.Manning, F.Partoll, T.Uitz, D.Stieler, L.Baumgartner, B.Dellemann, A.Grasser www.secretlifecompetition.com/call-for-objects
project OOO
"a call for object"-secretlife competition, in collaboration with Heron-Mazy, J. Maruszczak, R.Connah, R.V.Manning, F.Partoll, T.Uitz, D.Stieler, L.Baumgartner, B.Dellemann, A.Grasser www.secretlifecompetition.com/call-for-objects
2016
Hybrid Realities
Exhibition
project Syntax Error
at Hybrid Realities Exhibition, Washington DC, US, in collaboration with Bart//Bratke
project Syntax Error
at Hybrid Realities Exhibition, Washington DC, US, in collaboration with Bart//Bratke
2015
Helmut Richter Award
Award
project Fuzzy Cloud
at Helmut Richter Awards Price for young, innovative Architecture, Vienna, AUT
project Fuzzy Cloud
at Helmut Richter Awards Price for young, innovative Architecture, Vienna, AUT
2015
Push Conference
Exhibition
project Syntax Error
at Push Conference 2015 Munich, GE, in collaboration with Bart//Bratke
project Syntax Error
at Push Conference 2015 Munich, GE, in collaboration with Bart//Bratke
2013
Motion Bank
Exhibition
project Syntax Error
at Motion Bank, Cohreographic Coding Lab, Frankfurt, GE, in collaboration with Bart//Bratke
project Syntax Error
at Motion Bank, Cohreographic Coding Lab, Frankfurt, GE, in collaboration with Bart//Bratke
Publications
2021
Reappraising Configuration and its Potential
for Collaborative Objects
for Collaborative Objects
Academic Paper
title ‘ Reappraising Configuration and its Potential for Collaborative Objects ’
title ‘ Reappraising Configuration and its Potential for Collaborative Objects ’
full paper by Alexander Grasser, Alexandra Parger.
at ‘Towards a new, configurable architecture’ -ECAADE 2021 Conference Novi Sad.
Link to Paper: ECAADE2021
at ‘Towards a new, configurable architecture’ -ECAADE 2021 Conference Novi Sad.
Link to Paper: ECAADE2021
2020
Pervasive Collaboration and Tangible Complexity in Realitime Architecture
Academic Paper
title ‘Pervasive Collaboration and Tangible Complexity in Realtime Architecture’
title ‘Pervasive Collaboration and Tangible Complexity in Realtime Architecture’
full paper by Alexander Grasser, Alexandra Parger, Urs Hirschberg
at ‘Anthropologic - Architecture and Fabrication in the cognitive age’ - ECAADE 2020 Conference Berlin, GER
Link to Paper: ECAADE2020
at ‘Anthropologic - Architecture and Fabrication in the cognitive age’ - ECAADE 2020 Conference Berlin, GER
Link to Paper: ECAADE2020
2019
VoxelCO
2019
Towards an Architecture of Collaborative Objects
Academic Paper
title ‘Towards an Architecture of Collaborative Objects’
full paper by Alexander Grasser
at ‘Architecture in the Age of the 4th Industrial Revolution’ - ECAADE SIGRADI 2019 Conference Porto, PO
Link to Paper: ECAADE2019
title ‘Towards an Architecture of Collaborative Objects’
full paper by Alexander Grasser
at ‘Architecture in the Age of the 4th Industrial Revolution’ - ECAADE SIGRADI 2019 Conference Porto, PO
Link to Paper: ECAADE2019
2019
PANDA HUT
Project in Book
project PANDA HUT
project PANDA HUT
in collaboration with Ryan Vincent Manning, Fabian Partoll, Alexander Grasser
in ‘Reappraising the Digital in Architecture’ - AD Architectural Design (89), Wiley 2019 edited by Gilles Retsin
2019
OOO
Project in Book
project OOO
"a call for object"-secretlife competition, in collaboration with Heron-Mazy, J. Maruszczak, R.Connah, R.V.Manning, F.Partoll, T.Uitz, D.Stieler, L.Baumgartner, B.Dellemann, A.Grasser
in book ‘The Compendium’- Heron Mazy, 2019
project OOO
"a call for object"-secretlife competition, in collaboration with Heron-Mazy, J. Maruszczak, R.Connah, R.V.Manning, F.Partoll, T.Uitz, D.Stieler, L.Baumgartner, B.Dellemann, A.Grasser
in book ‘The Compendium’- Heron Mazy, 2019
2017
‘Syntax Error - Choreograohic Coding’
Academic Paper
project Syntax Error
Paul Clemens Bart, Marvin Bratke, Alexander Grasser
at MOCO17 Conference London, UK
project Syntax Error
Paul Clemens Bart, Marvin Bratke, Alexander Grasser
at MOCO17 Conference London, UK
2016
‘Wooden membrane with integrated flexible photovoltaic foil’
Academic Paper
project Sow Cloud
Walter Klasz, Alexander Grasser, Michael Flach, Pavel Sevela
at 11th Conference on Advanced Building Skins, Bern, CH
Link to Paper: SNOWCLOUD
project Sow Cloud
Walter Klasz, Alexander Grasser, Michael Flach, Pavel Sevela
at 11th Conference on Advanced Building Skins, Bern, CH
Link to Paper: SNOWCLOUD
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