ALEXANDERGRASSER
Architect, Artist, Assistant Professor at Institute of Architecture and Media. Exploring Collaborative Objects & Open Architectures
Alexander
Grasser is a freelancing architect, artist, lecturer, researcher and PhD
candidate at the Institute for Architecture and Media at TU Graz, as well as a
visiting lecturer at the B-Pro Program at The Bartlett School of Architecture,
UCL in London.
Grasser’s work and research addresses collaborative objects,
generative design, real-time participatory architecture, and openness as a
design method.
Grasser holds a Master‘s degree from Innsbruck University and an undergraduate degree from TU Vienna and gained professional experience working in offices in Vienna, Berlin, and Shanghai.
Grasser’s work has been exhibited throughout the world,
including the Francisco Carolinum Museum Linz, the Museum of Applied Arts
Frankfurt, the Spektrum Gallery Berlin, the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, the
NFT Gallery in London & New York, the NFT Show Europe Valencia and most
recently an online solo exhibition „OPEN FORM - Variation through Code and
Participation" at the Digital Francisco Carolinum Museum in CryptoVoxels
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Exhibitions at Museums & Galleries
2023
The NFT Gallery London - Group Show
Gallery Exhibition & Auction
artwork title ‘RAUSCH’
Gernerative Series Rausch on fx(hash) 256ed. DA. by Alexander Grasser.
Part of at ‘COMPANIONS OF CODE’ - a group show curated by Micol Ap at The NFT Gallery in London. GB
exhibition 10.02.-25.02.2023
Link to Project: RAUSCH
Part of at ‘COMPANIONS OF CODE’ - a group show curated by Micol Ap at The NFT Gallery in London. GB
exhibition 10.02.-25.02.2023
Link to Project: RAUSCH
2023
Digital Francisco Carolinum Museum - Solo Show
Museum Exhibition
exhibition title ‘OPEN FORM - Variation through Code and Particiaption’
Online Solo-Exhibition by Alexander Grasser and Alexandra Parger
curated by Markus Reindl at Digital Francisco Carolinum Museum in CryptoVoxels.
exhibition 07.01. - 02.02.2023.
Link to Project: OPEN FORM
exhibition title ‘OPEN FORM - Variation through Code and Particiaption’
Online Solo-Exhibition by Alexander Grasser and Alexandra Parger
curated by Markus Reindl at Digital Francisco Carolinum Museum in CryptoVoxels.
exhibition 07.01. - 02.02.2023.
Link to Project: OPEN FORM
2022
Francisco Carolinum Museum - Group Show
Museum Exhibition
artwork title ‘OPEN ARCHITECTURES - MetaBlockLinz’
by Alexander Grasser and Alexandra Parger
Part of ‘Meta.Space - Visions of Space’ a group exhibition curated by Markus Reindl, Fabian Müller-Nittel at Francisco Carolinum Museum in Linz, Austria.
exhibition 01.09..2022 - 08.01.2023.
Link to Project: OPEN ARCHITECTURES
artwork title ‘OPEN ARCHITECTURES - MetaBlockLinz’
by Alexander Grasser and Alexandra Parger
Part of ‘Meta.Space - Visions of Space’ a group exhibition curated by Markus Reindl, Fabian Müller-Nittel at Francisco Carolinum Museum in Linz, Austria.
exhibition 01.09..2022 - 08.01.2023.
Link to Project: OPEN ARCHITECTURES
2022
Museum of Applied Art Frankrfurt - Group Show
Museum Exhibition
artwork title ‘Redundancy’
Redundancy, generative artwork by Alexander Grasser
at ‘fx(hash) Community Curation’ - group show at Unblock Gaudi & Museum of Applied Art in Frankfurt. exhibition 05.05..2022.
artwork title ‘Redundancy’
Redundancy, generative artwork by Alexander Grasser
at ‘fx(hash) Community Curation’ - group show at Unblock Gaudi & Museum of Applied Art in Frankfurt. exhibition 05.05..2022.
2017
Spektrum Gallery - Group Show
Gallery Exhibition
artwork title Polyvalent Embodiment
At ‘Dark Bodies Exhibition’ - group show, at Spektrum Gallery Berlin, Germany, in collaboration with Bart//Bratke
artwork title Polyvalent Embodiment
At ‘Dark Bodies Exhibition’ - group show, at Spektrum Gallery Berlin, Germany, in collaboration with Bart//Bratke
Exhibitions at Festivals & Conferences
2022
NFT Show Europe
Exhibition
title ‘RESILIENCE’
title ‘RESILIENCE’
Resilience, Generative Artwork
by Alexander Grasser
Exhibited at NFT Show Europe, at group show curated by @sutan.
At Science Museum, Valencia Spain. 18.09.2022
Link to Project: Resilience.
Link to Exhibition: NFTShowEurope.
Exhibited at NFT Show Europe, at group show curated by @sutan.
At Science Museum, Valencia Spain. 18.09.2022
Link to Project: Resilience.
Link to Exhibition: NFTShowEurope.
2022
The Function
Exhibition
title ‘AI & Open Work’
title ‘AI & Open Work’
Images & Video exhibition by Alexander Grasser, Alexandra Parger at ‘Strange’ - curated by Ryan Vincent Manning, at The Function, Texas, US
Link to Exhibition: Stange.
Link to Exhibition: Stange.
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
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
Mananaland
Exhibition
project The Whale in collaboration with Heron-Mazy, quirkd33, Ryan Vincent Manning
at ARTWOOM, Fort Worth Community Art Center, 2019 Fort Worth, US
Link to Project: The Whale
project The Whale in collaboration with Heron-Mazy, quirkd33, Ryan Vincent Manning
at ARTWOOM, Fort Worth Community Art Center, 2019 Fort Worth, US
Link to Project: The Whale
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
2017
MOCO17
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
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
Lectures
2022
NFT Show Europe
Lecture
title ‘Blockchain + Architecture : The participatory capacities of NFTs’
title ‘Blockchain + Architecture : The participatory capacities of NFTs’
Invited Lecture. Curated by @sutan & @pabloAlpe_
At NFT Show Europe. 17.- 18.09.2022-ECAADE 2022 at Science Museum Valencia, Spain
Link to News: NFTShowEurope
At NFT Show Europe. 17.- 18.09.2022-ECAADE 2022 at Science Museum Valencia, Spain
Link to News: NFTShowEurope
2022
ECAADE 2021
Lecture
title ‘Blockchain Architectures, the Potential of Web3 for Decentralized Participatory Architecture’
title ‘Blockchain Architectures, the Potential of Web3 for Decentralized Participatory Architecture’
full paper presentation by Alexander Grasser, Alexandra Parger
at ‘Co-creating the Future: Inclusion in and through Design ’ -ECAADE 2022 Conference Ghent, BE
Link to News: ECAADE22
at ‘Co-creating the Future: Inclusion in and through Design ’ -ECAADE 2022 Conference Ghent, BE
Link to News: ECAADE22
2021
ECAADE 2021
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
2022
ITU Guest Lecture
Lecture
title ‘Form&Matter - Realtime Collaborative Objects’
title ‘Form&Matter - Realtime Collaborative Objects’
guest lecture by Alexander Grasser
at ‘Digital Topographies of Form’ - Asst. Prof. Dr. Ayşegül Akçay Kavakoğlu
İstanbul Technical University, Faculty of Architecture
Link to News: ITU-Lecture
at ‘Digital Topographies of Form’ - Asst. Prof. Dr. Ayşegül Akçay Kavakoğlu
İstanbul Technical University, Faculty of Architecture
Link to News: ITU-Lecture
2021
TEULO Talk
Lecture
title ‘About Collaborative Objects’
title ‘About Collaborative Objects’
online lecture by Alexander Grasser
at ‘TEULO Talks’ - May 2021, EULO CDP Online Learning Platform -Neuseeland
Link to News: TEULO-Talk
at ‘TEULO Talks’ - May 2021, EULO CDP Online Learning Platform -Neuseeland
Link to News: TEULO-Talk
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
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
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
Awards
2022
SUPERSCAPE Competition
Finalist
project Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Realtime Participatory Living
International Open Architcture Competition
Link to: Results
project Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Realtime Participatory Living
International Open Architcture Competition
Link to: Results
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
ECAADE 2020 Best Presentation Award
Award
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
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
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
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
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
Academic Publications
2022
Blockchain Architectures, the Potential of Web3 for Decentralized Participatory Architecture
Academic Paper
title ‘Blockchain Architectures, the Potential of Web3 for Decentralized Participatory Architecture’
title ‘Blockchain Architectures, the Potential of Web3 for Decentralized Participatory Architecture’
full paper by Alexander Grasser, Alexandra Parger. at ‘
Co-creating the Future: Inclusion in and through Design
’ -ECAADE 2022 Conference Ghent, BE.
Link to Paper: ECAADE2022
Link to Paper: ECAADE2022
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
Link to Paper: ECAADE2021
2020
Realtime Architecture Platform: Collab Wood
Academic Project Proceedings
title ‘Realtime Architecture Platform: Collab Wood’
title ‘Realtime Architecture Platform: Collab Wood’
Peer Reviewes Project by Alexander Grasser, Alexandra Parger, Hirschberg at ‘Distributed Proximities’ - ACADIA 2020 Conference, US
Link to News: ACADIA2020
Link to Paper: CollabWoodAcadia2020
Link to News: ACADIA2020
Link to Paper: CollabWoodAcadia2020
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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