ALEXANDERGRASSERPARGER



PhD, Architect, Artist, Researcher.
Exploring Collaborative Objects & Open Architectures



Alexander Grasser-Parger is an architect, lecturer, researcher, and generative artist. His work and research explores real-time participatory digital design, computational design methods, and generative building systems. Alexander holds a PhD from TU Graz, a Master’s from Innsbruck University, and an undergraduate degree from TU Vienna. As a full-time university assistant at the Institute of Architecture and Media, he led seminars, workshops, and design studios, conducted research, and completed his PhD dissertation, Collaborative Objects as Design Media. He also taught regularly as a visiting lecturer in the B-Pro Program at The Bartlett, UCL. In addition, Alexander works as a freelance architect, gaining experience as a computational design expert in architectural offices in Vienna, Berlin, and Shanghai.

Alexander’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, VerticalCrypto Art & 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  & New York
Gallery Exhibition & Auction - Group Show
artwork title ‘RAUSCH’
RAUSCH: Gernerative Series @fx(hash) 256ed.
DoppelRAUSCH: physical editions Riso-Prints.
Part of at ‘COMPANIONS OF CODE’ - a group show curated by VerticalCrypto Art, Micol Ap at The NFT Gallery in London. GB, & New York, US.
RAUSCH exhibition London: 10.02.-25.02.2023
DoppelRAUSCH exhibition New York: 30.03.-08.04.2023
Link to Project: RAUSCH

2023
Digital Francisco Carolinum Museum
Museum Exhibition - Solo Show
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
Museum Exhibition - Group Show
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
Museum Exhibition - Group Show
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.
Link to Project: Redundancy
2017
Spektrum Gallery
Gallery Exhibition - Group Show
artwork title ‘Polyvalent Embodiment’
At ‘Dark Bodies Exhibition’ - group show, at Spektrum Gallery Berlin, Germany, in collaboration with Bart//Bratke
Link to Projekt: PolyvalentEmbodyment

Exhibitions at Festivals & Conferences 


2024
Generative Art Summit Berlin
Exhibition 
artwork title ‘Tangible’ part of the Tribute to Herbert W. Franke, curated by Anika Meier and Susanne Päch, Art Meets Science Foundation. Group exhibition at two locations: 

1. at ‘Generative Art Summit Berlin’ conference at Akademie der Künste Berlin, Germany.
2. at ‘Code – Kunst – Konstruktionen’ exhibition at Institut Heinrich Heidersberger, Wolfsburg, Germany.
Link to News: GenerativeArtSummitBerlin
2023
ACADIA 2023
Exhibition Project
title ‘Meta Form: Co-Creating Open Architectures’

peer reviewed project exhibition by Alexander & Alexandra Grasser-Parger at ‘Habits of the Anthropocene’ - ACADIA 2023 Conference, CU Denver, US
Exhibited in Denver & Hong Kong & Online
Link to News: ACADIA2023-Exhibition
2022
NFT Show Europe
Exhibition
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.
2022
The Function
Exhibition 
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.
2020
ACADIA 2020
Exhibition Video
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
2020
ACADIA 2020
Exhibition Project
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
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
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
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 
2017
MOCO17
Exhibition
project Syntax Error
at MOCO Conference London, UK, in collaboration with Bart//Bratke
2016
Hybrid Realities
Exhibition
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
2013
Motion Bank
Exhibition
project Syntax Error
at Motion Bank, Cohreographic Coding Lab, Frankfurt, GE, in collaboration with Bart//Bratke
Link to Report: ChoregraphicCodingLab2013

Public Lectures


2024
Generative Art Summit Berlin
Panelist
title ‘Open Generative Systmes and Collaborative Objects’

Invited Panelist and Guest of Honor: Alexander Grasser-Parger.
Curated by Susanne Päch, Art Meets Science Foundation.
Venue: Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany. 

Link to News: GenerativeArtSummit
2023
ITU Guest Lecture
Lecture
title ‘Openness as a Design Strategy: Collaborative Objects in Digital Culture and Architecture’

Invited guest lecture by Alexander Grasser-Parger
Invided by Assist. Prof. Dr. Ayşegül Akçay Kavakoğlu & Prof. Dr. Leman Figen Gül
at Architectural Design Computing Graduate School at Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Architecture.
Link to News: ITU-2023
2023
XAUAT Guest Lecture
Lecture
title ‘Variation through Code & Participation’

guest lecture by Alexander Grasser-Parger
invited by ZHONG Ximing
at Xi’an Universitiy of Architecture and Technology, China.
Link to News: XAUAT
2023
Austrian Cultural Forum Beijing
Lecture
title ‘META FORM - Co-Creating Open Architectures in the Metaverse”

Invited Lecture. “Lets meet in the Metaverse - Crypto Art Symposium.“ Curated by Cedar Zhou & Markus Reindl. Online at the Austrian Cultural Forum Beijing, China.
Link to News: METATalk
2022
NFT Show Europe
Lecture
title ‘Blockchain + Architecture : The participatory capacities of NFTs’

Invited Lecture. Curated by @sutan & @pabloAlpe_
At NFT Show Europe. 17.- 18.09.2022- at Science Museum Valencia, Spain
Link to News: NFTShowEurope
2022
ITU Guest Lecture
Lecture
title ‘Form&Matter - Realtime Collaborative Objects’

Invited 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
2021
TEULO Talk
Lecture
title ‘About Collaborative Objects’

online lecture by Alexander Grasser
at ‘TEULO Talks’ - May 2021, TEULO CDP Online Learning Platform -Neuseeland  
Link to News: TEULO-Talk
2020
AAVS NEW YORK
Keynote Lecture
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
2018
DATATOPIA, Project Bauhaus
Lecture
title ‘Collaborative Objects’
at Datatopia, Project Bauhaus Werkstatt, Floating University, Berlin, GER 

Academic Lectures

2023
META FORM - Co-Creating Open Architectures
Lecture 
title ‘META FORM - Co-Creating Open Architectures’

peer reviewed project presentation by Alexander & Alexandra Grasser-Parger at ‘Habits of the Anthropocene’ - ACADIA 2023 Conference, CU Denver, US
Link to News: ACADIA2023
2023
ECAADE 2023
Lecture
title ‘Decentralized Participation and Agency in Digital Art and Architecture, An Exploration of Pixel and Voxel-Based Case Studies’

full paper presentation by Alexander Grasser, at ‘Digital Design Reconsidered’ - ECAADE 2023 Conference, Graz, Austria.
Link to News: eCAADe2023
Link to Paper: eCAADe2023
2022
ECAADE 2022
Lecture
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
2021
ECAADE 2021
Lecture
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
2020
ECAADE 2020
Lecture
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
2019
DIGITAL PRACTICE
Lecture
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
2019
ECAADE SIGRADI 2019
Lecture
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

Academic Publications


2024
Fostering Collective Creativity in Architectural Education
Academic Paper

full paper by Alexander Grasser-Parger and Urs Hirschberg, at ‘Data-Driven Intelligence’ - ECAADE 2024 Conference, Nicosia, Cyprus.
Link to News: eCAADe2024
Link to Paper: eCAADe2024
2024
Community-driven design: Collaborative objects, community-generated content, and the expanded role of architects
Journal Article  

peer reviewed journal article publication by Alexander Grasser-Parger at ‘International Journal of Architectural Computing’ - IJAC 2024. DOI:10.1177/14780771241234450.
Link to Article: IJAC2024
2023
META FORM - Co-Creating Open Architectures
Academic Project  peer reviewed project publication by Alexander & Alexandra Grasser-Parger at ‘Habits of the Anthropocene’ - ACADIA 2023 Conference, CU Denver, US.
Link to News: ACADIA2023
Link to Paper: ACADIA2023
2023
Decentralized Participation and Agency in Digital Art and Architecture, An Exploration of Pixel and Voxel-Based Case Studies
Academic Paper 

full paper by Alexander Grasser, at ‘Digital Design Reconsidered’ - ECAADE 2023 Conference, Graz, Austria. DOI: 10.52842/conf.ecaade.2023.1.691.
Link to News: eCAADe2023
Link to Paper: eCAADe2023
2022
Blockchain Architectures, the Potential of Web3 for Decentralized Participatory Architecture
Academic Paper 

full paper by Alexander Grasser, Alexandra Parger. at ‘Co-creating the Future: Inclusion in and through Design’- ECAADE 2022 Conference Ghent, BE. DOI: 10.52842/conf.ecaade.2022.1.431. 
Link to News: eCAADe2022
Link to Paper: eCAADe2022
2021
Reappraising Configuration and its Potential
for Collaborative Objects
Academic Paper 

full paper by Alexander Grasser, Alexandra Parger. at ‘Towards a new, configurable architecture’ -ECAADE 2021 Conference Novi Sad. DOI: 10.52842/conf.ecaade.2021.1.181.
Link to News: eCAADe2021
Link to Paper: eCAADe2021
2021
VoxelCo - Playing with Collaborative Objects
Chapter in Book 

chapter in: Eloy, S., Kreutzberg, A., & Symeonidou, I. (Eds.). (2021). Virtual Aesthetics in Architecture: Designing in Mixed Realities (1st ed.). Routledge.
Link to Project: VoxelCO
Link to Book: VAA

2020
Realtime Architecture Platform: Collab Wood
Academic Project

peer reviewed project publication by Alexander Grasser, Alexandra Parger, Hirschberg at ‘Distributed Proximities’ - ACADIA 2020 Conference, US.
Link to News: ACADIA2020
Link to Paper: CollabWoodAcadia2020

2020
Pervasive Collaboration and Tangible Complexity in Realitime Architecture
Academic Paper 

full paper by Alexander Grasser, Alexandra Parger, Urs Hirschberg at ‘Anthropologic - Architecture and Fabrication in the cognitive age’ - ECAADE 2020 Conference Berlin, GER. DOI:10.52842/conf.ecaade.2020.1.393.
Link to News: eCAADe2020
Link to Paper: eCAADe2020
2019
VoxelCO
Project in Book 
peer reviewed poster publication by Alexander Grasser in ‘Digital Practice: emerging possibilities in a shifting architectural profession’ - 5th ARENA Annual Conference - TU Graz, 2019. 
Link to Project: VoxelCO
Link to Publication: VoxelCO
2019
Towards an Architecture of Collaborative Objects
Academic Paper
full paper by Alexander Grasser at ‘Architecture in the Age of the 4th Industrial Revolution’ - ECAADE SIGRADI 2019 Conference Porto, PO. DOI: 10.52842/conf.ecaade.2019.1.325.
Link to News: eCAADe2019
Link to Paper: eCAADe2019
2019
PANDA HUT
Project in Book
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
Link to Project: PandaHut
2019
OOO
Project in Book 
"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
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


Awards


2022
SUPERSCAPE Competition
Finalist
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
2020
Future Headquaters Competition
Finalist

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
2018
KATERVA Awards
Nomination
project Fuzzy Cloud
International Open Sustainable Design Competition
2018
Young Epcon Awards
Honorable Mention
project Fuzzy Cloud
Energy Design Competition
2017
LAKA Architecture that Reacts
Honorable Mention
project Fuzzy Cloud
International Open Architcture Competition
www.lakareacts.com/competition-2017
2017
CAMBOO Bamboo Landmark Competition
Honorable Mention
project Bendboo
International Open Architcture 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
2015
Helmut Richter Award
Award
project Fuzzy Cloud
at Helmut Richter Awards Price for young, innovative Architecture, Vienna, AUT



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