Structure and Design

Monday, 01.06.2026, 15:15 via Zoom Collaborative Intelligence for our Built World This lecture explores how design can reconcile human aspirations with the planetary consequences of the built environment, positioning…

Monday, 04.05.2026, 15:15 via Zoom Wiring up the future of CAD The surprising harmony of Node-based design tools, frontier LLMs, and the computational design community. From Raven, we present…

Wednesday, 29.04.2026, 17:30 live @ i.sd Foyer Strange Rooms, or the Ontology of Inference Architecture has always built strange rooms: the grotto, the folly, the chamber at which the…

Monday, 16.03.2026, 15:15 via Zoom From Prompt to Design — Generative AI Explained for Architects Architects are becoming increasingly familiar and comfortable with generative AI tools such as ChatGPT,…

Monday, 26.01.2026, 17:15 at „Großer Hörsaal“ Gabriella Rossi is an Assistant Professor at CITA, Royal Danish Academy. Her research focuses on Machine Learning as an emerging modelling paradigm, and…

Monday 24.11.2025, 17:15 at „Großer Hörsaal“ Paul Ohnmacht is the Head of Design at ATP architects engineers in Innsbruck, where he leads the creative vision and execution of high-profile integrated…

Thursday, 13.11.2025, 09:00, Zoom Daniel Kiehlmann from Transsolar is an expert in developing innovative and sustainable energy and climate concepts for national and international projects. He has in-depth knowledge…

Tuesday, 24.06.2025, 17:15 at i.sd Foyer Moritz Heimrath is currently a structural engineer and associate at Bollinger+Grohmann Ingenieure in Vienna. He brings experience from previous positions at the Georg…

Monday 16.06.2025, 15:15 via Zoom M. Casey Rehm is a leading voice in computational design, operating at the forefront of architecture and artificial intelligence. Based in Los Angeles, he…

Monday 19.05.2025, 15:15 via Zoom Shermeen Yousif, Ph.D., is a tenure-track assistant professor and the director of the Environmental Design and Natural Materials (EDNM) lab at the School of…

Wednesday 29.01.2025, 17:45 at HSA Designs for the Biocene Marcos Cruz is an Architect and Professor of Innovative Environments at the Bartlett, UCL. His main research focuses on bio-integrated…

Thursday 27.11.2024, 17:15 via zoom Ursula Frick sees parametrics as the ideal combination of her two fields of study, civil engineering and architecture. At Blumer Lehmann since 2017, she…

Monday 11.11.2024, 17:15 at „Großer Hörsaal“: Markus Lukacevic Markus Lukacevic is researching how wood waste can be turned into a multifunctional material as part of the Christian Doppler Laboratory…

EM1 Master Design Studio The topic of this semester’s master design studio was to explore the transformative potential of novel modes of urban public transportation for the programmatic city and…

E2 Bachelor Design Course IT’S MORPHIN TIME! The studio will investigate how adaptive reuse can be used as a catalyst for morphing architecture across functions and cultures. As our society…

E1 Bachelor Design Course The E1 design studio is dedicated to capturing the social and environmental complexity of Kühtai, an Austrian ski resort in the Tyrolean Alps. In this…

The course will give an overview to latest developments in digital design and its precedents and discuss the shift in the discourse from geometry-driven („first digital turn“) to data-based design („second digital turn“)…

E3 Bachelor Design Studio TYPOLOGIES OF COLLABORATION – House of Transdisciplinarity In the upcoming bachelor studio we will design a public building that promotes exchange between society, art and…

Syntactic Skyscrapers – Typology VS Transformative Context Our understanding of cities, land-use and public space have changed drastically in the last twenty years. Contemporary cities are thought of as…

The lecture series for undergraduates gives an overview of the materials used in construction processes and their properties as well as related technologies. It discusses the interplay of creative,…

E1 Bachelor Design Course NASCHPARK – spaces of fusion As Vitruvius, noted: “Let the architect be educated, skilful with the pencil, instructed in geometry, know much history, have followed the…

In the wake of the second digital turn, novel digital design strategies emerged within the architectural discourse, allowing for the systematic expansion of architecture’s formal repertoire. In this context,…

E3 Bachelor Design Studio In the studio, we will test new modes of volumetric notations and modelling strategies. While the representation of our world becomes more and more digital…

E2 Bachelor Design Course The studio is about designing a scientific research campus in the port of Trieste, Italy as a move to revitalize the industrial area of the city. Link…

EM2 Master Design Course; keywords: machine learning, design agency, innovative skyscrapers   “Cyberphysical Towers: Speculations on Digital / Physical Facade Patterns”​, this semester’s EM2 design studio at the i.sd, explores…

i.sd is happy to invite you to our online reviews of our design studios with our valued guests: Ewa Lenart (Purcell Architects, London), Stefano Arrighi (Studio Olafur Eliason), Andrea Rossi (EDEK,…

E3 Bachelor Design Studio; key words: vagueness, ambiguity, volumetric design, spatial depth, transformative According to the philosopher – Richard Schusterman – artworks are deep; in contrast to real things they have…

The 2020/21 lecture series on Material and Technology by our guest lecturer Prof. Dr. Manuel Kretzer covers a number of topics ranging from Computational Design, 3D Printing, Biofabrication, Bioplastics…

EM1 Master Design Studio; keywords: shape grammar, combinatorial design, industrial construction, architectural geometry Solutions to the significant social, ecological and economic opportunities and problems of 21st century architecture and…

E1 Bachelor Design Course; keywords: relief, augmentation, atmosphere, densified housing  The current situation, forcing all of us to spend more time at home brought forward an issue we have…

i.sd Pre-Diploma Studio is an intense and inspiring working environment for students to develop their individual master thesis within the research field of i.sd. Possible topics range from architectural proposals…

E3 + E4 Bachelor Design Studio, keywords: spaces for research, figure-ground, point cloud, feature Within perception theory, the figure-ground organization describes a vital necessity to recognize objects through vision. A…

The seminar Methods of Materialization is aimed at students of the Bachelor’s degree in the third semester. Strategies of model building and materialization in various scales up to 1: 1…

This academic year, the lecture series Material and Technology is held by Manuel Kretzer, Professor for Material and Technology at the Dessau Department of Design, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences. Manuel…

EM1 Master Design Course Cities in particular are already feeling the dramatic consequences of climate change. Vienna in particular will become a hot spot within Europe by 2050. The Urban…

EM1 Master Design Course What if we think of a building as a reservoir of temporal state than a fixed entity, what if we design its potentials and abilities rather…

E3 Bachelor Design Studio i.sd was asked to design structures for the school garden at the University of Innsbruck, Campus West. Here the department of Fachdidaktik pursues the teaching of…

E3 Bachelor Design Studio; keywords:creative AI, agent-based design, agent-based structures The studio will work at the intersection between generative design, structure and creative ai/machine learning. The studio will focus…

Master Design Studio M1; keywords: material-aware design, fabrication-aware design, material performance „A bed is a bed, a chair is a chair, and there is no relationship between them so…