Guest Lecture by Milena Stavric

RETHINKING MATERIALS: Sustainable Building Systems from the Micro to the Macro Scale

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IAM | TU-Graz, .IAM Shape Lab

Monday 15.12.2025, 17:15 via Zoom

RETHINKING MATERIALS: Sustainable Building Systems from the Micro to the Macro Scale

This talk explores how sustainable building materials can be rethought across scales— from microstructural design and meso-levelmaterial systems to macro-scale architectural applications. By integrating digital tools, experimental fabrication, and bio-based or adaptive materials, the lecture highlights how software and hardware innovations converge to enable new sustainable building systems.

Through case studies ranging from porousclay–alginate composites to passive cooling components, the presentation demonstrates how multiscale thinking can transform architectural practice and open new pathways for ecological, performative, and future-oriented design.

 

Milena Stavric is Associate Professor for Architectural Geometry and Digital Design at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz).

Milena completed her education in architectural engineering at Belgrade University, and since 2004 she has been working at the Institute of Architecture and Media. She was a visiting scholar at Harvard University, joining the MaP+S Group.

Milena has lectured at many universities, including Vienna, Mexico City, Istanbul, Hamburg, Novi Sad, Banja Luka, and Zagreb within the framework of research projects aimed at the implementation of digital technology in architecture and education. In addition, she continuously organises exhibitions of her students’ work. The focus of her own work is on architectural geometry, digital methods, and presentation, robotics in architecture, parametric modelling, and digital fabrication.