Position
Associate Professor, Technical University Delft (TUD), Leader Robotic Building (RB), Associate TU Delft Robotics Institute (DRI) and RoboValley
Email
h.h.bier@tudelft.nl
Biography
After graduating in architecture (1998) from the University of Karlsruhe in Germany, Henriette Bier has worked with Morphosis (1999-2001) on internationally relevant projects in the US and Europe. She has taught digitally-driven architectural design (2002-2003) at universities in Austria, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands and since 2004 she mainly teaches and researches at Technical University Delft (TUD) with focus on Robotic Building. She initiated and coordinated (2005-06) the workshop and lecture series on Digital Design and Fabrication with invited guests from MIT and ETHZ and finalized (2008) her PhD on System-embedded Intelligence in Architecture. She coordinated EU projects E-Archidoct and F2F Continuum (2007-10) and led 4TU projects RDCB and Adaptive Joints (2015-18). 2017-19, she has been appointed professor at Dessau Institute of Architecture. Since 2020-21, she has been visiting professor at the Vietnamese German University in Hanoi and 2021 visiting researchers at PoliMi. Results of her research are internationally published in books, journals and conference proceedings and she regularly lectures and leads workshops internationally.
Portfolio/Presentations
- Advancing Cyber-physical Architecture (2014-23)
- Robotic Building: Robotic Systems Integrated into Physically Built Environments and Building Processes (2014-21)
- Robotic Building as Design-to-Robotic-Production and -Operation (2014-19)
- Cyber-physical Space (2018-19)
- Architecture in the Age of Robotic Building (2019)
Selected publications
- Spool Vol. 9 No. 1: Cyber-physical Architecture #5, 2022
- Spool Vol. 8 No. 2: Cyber-physical Architecture #4, 2021
- Spool Vol. 7 No. 3: Cyber-physical Architecture #3, 2020
- Spool Vol 6 No 1: Cyber-physical Architecture #2, 2019
- Adaptive Environments #1: Robotic Building, 2018
- Spool Vol 4 No 1: Cyber-physical Architecture #1, 2017
- International Colloquium with invited guests from Arup and ENSAPM, 2017
- GSM #3, Robotic Building, 2016
- An Extended Ambient Intelligence Implementation for Enhanced Human-Space Interaction, 2016
- Structural optimization for materially informed design to robotic production processes, American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences - Volume 8, Issue 4, 2015
- Data-Driven Architectural Design to Production and Operation in open-access journal Systema: Connecting Matter, Life, Culture and Technology, 2015
- Dynamics of Data-driven Design, 15th issue FOOTPRINT, Stichting Footprint, 2014
- Generative and Participatory Parametric Frameworks for Multi-player Design Games, 13th issue FOOTPRINT (eds. Krivy and Kaminer), Stichting Footprint, 2013
- Internet-Supported Multi-User Virtual and Physical Prototypes for Architectural Academic Education and Research, International Perspectives of Distance Learning (eds. Moore and Benson), 2012
- Digitally-driven Architecture, 6th issue FOOTPRINT, Stichting Footprint, 2010
- Prototypes for Automated Architectural 3D-Layout published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 2008
- SC: Prototypes for Interactive Architecture, published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 2006
Selected exhibitions
- Media Architecture Biennale (2021)
- Dutch Design Week (2020)
- MaterialDistrict Rotterdam (2019)
- Dutch Design Week (2018)
- Crossing Parallels (2018)
- Imprimer le Monde, Scalable Porosity at Centre Pompidou (2017)
- D2RP exhibit at V2 (2015)
Selected projects
- Rhizomatic off-Earth Habitat (2021-22)
- Circular Wood for the Neighborhood (2021-22)
- Hybrid Componentiality (2018-19)
- Variable Stifness (2017-18)
- Scalable Porosity (2014-17)
- Adaptive Environments (2016-20)
- Robotically Driven Construction of Buildings (2014-18)
- Robotic(s in) Architecture (2010-14)
- E-Archidoct and F2F Continuum (2007-10)
- Space-Customizer (2004-08)
Selected talks and lectures
- Seminar on Robotics in Architecture, University of Leeds (2021)
- Cyber-physical Architecture, TU Vieenna (2020)
- Centre for Information Technology and Architecture, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (2019)
- Architektur und Innovative Konstruktionen / Architecture and Inovative Constructions, TU Berlin (2019)
- Architecture + Environment 2: New Environments Symposium, TU Vienna (2019)
- Hyperorganicos (2018)
- The Next Architecture Symposium (2018)
- Inaugural lecture at DIA (2017)
- Architecture and/or Robotics at ENSA Paris-Malaquais (2016)
- The Future, TEDx Delft Salon 2015
- ReCraft, InDeSem 2015
- Border Sessions 2014
- Bridges 2013
- Neighbourhood Technologies - Mathematics and Media of Dynamic Networks, Blankensee Coloquium 2012
Membership/Positions/Network
- Visiting researcher PoliMi (2021)
- Visiting professor Vietnamese German University (2020-21)
- Visiting professor Dessau Institute of Architecture (2017-19)
- Editor in Chief Springer Book Series(since 2017)
- Editor Robotic Building(2018)
- Editor SPOOL(since 2017)
- Editor Archidoct(since 2016)
- Co-founder Adaptive Environments(since 2016)
- Founder and Leader Robotic Building(since 2016)
- Member TU Delft Robotics Institute (since 2010)
Selected Patent/Prizes
- Statically Balanced Compliant Sound Barriers Patent NL 2015722
- Recording and Projecting Architecture 1st prize Archiprix International (2017)
- Recording and Projecting Architecture 1st prize Archiprix National (2016)
- ISARC 2016 best poster award: An Extended Ambient Intelligence Implementation for Enhanced Human-Space Interaction