Paul Nicholas & Martin Tamke
Royal Danish Academy
Paul Nicholas is Associate Professor at CITA, the Centre for Information Technology and Architecture, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, and director of the international masters programme Computation in Architecture. Paul’s research develops new methods for architectural design and fabrication based on digital information flows between predictive modelling, material registration and making. His current research explores how sensing and machine learning can be linked to robotic fabrication to enable extended sustainable and bio-based architectural production.
Martin Tamke is Associate Professor at the Centre for Information Technology and Architecture (CITA) in Copenhagen. I´m pursuing a design led research in the interface and implications of computational design and its materialization. I joined the newly founded research centre CITA in 2006 and shaped its design based research practice. My work in additive manufacturing spans a range of materials from ceramics to textiles and hydrogels for bioluminescent bacteria. My overarching interest herein is the way how material and technology impacts design and architectural thinking. I continue this strand in my current research currently on computational strategies and models for the transition of the current systems of representation in design towards those, which can serve the requirements of a future building practice based on bio-materials. I work with the SDGs as motivation which are as well the main topic of the UIA2023 Copenhagen World Congress of Architects, wherein I was in 2019 appointed alternate reporter for the scientific track. Currently I involved in the Danish funded 4 year research project Predicting Response, the EU projects Exskallerate, the ERC project "Eco-Metabolistic Modelling for Architectural Design" and several industrial collaborations.
