• Prof.dr. Jan KNIPPERS

    Keynote Speaker, Knippers Helbig Advanced Engineering

    Prof.dr. Jan KNIPPERS

    Keynote Speaker, Knippers Helbig Advanced Engineering

    Biography

    PRESENTATION

    Adaptive Building Skins

    AWARDS

    2015 ICONIC AWARDS in the category ‚Concept – Visionary Architecture‘ for addidas meet and eat (Architect: cobe Copenhagen)
    2015 Staatspreis Baukultur Baden Württemberg für Hospitalhof Stuttgart (Architect Lederer Ragnarsdottir Oei)
    2014 architizer A+ awards’ in the following categories: popular winner architecture + engineering / popular winner airports / jury winner airports for Shenzhen Airport
    2014 ICONIC AWARDS
    German Steel Construction Award
    2013 Emerging Architecture
    2012 International Bionic Award for flectofin
    2006 RIBA International Awards

    BIOGRAPHY

    Jan Knippers specialises in complex parametrical generated structures for roofs and façades, as well as the use of innovative materials such as glass-fibre reinforced polymers. Since 2000 Jan Knippers is head of the Institute for Building Structures and Structural Design (itke) at the faculty for architecture and urban design at the University of Stuttgart and involved in many research projects on fiber based materials and biomimetics in architecture.
    He is also partner and co-founder of Knippers Helbig Advanced Engineering with offices in Stuttgart, New York City (since 2009) and Berlin (since 2014). The focus of their work is on efficient structural design for international and architecturally demanding projects. Jan Knippers completed his studies of civil engineering at the Technical University of Berlin in 1992 with the award of a PhD.

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    All session by Prof.dr. Jan KNIPPERS

    Adaptive Building Skins

    10:45-11:00
    BALTIC BALLROOM

    Masterclass


    Adaptive Building Skins

    12:00-13:20
    BALTIC III Conference room