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"Information-tool-technology is the third wave of technological development."

Christoph Schindler, Dipl. Ing. Architekt SIA

Christoph Schindler (Erlangen 1973) is currently a PhD -Student at the Chair of CAAD and worked as an assistant between 2001 and 2007. He studied architecture at the University of Kaiserslautern. During and after his studies, he practiced architecture in Germany, USA and the Netherlands. He co-founds in 2005 schindlersalmerón architecture + product design and in 2007 designtoproduction, a consultancy for digital production of complex design. He has lectured throughout the world and was guest teacher for the realization of 1:1 student projects at several universities. He is member of ACADIA, SAH, SIA and REG A.
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Schindler regards architecture as a result of technical history and technical history not as a momentary state-of-the-art, but as a continuous development. He developed a three-wave scheme of technological development, defined as hand-tool-technolgy, machine-tool-technology, and information-tool-technology. In his PhD , he conducts case-studies to consequently apply information-tool-technolgy in timber architecture.

PhD

Applications of Information-Tool-Technology in Wood Construction
(status: accepted research plan, 06/2006)
supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ludger Hovestadt, ETH Zürich
co-supervisor: Prof. Dr. Knut Einar Larsen, NTNU Trondheim

awards

2007 holz21 Award "Neue Horizonte - Ideenpool 2007" for ZipShape
2006 Promotion by IKEA Foundation
2006 Nomination Acadia Award for Emerging Design Practice
2006 Xaver.06 Special Award for Inventioneering Architecture with Instant Architects
2006 KMU Primus St. Galler Kantonalbank, 3rd prize for Bach Heiden with designtoproduction
2005 holz21 Award "Neue Horizonte - Ideenpool 2005" for designtoproduction

education

2000 Degree in Architecture University of Kaiserslautern "very good" (1.4)
1993-2000 Studies in Architecture, University of Kaiserslautern (D)

work

2007- designtoproduction Zürich, consultancy for digital production of complex design
2005- schindlersalmerón Zürich, architecture and product design
1998-2001 MVRDV Rotterdam, junior architect
1997 Marble Fairbanks Architects New York, internship
1997 Mahler Günster Fuchs Architekten Stuttgart, freelance
1996-1998 db Deutsche Bauzeitung Stuttgart, freelance
1995-1999 Die Rheinpfalz Kaiserslautern (feature pages), freelance
1994 SIAT Gesamtplanung Architektur und Technik Erlangen, internship

1:1 construction workshops

2007 NTNU Trondheim, Botanical Garden Pavilion [in progress]
2006 NTNU Trondheim, Camera Obscura
2006 Hochschule Liechtenstein, Smoking Shelter
2006 ETH Zurich, Metal Works II in collaboration with Prof. Andrea Deplazes
2005 ETH Zurich, Metal Works I in collaboration with Prof. Andrea Deplazes
2005 easa005 Bergün (CH), Building Bridges
2003 easa003 Aarhus (DK), Lasercutting
2003 ETH Zurich, Cardboard Houses
2002 ETH Zurich, 7days Pavilion
2000 Universidad Internacional de Andalucía (ES), workshop "Paisajes, Redes, Comunicaciones"
1996-1998 University of Kaiserslautern, tutor building construction

lectures and conferences

2007 SAH Fortbildungskurs, Weinfelden
2007 Acadia 2007 Halifax
2007 eCAADe 2007 Wiesbaden
2007 Hochschule für Technik, Zürich
2007 SAH Statusseminar, Nottwil
2006 Acadia 2006 Louisville
2006 Wood Biennale Kristiansand
2006 TU Cottbus
2005 Generative Art, Milano
2005 CADLAN
2004 TU Braunschweig
2002 Warsaw University of Technology
2001 MET.ROOM Gallery, Barcelona

projects at ETH Zürich, Chair of CAAD, 2001-2006

digital production of complex design [designtoproduction]
- 2006 Camera Obscura
- 2006 Pausendach Kernstrasse
- 2006 Monte Rosa Hütte
- 2006 Dulcimer/Hackbrett
- 2005 Libeskind Futuropolis
- 2005 Inventioneering Architecture
- 2004-2005 Swissbau Pavilion
building design [kaisersrot]
- 2004 Konsensmaschine, study for Papierwerdareal Zürich
konfigurator
- 2004-2005 "Unico" Backpack configurator for Unico Backpacks
digitalwerkstatt
- 2003-2005 founding D-ARCH Digitalwerkstatt, ETH Hönggerberg
- 2001-2005 Lasercutting Technopark with IVP Institute for Virtual Production, Prof. Dr. Pavel Hora
CAAD teaching
- seminar week
  - 2006 Metal Works II in collaboration with Prof. Andrea Deplazes
  - 2005 Metal Works I in collaboration with Prof. Andrea Deplazes
  - 2003 Cardboard Houses
  - 2002 7days Pavilion
  - 2001 Cityscan°Barcelona
  - 2001 Cityscan°Rotterdam
- MAS
  - 2003 NDS Pavilion2 (ESG) with NDS 0203
  - 2002 NDS Pavilion1 with NDS 0102
- caad elective master courses
  - 2004 Steel Construction in collaboration with Prof. Christian Kerez
  - 2003 Eternit Ornament
  - 2002 Building with Machines, parametric metal furniture
  - 2001 Cityscan°Barcelona
  - 2001 Cityscan°Rotterdam
- bachelor courses
  - 2005 CAAD2 parametric design
  - 2004 CAAD2 parametric design
- 2001-2004 Diploma Course CAAD
exhibitions
- 2005 Blickfang hotspot, ETH Hönggerberg, Organisation
- 2005 The digital Chain, Swissbau05 Basel, Organisation & Exhibition Design
- 2004 The digital Chain, Designers' Saturday Langenthal: Organisation & Exhibition Design
- 2004 CAAD Showing what's possible, ETH Hönggerberg
- 2003 Cityscan Barcelon-Rotterdam-Warszawa, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
- 2003 NDS ESG-Pavillon, ETH Zentrum
- 2003 Eternit Prize for Architecture, ETH Hönggerberg
- 2003 Cardboard Houses, ETH Hönggerberg
- 2002 Building with Machines, ETH Hönggerberg
- 2001-2003 CAAD year exhibition

publications

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