Structures and Architecture

Mario Rinke is a Professor at the Faculty of Design Sciences at the University of Antwerp. Trained as a structural engineer and working in the field of architecture for some years, he researches and teaches structures and construction in architecture. Mario holds a Diploma degree in civil engineering from the Bauhaus University Weimar and a PhD from ETH Zurich and worked as a design engineer for major offices in London and Zurich. He taught at the architecture department at ETH Zurich, the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and the Tor Vergata University Rome. He is a cofounder of the International Association of Structures and Architecture (IASA).Marie Frier Hvejsel is a Professor of Architectural Technology at Aarhus School of Architecture in Denmark, where she coordinates the research lab ‘Technology, Building Culture and Habitation’. She is cofounder and president of the International Association for Structures and Architecture and co-chair of the 5th and 6th International Conferences on Structures and Architecture. She holds a Master of Science in Architecture and a PhD in architecture from The Department of Architecture, Design & Media Technology at Aalborg University. Her work focuses at the formulation of transdisciplinary research methods, formats and didactics for juxtaposing the development and expansion of the social capacity of architecture as spatial ‘gesture’ with the development of viable technical ‘principles’ of construction.

• 1. Architectural Engineering Design and the Circular Economy 2. Circular by nature or by design? Challenges of designing for circularity with wood 3. Collaborative Practices of Architects and Structural Engineers 4. Eco-Logic Structures: New Design Paradigms based on Hybrid Systems, Alternative Materials, and Disassembly Processes 5. Mycelium-based composites: from forest to design research 6. Structural adaptations: the role of existing structures in adaptive reuse projects 7. Structures & Crafts: Digital, Physical, and Cultural Assemblies 8. The Next Generation of Embodied Carbon Reduction Strategies 9. Wood in the Digital Age: Crafting the Future of Sustainable Architecture 10. From Earth to Earth: Vernacular and Contemporary Earthen Structures and Architecture for Circular Practice 11. Repurposing the past: unpacking material properties