News – KAROLA DIERICHS

Talk CurvoBio

25. August 2022

On 26.8.2022 Karola Dierichs will give a talk at the CurvoBio…

Roundtable Peer

2. Juli 2021

On 2.7.2021 Karola Dierichs will be a roundtable peer at the…

Lecture TU Berlin

9. Juni 2021

On 9.6.2021 Karola Dierichs will give a virtual lecture on Designing…

Neues Museum Biel

28. August 2020

A prototype developed based on the ICD Aggregate Pavilion 2015…

V&A Dundee

2. November 2019

A prototype developed based on the ICD Aggregate Pavilion 2015…

Lecture MSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

15. September 2019

On 18.09.2019 Karola Dierichs will give a lecture on “Programming…

materialPREIS 2019

27. Juni 2019

The ICD Aggregate Pavilion 2018 has won an Acknowledgement in…

El Museo San Telmo

16. Juni 2019

A prototype developed based on the ICD Aggregate Pavilion 2015…

Lecture Kloster Banz Germany

15. April 2019

Karola Dierichs will give a lecture on ‘Designed Granular Materials…

Exhibition Gewerbemuseum Winterthur

23. Mai 2018

A prototype developed based on the ICD Aggregate Pavilion 2015…

Lecture Stuttgart Germany

22. Januar 2018

Karola Dierichs will give a lecture on “Designed Granular Materials”…

Exhibition Design Society China

13. Dezember 2017

The ICD Aggregate Wall 2017 has been included in the inaugural…

About

Karola Dierichs is a Professor of 'Material and Code' at the weißensee school of art and design berlin within the Excellence Cluster 'Matters of Activity' (MoA) at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She has been conferred her doctoral degree with distinction from the University of Stuttgart in 2019. Previously she has studied at the Architectural Association (AA) in London, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich and the Technical University of Braunschweig. Teaching engagements included the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA) in London, the Städelschule Architecture Class (SAC) in Frankfurt and the Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD) in Stuttgart. At the Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD) Karola Dierichs has conducted research on 'Granular Architectures', where she has developed designed granular materials in architecture. She has been engaged in transdisciplinary research collaborating nationally and internationally, among others with the Institute for Multiscale Simulation (MSS), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany and the Behringer Lab, Duke University, USA. She has published numerous articles in her field and lectured both within Europe and the USA. Her research on designed granular materials has been recognized with the 'Holcim Acknowledgement Award Europe 2014' and the 'materialPREIS Acknowledgement Study and Vision 2019'. Selected works have been included in the traveling exhibition 'Hello, Robot.' starting 2017 at the Vitra Design Museum, Germany and the opening exhibition 'Minding the Digital' of the Design Society in Shenzhen, China.