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Exhibition
28.09.2024-05.01.2025
Material Acts: Experimentation in Architecture and Design
Craft Contemporary. Los Angeles.
Material Acts: Experimentation in Architecture and Design examines the role of nature as a starting point for material experimentation in the domains of architecture, craft, and science.

Exhibition
27.02.2024-30.06.2024
MR. ROBOTO
The Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco.
Robots are our partners in the future. This exhibition showcases a collection of design activities and experiments by students at San José State University, as they test the creative possibilities of collaborating with a robot. Together with faculty and guest design collaborators Jonathon Anderson, Madeline Gannon, Andrew Kudless, and Gramazio Kohler Research, experiments shown in the exhibition engage the robot across multiple disciplines and media: calligraphy, photography, 3D-light painting, 3D-printing, and stop-motion animation.

Exhibition
01.06.2023
Event at the Future Now Pavilion, Fauusp São Paulo (RSVP needed)
Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Lago 876, Butantã, São Paulo. Lecturer: Consul General of Switzerland in São Paulo, Insight Architecture, Faculty of Architecture FAUUSP, Swissnex, and ITA Engenharia.

Exhibition
17.02.2023
Future of Motion at Autostadt Wolfsburg
Gramazio Kohler Research and the Computer Vision and Learning Group, ETH Zurich present Flight Assembled Architecture Revisited.

Lecture - Teaching - Exhibition
30.11.2022-02.12.2022
Von Video & Wolken. 40’000 Stunden Video, 990 Studierende, 50 Jahre bewegte Lehre D-ARCH
Professur Christophe Girot & Marc Schwarz Films. ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIL H 40.9 Foyer.
Die Veranstaltung bezieht sich auf 50 Jahre einer Form von Underground-Video-Counter Culture an der D-ARCH, die von Ruedi Manz Mitte der 1970er Jahre im COOP Provisorium initiiert und in den 80er und 90er Jahren in den HIL-Keller auf dem Hönggerberg gebracht wurde

Completion - Opening - Exhibition
23.09.2022
Hello, Robot. Design between Human and Machine.
Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein.

Lecture - Opening - Exhibition
20.09.2022
Vernissage und Round Table: Gotthard Landschaft - eine digitale Reise durch das alpine Massiv
ETH Zürich, Zentrum Hauptgebäude (HG) Innenhof Rämistrasse 101, 8092 Zürich. Lecturer: Prof. Christophe Girot, Prof. Dr. Anette Freytag, Bruno Giussani, Prof. Dr. Adrienne Grêt-Regamey, Prof. Matthias Kohler, Dr. Thomas Robinson, Dr. Nadin Schütz.

Completion - Opening - Exhibition
01.08.2022
Kizuki-au, Collaborative Constructions opens at Aichi Triennale

Opening - Exhibition
10.06.2022-28.08.2022
Open House - Experiment the Habitat
Geneva.

Exhibition
09.06.2022-30.10.2022
TOUCH WOOD
ZAZ Bellerive, Zentrum Architektur Zürich.

Exhibition
08.04.2022-18.09.2022
Motion. Autos. Art. Architecture
Norman Foster Foundation. Guggenheim Bilbao Museum.
Installation "Flight Assembled Architecture Revisited-Inhabiting the Virtual" by Gramazio Kohler Research, ETH Zurich in collaboration with the Computer Vision and Learning Group, ETH Zurich.

Exhibition
08.09.2021
Future Now - Revisiting Earthen Architecture
UIA2021RIO, the 27th World Congress of Architects. Insight Architecture - Jason Baumann. Mauá Square in Rio de Janeiro.

Exhibition
22.05.2021-21.11.2021
How Will We Live Together? - As New Households
Biennale di Architettura 2021. Gramazio Kohler Architects / NCCR DFAB.

Exhibition
14.05.2021
Architecture for Degrowth
Open House Geneva.

Exhibition
07.03.2021
U-Joints – Adhesives and Fusions, Part III
Gewerbemuseum Winterthur.
The exhibition features a series of research prototypes and visual material on the project Adaptive Detailing with Wire and Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM).

Exhibition
04.12.2019-15.03.2020
Gravitatorische Behauptungen. Yves Netzhammer / Gramazio Kohler Research
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich, Rämistrasse 101, 8092 Zürich.

Exhibition
19.11.2019-29.03.2020
Future and the Arts: AI, Robotics, Cities, Life - How Humanity Will Live Tomorrow
Mori Art Museum. Tokyo, Japan. Lecturer: Fabio Gramazio.

Exhibition
02.11.2019-09.02.2020
Up Sticks
Commissioned by the V&A Dundee. MAS DFAB. V&A Dundee.
Projects: MAS_2018_2019_T2_UpSticks

Opening - Exhibition
12.09.2019
How to Build a House: Architectural Research in the Digital Age (12 September - 13 October 2019)
Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture and Swissnex. The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York. Lecturer: B. Dillenburger, F. Gramazio, M. Kohler, J. Sabin, S. Tibbits, N. Tehrani.

Exhibition
12.03.2019-28.06.2019
How to Build a House: Architectural Research in the Digital Age
swissnex San Francisco Pier 17, Suite 800, San Francisco, California 94111.

Media - Exhibition
Video released on the production of Rock Print Pavilion
Video Link

Exhibition
11.10.2018-17.10.2018
Video exhibition at Conference Design Computing 2018
Conference, 11 October 2018. Exhibition 10-17 October 2018. Faculty of architecture, Faculty of civil engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague.
Video Link to MAS DFAB: Gradual Assemblies, video link to Robotic Collaboration in Timber Construction

Exhibition
04.10.2018-04.11.2018
Rock Print Pavilion
Gewerbemuseum Winterthur, Kirchplatz.

Exhibition
The MuDA catalogue on the exhibition is available now!
To download the app click on the picture.

Exhibition
05.06.2018
Opening event at the ISR in Rome with invited guests
MAS DFAB. Istituto Svizzero di Roma (ISR).
Master of Advanced Studies ETH in Architecture and Digital Fabrication

Exhibition
27.05.2018-04.11.2018
Hello, Robot
Gewerbemuseum Winterthur, Kirchplatz 14, CH-8400 Winterthur.
Projects: StructuralOscillations

Exhibition
05.05.2018-03.11.2018
3D-Druck - Wie eine Technologie unser Leben verändert
Sonderausstellung 2018/19. Museum Stamparia Strada, Prà da la Faira 161, 7558 Strada.
Projects: SDC_Prefab_Nest

Exhibition
04.05.2018-23.12.2018
Arbeit ist unsichtbar
Museum Arbeitswelt. Wehrgrabengasse 7, 4400 Steyr, Österreich .
The video on our research project In situ Fabricator is being shown See exhibited video
Projects: IFMM_NEST

Exhibition
25.11.2017-30.04.2018
Villa Bernasconi, Cernobbio, Italy
Organizer/curator: Associazione Arte&Arte. Project: Iridescence Print (2015).
Link to the Villa Bernasconi Website

Exhibition
27.10.2017-15.04.2018
Hello, Robot. Design between Human and Machine
Design museum Gent, Jan Breydelstraat 5, 9000 Gent.

Exhibition
09.09.2017-10.09.2017
Soft Particle Aggregation
Maker Faire Zürich. Dynamo Zürich . Lecturer: David Jenny, Hakim Hasan .
The MAS DFAB features a clay-shooting robot at the Zurich Maker Faire at Dynamo. Talk by David Jenny and Hakim Hasan on 09.09., 14h30 entitled: “(Un)Predictable Materials”.
Projects: MAS_2016-17_T3

Exhibition
07.09.2017-10.09.2017
Robotic Pavilion at the first Design Biennale Zürich
Old Botanical Garden, Zurich.
The robotic pavilion built by students of the MAS DFAB 2015-16 was selected to represent ETH Zurich at the first Zurich Design Biennale opening on the 7th of September. ETH has teamed up with the Museum of Digital Art to introduce children to the playful and rational thinking behind technology and design. Throughout the weekend children can further their creative potential and cultivate their skills as makers in a series of open workshops. For further information on the Biennale click on the picture. Information on the MuDA workshops here
Projects: MAS_DFAB_2015_2016

Exhibition
07.09.2017-11.09.2017
Rock Print on show at Ars Electronica Festival 2017
Festival for Art, Technology and Society. POSTCITY Linz.

Exhibition
05.09.2017-07.10.2017
Academic Platforms of Computational Design
The Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. Conference / Exhibition. Lecturer: Light Weight Structure by Stefana Parascho.

Exhibition
10.06.2017-03.07.2017
Interference Cube (2003) by Gramazio Kohler Architects exhibited in front of Museum of Digital Art until 29/06/17
Gasträume 2017. Stadt Zürich. Kunst im öffentlichen Raum. Pfingstweidstrasse 101, 8005 Zürich.

Exhibition
05.04.2017-06.05.2017
REINFORCE EXPOSE - The inner forms of tomorrow
Salone del Mobile. ISR Milano, Via Vecchio Politecnico 3, Mailand.

Exhibition
01.04.2017-16.07.2017
Gramazio Kohler
Museum of Digital Art, Pfingstweidstrasse 101, 8005 Zürich.

Exhibition
15.03.2017-19.06.2017
Mutations-Créations / Imprimer le monde
Centre Pompidou, Paris.

Exhibition
11.02.2017-14.05.2017
Hello, Robot. Design between Human and Machine
Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany.

Exhibition
14.03.2016-18.03.2016
CeBIT 2016

Exhibition
05.03.2016
Chicago Architecture Biennial: Rock Print De-Installation
The Chair of Architecture and Digital Fabrication ceased its engagement at the Chicago Architecture Biennial with a spectacular de-installation of Rock Print and sends a sincere “thank you” to all our project partners from academia and industry without whose invaluable engagement this project would not have been possible!

Exhibition
24.02.2016-10.03.2016
Robotic Wire Cutting Summerschool Ausstellung Architekturforum Zürich
In September 2015, the Chair of Architecture and Digital Fabrication has successfully pursued the 2015 Swisspearl Summerschool. The results of the two-week design and building workshop "Robotic Wire Cutting" will be exhibited - together with a comprehensive film documentation by Marc Schwarz - at the Architekturforum Zurich. For more information: Architekturforum Zürich

Exhibition
03.10.2015
NOW!!! Chicago Architecture Biennial
The Chair of Architecture and Digital Fabrication will participate in the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial, North America’s largest international survey of contemporary architecture! Developed in collaboration with the MIT Self-Assembly Lab, the project will bring forward a radically new approach towards robotic construction with granular matter. The Architecture Biennial ("The State of the Art of Architecture") takes place in Chicago from 3 October 2015 to 3 January 2016.

Exhibition
18.04.2015-14.06.2015
Short Cuts
Centre PasquArt. Kunsthaus Centre d'art, Biel.
Flight Assembled Architecture is part of the "Short Cuts" exhibition at the CentrePasquArt in Biel/Bienne. The project was developed in cooperation with Professor Raffaello D'Andrea (IDSC) and originally exhibited 2011 at the FRAC Centre in Orléans.

Exhibition
19.03.2015
L’usage des formes – Artisans d’art et artistes
Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
The Chair of Architecture and Digital Fabrication participates at the exhibition "L’usage des formes – Artisans d’art et artistes" (19. March - 17. May 2015) at the Palais de Tokyo (Paris) and presents a unique robotically printed architectural installation.

Exhibition
24.09.2014
Singapore meets Zurich - Research, Outcomes and Prospects
The Chair of Architecture and Digital Fabrication showcases a robotic architectural installation of its Design Research Studio in Singapore at the combined symposium-exhibition "Singapore meets Zurich - Research, Outcomes and Prospects" of the SEC Future Cities Laboratory. The exhibition at the ETH Zurich Haupthalle is open until November 9, 2014. The entry is free of charge.

Exhibition
23.08.2014-16.11.2014
WE LOVE BRICKS
Lasse Andersson, Aalborg University. Utzon Center Exhibition Hall 2, Aalborg.

Teaching - Exhibition
03.07.2014
Remote Material Deposition Installation
Architektonische Installation am Sitterwerk . Sitterwerk, St.Gallen.
The project "Remote Material Deposition" explores the idea of positioning material freely in space and creating differentiated structures by means of digitally controlled deposition. In cooperation with the Sitterwerk St.Gallen, this novel robot-based fabrication technique is implemented for the first time at full building scale. Until 11th July, the resulting 1:1 architectural installation is showcased - together with a number of additional studies - in the public exhibition with the same name at the Sitterwerk St.Gallen.

Exhibition
12.05.2014
Mobile Robotic Tiling
Live Demonstration. Module II Architecture and Digital Fabrication / Future Cities Laboratory. CREATE Tower, Singapore. Lecturer: Fabio Gramazio, Tobias Bonwetsch.
Projects: MobileRoboticTiling

Exhibition
14.02.2014-19.02.2014
The Robotic Touch - How Robots change Architecture
ETH Hönggerberg, HIL, Foyer Geschoss D.
The Robotic Touch Exhibition presents a radical way of thinking about and materialising architecture. It showcases over 1,000 physical experiments and provides a selection of projects that have originated over almost a decade of research at ETH Zurich.

Exhibition
07.11.2013-20.12.2013
Innovative Technologies / Mesh Mould Formwork
Swiss Positions, Swiss Scales. Korea Foundation Cultural Center Gallery. Seoul, South Korea. Lecturer: Module II Architecure and Digital Fabrication.

Exhibition
25.10.2013-27.10.2013
Architektur 0.13
Werkschau für Architektur. Maag Halle, Hardstrasse 219, 8005 Zürich.

Exhibition
26.05.2013-15.09.2013
Analoges und digitales Gestalten – Begegnungen
Schweizer Werkbund. IG Halle Rapperswil.

Workshop - Exhibition
25.05.2013-31.05.2013
Spatial Aggregations
Design Hub RMIT University. Melbourne.
The exhibition features the results of a one week design workshop on the design and robotic fabrication of metal structures held at the RMIT.

Exhibition
12.05.2012-19.08.2012
Architekturteilchen. Modulares Bauen im digitalen Zeitalter
Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln.
The projects "Flight Assembled Architecture" and "TailorCrete" are shown at the exhibition "Architekturteilchen. Modulares Bauen im digitalen Zeitalter".

Exhibition
17.01.2012-21.01.2012
Swissbau 2012
Basel.
The software BrickDesign which is developed within a KTI-Project will be presented to the public for the first time at the Swissbau 2012 in Basel. Please visit us at the stand of Keller AG Ziegeleien.
Projects: KTI_BrickDesign

Exhibition
01.12.2011-26.02.2012
Flight Assembled Architecture
FRAC Centre Orléans. 12 rue de la Tour Neuve, 45000 Orléans, France.
The Chair of Architecture and Digital Fabrication cordially invites to its exhibition "Flight Assembled Architecture", the first architectural installation to be built dynamically by flying machines. Developed togehter with Raffaello D’Andrea, a revolutionary assembly apparatus will be shown, addressing radical new ways of thinking and materializing architecture based on cutting-edge innovation and rigorous spatial and structural articulations.

Exhibition
26.08.2011-28.08.2011
Scientifica
Scientifica - Zürcher Wissenschaftstage. University of Zurich / ETH Zurich. Main Buildings, Rämistrasse 101, 8092 Zurich.
The Professorship Gramazio & Kohler Architecture and Digital Fabrication takes part in this year’s Scientifica and will present the EU-research project In-Situ Robotic Fabrication (dimRob), addressing cognitive robotic fabrication methods and its use on the construction site.

Lecture - Exhibition
14.04.2011-16.04.2011
Digital Materiality in Architecture
Fabricate 2011. Bartlett School of Architecture Gallery. Wates House, 22 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0QB. Lecturer: Matthias Kohler.
The Professorship Gramazio & Kohler takes part in this year’s Fabricate2011. A new mobile robot unit addresses adaptive building methods and cognitive fabrication skills and will be exhibited for the first time. This is framed by a keynote of Prof. Matthias Kohler in the scope of the panel „Machines and The Bespoke”.

Exhibition
16.12.2010-14.01.2011
Arquitectura Suiza Contemporánea
El Colegio de Arquitectos de Cádiz. Cádiz.

Exhibition
14.12.2010-27.02.2011
Working Prototypes
DHUB Design Hub Barcelona. Palau de Pedralbes, Barcelona.
Projects: ExplicitBricks

Exhibition
06.11.2010-07.11.2011
Designer's Saturday
D’S Design Center AG. Langenthal.
A spatial mesh structure is composed out of interlocking Styrofoam blocks. The Installation is produced using an industrial robot and a non-standard fabrication process.

Exhibition
15.10.2010-31.10.2010
Machinic Processes
Architecture Biennial Beijing. Tsinghua University. 798 Space, Beijing.

Exhibition
01.10.2010-29.10.2010
Jahresausstellung 2010
ETH Zürich - Institut für Geschichte und Theorie in der Architektur gta. ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIL D 30/E 29.

Exhibition
06.05.2010-01.07.2010
Ausstellung Brick Award 2010
Ausstellung Brick Award 2010. Institut für Geschichte und Theorie. Architekturfoyer, HIL, Hönggerberg, ETH Zürich.

Exhibition
18.03.2010-13.06.2010
Wendepunkt(e) im Bauen - Von der seriellen zur digitalen Architektur
Architekturmuseum der Technischen Universität München. Pinakothek der Moderne, Barer Str. 40, München.

Exhibition
10.11.2009-19.01.2010
Schaufenster Akustik
Baumusterzentrale. Zürich.
Projects: DW_Akustik

Exhibition
24.10.2009-01.11.2009
Neue Räume
Internationale Wohn- und Möbelausstellung. ABB Event Halle 550 Zürich-Örlikon.

Exhibition
16.10.2009-23.10.2009
Parametric Prototypes - New Computational Paradigms in Architecture
Xian School of Architecture. Xian, China.
Projects: StructuralOscillations

Exhibition
09.10.2009-18.10.2009
Insiders
Arc en reve. CAPC museum of contemporary art. Bodeaux.
Projects: WF_Voxels

Opening - Exhibition
01.10.2009-15.11.2009
Pike Loop Installation New York
Storefront for Art and Architecture, Kenmare Street, Pike Street. Manhattan, NY.
30.09.2009, 7pm: Opening reception "Digital Materiality" at Storefront, NY
27.10.2009, 7pm: Inauguration "Pike Loop" at Pike Street, NY
Projects: PikeLoop

Exhibition
25.09.2009-10.01.2010
Biennale Rotterdam
Vierte Internationalen Architektur Biennale . Rotterdam-Amsterdam.

Opening - Exhibition
23.09.2009-29.10.2009
ITA – Institut für Technologie in der Architektur. Einblicke
ETH Zürich, ITA in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Institut GTA. ETH Zürich, Science City, Archena.
Projects: KTI_Flexbrick
Exhibition
18.09.2009-27.09.2009
Comptoir Suisse
Beaulieu Exploitation SA, 1000 Lausanne.

Exhibition
10.07.2009
Beyond Media
Firenze.
Screening of the video documentation by Marc Schwarz
Projects: WeingutGantenbein

Exhibition
28.05.2009-23.08.2009
Re-Sampling Ornament
Arkitekturmuseet . Stockholm.
Gramazio & Kohler are featured in the "Re-sampling Ornament" exhibition which is currently featured at the Arkitekturmuseet in Stockholm. 100 years after Adolf Loos wrote Ornament and Crime, a text that relegated ornament to the peripheries of the architectural discourse, “Re-sampling Ornament” takes a first step towards tracing its re-emergence.
Projects: WeingutGantenbein

Exhibition
30.03.2009-16.04.2009
FLUX: Architecture in a Parametric Landscape
CCA California College of the Arts. San Francisco (USA).
Exhibition
24.10.2008-06.11.2007
(Im)material Processes: New Digital Techniques for Architecture
3rd International Architecture Biennale. Neil Leach. Beijing.
Projects: DW_DieProgammierteWand, WFA_DiePerforierteWand, WF_DerSchaum, WFA_DieSequenzielleWand

Exhibition
14.09.2008-23.11.2008
EXPLORATIONS: Teaching, Design, Research
Schweizer Beitrag an der Architekturbiennale Venedig. Bundesamt für Kultur. Venedig.
Gramazio & Kohler are part of this years Swiss contribution to the Architecture Biennale in Venice. The exhibition explores the ambivalence between teaching and research at the Architecture Departments of ETHZ/EPFL.
Projects: MobileFabrikationsanlage, StructuralOscillations
Exhibition
11.08.2008-15.08.2008
Design & Computation
SIGGRAPH 2008. Los Angeles.
Projects: WeingutGantenbein

Exhibition
01.06.2008-21.09.2008
Re-sampling Ornament
Re-sampling Ornament. S AM - Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum. Basel.
Gramazio & Kohler are featured in the "Re-sampling Ornament" exhibition at the Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel. Exactly 100 years after Adolf Loos wrote Ornament and Crime, a manifesto that effectively relegated ornament in architecture to the peripheries of the discourse, the exhibition takes a first step towards tracing its re-emergence.
Projects: WeingutGantenbein
Exhibition
28.03.2008-08.06.2008
Rethinking Design and Making in Architecture
MMFX - Manufacturing Material Effects. Institute for Digital Fabrication - Ball State University. Indianapolis Museum of Art,, USA.
Projects: WeingutGantenbein, WFA_DiePerforierteWand, WF_DerSchaum
Exhibition
02.09.2007-06.09.2007
Zwischen den Disziplinen
Präsentation der programmierten Wand. SIA Sektion Zürich. EWZ-Unterwerk Selnau, Zürich.
Exhibition
31.05.2007-09.09.2007
Pavillon Seroussi
Architectures de collectionneur de Pavillon Seroussi . Nathalie Seroussi. Maison Rouge, Paris.
Exhibition
22.02.2007-20.04.2007
From diagram to code: the computational turn of architecture
Maison de l'Architecture et de la Ville. Marseille .
Exhibition
27.10.2006-01.12.2006
Jahresausstellung Departement Architektur der ETH Zürich
D-ARCH. ETH Zürich-Hönggerberg.
Projects: WF_DieAufgeloesteWand, WFA_DiePerforierteWand, WF_DiePerforierteWand, DW_DieProgammierteWand
Exhibition
18.10.2006-21.01.2007
Spielwitz & Klarheit. Schweizer Architektur, Grafik und Design 1950–2006
Weingut Gantenbein. Kornhausforum. Bern. Lecturer: Claude Lichtenstein, Marc Schwarz, Sabine von Fischer.
Projects: WeingutGantenbein
Exhibition
28.09.2006-08.11.2006
Werdende Wahrzeichen. Architektur- und Landschaftsprojekte für Graubünden
Weingut Gantenbein. gta. ETH Zürich, ARchENA + Architekturfoyer, Zürich-Hönggerberg.
Projects: WeingutGantenbein
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