Thomas Grasl

Thomas Grasl
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curriculum vitae

77 born in Innsbruck, Austria
 

education

02 M.Sc. in Architecture, TU Vienna
05< doctoral student in Architecture, TU Vienna
06-07 Fulbright Fellow and doctoral student at the Georgia Institute of Technology
 

work

00 founding member of swap Architects with Christoph Falkner, Georg Unterhohenwarter and Rainer Fröhlich
03-08 external lecturer at the department of building theory and design
external lecturer at the department of spatial design
04-08 consultant master planner for ad-m (airport design management)
08-10 assistant professor at the department of building theory and design
10< researcher for swap [+]
 

teaching experience

Architectural algorithms, department of building theory and design, TU Vienna; 2008W - 2009W

CAD and planning methods, department of building theory and design, TU Vienna; 2003W - 2010S

Studio "Building Theory", department of building theory and design, TU Vienna; 2009S - 2010S

Studio "Spatial Design", department of spatial design, TU Vienna; 2003W - 2007W

Prototypes and simulation, department of spatial design, TU Vienna; 2004S - 2006S

 

publications

Thomas Grasl, Christoph Falkner and Christian Kühn, Easy access classes for three-dimensional generative design: Using a collaborative environment for e-learning. In Vassilis Bourdakis, eCAADe 2006, Volos, Greece, September 2006.

Thomas Grasl and Athanassios Economou, Spatial Similarity Metrics: Graph theoretic distance measurement and floor plan abstraction. In Andy Dong, Andrew Vande Moere and John S. Gero, CAADFutures 2007, Sydney, Australia, July 2007.

Athanassios Economou and Thomas Grasl, Center Sieve: A computational approach for the generation of all partial lattices of two-dimensional shapes with an n-fold symmetry axis. In Joachim Kieferle and Karen Ehlers, eCAADe 2007, Frankfurt, Germany, September 2007.

Thomas Grasl and Christian Kühn, Situated Spatial Awareness: Experimenting with Spatial concepts for agents. In Ahmad Okeil, Aghlab Al-Attili and Zaki Mallasi, ASCAAD 2007, Alexandria, Egypt, November 2007.

Athanassios Economou and Thomas Grasl, Unraveling complexity: A computational approach for the generation of all underlying structures of three-dimensional shapes with an n-fold symmetry axis. In John S. Gero, Design Computing And Cognition - DCC'08, Atlanta, USA, June 2008.

Athanassios Economou and Thomas Grasl, Congruent spaces. In K. Terzidis, "Who Cares(?)", Second International Conference on Critical Digital, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge MA, USA, April 2009.

Harald Trapp and Thomas Grasl, Towards a System of Architecture. In K. Terzidis, "Who Cares(?)", Second International Conference on Critical Digital, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge MA, USA, April 2009.

projects

research

05-07 VIPA - VIrtual campus for virtual space design Provided for european Architects
06-09 Courtsweb - Courthouse design database
09-10 Tralladio - Transforming graphs to Palladian villas
10 GRAPE - A shape gram­mar plug-in for Rhino 5
 

symmetry

07 Sieve 1.0 - Partial lattices of two-dimensional shapes with an n-fold symmetry axis
08 Sieve 2.2 - Partial lattices of two- and three-dimensional shapes with an n-fold symmetry axis
09 Sieve 3 - Partial lattices of two- and three-dimensional shapes with an n-fold symmetry axis. Augmented.