CITA: Center for Information Technology and Architecture

CITA is an innovative research environment exploring the emergent intersections between architecture and digital technologies. Identifying core research questions into how space and technology can be probed, CITA seeks to investigate how the current forming of a digital culture impacts on architectural thinking and practice.

CITA examines how architecture is influenced by new digital design- and production tools as well as the digital practices that are informing our societies culturally, socially and technologically. Using design and practice based research methods; the aim is to explore the conceptualisation, design and realisation of working prototypes. CITA consolidates new collaborations with interdisciplinary partners from the fields of computer graphics, human computer interaction, robotics, artificial intelligence as well as the practice based fields of furniture design, fashion and textiles, industrial design, film, dance and interactive arts.

By examining technology transfers between high-innovative industries, that stand on front edge in the development of new digitalised designs- and production tools, it's our goal to create synergy between the subject's contemporary reality and its future perspective. 

11. & 14.06.2010
CITA, SIAL and The Bartlett organise the PhD Symposium "Digital Relations in Architecture" .

 

09.06.2010
New pictures from the finished Hamburg ZOB are online.

 

02.-06.05.2010
Project Distortion will be installed during several events of the Copenhagen Distortion Festival

 

01.06. 2010
Odilo is guest-editor of this month's issue of Danish magazine 'Arkitekten' featuring 'design processes'.

 

23.04 - 23.05 2010
exhibition  digital.material - CITA exhibits in Oslo at ROM gallery 

 

17.05 2010
Mette speaks at Aarhus Arkitektskole


10.05 2010
Mette speaks at CIID

 

06.05 2010
Seminar Shape-morphing Textiles - afternoon of short talks by international researchers, location: Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole, Copenhagen.

 

29.04.2010
Odilo talks at Copenhagen Business School (CBS) on creative data and virtual worlds in architecture.


28.08.09 - 31.04.2010
CITA designs and exhibits in "it's a SMALL world" at Danish Design Centre

 

03.02.10
Martin speaks at AA - Architectural Association London

 

21.01.10
Martin speaks at UDK Berlin

 

20.11.09 - 20.12.09
"Sargasso Field", the interactive installation developed during the CITA summerschool 2009 with Philip Beesley is on display in the "Climate and Architecture" exhibition, Meldahls Smedie. more infos on the responsive environments blog

 

02.12.09.-09.12.09 
CITA runs the workshop encoded behaviour conducted by Paul Nicholas and Martin Tamke. more information and results here

 

03.12.09
Odilo speaks at EPFL Lausanne on the Challenges of Sustainability in the 21st Century

 

09.11.09
Mette speaks at Stockholms Architectural Association

 

06.11.09
Mette is keynote at AA's Årskonference  

 

03.11.09
Mette speaks at Future Textiles

 

30.10.2009
Martin speaks at generate.fi Oulo Finland.

 

06.10.2009
Mette and Martin present a paper at Design Modelling Symposium 2009  at Hfbk Berlin

 

21.27.10.2009
ParaWood is part of teh London Design Festival - FAB Awards 2009 more

 

19.-27.09.2009
Anders assists Prof. Atonino Saggio at workshop in Sicily   about SPACE, TIME and Information TECHNOLOGY.

 

16.09.2009
Anders, Mette and Martin presents a paper at eCAADe conference in Istanbul  .

 

04.09.2009
Odilo talks at RWTH Aachen University, Chair for CAAD about paramteric description of architectural values.

 

10-24.08.09
CITA SUMMER SCHOOL WITH PHILIP BEESLEY
check the summerschool blog 

 
10 - 27.06.2009
Mette and Karin lead workshop at Urban Islands , Sydney

 

20.06.2009
ParaWood to be exhibited at the AA London FAB Awards 2009 more

 

15.06.2009
'Sustainable Building Design - Principles and Tools' by Prof. Dietmar Eberle. 

 

03.-06.06.09
Reef Pattern - exhibited at Distortion Festival devA    

 

28.05.09
Odilo participates in the Arch+-Workshop on Smart Materials/ Smart Technologies



27.05.09
Martin and Norbert speak at the Rule Based Design Symposium - TU Berlin

 

15.05.09
CITA receives 1.000.000 grant from the Danish Frie Forskningsråd for DigitalCrafting Network in cooperation with Aarhus Arkitektskole, Spatial Interface Architecture Laboratory, RMIT, Australien, University of Brighton, School of Architecture and Design, UK, Designskolen Kolding,Teknologisk Institut and Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU). More soon and here


15.05.09
CITA receives funding from Dreyers Fond for CITA Summer School with Philip Beesley


01.05.09
CITA wins guest professorship with Prof. Mark Burry, SIAL for 2009-2011


27.04-05.05.09
Odilo runs 2 workshops on BIM Mapping with Prof. Chen, Prof. Wand and Prof, Sung at At Tamkang University Taipei.


22-24.04.09
Odilo joins CAADRIA and presents a paper at the 14.


17.04.09
Odilo runs lecture and workshop at Tokyo University, International Project Lab, Tokyo.


16.04.09
Mette speaks at Communicating (by) Design, Bruxelles


15.04.09
Mette speaks at Philips Design, Eindhoven


03-06.04.09
Mette joins Transitive Materials workshop at MIT Medialab


31.03.09
Jacob and Martin got a scholarship from Bentley to visit the SmartGeometry 09 workshop at San Francisco, where Martin will as well present CITA and the concept of Digital Crafting at the conferences Alumni Day. more


30.03.09
Odilo speaks at Aarhus school of architecture in information based sustainable design approaches.


13.03.09
CITA Symposium Parametric Approaches III Digital Crafting.Speakers: Michael Silver, Roland Snooks, Christoph Schindler, Harald Kloft more

21 - 26.02.09
Norbert runs workshop on Architectural Knitted Surfaces - Digital/Physical, Shenkar School of Engineering and Design, Tel Aviv


22.02.09
Mette speaks at Architectural Knitted Surfaces


04.02.09
Mette speaks at the Bartlett , London


04.02.09
Martin speaks at the AA , London


20.01.2009
Norbert speaks on Developable Surface at TU, Berlin


22-27.02.09
Norbert teaches Architectural Knitted Surfaces workshop, Shenkar College of Engineering and Design


08.12.2008
Vandkunsten blogs CITA


13.12.2008
Workshopseries Parametric Approaches
see  new pages - more information onarametric concepts in architecture, scripted geometries, techniques and the the workshops Blog Parametric Formations

 

26.11.2008
Practice Report:
Digital Design Strategies and the sustainable Agenda
CITA presents an afternoon seminar of short talks by international practitioners working at the cutting edge of digital design and architecture

 

11.11.2008
Martin speaks at  Bentley User Conference - Denmark

 

5.11.2008
Mette speaks at Ecole Speciale d'Architecture

 

Nov-Dec 2008
Mette teaches a studio at the Ecole Speciale d'Architecture (ESA) in Paris.


29.10.2008
Mette speaks at University of Kentucky

 

23.10.2008
Mette speaks at Living Textiles at ICA, London

 

23.10.2008
CITA participates in the international architecture biennale (Im)terial Processes - New Digital Techniques for Architecture , Beijing. More information and pictures of the exhibition can be found here
Mathias from Span has been at the opening and posted some pictures on his flickr page - thx

 

16.10.2008
Mette and Karin present Slow Furl at FUTURESCAPE08 , at London Knowledge Lab , London

 

18.09.2008
Martin receives an award for his paper Designing Parametric Wood in the ecaade conference 2008 in Antwerpen.

 

16.09.2008
Martin presents CITAs ParaWood Project at the Advances in Architectural Geometry conference / Vienna. The related paper can be ead in the conferences proceedings  (80MB)

 

04.09.08
Mette speaks at Chalmers Architecture School , Gothenburg


 

13-14.09.2008
Norbert and Martin give with Eyal Nir (Paracloud Ltd) a PARAKNIT workshop at the Advances in Architectural Geometry conference / Vienna.


 

8.07.2008
Martin speaks at TU Braunschweig / Germany


 

3.07.2008
Mette speaks at LightHouse Gallery

 

2.07.2008
Martin speaks at TU Darmstadt / Germany

27.06.2008
Martin moderates the session in the 2008 EAAE/ARCC conference Changes of Paradigms in the Basic Understanding of Architectural Research

 

17.06.2008
Slow Furl opens at Light House Gallery

 

16.06.2008
Norbert has his one year Viva

 

06.06.2008
Martin prensetns CITAs work in the field of parametric Architecture at the Generative Components seminar for academicsd professionals in Hamburgs BRT architects office - organised by Bentley systems .

 

02.06.2008
Mette speaks at Ambience 08 smart textiles conference


23.05-2008
Mette participates in Fabrics of Life at Central Saint Martins, London.


21.05.2008
Mette speaks at Copenhagen University

 

13.05.2008
Martin speaks at GASU St. Petersburg / Russiad hets some perort in the St. Petersburg GASU Academic Newspaper


28.04.2008
Philpip Beesley, associate professor in the School of Architecture , University of Waterloo, is giving a lecture on "Dissociated Empathy and Elective Affinities" at Monday 28.04.08 - 13.00h at auditorium 5  -  www.philipbeesleyarchitect.com  


24.04.2008
Mette chairs research by design panel at Architectural Inquiries Conference, Gothenburg


20.04.2008
Mette and Karin win InterARCHtive commission for Slow Furl, Lighthouse Gallery, UK


19.03.2008
Framing the exhibition Digital Practice, the HandsOnExperience Digital Design and Production (Dates 31.03 and 7.4.08) is adressed to architectural offices. It will provide participants with knowledge and experience in the field of RapidPrototyping.


14.03.2008
The exhibition DIGITAL PRACTICE on CITAs research opens at the School of Architecture. It runs ubtil April 11.


27.12.2007
Update and new Projects in the Digital Formations section of CITAs website


23.11.2007 - 12.30h:
Symposium Parametric Approaches II: Computation and material with Prof. Mark Burry, Prof. Neil Leach, Mark Gage, Achim Menges and Prof. Mark Goulthorpe


10.11.2007 - 13.00h:
Public Presentation of the Workshop Constitutional Subdivision at the Danish Architectural Center (DAC)


06.11.2007 - 19.00h:
Opening of archiTronic event at the Danish Architectural Center (DAC) with installation by CITA