Gernot Riether is an award- winning architect, scholar and educator. He teaches graduate and undergraduate studios as well as courses in Digital Design and Fabrication. He has taught at schools in Europe and the US, including the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) and the Barnard College at Columbia University. By researching digital design technologies, Riether is testing the potential beneficial roles for emerging digital tools to improve architecture’s relationship to the natural and built environments. This is achieved by a parametric design approach, variation of modular building components and tectonic possibilities that depend on digital design and fabrication tools. His research projects have been funded by the American Institute of Architects, the Austrian Government and the Georgia Institute of Technology. His work has been exhibited internationally, is published in journals and featured in architecture and art magazines and books. In 2008 he was awarded the Faculty Service Award from the College of Architecture at the Geogia Institute of Technology.

Projects, installations and exhibitions since 2008

• “Skin,” installation in collaboration with Damien Valero, Selected from an open call for projects, Traverse Video, annual international art festival, Toulouse, France (March - April 2012)
•  “Architects as Artists,” group exhibition, invited, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta (Jan. - Feb. 2012)
•  “MainX24 Pavilion,” installation, invited, MainX24 Art Festival, Chattanooga (Dec. 2011)
•  “Adaptation” ACADIA 2011: Integration through Computation, Invited Exhibition, University of Calgary
  Alberta, Canada (October 2011)
•  “NUIT BLANCH”, (white Night), Art Festival, Invited, installation in collaboration with  Damien Valero
  Paris, France (October 2011)
•  “Modern Atlanta”, Group Exhibition in collaboration with Jude LeBlanc, Invited, Atlanta  (June 2011)
•  “DesCours”, Pavilion for the AIA, New Orleans, Selected  as one of 14 internationally renowned architects to create an architecture installations  within the French  Quarter, New Orleans (December 2010)
•  “Modern Atlanta”, Group Exhibition, Invited, Atlanta (June 2010)
•  “Coded Surfaces”, One Person Exhibition, Invited, come se Architecture Gallery, Rome (May 2010)
•  “Chaos Extended”, One Person Exhibiton, Invited, G.A.S – station Gallery, Berlin (February 2010)
•  “Chaos”, Group Exhibition, Juried, G.A.S – station Gallery, Berlin, (October 2010)
•  “Modern Atlanta”, Group Exhibition, Invited, Installation with Daniel Berlaecken, White  Provision
  Atlanta (May 2009)
•  “Sound Pool”, Group Exhibition with Claudia Rebola, Invited, Eyedrum gallery, Atlanta  (April 2009)
•  “Stadtpunkte”, Exhibition with Thomas Tsang, Invited, Project Space Gallery, Invalidenstrasse,  Berlin (July 2008)
• “Re\Constructing Atlanta”, Entries of the City of the Future competition, Member  of the Georgia Tech entry, Group Exhibition, Invited, Welch School of Art & Design, Atlanta (August 2008)
•  “Modern Atlanta MA08”, student’s work, Invited, Mason Murer Gallery, Atlanta  (June 2008)
•  “City of the Future”, Exhibition of Competition entries of “City of the Future”, invited competition, History Channel Invinity and IBM, member of the Georgia  Tech team, Infinity Extraordinary Design Award, 2nd prize, Atlanta (January 2008)

Refereed journals since 2008

• Riether G., Baerlecken D., (2012), “Digital Girih, A Digital Interpretation of Islamic Archtiecture,” IJAC (International Journal of Architectural Computing) Volume 10, Number 1, p. 1-12
• Riether G., (2011), “AIA Pavilion, a flexible system of cellular building blocks,” VIRUS, n. 6. http://www.nomads.usp.br/virus/virus06/?sec=7&item=2&lang=en [Accessed 30/01/12]
• Riether G., (2011), “Towards digitally integrated urban places,” Kybernetes, Volume 40, issue 7/8, p. 1117-1124
• Riether G., (2011), “AIA Pavilion, System Interactions,” Journal of Green Building, Volume 6, Number 2, p. 29-35
• Economou A. Riether G., (2011), “Design Machine Revisited: Eight exercises in formal, composition,” [in]forma, Volume 5, p. 30-41

Refereed conference proceedings since 2008

• Riether G., De La Sayette C., Doss M., Filliatre M., Hall G., Lee H. J. (2012) “Active ETFE façade systems,” MC 2012, Matérialités Contemporaines, Lyon, France [paper accepted]
• Riether G. (2012) “Dynamic material behavior for Lightweight Structures,” eCAADe 2012, International Conference on Education and research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe, Prague, Czech Republic [in press]
• Riether G. (2012) “Nuit Blanche Pavilion, using the elasticity of polymers to self-stabilize a structure,” AAG 2012, Advances in Architectural Geometry, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France [in press]
• Baerlecken D., Riether G., (2012) “Aggregates: Digital design for design” in the proceedings of CAADRIA 2012, 17th International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia, Chennai, India, p.607–616
• Riether G. (2011) “Adaptation” in the proceedings of ACADIA 2011, The Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture: Integration through Computation, University of Calgary Alberta, Canada, p.52-57
• Riether G. (2011) “Expanding Urban Space through Digital Media”, UIA2011 Tokyo, The 24^thWorld Congress of Architecture, Tokyo, Japan, [accepted paper]
• Riether G., Jolly K. (2011) “Flexible Systems” eCAADe 2011: Respecting Fragile Places, Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, p.659-666 
• Riether G., (2011) “Plastics” EAEA 2011: Envisioning Architecture, TU Delft, Delft, [accepted paper]
• Riether G. (2011) “The Digital Design Build Studio” CDVE 2011: The 8 ^thinternational Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering, University of Hong Kong, China, p.198-206
• Riether G. (2011) "From Sprawl to Town", The City: 2nd International Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada, [proceedings forthcoming]
• Riether G. (2011) "Urban space of Intense Interaction", The City: 2nd International Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada, [proceedings forthcoming]
• Riether G. (2010) “Digital Phantasmagoria: An Urban Space of Intensified Interactions”, SIGraDI 2010, 14th Congress of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics, Bogota, Colombia, p. 380-383
• Riether G. (2010) “Clouds, A Study in System Interaction”, in proceedings of the SIGraDI 2010, 14th Congress of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics, Bogota, Colombia, p. 440
• Riether G. (2010) “Towards C:ADM2010 (Cybernetics: Art, Design, Mathematics) International Conference, School of Architecture, RPI, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, [proceedings forthcoming]
• Baerlecken D., Riether G., (2009) “From Texture to Volume, an investigation in quasi-crystalline systems”, in proceedings of the SIGraDi 2009, 13th Congress of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics, Sao Paulo, Brazil, p. 89-91
• Riether G., Baerlecken D., (2009) “Digital Girih”, in proceedings of the Design Modelling Symposium: Concepts beyond Geometry, University of Arts Berlin, Berlin, p. 190-199
• Riether G., Baerlecken D., (2009) “Open Pattern”, in proceedings of the CAADRIA 2009, 14th International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia, Yunlin, Taiwan, p. 615 624
• Riether G., Baerlecken D., (2009) “Parametrisism, Rule Based Design Processes”, in proceedings of the 2009 Design Communication Conference, Connect-Include-Mediate, Biennial Conference, Southern Polytechnic State University, p. 250-254
• Riether G. (2008) “Biological Instrumentation” in proceedings of the 2008 ACSA West Central Fall Conference, [architecture] in the age of [digital] reproduction, University of Illinois, Champaign – Urbana, p.25
• Riether G. (2008) “The Desert and the River” in proceedings of the VSMM 2008, Conference on Virtual Systems and Multi Media dedicated to Digital Heritage, Limassol, Cyprus, p. 431-436
• Riether G. (2008) “Digital Traces” in proceedings of the ACADIA 2008: silicon + skin, Biological Processes and Computation, University of Minnesota College of Design, Minneapolis, p. 400-403
• Riether G. (2008) “New Nomadism” in proceedings of the eCAADe 2008: architecture “in computro”, Integrating Methods and Techniques Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe, The Higher Institute of Architectural Science, Antwerp, p. 413-418
• Riether G., Butler T. (2008) “Simulation Space” in proceedings of the eCAADe 2008: architecture “in computro”, Integrating Methods and Techniques Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe, The Higher Institute of Architectural Science, Antwerp, p.133-142
• Economou A., Riether G. (2008) “Vitruvian Machine”, in proceedings of the CAADRIA 2008, 13^th International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia: Beyond Computer-Aided Design, Chin Mai, Thailand, p. 522-528
• Riether G. (2008) “Nothing is True” in proceedings of the 24^th National Conference on the Beginning Design Student - We have Never Been Pre-Disciplinary, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, [in press]
• Economou A., Riether G. (2008) “Architecture Machine Recombinant”, in proceedings of the 24^th National Conference on the Beginning Design Student - We have Never Been Pre-Disciplinary, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, [in press]
• Riether G. (2008) “Post-Digital” in proceedings of the The Oxford Conference, A Re-Evaluation of Education in Architecture,WIT Press, p.153-156

Work featured in books since 2008

• Angelini R. (2011). "Architettura e Information Technlogy", Mancosu Editore,p.228-232 (The book features an article about my research in Digital Places, as well as my projects Flux Space, Clouds and Digital Wachau)
• Dunham-Jones E., Williamson J. (2008). “Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs”, Wiley, color plate 52 (team member of LWARPS-project)
• Byrd C. (2008). “RE\CONSTRUCTING ATLANTA: a contemporary continuum” The Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design Gallery,
Georgia State University, p. 100-101 (team member of LWARPS-project)

 
Work featured in architecture and art magazines since 2008

• Schittlich C. (2012) “Pavilion in New Orleans,” DETAIL, Vo. 52, 6 Prefabrication, p. 613, p. 642-644, p.723
• Gheoghe A. (2012) “AIA Pavilion,” architektur aktuell, Nr. 385, p.20-22
• Wiegelman A. (2012) “AIA Pavilion, New Orleans,” TEC 21, Nr. 3-4, p.22
• Bruehl T. (2012) “Material World,” gb&d (Green Building and Design), Vol. 3, Nr. 15, p.144-145
• Van Raaij M. (2012) “AIA Pavilion,” AWM (Architectenweb Magazine), Nr. 47, 7e, p.26-27
• Platz D. (2011) “Individuelle Geometrie,” ARCHITEKTUR & BAUFORUM, SKIN, Nr. 2, title, p.1-6
• (2011) “AIA PAVILION,” CASE DA ABITARE, Nr. 42, p.24
• Riether G. (2011) “AIA Pavilion,” CONCEPT, Vol. 148, p.50-57
• (2011) “COCOON,” TIERRA, Nr. 10, p.16-19, Riether G. (2011) “Minimalismo Digital,” PASAJES arquitectura y critica, p. 5, p.74-76
• Rob G., (2011) “AIA Pavilion by Gernot Riether, New Orleans”, in Architectural Review, 1371, p. 84,85
• Hwang Y., (2011) “AIA Pavilion”, in C3= Architecture + Landscape + Urbanism, 323, p.26-31-47
• Angelini R., (2010) “New Relations in the city, in the screen of Gernot Riether”, L’ architetto, 33-34, p. 72-74.
• DelSignore M. Saggio A., (2010) “Mediterranean Public Space”, L’ architetto, 33-34, p. 82-84
• Embacher F., (2009) “Das Chaos ist immer und überall”, ST/A/R, 22, p.72
• Listing of Exhibitions, (2009) “The Cloud”, KUNST, 1002, p. 47

Arch 4022, 4023 – Architecture Core Studio II and III
Arch 2012 – Architecture Design Studio 2, Coordinator
Arch 4020 – Digital Workshop
Arch 4801 – Materials Seminar