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Gernot Riether

Gernot Riether

Assistant Professor

gernot [dot] riether [at] coa [dot] gatech [dot] edu (Send Email)Phone: (404) 889-3274Office location: 247 4th Street Room: 355

Gernot Riether is an award winning architect, scholar and educator. He is teaching graduate and undergraduate studios as well as courses in Digital Design and Fabrication. He has taught at schools in Europe and the US, including New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) and Barnard College at Columbia University. In his research he is using digital technologies to improve architecture’s relationship to a natural, built and social environment. This is achieved by a parametric design approach, variation of modular building components and tectonic possibilities that depend on digital design and fabrication tools. This research has been funded by the American Institute of Architects, the Austrian Government and the Georgia Institute of Technology. His work is manifested in gallery exhibitions, installations and theoretical and realized architectural projects which have been the subject of papers that are published in journals and scholarly conference proceedings. His work is further featured in books and leading international architecture and art magazines.
 

 Educational Background:

2000: Post Graduate Scholarship, Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design, Columbia University
1998: Diplom Ingenieur in Architecture, University of Innsbruck
1997: Study Abroad Scholarship, Architecture, University of Texas at Arlington (UTA)
1996: Summer School, Landscape Architecture, Islenski Arkitettaskólinn (ISARK)
1996: Erasmus Scholarship, Architecture, Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT)
1991: Building Construction and Project Management, HTL Hochbau, Innsbruck

Projects, Installations and Exhibitions:

    •  “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 010)
    •  “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)
      •  “Junction Space”, One Person Installation, Williamsburgh, Brooklyn, NY (Fall 2006)
      •  “Work of Faculty 2005”, Group Exhibition, Invited, New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury
        NY (March 2005)
      •  “elevenbyseventeen”, Group Exhibition, Invited, Barnard + Columbia Architecture, New York (March 2004)
      •   “Defective Brick”, Group Exhibition with Galia Solomonoff and Fabian Marcaccio, Invited, Artists Space, New York (November - January 2001)
      • “Doubled Space” Group Exhibition, Invited, Arthur Ross Gallery, New York (May 2000)
      • “Wiedergewinnung der Innenstädte”, (Regeneration of City Centers), Group Exhibition, Juried, Architekturforum Innsbruck Innsbruck, Austria (August 1997)
      • “Der Mensch im Raum”, (The Human Body in Space), Group Exhibition, Juried, Architekturforum Innsbruck Innsbruck, Austria, (November 1997)
      • “Water/Body/Earth/Mind”, Group Exhibition, Invited, University of Nancy, Nancy, France (May 1996)

       

      Journal Papers

      • Riether G., (2011), “Towards digitally integrated urban places”, Kybernetes [in press]
      • Riether G., (2011), “System Interactions”, Journal of Green Building, Volume 6, Number 2, p.29-35

       

      Peer Reviewed Conference Papers

      • Riether G. (2011) “Expanding Urban Space through Digital Media”, UIA2011 Tokyo, The 24th World 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, [accepted paper] 
      • Riether G., (2011) “Plastics” EAEA 2011: Envisioning Architecture, TU Delft, Delft, [accepted paper]
      • Riether G. (2011) “The Digital Design Build Studio” CDVE 2011: The 8th international Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering, University of Hong Kong, China, [accepted paper]
      • 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, 13th 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 24th 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 24th 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

      • Angelini R. [forthcoming]. "Architettura e Information Technlogy", Mancosu Editore
      • 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)
      • Leach N. (2002). “Designing for a Digital World”, Wiley Academy, Title, p1, 4, 15, 49, 79, 121
        (Upgraded Landscape)
      • Rosa J. (2002). “ROY Design Series” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, p. 26-29,34,35,38-41, 46-47, (project designer with Lindy Roy)

       
      Work featured in Architecture and Art Magazines

      • 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
      • McCarthy M., (2011) “AIA Pavilion”, Tierra, [forthcoming]
      • 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 – Eco Skin Seminar