EXTENDED TEACHING TEAM

Teaching architecture and expecially the field of space architecture is an interdisciplinary task. It can never be a single endeavour.

This year, I would like to thank the following guest lecturers, critics and reviewers for sharing their knowledge and experiences with the students, and their valuable input to the projects.

Special thanks for supporting the booklet production go to Laura Farmwald.

[in an alphabetical order]

Sasha Alexander PhD has industrial design qualifications, a doctorate in Value Chains, with international experience in new product development and research and currently a university academic with the Sydney, Australia based Western Sydney University School of Built Environment for construction, architecture and industrial design. More recently engagement in design for health and well-being on long duration spaceflight Mars Mission founding the first Australian university-level Interdisciplinary Space Lab (ISL) in cooperation with SICSA University of Houston. Teaching and design research strengths include Design for Circular Economy and Sustainability, integration of UNSDGs for professional practice, inclusive design, telehealth, design for remote indigenous communities, and strategic design management.

Dr. Olga Bannova is a Research Professor at the University of Houston’s College of Engineering, Director of the Master of Science in Space Architecture program and Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture – an academic leader in the field of space architecture and in planning and designing of facilities for extreme environments on Earth. Olga conducts research and design studies of orbital and surface habitats and settlements in space and for extreme environments on Earth. She has authored dozens of technical research papers and journal articles, and a book Space Architecture Education for Engineers and Architects (Springer, 2016). Olga is a Chair of the AIAA Space Architecture Technical Committee.

After graduating in architecture from the University of Karlsruhe in Germany, Henriette Bier has worked with Morphosis on internationally relevant projects in the US and Europe. She has taught digitallydriven architectural design at universities in Austria, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands and since 2004 she mainly teaches and researches at Technical University Delft with focus on Robotic Building. She initiated and coordinated the workshops and lecture series and finalized her PhD on System-embedded Intelligence in Architecture. She has been appointed professor at Dessau Institute of Architecture. Results of her research are internationally published in books, journals and conference proceedings and she regularly lectures and leads workshops.

Sheryl Bishop Space Psychologist

Christina Ciardullo Senior Architect Earth & Space | SEArch+ | Space Exploration Architecture

Mahsa Esfand Space Architect | University of Houston

Sheryl L. Bishop, PhD is Professor Emeritus and Social Psychologist at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston School of Nursing. As an internationally recognized behavioral researcher in extreme environments, for the last 30 years Dr. Bishop has investigated human performance and group dynamics in teams in extreme, unusual environments, involving deep cavers, mountain climbers, desert survival groups, polar expeditioners, Antarctic winter-over groups and various simulations of isolated, confined environments for space at remote habitats (e.g., Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, USA, HiSEAS in Hawaii, USA and the FMARS and Mars Project on Devon Island, Canada).

Christina is an architect with a background in astronomy and philosophy, bridging a career of practice and research at the intersection of the natural sciences and the built environment, designing for a sustainable future for Earth and Space. She is a PhD student at the Center for Ecosystems in Architecture and the co-founder of SEArch+, Space Exploration Architecture. In her work at SEArch+, Christina and her partners worked with an interdisciplinary team to win first place in the 2015 and 2019 NASA Centennial Challenges to 3D Print a Martian Habitat. She consults with NASA Johnson Space Center, Langley Research Center, and Marshall Space Center on closed-loop sustainable habitats. Ms. Ciardullo has also served as the 2016/17 Buckminster Fuller Institute Fellow and 2015/16 Ann Kalla Fellow / Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture.

Mahsa Moghimi Esfandabadi has three master‘s degrees in the architecture field that cover the past (M.A. in Iranian Architecture Studies), the present (M.S. Architectural Engineering), and the future (M.S. AeroSpace Architecture). She is the first Middle Eastern who graduated from AeroSpace Architecture from the University of Houston, and is also the first Middle Eastern at Space Architecture Technical Committee (SATC). She has worked as a professional architect, project manager, and assistant professor for more than ten years. Currently, she is a consultant for various companies to design habitats and greenhouses for Mars, Moon, and the zero-gravity.

Laura Farmwald is an architecture student based in Vienna. Her work includes film, photography, design and site-related art installations from an architectural point of view. Since 2018 she has been working as a tutor at the Institute of Architecture and Design, Department of Building Construction and Design, HB2.

Dr. Norbert Frischauf is a High-Energy Physicist, Future Studies Systems Engineer and currently a Partner at SpaceTec Partners and Co-Founder of Off-World, MIRA and several other startups. Norbert is an accomplished technologist with a global view in diverse industrial and scientific sectors including experimental physics, electrical engineering and aerospace engineering. As such he was worked at CERN, the European Space Agency (ESA), the German Aerospace Center (DLR), as well as several national government agencies across Europe and the European Commission (EC). Norbert is a leading member in various associations (such as IAA, OEWF), an active science communicator (TV, radio, press) and a keen acrobatic pilot.

Georgios Gourlis holds a Diploma in Architectural Engineering from NTUA and a MSc in Building Science and Technology from TU Wien. His fields of expertise cover building performance simulation, indoor thermal comfort, energy efficient refurbishment and the utilisation of BIM in the integrated planning process with regard to building energy modelling. Among other projects, he has been intensively involved in the development of the innovative climate concept of the Austria Pavilion for the EXPO 2020 in Dubai and in the FFG-flagship research project Balanced Manufacturing – BaMa, which resulted in a holistic method and a software toolchain for enabling companies to combine the success factors of energy, time, costs and quality in production and operational planning.

Dr. Gernot Groemer is the director of the Austrian Space Forum; he is an alumni of the International Space University and holds a PhD in Astrobiology. He teaches at the University of Klagenfurt in the field of Mars exploration and Astrobiology. Moreover, he is a lecturer at various universities and is a member of the Board of Mentors of the Space Generation Advisory Council. Gernot is an active analog astronaut at the Austrian Space Forum logging 113 simulated EVA-hours and a total of 30 min of zero-gravity. He led more 13 Mars expedition simulations and coordinates the development of the experimental spacesuit simulator Aouda.X.

2008: art history studies at university salzburg

2010: architecture studies at tu wien

2012: hillebrand bau und immobilien, wals

2016: querkraft architekten, vienna

After having obtained a Master of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering in 2001, Olivier Lamborelle floated in the space business and never left it. After working in Paris and Brussels, he became an anstronaut instructor at the European Astronaut Center in Cologne, Germany. From 2007 to 2017 he has been teaching space travelers how to perform science on board the International Space Station. In the frame of the human exploration of space, his technical experience covers systems, training (of astronauts & ground personnel) and operations (including real-time support to the International Space Station).

Advenit Makaya obtained, as a double diploma, a Master degree in General Engineering from Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France and a Master degree in Materials Processing from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. After completing a PhD in Materials Processing from the Royal Institute of Technology. Advenit worked as a Postdoctoral researcher at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, in Nagoya, Japan, conducting studies on advanced metallic materials. He then gained industry experience, as a Lifing Technologist for Rolls-Royce plc in the U.K., performing structural analysis and lifing assessments of critical parts for large civil aircraft engines. He joined ESA in 2014, conducting technology development activities in the field of Materials and Processes and providing support to ESA missions.

David Nixon is an architect who has worked in the space field since 1985. His past projects include: design research and development work on crew quarters for the early Space station for NASA; prototype crew equipment development for NASA and Spacehab; masterplan for 10-year expansion for the Deep Space Network for JPL; X-33 ground facilities studies for McDonnell Douglas; ExoMars rover testing laboratory design for ESA; underground isolation laboratory design for ESA and many more. In the mid2000s, he founded Astrocourier (Ireland) Ltd., a company developing miniature school experiments to support STEM whose first product was space-tested in 2008 on an ESA Foton science mission and zero-g parabolic flight. He is author of the book‚ International Space Station –Architecture Beyond Earth‘ published in 2016 by Circa Press.

Maria Antonietta holds a degree in Nuclear Engineering at the Politecnico di Torino. In 1988 she attended the first Summer Session of the International Space University (M.I.T., Boston, USA) and then became a Faculty member. She is currently member of the Academic Council. Since 1986 she has been working at Thales Alenia Space - Turin, as Program Manager of major ESA and ASI activities. In 2010 she was appointed Director for Advanced Exploration Programs. Maria Antonietta is involved in different activities promoting the development of young professionals in the space industry.She is author of several publications, papers, and reports, and Acta Astronautica Co-Editor. She is a member of different scientific committees, of the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF), and of Women in Aerospace and she is President of Explore Mars Europe.

2005 - 2013: architecture studies at tu wien

2009: internship - kadawittfeld architektur, aachen delugan meissl associated architects, vienna

2010: co founder - unheilbar russ petöfi architektur since 2013: project manager - querkraft architekten

Katja Schechtner is a senior urban scientist who holds a dual appointment between MIT and OECD. Currently she focuses on the future of algorithmic governance. Previously she led the transport technology program at the Asian Development Bank; advised the Inter-American Development Bank and the EU Commission on Smart City strategy and headed an applied research lab for Mobility at the Austrian Institute of Technology. Katja has published widely in the US, Asia and Europe, including two books: “Accountability Technologies –Tools for Asking Hard Questions” and “Inscribing a Square – Urban Data as Public Space”. Her work has been exhibited globally at venues such as Venice Biennale, Cooper Hewitt, MAK and ars electronica. She also holds a Visiting Professorship at TU Vienna and curates urban tech exhibitions across the globe.

Gerhard Schwehm studied Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy. He was a project scientist and study scientist for numerous ESA missions. He accompanied the Rosetta and SMART 1 project as a mission manager. As a co-investigator he is involved in many dust experiments at the MPI for nuclear physics. He was a member of the Interagency Space Debris Working Group, external member of the NASA Planetary Protection Sub-Group and the ESA Planetary Protection Working Group. He is a member of the International Academy of Astronautics and the IAU named the Asteroid Schwehm after him.

David Wong

Architect | Starlight Architecture | Chair Emeritus | AIAA Space Architecture Technical Committee

With over a decade of post-ARB registered professional experience and a proven record as a job runner, David has worked on architectural projects with a broad variety of scope and scale. David is the former Chair of the Space Architecture Technical Committee of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), specialised in architectural design and research for extraterrestrial conditions. He is the Chief Editor for the Space Architecture community newsletter „the Orbit“, and has published research papers related to Space Architecture at IAC and AIAA conferences. He is also part of the leadership team for „SpaceArchitect.org“ and its associated events.