Gisela Baurmann
Visiting Lecturer, Architectural Design
M.Arch., Columbia University
Büro NY, New York,
www.BuroNY.com
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Gisela Baurmann is an award-winning architect who has practiced and taught extensively in Europe and the US. Her work employs cultural techniques as conceptual models of fabrication, and examines their topological traits for application in computational design. Gisela is founding partner of the architecture office Büro NY based in New York and Berlin.
Gisela received her Masters in Architecture degree from Columbia University as a Fulbright Scholar, and also studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and the Technical University in Berlin. As project architect she designed and constructed a modern church and congregation hall in Frankfurt, Germany, consecrated in 2000. Since 2004 she is founding partner of Büro NY, a design practice that explores the interplay between algorithmic form generation, programmatic research and material fabrication. Ms. Baurmann has taught regularly at Columbia University, Cornell University, University of Pennsylvania and Pratt Institute, as well as running the Department for Design and Building Design at the Technical University Berlin in 2008-09. She was a finalist and first runner-up in the World Trade Center Memorial Competition, the largest design competition in history.
