Christophe Barlieb is a cybercraft architect specialising in architecture design, fabrication, media theories, and practices. Author of ‘Cybercraft: Das neue Paradigma,’ co-editor of ‘Media Agency – Neue Ansätze zur Medialität in der Architektur.’ Best known for the Green Desert Mine, Whispering Wind, and Vardø Arks projects.
Full Professor leading the CyberCraft Lab at Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule (OTH) Regensburg, Faculty of Architecture and Regensburg School of Digital Sciences (RSDS). Co-founder and co-director of the CyberCraft Kolleg (CCK) at OTH Regensburg. Before tenure, Professor of Architecture Media at the Technical University of Berlin, Associate Professor at the Technical University Braunschweig and the Technical University Berlin, and Visiting Professor at Shenkar College, Tel Aviv.
Awards include the Bavarian State Award for the Robotik Toolbox and the Académie des Beaux-Arts of France’s Grand Prix d’Architecture – Prix André Arfvidson. Exhibitor at the Venice Biennial of Architecture, the Grand Palais, the Deutsches Architekturmuseum, and the Israel Festival Jerusalem.
Collaborator with Raimund Abraham on the Austrian Cultural Forum and the Musikerhaus.
Alma mater, Pratt Institute.
Founder (2022) and CEO (2022-present) of CyberCraft Institute e. V., a German non-profit association promoting research and knowledge of Cybercrafts.
Founder (2016) and former board member (2016-2022) of Fieldstations e. V., a German non-profit association promoting research and knowledge of the Anthropocene.
Founder (2015) and former board member (2015-2016) of Roundabout e. V., a German non-profit student association promoting architectural discourse at TU Berlin.
sense, adapt, create!