Oliver David Krieg is an expert in computational design and digital fabrication in architecture. As Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Intelligent City in Vancouver, Canada, he is leading the technology development for computational design and digital manufacturing processes for a proprietary high-rise mass timber construction system. This is part of the company’s effort to provide transformative solutions for platform-based, sustainable and affordable urban housing. His work is characterized by an integrative approach towards engineering, material science, sustainability, and manufacturing. He is also a doctoral candidate at the Institute for Computational Design and Construction at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. His work aims to enable reciprocities between design, technology and materiality in order to re-conceptualize how architecture can be designed, fabricated, and constructed.
Prior to joining Intelligent City, Oliver has led and participated in several international research and built projects that explore new potentials in timber construction. Working with wood as a natural but highly performative building material has enabled novel potentials that allow for exceedingly individualized and complex building elements and construction systems. In order to unlock this potential, an interdisciplinary and multi-faceted approach is required. The resulting material systems and prototypes evaluate the structural and spatial possibilities, ultimately pushing the boundaries of today’s architectural design research.
Prior to joining the ICD, Oliver worked at both Foster + Partners (2009) and Barkow Leibinger Architects (2011) as an Assistant Architect. With the completion of his Diploma degree in 2012 at the University of Stuttgart, he received the faculty’s Diploma Prize for outstanding work. Since the beginning of 2010, Oliver was also a Graduate Assistant at the institute’s robotic prototype laboratory.
Oliver has taught workshops at the University of Sydney, UBC Vancouver and Tongji University Shanghai, and has given lectures at several national and international conferences in architectural design and timber construction. He has been teaching seminars and studios at the University of Stuttgart in the context of his research. Between 2014 and 2017, Oliver was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation for his dissertation. His projects at the ICD have won many national and international awards and have been published in numerous magazines worldwide.
In 2018, Oliver founded the design label and explorative platform odk.design to continue his research in the dynamic relationship between manufacturing technology and contemporary wood design.
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Project Awards
Work Experience
| 04/2020 – present | Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Intelligent City |
| 04/2018 – 03/2020 | Director of Technology Intelligent City |
| 03/2018 – present | Founder and Principal odk.design |
| 10/2012 – present | Doctoral Candidate Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD) |
| 08/2013 – 03/2018 | Research Associate Computational Wood Architecture Group Leader Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD) |
| 03/2010 – 10/2012 | Graduate Assistant RoboLab, University of Stuttgart |
| 10/2011 – 03/2012 | Assistant Architect Barkow Leibinger Architekten, Berlin |
| 10/2008 – 04/2009 | Assistant Architect Foster+Partners, London |
| 06/2005 – 10/2008 | Editor for game modifications Krawall Gaming Network |
Achievements
| 01/2014 – 12/2016 | PhD Scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation |
| 06/2009 – 10/2012 | Scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation |
| 04/2012 – 10/2012 | Diploma project “Connecting Intelligence” wins Diploma Price |
| 10/2008 – 10/2009 | Elected student member of the board of the School of Architecture |
Education and Qualification
| 10/2006 – 10/2012 | University of Stuttgart, Faculty for Architecture |
| 04/2007 – 10/2009 | Member of the faculty’s student council |
| 09/2009 – 02/2010 | Hogeschool voor Wetenschap en Kunst, Sint-Lucas, Belgium |