News & Events

Toni Kotnik has been appointed as external examiner for the doctoral thesis Injection 3D Concrete Printing: A framework for integrating structural design and automated robotic fabrication of space trusses by Yinan Xiao. The defense will take place on 24 September 2025...

On 1 Sept, Zubin Tan joined our research group as newly appointed Lecturer in Computational Design. Before moving to Helsinki, Zubin was working at Greg Lynn´s group at Die Angewandte in Vienna.

Stephanie Bachir will present her paper Morphological Insights from Asterolampraceae for the Development of Bio-inspired Shell Structures at the annual symposium of the International Association of Shell and Spatial Structures IASS 2025 in Mexico City. The paper was...

On 8 July 2025 Toni Kotnik was presenting his paper titled Folding At The Threshold Of Architecture and Engineering at the International Conference on Structures and Architecture ICSA2025 at Antwerp, Belgium. 

On April 10, 2025 Toni Kotnik gave a departmental lecture at L-Università ta' Malta on the changing role of geometry in contemporary design thinking and my recent research into architecture as regenerative practice. Thanks to Dr. Irina Miodragovic-Vella, Head of the...

Our design studio Celebration of Transition: Neptunuksenpuisto has been invited to present its outcome at the German Pavilion at Architecture Biennale 2025 in Venice. In total 10 European universities were selected to participate in this event. This year´s Biennale...

Prof. Alejandro Bernabeau Larena from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid is invited to give a lecture titled On the relationship between structure and architecture. The lecture is taking place on 1 Oktober 2024 at Väre, L101, at 16:00 and everyone is welcome to...

On 10 April 2024, Yoon Han will defend her dissertation titled Architectural computation of spatial dynamics. The defense is public and will take place at Aalto University, Main Building, Otakaari 1, room H304 at 12:00. 

Our new publication Leveraging Generative Design for Industrial Layout Planning: SWOT Analysis Insights from a Practical Case of Papermill Layout Design is available online at Advanced Engineering Informatics, Vol. 6o April (2024). This research was conducted by Kane...

On 22 Februray 2024, Prof. Dr. Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa from the New York Institute of Technology will talk about his new book and give a lecture titled Digital Signifiers in an Architecture of Information - Theory through computation’s a-historic neocolonization. ...

On 8 December 2023, Toni Kotnik will join the Master Theses Review at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) as jury member for the Future Manufacturing Prize together with the SUTD faculty members Carlos Banon and Stylianos Dritsas.

A new publication titled Aesthetic dynamics of experiential space in architecture by Yoon Han and Toni Kotnik has been submitted to archiDOCT and will be published in one of the upcoming issues. The paper is based on a lecture given by Yoon Han at the Relevance of...

The new publication Computational analyses of dynamics of architectural space by Yoon Han and Toni Kotnik is finally available online in the Architectural Research in Finland, Vol. 6 No. 1 (2022). access online

At the Department of Architecture at Aalto University we are looking for a person with several years of experience in computational design for a position as Lecturer / Researcher. We are offering the opportunity of developing your own research agenda in collaboration...

Our new publication The art of structural relation: Kazuo Shinohara’s “strong structures” design thinking, conducted in collaboration with Shuaizhong Wang, has been published in the Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering. access online

Our book Patterns of Interaction: Computational Design Across Scales is now available as part of the SpringerBriefs in Architectural Design and Technology. Written in collaboration with my colleague Pia Fricker the book is a reflection on contemporary computational...

Our former researcher Ashish Mohite received the Oskari-Vilamon Award 2022 for his doctoral research Speed-Based Additive Manufacturing Technique. Congratulations!

Toni Kotnik was invited by Dr. Christian Hamm to give a lecture titled Design of Structures: Research into configurational logics at his research group Bio-inspired Lightweight Design and Functional Morphology at the Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research at...

Toni Kotnik has been invited by Prof. Sevil Yazici to present the latest research at the Architectural Design Computing Program at the Istanbul Technical University. 

ADS has been selected to participate in the exhibition Design for a Cooler Planet as part of the Helsinki Design Week 2020.