We are excited to announce that on Thursday, March 11th at 12 PM, Dr. Felix Heisel will give the first lecture of GRID’s 2020-21 lecture series. The lecture is entitled, “Prototypological Research Towards Circular Construction.” Join us via ZOOM: https://tinyurl.com/GRIDTalks21
Dr. Heisel is an architect and academic working towards the systematic redesign of the built environment as a material depot of endless use and reconfiguration. At Cornell University, he holds the position of Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture and acts as the Director of the Circular Construction Lab. He is a faculty fellow at the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability, and a field member of the Systems Engineering program. Heisel is also a partner at 2hs architects and engineers, Germany, an office specialized in the development of circular prototypologies. He has received various awards for his work and published numerous books and articles on the topic, including Urban Mining and Circular Construction (Fraunhofer IRB, 2021), Cultivated Building Materials (Birkhäuser, 2017), and Building from Waste (Birkhäuser, 2014). Heisel graduated from the Berlin University of the Arts and has been teaching and researching at universities around the world, including the Berlage Institute; the Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction, and City Developments; ETH Zürich, both in Switzerland and Singapore; and Harvard GSD.
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