GCD_25 Symposium Talks Online
GCD_25 took place on November 28th 2025 at Kuppelsaal, TU Wien. Recorded talks are available on YouTube.
GCD25 Workshop on Pressure Based Motion – save the date
Ahead of our annual GCD symposium (details here), this year, we also host a workshop on Pressure Based Motion, Nov 24-28, 2025.Please find details on the workshop programme and registration options here: https://gcd.tuwien.ac.at/gcd25-workshop.
GCD_25 Symposium on 28 November 2025 – registration open
This year’s Symposium on Geometry and Computational Design will be on Friday, November 28th, 2025. The symposium is free of charge. To register, please fill in your details on: GCD_25 Registration | Advanced Computational Design Download the program flyer here.
GCD Seminar
On Wednesday March 5th 2025 at 11am Hanaa Dahy talked about “Reimagining Sustainable Architecture: Digital Crafting & Bio-Based Innovations for a Climate-Neutral Future” – The building industry accounts for approximately 45% of all extracted resources and nearly 40% of energy-related
GCD_24 Symposium on 8 November 2024 – talks on YouTube
We celebrated 10 years of GCD – listen to the speakers via YouTube.
ACD at DesignDistrict
Hofburg, Vienna – 04.-06.10.2024 Our ACD colleagues presented recent results in a VR and ML enhanced experience at DesignDistrict in collaboration with Christian Kroepfl. design-district.at
GCD Seminar
Wednesday June 12th 2024 at 11am Julian Jauk on “Advancing 3D Printing of Clay in Architecture”3D printing of ceramics started to gain ground in architecture over the past decades, yet digital fabrication of clay, allowing for material efficiency as well
SFB Advanced Computational Design – project extension
The SFB project “Advanced Computational Design” – a joint project by TU Wien participants from GCD, TU Graz and Universität Innsbruck – has been granted extended funding for another four years by FWF.
Eurographics Award for Michael Wimmer
At the 2023 Eurographics Michael Wimmer received The Outstanding Technical Contributions Award, which is given each year to an individual in computer graphics to highlight some outstanding technical achievement.
CANCELLED: Advance AEC partner seminar online 27 March 4pm
Thomas Ortner, head of the Geospatial Visualization, Semantic Modelling, and Acquisition (GeoSMAQ) research group at VRVis TU Wien, on Digital Twins living in Smart Worlds – From Reconstruction to Decision Making He was invited by acd (which is the major
GCD at „WOHNEN & INTERIEUR“ – March 15-19 2023
GCD exhibits at the Fair: „WOHNEN & INTERIEUR“ – March 15.-19. 2023 at Messe Wien in the Area Sustainable Design from Austria (https://www.wohnen-interieur.at/) Visit us at Stand: A-0315 ! We will exhibit innovative furniture and objects produced using innovative digital methods developed within
This was the 7th GCD symposium on September 9th 2022 live at TU Wien
Kuppelsaal at TU Wien, Karlsplatz 13 Opening: Michael Wimmer (Head of GCD) Josef Eberhardsteiner (Vice Rector TU Wien) Invited Speakers: William F. Baker (SOM) Martin Bechthold (Harvard University) Henriette Bier (TU Delft) Ludger Hovestadt (ETH Zürich) Dieter Schmalstieg (TU Graz)
Open positions (SFB)
TU Wien is looking for exceptionally talented and highly motivated candidates for its SFB Advanced Computational Design. Please see the call for more details!
This was the GCD Symposium 6
GCD_2019 took place at TU Wien, Kuppelsaal, on Nov 29, 2019 . We had a series of lectures by leading researchers presenting recent developments in geometry, computer graphics, computational design and architectural engineering. Please forward this announcement to people who
The special research area (SFB): Advanced Computational Design
GCD (TU Wien) won SFB-grant to advance design tools for building planning through multi- and interdisciplinary basic research. Learn more about it here! Overview In the field of computer technology, many things are changing: virtual reality makes three-dimensional computer worlds
Announcement: GCD Fellowship call for applications
GCD invites PhD students to apply for a GCD Fellowship! Application Please be advised that the call for the GCD Fellowship is open until December 6, 2019. The fellow will be announced until January 31, 2020. Fellowship: max. €
New equipment
GCD acquired a specially equipped industrial robot for research in human-robot interaction. Furthermore, GCD purchased VR equipment for experiments in human factors in design (Pupil Labs eye tracker, Vive Pro HMD) and a powerful dual-GPU (NVIDIA Titan V) compute workstation.
Marshall plan scholarship fellow
For her research stay at PennState, PA (Dr. Jose Duarte) from August 2019 to January 2020 A. Wutte received a Marshall plan scholarship and a TU Wien KUWI grant! We congratulate!
Final Workshop of the DC:{CD}
28. January 2019 from 9am to 4pm the final workshop of the DCCD (Doctoral College: Computational Design) has taken place in Kontaktraum, Neues EI, Gusshausstr. The GCD members and supervisors met to learn about the work and results of the
German Design Award 2018 (Architectural Geometry and Computational Fabrication)
C. Kern, T. Repper won the „German Design Award 2018” for the “RW2 Europan BA2“ project.
VSS2018 and INDUSTRY 4.0 awards
M. Miro was awarded with two awards: VSS2018 (Vienna young Scientists Symposium): Geometric computation to surface design INDUSTRY 4.0: From Smart Factory to Smart City
Research stay at Centre National de la recherche scientifique
From 6th of January 2019 till 6th of March 2019 A. Rasoulzadeh will stay at Centre National de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) at the “Universite de Nantes” for a research stay! Supervision: Prof. Philippe Wenger Topic: Workspace and singularity-free trajectories
ACM Student Research Competition
ACM Student Research Competition, 2. Place (Graduate Students) for M. Schütz!
Hackathon 2018 Award
Hackathon 2018 Award at Technische Universität Berlin. First prize in the category for Best Dynamo Project: tool “Auto.Cooperate” Team: G. Sibenik and Bollinger+Grohmann Ingenieure
Research Stay 2018: Columbia University
From June to September 2018 K. Krösl visited the Columbia University, New York, USA for a research stay at Computer Graphics and User Interfaces Lab, Department of Computer Science. Supervisor: Prof. Steven Feiner