Speakers: Stefana Parascho & Augusto Gandia

Speakers: Stefana Parascho & Augusto Gandia

    Ştefana Parascho is a PhD researcher at Gramazio Kohler Research, as part of the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Digital Fabrication at the ETH Zurich. She studied architecture at the University of Bucharest and the University of Stuttgart. She has worked for Knippers Helbig Advanced Engineering and Design-to-Production Stuttgart and has taught and researched at the University of Stuttgart, Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design. Her current research focus lies in the development of multi-robotic assembly processes for architectural applications and integrative design methods for the design of robotically fabricated structures.

    Augusto Gandía studied architecture at the University of Mendoza, Argentina and completed a postgraduate Master in Media-architecture at the Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany. He has been working for architectural offices in Madrid and Stuttgart. In June 2015 he joined Gramazio Kohler Research in the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Digital Fabrication at ETH Zurich as a PhD researcher. His research focuses on the relationship between computational design and the simulation of architectural fabrication processes.