Pia Fricker

Pia Fricker

Pia Fricker serves as Professor and Vice Head of the Department of Architecture at Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture in Finland. She holds the Professorship of Computational Methodologies in Landscape Architecture and Urbanism and directs the interdisciplinary Urban Studies and Planning Programme at the Department of Architecture. Pia Fricker’s research and teaching link urban design and landscape architecture to the field of digital design culture through the lens of emerging technologies.

Her research is actively collaborating with other Departments at Aalto University, international academic partners (ETH Zurich, The Singapore University of Technology and Design - SUTD, Hafencity University Hamburg) as well as with professional partners on a national and international level.

She is currently leading research projects in data-driven design methods for dynamic urban landscapes and in the field of immersive, collaborative design environments, featuring a new reading and interaction of ecosystem datasets in the realm of Mixed Reality.

Pia Fricker holds a PhD in Architecture and a postgraduate degree in Computer Aided Architectural Design from ETH Zurich, a master’s and bachelor’s degrees in Architecture, specialising in Urban Design and Landscape Architecture from the Technical University of Karlsruhe.  

Prior to her current position, she was Director of Advanced Studies in Landscape Architecture ­– Landscape Architecture Design Simulation – at ETH Zurich, Chair of Landscape Architecture, Prof. Christophe Girot from 2009-2015.

Pia Fricker is a member of the editorial board of the JoDLA (Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture), the Scientific Program Committee of the DLA conference, the peer review committees of ACADIA (Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture) and eCAADe (Education and research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe), as well as expert peer reviewer for the International Journal of Architectural Computing, Landscape and Urban Planning Journal, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, and the Journal of Architecture and Urbanism. Pia Fricker has published extensively, and her work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, the National Design Centre Singapore, the National Library of Singapore, at EMMA - Museum of Modern Art, as well as a part of Helsinki Design Week.

In addition to her academic work, she works as a consultant to municipalities and large-scale landscape and urban projects in the area of digitalization, with special focus on adaptive urban development.

Full researcher profile
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Contact information

Phone number
+358503087105

Areas of expertise

Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, Water Urbanism, Parametric Design, Algorithmic Design, Data-Driven Design, Big Data, Atmospheric qualities in space and multisensory approach in spatial design, Interaction between space and objects, Responsive systems and environments, Emerging models of digital representation, Critical interrogations of the digital and analogue, 211 Architecture, Architecture

Publications

Computing Land-Scapes

Prof. Dr. Pia Fricker, Toni Kotnik 2023 Patterns of Interaction: Computational Design Across Scales

Convergence

Pia Fricker, Toni Kotnik 2023 Patterns of Interaction: Computational Design Across Scales

CULTIVATING A CULTURE OF COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN THINKING

Prof. Dr. Pia Fricker 2023 Terrain Vogue

Epilogue

Pia Fricker, Toni Kotnik 2023 Patterns of Interaction: Computational Design Across Scales

Patterns of Interaction

Pia Fricker, Toni Kotnik 2023 Patterns of Interaction: Computational Design Across Scales

An Online Conversation Between Christophe Girot and Pia Fricker

Pia Fricker, Christophe Girot 2022 LANDMARK30 Orientations in landscape architecture. Quo Vadis Architectura? 9

Augmented Co-Design Methods for Climate Smart Environments: A Critical Discourse and Historical Reflection

Prof. Dr. Pia Fricker 2022 Handbook of Research on Implementing Digital Reality and Interactive Technologies to Achieve Society 5.0

Computing with nature: Digital design methodologies across scales

Pia Fricker 2022 Designing Landscape Architectural Education

Research Forum: Mind Meets Machine

Pia Fricker, Tina Cerpnjak, Kane Borg 2022