Toni Kotnik

Professori (Associate professor)
Professori (Associate professor)
T201 Dept. Architecture

Toni Kotnik (born 1969, Germany) received his Ph.D. degree (Dr. sc. Nat.) in mathematics from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, in 1999. After completion of his second degree in architecture he worked as senior researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich and as studio master at the Architectural Association (AA) in London. Dr. Kotnik was Assistant Professor at the Institute for Experimental Architecture at the University of Innsbruck and Associate Professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design. He is principal of d’HKL, a Zurich-based office focusing on experimental and research-oriented architectural design, and has been lecturing worldwide including Harvard University, Copenhagen Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Princeton University, The Bartlett School of Architecture, Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Sydney University of Technology, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and MoMA New York. His practice and research work has been published and exhibited internationally, including the Venice Biennale, and is centered on the integration of knowledge from science and engineering into architectural thinking and the design process.

Full researcher profile
https://research.aalto.fi/...

Contact information

Phone number
+358504645211

Areas of expertise

211 Architecture, 212 Civil and construction engineering, Architecture, Construction engineering, Artistic design

Honors and awards

Best Presentation Award

2019 Winner, eCAADe Porto, Portugal, winner of the Best Presentation Prize: Ashish Mohite with his paper, co-authored by Mariia Kochneva and Toni Kotnik: Speed of Deposition: Vehicle for structural and aesthetic expression in CAM.
Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Architecture Sep 2019

Metex Award - Shortlist

Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Architecture Jan 2020

Aalto University Doctoral Thesis Awards

Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Architecture Jan 2022

Oscari-Vilamo Award

Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Architecture Jan 2023

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

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

The art of structural relation: Kazuo Shinohara’s “strong structures” design thinking

Shuaizhong Wang, Toni Kotnik 2023 JOURNAL OF ASIAN ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDING ENGINEERING

Computational analyses of dynamics of architectural space

Yoon J. Han, Toni Kotnik 2022 Architectural Research in Finland

Equilibrium as the common ground : Introducing embodied perception into structural design with graphic statics

Shuaizhong Wang, Toni Kotnik, Joseph Schwartz, Ting Cao 2022 Frontiers of Architectural research

Redefining Structural Art : A Neuroaesthetics Perspective on the Art of Structural Design

Shuaizhong Wang, Toni Kotnik, Joseph Schwartz 2022 Architecture, Structures and Construction