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Universität der Künste Berlin
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SHORT BIOGRAPHY:
Norbert Palz is Professor for Digital and Experimental Design and Vice President at the Universität der Künste. His research is concerned with digital craft and vernacular knowledge, artistic strategies in digital design-processes and the artistic and architectural avant-garde of the post-war period in Europe. Palz firstly trained as an architectural draftsman and then studied architecture at Technische Universität Berlin. After working in the iconic architectural offices of NOX (Lars Spuybroek) and UN Studio (Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos), he later founded the architectural practice TARGADESIGN in Berlin. He holds a PhD from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and was formerly Professor for Digital Design and Construction at Münster School of Architecture. Palz has received research funding from the EU Horizon 2020 program and the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks program. He is a member of the Architectural Association of Rheinland Pfalz and a member of the Supervisory Board of the European Training Network “ArcInTex – Connecting Architecture, Textiles and Interaction Design.”
Selected Publications:
a) Solo Exhibitions
1. Palz, N. Norbert Palz – New Works. Architekturgalerie Kaiserslautern, Germany, 2011.
b) Group Exhibitions
2. Palz, N. Wolpertinger! What they do in collaboration? Galerijoje Akademija, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2016.
c) Texts
3. Palz, N. “Beginn des Beginnens - Ende des Endens.” In Vom Anfangen, edited by S. Lorenz and T. Düllo et al. Hamburg: Textem Verlag, 2016.
4. Palz, N. and S. Kuhrau. “Analyse historischer Gewölbekonstruktionen und ihre zeitgenössischen Ableitungen als Instrument digitaler Geometriedidaktik. In Über Form und Struktur – Geometrie in Gestaltungsprozessen, Edition 1, edited by Leopold, 229-236. Wiesbaden: Springer Verlag, 2014.
5. Palz, N. “The Ghost of Architecture.” In Entwurfsbasiert Forschen, edited by J. Weidinger. Berlin: Universitätsverlag TU Berlin, 2013.
6. Palz, N. Emerging Architectural Potentials of Tunable Materiality through Additive Fabrication Technologies, PhD Thesis. Copenhagen: The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation, 2012.
7. Gengnagel, C., Kilian, A., Palz, N. and F. Scheurer, eds. “Computational Design Modelling.” Proceedings of the Design Modelling Symposium Berlin. Berlin: Springer, 2011.
8. Palz, N. and M. Ramsgard-Thomsen. “Computational Material: Rapid Prototyping of Knitted Structures” In Performative Architecture – between heritage and new architectural Form, 107-113. Aalborg: Institut for Arkitektur og Medieteknologi, 2009.
9. Palz, N. and B. Sommer. “Prototyping Dynamic Architecture Material Properties as Design Parameters.” In CAAD Futures 2009, edited by T. Tidafi and J. Dorta. Montréal: Les Presses de l‘Université de Montréal, 2009.
10. Sommer, B. and N. Palz. “Printing Inflatable Elements of an Adaptable Building Skin.” In Proceedings International Conference on Textile Composites and Inflatable Structures, 687-699. Barcelona: CIMNE, 2009.
