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A futurist on a mission to transform cities by using new technologies and designsDirector of Research at PLP/Architecture, and a leading researcher and academic in architecture and urbanism. My research focuses on the technologies that underpin design in the built environment in particular novel mobility systems.I am currently leading the research and concept design for IUMO/h (Integrated Urban MObility, previously Cartube), a pioneering mobility solution which combines two existing modes of transport, automated electric cars and mass transit, into a single, seamless infrastructure system. My research has also led to the development of IUMO/v (previously Skypod), a new vertical transportation system which will revolutionize skyscraper design. Closer to a train than a traditional elevator, IUMO/v reduces the need for space inefficient elevator shafts allowing previously unimaginable buildings to be built. I am also a pioneer in novel design technologies from parametric design to computational techniques in the design process. As such I am a founder director of the Smartgeometry group (SG) and a co-chair at events of the Advances in Architectural Design (AAG). I was co-chair of AAG in Vienna (2010) and Paris (2012) and is currently engaged with AAG 2018 in Gothenburg. In 2002 I received the Bentley Lifetime Achievement Award.Specialties: Computational and parametric design, new transport technologies

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