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Administrative Council

President: José Duarte Institution: Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal email: José P. Duarte (1964, Lisbon, Portugal) obtained a professional degree in architecture from TU Lisbon in 1987 and an S.M.Arch.S. in Design Enquiry and a Ph.D. in Design and Computation from MIT in 1993 and 2001, respectively. Currently, he is Associate Professor at TU Lisbon, where he heads the Rapid Prototyping Laboratory. His research is focused on the use of computer technologies for customizing mass housing and enabling flexible urban design. He became member of the eCAADe council in 2004 and chaired the eCAADe conference in Lisbon in 2005. He was elected vice-president in 2007.
Vice President/Treasurer: Johan Verbeke, Elect Institution: Brussels St Lucas, Belgium email: Johan Verbeke (1962, Temse, Belgium) graduated at KULeuven and completed his PhD in 1991. He also holds an MBA in creativity and knowledge management. He joined eCAADe in 1992 and soon became member of the Council. He works at the Hogeschool voor Wetenschap & Kunst, Sint-Lucas Architecture (Brussels-Gent) where he was Head of School between 2003 and 2009. He is now director of research. He organised the AVOCAAD and {ACCOLADE} conferences. He is vice-president (elect) of eCAADe and also project leader in EAAE.
Vice President: Wolfgang Dokonal Institution: Graz University of Technology, Austria email: Wolfgang Dokonal holds an Dipl. ing and a Dr.techn. degree of Graz University of Technology. He has had a long standing connection with eCAADe (his first eCAADe conference was 1994 in Glasgow organized by Tom Maver at Strathclyde University with his group AbacUS – Advancing Buildings and Concepts Underpinning Sustainability ) He organised the eCAADe conference in 2003 in Graz (with the help of Urs Hirschberg) and became an eCAADe council member then. He was Vice-President of eCAADe from 2007 and was president from 2009 – 2011. Currently he is again Vice- President (emeritus). He works as an Ass. Professor at the Department of Urbanism at Graz University of Technology and teaches Architectural and Urban Design. His main research interests are City Modelling and collaborative design.
Member: Henri Achten, Past President Institution: Czech Technical University of Prague email: web: https://www.fa.cvut.cz/Cz/Lide/Achtehen Henri Achten (1967, Venlo, the Netherlands) studied architecture in Eindhoven University of Technology 1986-1992. He worked as research assistant on his Ph.D. on knowledge encoding in graphic representations 1993-1997 in the Design Methods group. After his Ph.D. he got a post-doc position in the Design Systems performing research on design support in VR and further elaboration of his previous research work. Since January 2000, Henri Achten is assistant professor. He teaches in the design studio, and lectures on design methods and CAAD. Since 2006 he is associate professor in CAAD at the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University in Prague.
Communication – Eastern regional representatives: Aleksander Asanowicz Institution: University of Bialystok, Poland email:
Member: Andy Brown, Past President Institution: University of Liverpool, UK email: Andy was elected president of eCAADe at the Annual General Meeting in September 2001. Andy has a long standing involvement with eCAADe stemming from the presentation of a paper at the Rome eCAADe Conference in 1984. Some years later he was elected to the Administrative Council of eCAADe and took responsibility for managing communications, in paricular the Bulletin and Web site. At Liverpool University Andy is Co Director of the CAAD Research Unit (the hosts of the 1999 eCAADe Conference).
Member: Vassilis Bourdakis Institution: University of Thessaly, Greece email: The 2006 eCAADe Conference ‘Communicating Space(s) was hosted at the University of Thessaly, byVassilis. He has had a long-standing association with eCAADe.
Member: Birgul Çolakoglu Institution: Yildiz Technical University, Turkey email: Birgul Çolakoglu, graduated at Yildiz Technical University (YTU) in 1981 and completed her PhD in Design and Computation in 2000 at Massachusetts ?nstitute of Technology. She worked as Postdoctoral researcher at the MIT Architecture Department in 2001. Currently, she Works as professor of Design Computation at YTU where she was Head of the Computational Graduate Graduate Program between 2008 and 2011. Her research is focused on computational design education, computational tool development and computational design technologies in Green Design. She became member of eCAADe in 2008 and chaired the eCAADe Conferance in 2009 in Istanbul in collaboration with Istanbul Technical University.
Member: Joachim Kieferle Institution: FH Wiesbaden, Germany email: Joachim was host of the 2007 eCAADe Conference, ‘Predicting the Future’, that he arranged as a joint venture between the School of Architecture in Frankfurt and his own School in Wiesbaden.
Member: Silke Konsorski-Lang Institution: ETH Zurich, Switzerland email: web: http://graphics.ethz.ch/~sillang/ Since March 1st, 2008, Silke Konsorski-Lang has been Institute and Research Coordinator at the Institute for Visual Computing in the Department of Computer Science at the ETH Zurich. Prior to this, she was Managing Director of the Competence Center for Digital Design & Modeling. She earned her PhD degree (Dr.sc.techn.) at the ETH Zurich for her work on the investigation of video systems, especially 3D videos, in the field of architecture. Her research interests include digital design in general, and information and communication technologies, human-computer interaction, video systems, and enhanced environments in particular.
Liaison with conference host: Bob Martens Institution: Vienna University of Technology email: Bob holds an M.Sc. in Architecture from Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands) and Dr.techn. from the Vienna University of Technology (Austria). He is appointed as an Associate Professor in Vienna and teaches CAAD, spatial simulation and as environmental design. In 1997 he was elected president of eCAADe at the Annual General Meeting and served till 2001. His current research interest is focussing on virtual reconstruction, electronic publishing and knowledge management. Recently he has been appointed at TU Wien as Vice-dean of Studies related to continuing education activities (postgraduate courses).
Research: Tom Maver Institution: University of Strathclyde and Glasgow School of Art, UK email: Tom Maver is a founding member of eCAADe and CAADFutures and was, for over 25 years, the Director of ABACUS – the Architecture and Building Aids Computer Unit, Strathclyde. Currently he is an Emeritus Professor of the University of Strathclyde and an Honorary Professor in the Mackintosh School of Architecture at Glasgow School of Art.
Member: Marc Muylle Institution: College of Design Sciences, Hogeschool Antwerpen, Belgium email: Studied Product Development (MSc 1975) in Antwerp (Belgium) and later Ergonomics (MSc 1980) at LUT (UK). After running for 20 years the private company Muylle ergo Product design he moved in 1995 to the educational sector and became the founder of the CA(A)D curriculum at the College of Design Sciences, Hogeschool Antwerpen, Belgium. Currently he is the chairman of the Applied Design Communication Course Group and the ICT coordinator for the department.
Member: Tadeja Zupancic Institution: University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Architecture,Slovenia email: Tadeja Zupancic (1968, Ljubljana, Slovenia) graduated and finished her Ph.D. at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Architecture (1995). She joined eCAADe in 1999 and became its Council member in 2005. She was the host of the 2011 sCAADe conference ‘Respecting Fragile Places’ in Ljubljana. From 2003 to 2005 he was Vice-Dean for research at the Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana. Since 2007 she is has been leading research there again. She coordinates some EU projects and the doctoral programme at the faculty, promoting research through design within the integral research tradition in architecture.