Spiegelhalter, Thomas Graduate Faculty

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FIU Carbon-Positive Design Studio Prof. Thomas Spiegelhalter - Venice Architecture Biennal ECC - TIME-SPACE-EXISTENCE 2023
FIU-Carbon-Positive Research Design Studio
Generative AI-SynBio for Blue-Green-Infrastructures FIU-Carbon-Positive Research Design Studio
Honored with Sustainable Smart Environments Award at Miami Smart City Conference
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Prof. Dr. Thomas Spiegelhalter of FIU CARTA Highlights Climate-Positive Urban Futures at International Conference in Berlin
Prof. Dr. Thomas Spiegelhalter of FIU CARTA Showcases AI-Driven Architectural Innovation at ARCASIA Forum 22 in Colombo, Sri Lanka
Studio Thomas Spiegelhalter + Associates

biography

  • Professor Thomas Spiegelhalter, P.h.D., is a licensed German-US architect, engineer and urban planner. He has performed design, master planning and built research in Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa, and the U.S. on numerous solar, carbon-neutral, zero-fossil-energy, and passive architectural projects; large-scale master planning and post-industrial infrastructures, landscapes, and engineered suspension bridges. As a result of his 36 years of awarded designs and built work, consulting, research, and teaching, Spiegelhalter has received 59 prizes, awards, and honours in competitions individually and in collaboration with engineers and landscape architects. His research work as a Professor at FIU involves geospatial and climatic data repositories with AI-ML-data-driven generative design workflows, bionics, biomimetics, mostly BIM-Python-Dynamo-Grasshopper coding with biomimetic and bionic principles. The ongoing bio-inspired research (http://crunch.fiu.edu/) is focused on optimised carbon-positive building and city design and planning scenarios towards carbon neutrality on a timeline from 2018 to 2100. Spiegelhalter has participated twice at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2021 and 2023, taught at several universities in Europe, the Americas and Asia, and held visiting professor positions at institutions worldwide. He was the Global Visiting Professor at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan, from May 2023 to May 2024. Currently, he is a Fulbright Specialist Awardee from 2024 to 2027.

research interests

  • Sustainability, Bionics, Biomimetics, Carbon-Positive Architecture, Environmental Design, Generative AI-ML data-driven Building Information Modelling, Holistic Systems, Green-Blue-Infrastructures, Generative adversarial networks for Design, Engineering, Architecture and Urban Planning

    http://crunch.fiu.edu/

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  • Thomas Spiegelhalter

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