Educational insights 1 | ‘How we shape the future of facades’

Moderator: Marcel Bilow

Educational masterminds, former top students who eventually beated their grandmasters and have grown into serious positions in the design and engineering industry, will share their knowledge on stage on how to shape future proof facades. In Europe, the educational programs we offer our future architects and facade experts are well known, high level and an inspiration for everybody. But what can we learn from former students who are actually running the business nowadays?

How can we make sure that the knowledge of today is transferred into the brains of the talented future architects? And how does this effect the way we design and shape facades in the next 20 years? Leaded by Mr. Bucky Lab Marcel Bilow himself, these experts will share their visions on the shaping of the next generation facades and facade experts.

About Marcel Bilow.
Marcel Bilow is a German architect and lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands. He leads the Bucky Lab, a prototype laboratory where students learn to design and build facade innovations or innovative construction products from sketches to fully functional prototypes. With over 20 years of experience teaching building construction and product design, Bilow places great emphasis on hands-on research and education, particularly in the areas of facades, experimental prototyping, and production techniques.

In addition to his academic work, he has co-authored more than 15 books and has led a firm specializing in facade engineering. He completed his PhD at TU Delft with a dissertation titled “International Facades – Climate-Related Optimized Façade Technologies.”

Bilow is known for his practice-oriented approach, encouraging students to gain hands-on experience by building prototypes and learning from mistakes.

Speaker education program 1:

Juergen Heinzel, Associate Design Director and Lead Design Quality & Associate Partner at UNStudio

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