Stefana
Parascho is a researcher, architect, and educator whose work lies at the intersection of architecture, digital fabrication
and computational design. She is currently an Assistant Professor at Princeton University where she founded the CREATE Laboratory
Princeton and is co-leading the PhD program in Technology of Princeton’s School of Architecture.
Through
her research, she has explored multi-robotic fabrication methods and their relationship to architectural design. Stefana investigated
computational design techniques ranging from agent-based systems to sequential design and optimisation methods. Her goal is
to strengthen the connection between design, structure, and fabrication, and boost the interdisciplinary nature of architecture
through the development of accessible computational tools and robotic fabrication methods.
Her
work was published in peer-reviewed publications and arts and architecture magazines (Kunst+Architektur, Architectural Design,
and Princeton’s Pidgin magazine), and exhibited internationally at the Milan Design Week and the “Anatomy of Structure” exhibition
in London.
Stefana completed her doctorate in 2019 at ETH Zurich, Gramazio Kohler Research, with
the thesis “Cooperative Robotic Assembly”, co-advised by Prof. Stelian Coros. Previously, she received her Diploma in Architectural
Engineering in 2012 from the University of Stuttgart and worked with DesignToProduction Stuttgart and Knippers Helbig Advanced
Engineering.
This academic year SLIVER is presenting a "Mixtape" by our junior faculty who contributed
with their professional interests and pedagogical objectives. The winter term is a collection of architects, artists, and
theoreticians whose work is circulating through the IoA in form of theoretical underpinnings, built references, and research
ambitions.
Upcoming IoA Sliver Lecture Series winter term 2020/21:
3XN
- Jesper Bork (Denmark) November 19 / 7pm
Lev Manovich (Seoul) November 26 / noon 12pm
Andres
Sevtsuk (Cambridge, MA) December 3 / 7pm
Amale Andraos (New York) December 10 /
7pm
