short vita

Frank Bauer is lecturer and doctoral candidate at the Department of Digital and Experimental Design, where he inquires into the ontologies and practices of computational manufacturing. Also embedded as a research associate within the Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity, he concentrates on extending the operative, instrumental and material basis of digital modeling, imaging and fabrication workflows, such as to probe them in industry. He is teaching within the B.A./M.A. programs at UdK, the interdiscplinary M.A. Design&Computation between UdK and TU Berlin aswell as the Design for Manufacture MArch at the Bartlett (UCL).

He graduated in architecture from Berlin University of the Arts (M.A. 2017), with stays at the University of Illinois and IIT Chicago, funded by a bilateral scholarship. After graduate art and cultural historical as well as social scientific studies at ALU Freiburg, FU Berlin and JGU Mainz, he received his M.A. (2012) by situating czech architectural cubism within fin-de-siècle discourses on cognition, spatial aesthetics and empathy.

After positions at the Fondation Vasarely in Aix-en-Provence, KWY Lisbon and Christian Vogel Architekten BDA, he co-founded Büro Vogel Bauer as a planning agency for contemporary fine arts production. Through his work in visualization, modeling and the generation of manufacture data, he gains insights into the practice of artists such as Nevin Aladağ and Olafur Eliasson.

Frank Bauer received the Elsa-Neumann dissertation scholarship from the state of Berlin. He was nominee to the YTAA by Mies Foundation and the BDA/SARP Award, is Margot and Paul Baumgarten Foundation aswell as Max Taut laureate and alumnus of the Genshagener Kreis.

Lectures and Publication

Matters of Activity

Büro Vogel Bauer

M.A. Design&Computation

Design for Manufacture March