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  • An Integrated Learning Framework for Design, Engineering, and Robotics in Automated Construction, in: Proceedings of the IEEE German Education Conference (GECon) 2026, 20 to 22 July 2026, Technische Universität Ilmenau, in print (authored/co-authored with Lars Abrahamczyk and Michael Braun)
  • Material-Responsive Design of Oak Roundwood Space Frames – An Augmented-Reality Design and Fabrication System for Small-Diameter Logs in Structural Assemblies, in: Design Modelling Symposium 2026: The Art of Designing with the Uncontrollable, EPF Lausanne & Fribourg, 10 to 12 September 2026, in print (authored/co-authored with Lukas Kirschnick, Paing Su Ko, Thomas Pearce und Michael Herrmann) 
  • From Resolution to Definition: A Data-Sufficient Workflow for Continuous Tree-Fork Assemblies, in: Design Modelling Symposium 2026: The Art of Designing with the Uncontrollable, EPF Lausanne & Fribourg, 10 to 12 September 2026, in print (authored/co-authored with Nora Merten, Philipp Enzmann, Oskar Langenberg, Lukas Kirschnick and Thomas Pearce)
  • Navigating the Physical Dimension in the Digital Age: Intersections between Design, Experience, and Ecology, in: Thomas Pearce (ed.): Unruly Matter: Strategies for Designing and Fabricating with Whole Trees, Berlin: Spector Books, 2026, pp. 101–144
  • A Time-Efficient Data-Driven Surrogate Method for Structural Performance Prediction Using Artificial Neural Networks, in: Mia Tedjosaputro, Davide Lombardi, Giancarlo Di Marco and Marc Aurel Schnabel (eds.): From Inspiration to Solutions: xArch Symposium, Springer Nature Singapore, 2026, pp. 111–119 (authored/co-authored with Alireza Gogani and Reinhard König)
  • Augmented Gleaning: A Dialogic, Low-Impact Mixed-Reality-Enabled Workflow for Selective Sourcing, Design and Fabrication of Tree Fork Assemblies, in: Humanistic Computation and Intelligence, Proceedings of the 31st International Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA) 2026, Volume 2, 2026, pp. 575–584, 2026 (authored/co-authored with Nora Merten, Philipp Enzmann, Lukas Kirschnick and Thomas Pearce) 
  • Design and fabrication of wooden grid shells using small-diameter timber, in: Juan Ignacio del Cueto Ruíz-Fúnez and Juan Gerardo Oliva Salinas (eds.): Proceedings of the IASS Annual Symposium 2025, Mexico City, October 2025 (authored/co-authored with Lukas Kirschnick, Paing Su Ko, Vivienne Gladitz, Thomas Pearce and Frank Bauer)
  • Incorporate agentiality into the design process for digital pain assessment using a flexible framework instead of user requirements, in: Merle Ibach, Andrea Augsten and Axel Vogelsang (eds.): What could possibly go wrong: Impact and consequences in design, DGTF Jahrestagung, Luzern, 2024, pp. 24–34 (authored/co-authored with Johannes Breuer, Andreas Mühlenberend, Winfried Meißner, Christin Arnold and Philipp Baumbach)
  • Design im Digitalen Zeitalter: Entwurf, Werkzeug, Epistemologie, in: Lars Grabbe and Tobias Held (eds.): Designforschung und Designwissenschaft: Methoden und Theorien gestalterischer Episteme, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2024, pp. 155–172
  • Modular Metal Nodes for Timber Space Frames, in: Philipp Eversmann, Christoph  Gengnagel, Julian Lienhard, Mette Ramsgard Thomsen and Jan Wurm (eds.): Scalable Disruptors, Design Modelling Symposium Kassel 2024, Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024, pp. 141–151 (authored/co-authored with Lukas Kirschnick and Jürgen Ruth)
  • Preface, in: Johannes Breuer and Marlene Bart (eds.): Atlas der Datenkörper 2, Bielefeld: Transcript, 2024, pp. 6–9.
  • Vorwärts zur Tradition: Entwurf, Produktion und Handwerk im digitalen Zeitalter, in: Simon Frisch, Tilman Borsche and Teruaki Takahashi (eds.), Denken ǀ Sehen: Japanisch-Deutsche Spaziergänge auf Kunstwegen, Baden-Baden: Karl Alber Verlag, 2024, pp. 397–423 (authored/co-authored with Michael Braun)
  • Being Digital, in: Shape the World – 60 Jahre Nemetschek, Nemetschek Group, Munich 2024.
  • Digital Fabrication for Circular Timber Construction: A Case Study, in: Journal of Circular Economy, 1(2), 2024 (authored/co-authored with Dominik Reisach, Sven Schneider and Stephan Schütz)
  • A Design-to-Fabrication Workflow for Free-Form Timber Structures using Offcuts, in: Michele Turrin, Charalampos Andriotis and Azarakhsh Rafiee (eds.), Computer-Aided Architectural Design. Interconnections: Co-computing Beyond Boundaries. CAAD Futures 2023. Communications in Computer and Information Science, Vol. 1819, Springer, 2023, pp. 361–375 (authored/co-authored with Dominik Reisach, Sven Schneider and Stephan Schütz)
  • Mend, Blend, Attend: Advancing Artistic Research, Proceedings of the 13th SAR International Conference on Artistic Research, Weimar, 2023 (authored/co-authored with Alex Toland and Stefanie Schwarz)
  • Zur Geschichte des Digitalen im Design: Eine Annäherung, in: Hyun Kang Kim (ed.): Form Follows Data, Leiden: Brill/Fink, 2023, pp. 211–226
  • Interactive graphics for multidimensional pain assessment – a human-centered design and evaluation study with patients suffering from chronic pain, in: Human Interaction and Emerging Technologies: Future Applications V., Lausanne, Switzerland, 2022 (authored/co-authored with Johannes Breuer, Andreas Mühlenberend, Winfried Meißner, Christin Arnold and Philipp Baumbach)
  • Cable Robotic 3D-printing: Additive Manufacturing on the Construction Site, in: Construction Robotics, Vol. 6, 2022, pp. 305–318 (authored/co-authored with David Hahlbrock, Michael Braun, Volker Helm, Robin Heidel, Patrik Lemmen, Roland Boumann, Tobias Bruckmann and Dieter Schramm)
  • Im Zeichen des Experiments: das Birkenportal von Weimar, in: architektur.aktuell – the art of building, Volume 06/2022, Vienna, 2022
  • Schmerz in seiner Komplexität Erfassen – Digitale Dokumentation mit interaktiven Grafiken, in: Sonderausgabe zum Deutschen Schmerzkongress 2022 (Mannheim), Springer Nature, 2022, pp. 37–38 (authored/co-authored with Johannes Breuer, Andreas Mühlenberend, Winfried Meißner, Christin Arnold and Philipp Baumbach)
  • Philosophische Körper. Von digitalem Text zu greifbarem Material, in: Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften, Wolfenbüttel 2021 (authored/co-authored with Henning Schmidgen, Benno Stein, Tim Gollub and Michael Braun)
  • Digitale Revolution im Holzbau: Roboter, Narration, Entwurf, in: Mario Rinke and Martin Krammer (eds.): Architektur fertigen: Konstruktiver Holzelementbau, Zurich: Triest, 2021, pp. 164–171
  • Design Intelligence: Pitfalls and Challenges When Designing AI Algorithms in B2B Factory Automation, in: Helmut Degen and Lauren Reinerman-Jones (eds.): Artificial Intelligence in HCI. HCII 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 12217, Springer, 2020, pp. 288–297 (authored/co-authored with Jennifer Moosbrugger and Karsten Wendland)
  • Let’s work together – Schwarmroboter im Baueinsatz, in: architektur.aktuell – the art of building, Volume 04/2020, Vienna, 2020
  • High-Resolution Underwater 3-D Monitoring Methods to Reconstruct Artificial Coral Reefs in the Bali Sea: A Case Study of an Artificial Reef Prototype in Gili Trawangan, in: Erich Buhmann, Stephen Ervin, Sigrid Hehl-Lange, James Palmer and Jörg Rekittke (eds.), JoDLA: Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture, 4-2019, pp. 275–289 (authored/co-authored with Verena Vogler and Sven Schneider)
  • Das (digital) Neue in der Gestaltung: Wie sich die Zukunft in der Vergangenheit entscheidet, in: Siegfried Gronert and Thilo Schwer (eds.), Positionen des Neuen, Stuttgart: AVEdition, 2018/2019, pp. 158–169
  • Materialverhalten im Gebäudemassstab: Neue Skalierungen digitaler Architektur, in: architektur.aktuell – the art of building, Volume 11/2019, Vienna, 2019
  • Gegenwart mit Geschichte: Entwurf und Urheberschaft im digitalen Zeitalter, in: Winfried Speitkamp (ed.), Idee Inhalt Form. Beiträge zur Gestaltung der Gegenwart, Weimar: Universitätsverlag, 2019, pp. 311–319
  • Construction Robotics (CORO) Special Issue: Advances in Architectural Robotics, Vienna/Cham: Springer, 2018.
  • Unscheinbar spektakulär – Brücke aus dem 3D-Drucker, in: architektur.aktuell – the art of building, Issue 10/2018, Vienna, 2018, pp. 31–33 
  • Robotic Fabrication in Architecture, Art and Design 2018, Vienna/Cham: Springer 2018 (authored/co-authored with Philippe Block, Marco Hutter, Kendra Byrne and Tim Schork)
  • Granulares Bauen: Neue Potenziale der digitalen Architektur, in: architektur.aktuell – the art of building, Issue 05/2018, Vienna, 2018, pp. 24–26
  • Eine neue (digitale) Urhütte, in: Sonderausgabe Fünfzig-Jahre-architektur.aktuell, Vienna, 2017, pp. 26–30
  • Digitale Kombinatorik: Daten, Empirie und Partizipation, in: Frank Hartmann (ed.), Wilhelm Ostwald. Farbenlehre, Formenlehre. Eine kritische Rekonstruktion, Hamburg: Avinus, 2017, pp. 36–54
  • Fabrication 5.0: From Collective Design to Open Innovation, in: architektur.aktuell – the art of building, Issue 5/2017, Vienna, 2017, pp. 26–28
  • The Return of Gottfried Semper’s Transversal Ontologies in the Digital Age of Production, in: Philippe Morel, Christian Girard and Leda Dimitriadi (eds.): Computational Politics and Architecture Proceedings, Paris: ENSA Press, 2017, pp. 113–125
  • Robotic Brickwork. Towards a New Paradigm of the Automatic, in: Hans Isak Worre Foged Worre (Hrsg.): Bricks / Systems. Aalborg: Aalborg Universitetsforlag, 2016. pp. 51–64 (mit Tobias Bonwetsch)
  • Fabrik der Zukunft, in: TEC 21 – Espazium Special Issue „Arch_Tec_Lab“, Zurich, September, 2016, pp. 36–37 (authored/co-authored with Tobias Bonwetsch, Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler)  
  • New Paradigms of the Automatic, in: Achim Menges, Tobias Schwinn and Oliver David Krieg (eds.): Advancing Wood Architecture: A Computational Approach. London: Routledge, 2016, pp. 13–28 (authored/co-authored with Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler)
  • Jammed Architectural Structures: Towards Large-scale Reversible Construction, in: Granular Matter, 04/16 (2016): 18–28 (authored/co-authored with Petrus Aejmelaeus-Lindström, Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler)
  • Robotic Timber Construction. Expanding Digital Fabrication to New Dimensions, in: Automation in Construction, Volume 61 (2016): 16–23 (authored/co-authored with Michael Knauss, Tobias Bonwetsch, Anna Aleksandra Apolinarska, Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler)
  • Variation, Beauty, Epistemology, in: Studio Hadid Vienna – Fluid Totality, Vienna: Springer, 2015, pp. 60–61
  • Iridescence Print, in: 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing, Volume 2, Issue 3, New Rochelle/NY, (2015): 117–122 (authored/co-authored with Volker Helm, Andreas Thoma, Luka Piskorec, Norman Hack, Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler)
  • Automated Diversity. New Morphologies of Automated Urbanism, in: Architectural Design (AD), Volume 87. London: John Wiley & Sons (2015): 122–127 (authored/co-authored with Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler)
  • Rebooting Construction, in: Texts about architecture: Swiss-Czech inspirations, Prague: Prague University Press (2015): 122–133 (authored/co-authored with Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler)
  • The Architecture of Vertical Urbanity, in: Stamatina Rassia and Panos Pardolos (eds.): Future City Architecture for Optimal Living. Vienna/New York: Springer, 2015, pp. 1–11
  • Towards a Radical Confrontation between Data and Physis, in: Philip Yuan and Achim Menges (eds.): Robotic Future. Tongji: Tongji University Press, 2015, pp. 20–31
  • Digital Building, in: Cosentina: Design Challenge 9, Cantario, 2015, pp. 46–57.
  • Remote Material Deposition, in: What’s the Matter? Materiality and Materialism at the Age of Computation. Barcelona: ENHSA Publishing (2014): 101–117 (authored/co-authored with Kathrin Dörfler, Luka Piskorec, Sebastian Ernst, Volker Helm, Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler)
  • Broader View: A New Building Culture, in: Architectural Review, Issue 1413, November 2014, London (2014): 26–27
  • Gramazio & Kohler, in: A+U, Issue 531, 12/14, Tokyo, 2014, pp. 30–35
  • Editorial Robotic High Rises, in: FCL Magazine Special Issue – Robotic High Rises, No. 03., Singapore: Future Cities Laboratory, 2014, p. 7 (authored/co-authored with Fabio Gramazio, Matthias Kohler and Michael Budig)
  • A New Physis of Construction, in: Xiaochun, Zhang and Bo Li (eds.): Time + Architecture, Special Issue „The Performance and Representation of Material“. Shanghai, 2014. pp. 20–27
  • The Flight Assembled Architecture Installation: Cooperative Construction with Flying Machines, in: IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Vol. 34, Issue 4 (2014): 46–64 (authored/co-authored with Federico Augugliaro, Sergei Lupashin, Michael Hamer, Cason Male, Markus Hehn, Mark Mueller, Fabio Gramazio, Matthias Kohler and Raffaello D’Andrea)
  • Revisiter l'age artisanal: L'affect et le ratio dans la production architecturale digitale, in: QNDMC, Issue 2, 2014, pp. 40–47 (authored/co-authored with Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler)
  • Designing Behavior: Materialising Architecture with Flying Machines, in: GAM.10, Intuition & the Machine, 2014, pp. 236–247 (authored/co-authored with Ammar Mirjan, Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler)
  • Authoring Robotic Processes, in: Gramazio, Fabio and Matthias Kohler (eds.): Robots – Challenging Architecture at the Larger Scale, Architectural Design (AD), Issue 229, London: John Wiley & Sons, 2014, pp. 14–21 (authored/co-authored with Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler)
  • Urbane Zukunft. Neue Massstäblichkeiten in der zeitgenössischen Architekturproduktion, in: Thomas Bock (ed.): Stadt der Zukunft, Technik in Bayern, Issue 04, 2014, p. 13
  • The Robotic Touch. How Robots Change Architecture. Zurich: Park Books, 2014 (authored/co-authored with Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler)
  • In Situ Robotic Fabrication: Advanced Digital Manufacturing Beyond the Laboratory, in: Florian Röhrbein, Germano Veiga and Ciro Natale (eds.): Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics. Gearing Up and Accelerating Cross – Fertilization between Academic and Industrial Robotics Research in Europe: Technology Transfer Experiments from the ECHORD Project. Heidelberg: Springer (2014): pp. 63–83 (authored/co-authored with Volker Helm, Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler)
  • Towards An Extended Performative Materiality, in: Rivka Oxman and Robert Oxman (eds.): Theories of the Digital in Architecture: A Critical Mapping of Theories, Models and Concepts. London: Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2014, pp. 307–319 (authored/co-authored with Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler)
  • Schalungen digital formen, in: TEC 21, Special Issue Betonexperimente, Issue 35, 2013, pp. 28–35 (authored/co-authored with Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler) 
  • The Vertical Village, in: Fabio Gramazio, Matthias Kohler and Raffaello D’Andrea (eds.): Flight Assembled Architecture. Orléans: Editions HYX, 2013, pp. 13–23 (authored/co-authored with Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler)
  • Digital by Material: Envisioning an Extended Performative Materiality in the Digital Age of Architecture, in: Sigrid Brell-Cokcan and Johannes Braumann (eds.): RobArch – Robotic Fabrication in Architecture, Art, and Design. Vienna/New York: Springer, 2012, pp. 12–27 (authored/co-authored with Silke Langenberg, Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler)
  • Roboterbasiertes Bauen: Architektur und Digitale Fabrikation, in: Deutsche Bauzeitschrift, Special Issue Parametrisches Bauen, Issue 60, 2012, pp. 56–59
  • Aerial Robotic Construction: Towards a New Field of Architectural Research, in: International Journal of Architectural Computing, Issue 10 (2012): 439–460 (authored/co-authored with Federico Augugliaro, Thomas Cadalbert, Raffaello D’Andrea, Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler)
  • Die Operationalität von Daten und Material im Digitalen Zeitalter, in: Sandra Hofmeister and Cornelia Hellstern (eds.): Detail Research Reader, Positions Towards the Future of Building – Methods, Goals, Prospects, Munich: Detail. 2012, pp. 6–19 (authored/co-authored with Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler)
  • El ebanista digital: Hacia la fabricación robotizada, in: Arquitectura Viva Special Issue Más madera, Issue 137, Barcelona, 2011, pp. 28–29
  • Supernatural – Zur Rekonzeptionalisierung des Natürlichen im Digitalen Zeitalter. Dissertation, Innsbruck, 2011
  • Intricate Correlations, in: Intensification of Relations, Obergurgl Research Reader 2010. Institut für Experimentelle Architektur.Hochbau, Online-publication (01.04.2010)
  • Interaktivität. Die Rückkehr des Natürlichen. Innsbruck, Architekturtheorie.eu, 2009, Online-publication (30.03.2009)

Prof. Dr. Jan Willmann

Professor of Design Theory and Design Research