Samuel Leder

Samuel Leder is a researcher in the field of computational design and digital fabrication, investigating the codesign of collective robotic construction systems. Samuel is currently completing his doctoral thesis at the Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD) within the Cluster of Excellence Integrative Computational Design and Construction for Architecture (IntCDC) at the University of Stuttgart. He is currently a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Design Tech, part of the Design Tech Innovation Fellowship.

Samuel's work has been published in various academic venues, including Advanced Science, Automation in Construction, ACADIA, and eCAADe, and exhibited at various venues, including ARS Electronica (Linz), Bureau Europa (Maastricht) and HumBase (Stuttgart). Samuel earned a B.Des. in Architecture and a B.A.Sc. in Systems Science and Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis and a M.Sc. in Architecture through the Integrative Technologies and Architectural Design Research (ITECH) program at the University of Stuttgart.
 

Academic Research/Specialty Areas

  • Architectural design
  • Architectural technology
  • Collaborative practice
  • Interdisciplinary art

Samuel Leder specializes in Computational Design, Digital Fabrication, Collective Robotic Construction, and Distributed Robotics.

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Awards, Grants, and Fellowships (Selected)

  • Best Paper Award Runner-Up, Robots in Architecture (ROB|ARCH) Conference 2024, Toronto, Canada (2024).
  • IntCDC Best Publication Award, Cluster of Excellence: Integrative Computational Design and Construction for Architecture (IntCDC), Stuttgart, Germany (2023).
  • Hochschulpreis Holzbau, Sonderpreis Recipient, Holzbau Deutschland — Bund Deutscher Zimmermeister im Zentralverband des Deutschen Baugewerbes (2021).

Exhibitions and Presentations (Selected)

  • Invited Speaker at NXT BLD Conference, London, UK (2022).
  • Digital Tactics, Group exhibition at Experimental Architecture Biennial, Prague, Czech Republic (2019).
  • Digital Dilemma, The Architecture of Trust, Group exhibition at Bureau Europa, Maastricht, Netherlands (2019).
  • European ARTificial Intelligence Lab, Out of the Box, Group exhibition at Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria (2019).

Publications (Selected)

  • Samuel Leder, HyunGyu Kim, Ozgur Salih Oguz, Nicolas Kubail Kalousdian, Valentin Noah Hartmann, Achim Menges, Marc Toussaint, and Metin Sitti. Leveraging Building Material as Part of the In-Plane Robotic Kinematic System for Collective Construction. Advanced Science Vol.9, Issue24 (2022).
  • Samuel Leder, and Achim Menges. Architectural design in collective robotic construction. Automation in Construction (2023).
  • Samuel Leder, and Achim Menges. Merging architectural design and robotic planning using interactive agent-based modeling for collective robotic construction. Journal of Computational Design and Engineering Vol- 11, Issue 2 (2024).

Selected Work

  • Mechanical devices gripping pieces of timber.

    Leveraging Building Material as Part of the In-Plane Robotic Kinematic System for Collective Construction, Samuel Leder, HyunGyu Kim, Ozgur Salih Oguz, Nicolas Kubail Kalousdian, Valentin Noah Hartmann, Achim Menges, Marc Toussaint, Metin Sitti (Advanced Sceince, 2022). photo / provided

  • Various small mechanical devices made of circuits and wires on wheels.

    Roaming Autonomous Distributed robots (RADr), Samuel Leder, Lasath Siriwardena, Phillip Kragl, Achim Menges (2023). photo/ provided

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