Biodegradable 3d-Printing (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789819540242)

Dr. Christoph Klemmt is Associate Professor at the Department of Design, Art, Architecture and Planning at the University of Cincinnati. He set up and runs the Architectural Robotics Lab that investigates novel and sustainable technologies in architectural computation and fabrication. Christoph Klemmt graduated from the Architectural Association in London and received his doctoral degree from the University of Applied Arts Vienna. He has worked among others for Zaha Hadid Architects, where his responsibilities focused on the company's projects Soho Galaxy, Wangjing Soho and Leeza Soho in China. Christoph Klemmt co-founded Orproject, an architect's office specializing in advanced geometries with an ecologic agenda. Orproject has exhibited at the Palais De Tokyo in Paris, the China National Museum in Beijing and the Biennale in Venice. The work of Orproject has been featured world-wide in magazines and books, and the practice has won several international awards.

Dr. Gregory Beaucage is Professor of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Cincinnati. He has published extensively in polymers and materials science with 189 publications and 6,900 citations. He has collaborated with Christoph Klemmt on the development of new materials for 3D printing of wood for the past four years. Beaucage holds a Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in Polymer Science and Engineering and was a post doc at Sandia National Laboratories before joining the faculty at the University of Cincinnati. He was a Fulbright Global Scholar at Sheffield University in the UK and at several Universities in Ethiopia, South Africa, and Lesotho. He has been Visiting Professor at University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, University of Sheffield, University of Cape Town, ETHZ in Zürich.