Prof. Dr. Sigrid Brell-Cokcan
Cluster Production Engineering, President of the Association for Robots in Architecture
About the Speaker
Prof. Sigrid Brell-Cokcan is the founder and director of the new Chair of Individualized Production (IP) at RWTH Aachen University and is currently the president of the Association for Robots in Architecture (RiA) and on the Board of Directors of euRobotics.
Before launching her own architecture firm II Architects int Istanbul/ Vienna in 2003 she was working with renowned international architects and engineers e.g. Coop Himmelblau, Frank O Gehry, Peter Cook and Bollinger & Grohmann on renowend projects such as Kunsthaus Graz, MARTA Herford, Musée des Confluences Lyon and BMW World Munich. In the last years she has been pioneering the easy use of industrial robots for the creative industry together with Johannes Braumann while participating in international research and industry projects. The Association for Robots in Architecture is a KUKA and Autodesk developing partner and a validated EU research institution under the FP7 program.
In 2018 Sigrid Brell-Cokcan co-founded the cross-faculty Center for Construction Robotics (CCR) on RWTH Aachen Campus to focus on the automation in construction with key industry leaders along the construction industry value chain. A new international master degree in Construction robotics for architecture, computer science, structural and mechanical engineering will start in 2020 to allow the new proliferation of the future digital construction engineers