Sven Pfeiffer

Professor, Bochum University of Applied Sciences / Owner, Studio Sven Pfeiffer

Berlin, Berlin, Germany

About

Sven Pfeiffer is a Berlin-based architect, educator, and researcher, focusing on the investigation of emergent design methods, materials and fabrication processes and their application to projects in Art, Architecture, and Urban Design. He studied Architecture in Hamburg, Miami, and graduated from Städelschule Frankfurt's class for conceptual design. Sven has collaborated internationally with architects and artists and founded studiosvenpfeiffer, working on projects of various scales from artworks to urban design, in 2010. Sven has lectured and taught at several European universities, such as the TU Berlin, UdK Berlin, KTH Stockholm, and the Architectural Association, London. From 2010 to 2014 he was head of the Department for Digital Design and Construction at the msa | münster school of architecture. From 2015 to 2017 he was head of the Department for Digital Architectural Production at the TU Berlin and a guest professor at the Department for Digital and Experimental Design at the UdK Berlin from 2017 to 2020. Since 2020 he has been a professor of Digital Design, Planning, and Building at the Hochschule Bochum. He was awarded Carl-Duisberg and Fulbright Scholarships and was a resident scholar at the Goethe Institute Kyoto in 2014. Sven Pfeiffer has published extensively on the subject of digital design methodologies and fabrication strategies. He is a co-author of the publications “Wind and City – Climate as an Architectural Instrument”, published in May 2014 at DOM Publishers, and "Rethinking Wood – Future Dimensions of Timber Assembly", published in 2019 at Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel.

Experience

  • Professor at Hochschule Bochum - Bochum University of Applied Sciences
    Sep 2020 - Present · 5 yrs 10 mos

  • Founder at Studio Sven Pfeiffer
    2010 - Present · 16 yrs 6 mos

    Architecture + Art Projects, Planning Services, Consultancy

  • Interim Professor at Universität der Künste Berlin
    Mar 2018 - Sep 2020 · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • Guest Professor at Technische Universität Berlin
    Apr 2015 - Sep 2017 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Interim Professor, Digital Design and Construction at MSA | Muenster School of Architecture
    Oct 2010 - Sep 2014 · 4 yrs