Michael Weinstock RIBA

Director Research and Development

Director, Emergent Technologies and Design

Michael Weinstock is an Architect. Born in Germany, lived as a child in the Far East and then West Africa, attended an English public school. Ran away to sea at age 17 after reading Conrad. Years at sea in traditional sailing ships, with shipyard and shipbuilding experience. Studied Architecture at the Architectural Association and has taught at the AA School of Architecture since 1989. Founder and Director of Emergent Technologies Masters Programme.

Research Interests

Michael Weinstock’s research interest lies in exploring the convergence of Biomimetic Engineering, Architecture, Emergence and Material Sciences and has published widely on these topics since 1989. The potential of the convergence for the materialisation of intelligent materials, structures, and ultimately, the organisation of Cities, provides the motivation and suggests the long-term goal. Acadia Award for Excellence 2008.

Lectures and Educational collaborations have included

Keynote lecture/paper – 2009 International Symposium ‘From Insect Nests to Human Architecture’, European Centre for Living Technology, Venice

Keynote lecture/paper– Acadia 2008 ‘Silicon and Skin’, Minneapolis

-International Advisor and Board Member, Technical University of Delft, Doctoral Research programme.

-lecturer at Yale University,

-Visiting Professor at Universite Romatre, Rome,

-Visiting Professor to the Genetic Architecture research programme at ESARQ, Barcelona, Director of ‘Taller Vertical’

- and collaborations with Prof. George Jeronimides and the Center of Biomimetics at the University of Reading, Wolf Mangelsdorf and Buro Happold, and with Achim Menges at the Institute of Computational Design, Stuttgart University.

In press

‘THE ARCHITECTURE OF EMERGENCE - the Evolution of Form in Nature and Civilisation

WILEY ACADEMY, Michael Weinstock, London, (2010)

‘EMERGENT TECHNOLOGIES AND DESIGN - Towards a Biological Paradigm for Architecture’, Hensel, Menges and Weinstock, ROUTLEDGE, London, (2010)