Axel Kilian

Visiting Assistant Professor

Axel Kilian is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the MIT Department of Architecture. He previously was an Assistant Professor at Princeton University's School of Architecture and at the Delft University of Technology and a Postdoctoral Associate at the Department of Architecture. He holds a PhD in Design and Computation and a Master of Science in Architectural Studies from the Department of Architecture MIT. He was German-American Fulbright scholarship grantee and holds a professional degree in architecture from the University of the Arts Berlin.

His most recent work in architectural robotics has been exhibited at the Istanbul Design Biennale and the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism. Axel Kilian publications include the book Architectural Geometry, contributions to various books in engineering, architecture and design, and papers in conferences in computation and design. Axel Kilian has lectured worldwide on his current research themes of embodied computation, architectural robotics.

Publications
Kilian, Axel
The Flexing Room Architectural Robot
cadia 2018 - Recalibration on imprecision and infidelity. Universidad Iberoamericana | Mexico City
2018
Wu, Kaicong, Kilian, Axel
Designing Natural Wood Log Structures with Stochastic Assembly and Deep Learning
ROBARCH 2018: Robotic Fabrication in Architecture, Art and Design 2018 . ETH Zurich, Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2018
2018
Kilian, Axel, Sabourin, Francois
Embodied Computation – An Actuated Active Bending Tower using Simulation-Model-Free Sensor Guided Search To Reach Posture Goals
Acadia. 2017
2017
Wu, Kaicong, Kilian, Axel
Developing Architectural Geometry through Robotic Assembly and Material Sensing
Rob|Arch 2016, Springer, 2016
2016
Kilian, Axel
Architectural Perspectives." - chapter in Advancing Wood Architecture - A computational Approach
Routledge
2016