Prof. Aaron Sprecher

Professor Aaron Sprecher is a distinguished scholar in the field of computational architecture and serves as a faculty member at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology’s Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning. He is the co-director of the Material Topology Research Laboratory (www.mtrl.tech) within the Faculty of Architecture, and academic head of the Technion Advanced Construction Center. In addition to his academic endeavors, he is a co-founder and partner at Open Source Architecture, an internationally recognized research practice that fosters interdisciplinary collaboration among scholars and practitioners in design, architecture, engineering, and media studies. Prior to his current position, Professor Sprecher held academic appointments at Syracuse University School of Architecture (2005–2008) and subsequently at McGill University School of Architecture (2008–2016), where he established the Laboratory for Integrated Prototyping and Hybrid Environments (McGill LIPHE). His tenure at McGill was marked by significant research achievements, including securing multiple competitive grants, such as the Canada Foundation for Innovation grant and two awards from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). More recently, his contributions to architectural research and education have been recognized with prestigious international accolades, including the Design Educate Award and the Hersh-Rich Award for Innovation, as well as major research funding, such as the 2024 European Innovation Council grant. Professor Sprecher’s research explores the intersection of information technologies, computational methodologies, and digital fabrication systems, with a particular focus on how technological advancements inform and generate novel design paradigms. His academic contributions extend beyond research publications and exhibitions, as he has also delivered lectures at globally renowned institutions, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard University, the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), and Rice University. His curatorial and editorial work includes The Gen(H)ome Project (MAK Center, Los Angeles, 2006) and Evolutive Means (Pratt Institute, New York, 2010). As the conference co-chair of ACADIA 2010, he co-edited seminal publications such as LIFE in:formation: On Responsive Information and Variations in Architecture (2010, New York: ACADIA), Architecture in Formation—On the Nature of Information in Digital Architecture (2013, London: Routledge/Taylor and Francis), and Instabilities and Potentialities (2019, London: Routledge/Taylor and Francis). Professor Sprecher’s pioneering prototypes and computational platforms are included in the permanent collection of the Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain (FRAC) in Orléans, France, one of the world’s leading architecture collections. In addition to his research and curatorial engagements, he has served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Architectural Education (JAE) and currently holds advisory roles, including membership on the Advisory Board of the Confluence Institute (France) and the Board of Directors of the Society for Arts and Technology (SAT) in Montreal.