Rate My Professor Hank Hausler

Professor M. Hank Haeusler, holding a Dipl.-Ing. in Architecture from HfT Stuttgart and a PhD from SIAL/RMIT University, is a Professor in the School of Built Environment within the Faculty of Arts, Design & Architecture at the University of New South Wales. His career encompasses founding and directing the Bachelor of Computational Design (CoDe) program at UNSW, serving as Professor at the Visual Art Innovation Institute at Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, and holding a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Technology Sydney. Currently, he directs the ARC Centre for Next-Gen Architectural Manufacturing, a A$9 million federal government-funded research centre transforming the architecture, engineering, and construction sector. He leads as Chief Investigator on a A$6 million CRC-P project developing 3D printing for houses in remote environments using local materials, serves as Deputy Director of the UNSW AI Institute, heads Research, Foresight and Innovation at Giraffe Technology, and is Vice President of the Media Architecture Institute.

Haeusler’s research specializations include computational design, artificial intelligence and machine learning in architecture and urban design, digital fabrication and robotic fabrication, media architecture, virtual reality, augmented reality, Internet of Things, and smart design and cities. Renowned as a researcher, educator, entrepreneur, and designer, he has raised over A$16 million in research funding and authored more than 150 academic publications. Key works include books such as "Interchanging – Future designs for responsive transport environments" (2014), "New Media Facades - A Global Survey" (2012), "Infostructure: A Transport Research Project" (2010), "Chromatophoric Architecture" (2010), and "Media Facades: History, Technology, Content" (2009). His PhD thesis "Spatial Dynamic Media System" received a research prize for excellence in 2008. Haeusler has lectured at institutions including ETH Zurich, The Bartlett UCL, TU Delft, and University of Hong Kong, and established Arch_Manu Büro, an architectural computing and computational design practice serving as a living lab.