Gisela Baurmann
Adjunct Associate Professor
Biography
Gisela Baurmann practices and teaches architectural design in Europe and the US. She is principal of the architecture office Studio BAUrmann based in New York and Berlin.
Her research investigates fabrication techniques in the fibre arts as conceptual methods of design to generate structural and material proposals with local specificity.
Gisela Baurmann’s design, in collaboration with Jonas Coersmeier and Sawad Brooks, was chosen as finalist and first runner-up in the World Trade Center Memorial Competition, with over 5,200 participants the largest design competition in history.
Other awards include: New York State Council on the Arts Grant, Kinne Fellow Prize and Honor Award for Excellence in Design, Columbia University. Gisela was twice a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Program) and once a Fulbright Scholar. Recognized design competition entries are: Future Center for German Unity and European Transformation, finalist, Lecture Hall Complex, RWTH Aachen, finalist, New Silk Road Cultural Park, China, finalist, World Trade Center Memorial Competition runner-up, Green Plaza van Alen Institute competition, 2nd prize, among others.
She has taught at Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania, Cornell University, Columbia University, RPI, Parsons School of Design, and the Technical University Darmstadt. She lead the Department of Building Design at the Technical University Berlin.
She is a registered Architect in the European Union.
Education
Columbia University, Fulbright Scholarship
Master of Science In Advanced Architectural Design
Architectural Association London, Grant German Academic Exchange Service
Technical University Berlin, Germany
Diplom Ingenieur Degree Architecture and Urban Design
Registered Architect European Union, Architektenkammer Berlin
Publications and Projects
PUBLICATIONS
2025 Arcade Magazine: Materials “Stitch by Stitch”
2013 Cornell Journal of Architecture: Mathematics “Crocheting Algorithms”, with mathematician Daina Taimina
2011 Pidgin 10 “Crocheting Algorithms”
2006 Detail Magazine (English): “7 World Trade Center”
2005 Detail Magazine (English): “The MoMA’s Renovation and Extension”
2004 Bauwelt Magazine: “Dia:Beacon”
1996 Sonambiente Catalogue: “Musik und Baukunst”
1993 Archithese: “Quetsch – Research into Architectural Representation”
1992 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: “Architectural Association”
1990 Bauwelt Magazine: “Architectural Association”
1990 Bauwelt Magazine: “LoPSiA”
1987 Bauwelt: stage set “The Hairy Ape”
EXHIBITIONS
2025 Juliana Curran Terian Gallery, Brooklyn, September
2025 Saline Museum Halle and Bundesamt für Raumordnung, Berlin, June and August
2009 RWTH Aachen, Germany, May
2006 Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, November
2005 Van Alen Institute, New York, November
2004 Goethe Institute, New York, March
2004 Columbia University, New York, January
2003 Winter Garden at World Financial Center, New York, November
2002 Van Alen Institute, New York, June
