Kristina Schinegger
with Stefan Rutzinger
Kristina Schinegger is Professor for Structure and Design and Co-Head of the research group i.sd at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Innsbruck. She is a principal investigator in the Special Research Project Advanced Computational Design and co-project leader of the SFB subproject Computational Immediacy. From 2016 to 2022, she served as Dean of Studies at the Faculty of Architecture and, until 2022, as Scientific Director of the advanced studies program Designing Future Realities at the University of Innsbruck and Werkstätte Wattens.
Prior to her appointment at the University of Innsbruck, Schinegger was a teaching fellow at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL London, where she co-led MArch Unit 15 together with Stefan Rutzinger. She also taught at the Department for Architectural Theory at TU Vienna.
Schinegger is an architect and co-founder of soma architecture. The firm’s work has received numerous prizes in international competitions and has been featured in renowned exhibitions such as the Venice Architecture Biennale (2010), Archilab 2013, and the Tallinn Architecture Biennial (2019). soma has realized international architecture projects, including the Theme Pavilion for EXPO 2012 in South Korea, and has been commissioned to design various installations in art contexts such as the MAK Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna, the Museum Belvedere in Vienna, and the MAK Center in Los Angeles.
Schinegger has received several prizes and awards, including the Recognition Award for Experimental Architecture, the START Award for Architecture, the TISCHE Scholarship from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Arts and Culture, and the MAK Schindler Scholarship. She studied architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Studio Prix) and the Bartlett School of Architecture in London.
EDUCATION
UCL, Bartlett School of Architecture, Architecture
London, United Kingdom
University of Applied Arts, Architecture
Vienna, Austria
JURY
Xenia Kalpaktsoglou
Andrea Lenardin Madden
Gerhard Johann Lischka
Erwin Wurm
Peter Noever
FINAL PROJECT
