Stefan Rutzinger
with Kristina Schinegger
Stefan Rutzinger is Professor for Structure and Design and Head of i.sd at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Innsbruck. Since 2023, he has also served as Head of the Department of Design. He is a principal investigator in the Special Research Project Advanced Computational Design and co-project leader of the SFB subproject Computational Immediacy.
Prior to his appointment at the University of Innsbruck, Rutzinger was an interim professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and a guest professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He has also taught at TU Vienna and at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL London, where he co-led MArch Unit 15 together with Kristina Schinegger.
Rutzinger is an architect, civil engineer, and member of the Austrian Chamber of Architects. He is co-founder of soma architecture, an office that has received numerous prizes in international competitions and has been featured in renowned exhibitions such as the Venice Architecture Biennale (2010), Archilab 2013 Naturalising Architecture, and the Tallinn Architecture Biennial (2019). soma has realized international architecture projects including the Theme Pavilion for the EXPO 2012 in South Korea, and has produced various design installations for art institutions such as the MAK Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna, the Museum Belvedere in Vienna, and the MAK Center in Los Angeles.
Rutzinger has received several prizes and awards, including the Recognition Award for Experimental Architecture, the TISCHE Grant from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Arts and Culture, and the MAK Schindler Scholarship. He studied architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Studio Prix) and at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London.
EDUCATION
UCL, Bartlett School of Architecture
London, United Kingdom
University of Applied Arts, Architecture
Vienna, Austria
Technical University of Innsbruck, Architecture
Innsbruck, Austria
JURY
Xenia Kalpaktsoglou
Andrea Lenardin Madden
Gerhard Johann Lischka
Erwin Wurm
Peter Noever
FINAL PROJECT
