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Ilmar Hurkxkens is head of the Geographic Design cluster at Boskalis and lecturer at the Section Landscape Architecture, Departement of Urbanism at the Delft University of Technology. His work focuses on the form and processes of natural granular materials using advanced surveying, modelling, and fabrication techniques. After graduating in architecture with an honourable mention from Delft University of Technology, he worked at the Chair of Landscape Architecture of Professor Christophe Girot, ETH Zurich, where he was DesignLab coordinator and member of the Landscape Visualization and Modeling Lab. He received the Young Researcher Award from the Volkswagen Foundation in 2013 and the Digital Culture Work Grant from the Migros Culture Percentage with Ungenau Robotics in 2018. He is co-founder of LANDSKIP, a laboratory centred on the production and deployment of new technologies for landscape transformation. In 2020 he was nominated for the ETH Medal for his dissertation “Robotic Landscapes” at the NCCR Digital Fabrication after which he completed a postdoc at Gramazio Kohler Research. Part of his doctoral research is published in the publication “Robotic Landscapes: Designing the Unfinished” by Park Books in Zurich 2022.

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Waiting for Landscape Architecture—Bridging Design and Continuous Adaptation

December 2024 LECTURE [Upcoming]
Public Lecture Program 
School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University
https://www.architecture.cmu.edu/events/ilmar-hurkxkens-lecture
Circular Robotic Construction
January 2024 BOOK CHAPTER
Lauren Vasey, Petrus Aejmelaeus-Lindström, David Jenny, Ryan Luke Johns, Ilmar Hurkxkens, Coralie Ming, Marco Hutter, Fabio Gramazio, Matthias Kohler
In: A Circular Built Environment in the Digital Age
doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39675-5_9
Circularity Park 
November 2023 PROJECT
Gramazio Kohler Research + Robotic Systems Lab + Chair of Landscape Architecture
Oberglatt, Switzerland
Circularity Park full credits

LA Talks #1

November 2023 TALK
Ilmar Hurkxkens, Janneke van Bergen
Section of Landscape Architecture, TU Delft
https://landscapearchitecturetudelft.nl/la-talks-1-8th-of-november-2023/
A framework for robotic excavation and dry stone construction using on-site materials
November 2023 PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLE
Johns, Ryan Luke, Martin Wermelinger, Ruben Mascaro, Dominic Jud, Ilmar Hurkxkens, Lauren Vasey, Margarita Chli, Fabio Gramazio, Matthias Kohler, and Marco Hutter 
Science Robotics 8, no. 84 
https://doi.org/10.1126/scirobotics.abp9758
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Ilmar Hurkxkens
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