Thomas Spiegelhalter

Thomas Spiegelhalter, PhD, is a German-US architect, engineer and urban planner. He has performed design and built research in Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa, and the U.S. on numerous solar, carbon-neutral, zero-fossil-energy, and passive architectural projects; large-scale master planning and post-industrial infrastructures, landscapes, and engineered suspension bridges. As a result of his 35 years of awarded designs and built work, consulting, research, and teaching, Spiegelhalter has received 57 prizes, awards, and honours in competitions individually and in collaboration with engineers and landscape architects. His research work as a Professor involves geospatial and climatic data repositories with AI-ML-data-driven generative design workflows, mostly BIM-Dynamo-Grasshopper coding with biomimetics. Spiegelhalter has participated twice at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2021 and 2023, taught at several universities in Europe, the Americas and Asia, and held visiting professor positions at institutions worldwide. He was the Global Visiting Professor at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan, from May 2023 to May 2024.