Klaus Klaas Loenhart

Email: studio(at)terrain.at

Website: https://www.terrain.eco/

Biography:

TERRAIN: INTEGRAL DESIGNS

Klaus Klaas Loenhart and his team members are passionate eco-innovators. Klaus as founder of TERRAIN: INTEGRAL DESIGNS, terrain.cloud and professor at ia&l Landlab TU Graz, Austria, generates new insights and techniques in combining transdisciplinary fields of knowledge to envisioning nature-inspired and impact-focused design solutions for reconnecting urban society with our living world.

Klaus considers urban agglomerations to be a living biome. His systemic and passionate mission for
an integral and eco-based societal practice was established during his multidisciplinary studies at the Munich University of Applied Sciences, Munich Academy of Fine Arts and at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Current projects of studio TERRAIN: INTEGRAL DESIGNS envision living systems of people, space and ecosystem performance, that aim for transformative co-creation between ecological agents and human endeavours to inform the fields of human health, biodiversity, and social urban practices in times of changing climates.
As proof of the concept, Klaus and his team.breathe.austria implemented the Austrian Pavilion at the 2015 EXPO World Fair in Milan — a natural/technological hybrid, whose ecological and atmospheric performance takes centre stage — that was awarded the UNESCO City of Design Award – Grand Award.

 

 

KLAUS K. LOENHART
Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Architect
MLA Landscape Architecture Harvard GSD
MDesS History & Theory Harvard GSD 

 

 

 

 

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