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Wolf Hartmut Hilbertz (April 16, 1938August 11, 2007) was a German-born futurist architect. is the 106th day of the year (107th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... is the 223rd day of the year (224th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... For other meanings of this term, see Futurists (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Architect (disambiguation). ...


Youth and schooling

Hilbertz read architecture and landscape architecture at the University of the Arts in Berlin, the University of Michigan and Louisiana State University.


Professional Career

After several years at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana where he conceived and published the concept of Cybertecture[1], he was taken onto the faculty of the School of Architecture at the University of Texas along with several other highly innovative new faculty by then Dean Alan Y. Taniguchi (1969-1972). For other Southern University campuses, see Southern University System. ... Capitol Building Baton Rouge is the capital of Louisiana, a state of the United States of America. ... This article is about the U.S. State. ... The University of Texas System comprises fifteen educational institutions in Texas, of which nine are general academic universities, and six are health institutions. ...


At the University of Texas he founded the Responsive Environments Laboratory where he and his students developed and extended his original thinking about the automated creation of the built environment. Within a very few years he was tenured as a full professor for his highly innovative work


After several years the focus of the lab shifted to the construction of underwater structures by a method not unlike that used by living corals.[2] The material produced has since become commonly known as seacrete. Seacrete, also known as Seament and Sea Cement, is a substance formed by electro-accumulation of minerals dissolved in seawater. ...


Hilbertz' work was influenced by and influenced the work of such notables as Nicholas Negroponte. Nicholas Negroponte Nicholas Negroponte (born 1943) is an architect and computer scientist best known as the founder and Chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technologys Media Lab. ...


References

  1. ^ Hilbertz, W. H, "Toward Cybertecture",Progressive Architecture, May 1970
  2. ^ Hilbertz, W. H, et al, "Electrodeposition of Minerals in Sea Water: Experiments and Applications", IEEE, Journal of Oceanic Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 94-113, July 1979

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Wolf Hilbertz - Sea-cretion (753 words)
Wolf Hilbertz, German architect and inventor is the father of sea-cretion, the electrolytic deposition of sea-shell-like minerals from seawater that creates a construction material.
Hilbertz developed the sea-cretion method while an associate professor of architecture at the University of Texas and later at McGill University in Montreal.
Wolf H. Hilbertz is the subject of an extensive article titled "Ocean-Grown Homes" in the September 1997 issue of Popular Mechanics.
Wolf Hilbertz – Contact (316 words)
Hilbertz studied architecture at the University of the Arts in Berlin,at the University of Michigan, and landscape architecture at Louisiana State University.
Hilbertz formed and directed The Marine Resources Co., is a co-founder and Director of Biorock Inc., Vice President of Research of the Global Coral Reef Alliance, and founder and President of Sun and Sea e.V., a no profit NGO.
Hilbertz laid down the foundation for the discipline of Cybertecture, emergent all-encompassing evolutionary environmental systems, and invented/developed the mineral accretion process in seawater.
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