Silke Langenberg

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About

Silke Langenberg is a leading scholar at the intersection of architectural history, digital fabrication, and construction automation. Her research critically examines how industrialisation and robotic processes are reshaping the building industry, bridging the gap between historical construction methods and cutting-edge digital technologies. Langenberg’s most influential work, “Complex concrete structures” (2014), has garnered 294 citations, establishing her as a key voice in advancing non-standard, material-efficient concrete construction. She is also recognized for her contributions to large-scale robotic fabrication, notably through her collaboration with the Future Cities Laboratory at ETH Zurich, where she explored robotic processes for high-rise construction in Singapore. Her co-authored study “Changing Building Sites: Industrialisation and Automation of the Building Process” (2014) contextualises the current robotics revolution within the longer history of building site mechanisation, tracing its roots to the Industrial Revolution. Through her research at the University of Applied Sciences, Munich, Langenberg continues to shape how architects and engineers understand the evolving relationship between human labour, automation, and architectural design.