Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Wolfgang E. Lorenz

Wolfgang E. Lorenz is a researcher and lecturer at the Vienna University of Technology. His main research focuses on the application of digital media in architecture and spatial planning, especially on the examination and elaboration of applying fractal geometry to architecture. Other research fields concern simulation, process visualization, generative design, software engineering, algorithms, and programming languages. In the past 7 years, he has collaborated on projects regarding data analysis and software development. He published several research papers, articles, and books on students’ design work and excursions. In 2014, he obtained a doctoral degree in architecture for his thesis on Analysis of Fractal Architecture using the Box-Counting Method.

  • Since 2014 he has been supporting eCAADe (2014 Newcastle/UK, 2015 International Vienna/Austria, 2016 Oulu/Finland and 2017 Rome/ Scientific Italy), CAADRIA (2017 Suzhou/China), ARENA (2017 Meetings Brussels/Belgium) and CA2RE (2017 Ljubljana/Slovenia) through management of the web-based ProceeDings paper editor used for producing conference proceedings. In 2015 he was part of the organisation team of the eCAADe 2015 Conference in Vienna, Austria, together with Bob Martens, Thomas Grasl, Gabriel Wurzer and Richard Schaffranek.
  • Since 2009 he is reviewer for selected conferences: eCAADe, International Conference for Education and research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe; CAADence in Architecture; Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design (SimAUD); I-WISH (Innovative Methods in Healthcare, as part of I3M Multiconference).
  • Since 1999 he holds a business licences as an "Advertising Graphics-Designer" and since 2006 one in "Services of automatic data processing and information technology".

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Note: Concerning the described codes (written in VBA, NetLogo, Three.js, Processing and Python), the author is not focused on good coding style. They are only used for scientific and teaching purposes (developed in a step by step process).

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eCAADe 2025:
Artificially Interactive Individualized Genetic Algorithms (AIIGA) for Gestalt Analysis

Evolutionary algorithms enhanced with sAI in architectural design
Talk and Proceeding: eCAADe 2025 – Confluence (Ankara, Turkey | conference)

This research is concerned with the automation of the user interventional aspect within interactive genetic algorithms (IGA) as already explored in previous publications by the authors considering their use for Gestalt analyses and generative design optimization. ...

Interview with Wolfgang E. Lorenz

in: DAP / Re:Search_2020.2025
S. 244 - 257, Research Department for Digital Architecture and Planning, TU Wien (Publisher)

Interview with Wolfgang E. Lorenz on research, teaching, and practice, especially over the last 5 years

DGC, Lissabon 2025

4th Digital Geographies Conference 2025

Artificial geographies: opening the black box for a new wave of critical thinking.
Predicting Material Composition of Walls and Floors using Machine Learning...

AlgoPlana 2025

Proceedings of the ALGOPLANA Conference 2025

Research-driven education (“Forschungsgeleitete Lehre“) is common throughout TU Wien, be it in the form of seminars, labs or lectures. ...

Entwerfen How to be Posh 2.0

Algorithmic design of a Flagship Store

After successful completion of the course, students are able to understand the design process as a problem that can be split into solvable sub-problems. Furthermore, they are able to develop a solution strategy with the help of algorithms. The students acquire

Der Kirchenneubau als Ausdruck religiöser Symbolik zwischen Tradition und Moderne

in: 90 Jahre Pfarre Maria Lourdes (Festzeitschrift)
S. 13 - 16, Pfarrgemeinde Maria Lourdes (Hrsg.)

Die Maria Lourdes Kirche steht in der Tradition sakraler Gebäude, interpretiert deren Elemente aber neu. Dadurch erscheint sie als ein Bauwerk seiner Zeit. Sie zeigt neben modernen Umsetzungen von Symbolen, wie der sinnbildhaften Darstellung eines Kirchenjahrs mittels liturgischer Farben,. ...