16 – 18 June 2025
Hexagon Live 2025
Our Founder, Bettina Zerza, will be attending Hexagon LIVE, June 16-18, 2025 in Las Vegas to experience the latest innovation in AI, digital twins, and robotics.
18 June 2025
Designing the future: Human-centered innovation in an AI-driven world
Hear about industry insights at an exclusive keynote panel with our founder, Bettina Zerza, Tom Soderstrom (AWS Enterprise Strategist), Spencer Huang (Product Line Manager, Robotics NVIDIA), Tyler Mincey (Co-Founder and General Partner, Baukunst), and Burkhard Boeckem (Chief Technology Officer, Hexagon) on June 18.
1 October 2024 – 5 April, 2025
Built by New York
Built by New York celebrates the work of architects, designers, and affiliated professionals in the New York City design community. Past, current, and future work from members of AIA New York, AIA Brooklyn, AIA Bronx, AIA Staten Island, and AIA Queens will take over three floors of the Center for Architecture galleries, providing a snapshot of our community’s impact on the city and the built environment at large.
23-25 September 2024
Climate Week NYC
We are thrilled to participate in Climate Week NYC, emphasizing the vital role of cities as drivers of economic growth and innovation within the global climate agenda. Let’s make a positive impact together!
4 October 2022
Smart Buildings and Bustling Streets: A New Perspective on Work, Live, Play
From intelligent places and digitally augmented offices, and reimagined public spaces – hear from three different perspectives on the key data points, design requirements, and activation elements that will meet the reframed expectations of the new urban worker (and dweller).
Speakers include William Ruh, CEO Lendlease Digital; Brooks Rainwater, Director National League of Cities; and Bettina Zerza.
23-24 June 2022
TOMORROW’S CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY IS GREEN
Betttina Zerza is invited to give a keynote at Europe’s first conference and exhibition for more sustainability in the construction industry!
BIGG CHANGE will take place on June 23rd and 24th under the umbrella of and in partnership with the GREENTECH Festival and the DGNB – at the former Berlin Tegel Airport.
3 March 2022
NEW YORK BUILD
Bettina Zerza will be speaking at New York Build (March 2-3, Javits Center)
Join her panel discussion Pushing Boundaries in Urban Architecture and Design. #NewYorkBuild
1-4 July 2021
MOSCOW URBAN FORUM
SUPERSTAR CITIES.
TRANSFORMING FOR SUCCESS.
Moscow Urban Forum is the largest international Congress on the development challenges of global megacities. What will the future of Superstar Cities be? What are the main challenges for big data in urban design?
Architect Bettina Zerza is joining Ivan Begtin, Eduard Lysenko, Caroline Nevejan and Rohit Aggarwala for the panel Adaptive City. How Can Cities Stay Receptive to Changes?
29 April 2021
How Artificial Intelligence Will Shape Design by 2050
Architect Bettina Zerza has explored how data and intelligent systems will dramatically shape our cities. She gives the example of micro sensors and urban technology that will record air quality, noise pollution and soundscapes, as well as urban infrastructure at large.
20 November 2020
The City of the Future:
The Urban (Un) Seen
Connecting Citizens and Spaces via Community Sensing
This scientific paper examines the connections between data, infrastructure, and the public realm. Mobile sensors, referred to as “urban tech,” allow cars, buses, bicycles, and citizens to collect data about air quality, noise pollution, and the urban environment at large.
01 June 2021
Slanted Magazine AI
Artificial intelligence can lead to autonomous buildings that help tackle climate change and contribute to a sustainable and resilient future. These technologies go beyond automation and toward autonomy. Artificial intelligence will drive our cars and it will also do so much more: capture reality, accurately construct buildings and infrastructure, and learn from the data collected by sensors.
2-4 November 2020
WORLD SUSTAINABLE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
ONLINE CONFERENCE BEYOND 2020
BEYOND 2020 is one of the most prestigious conferences in the built environment and is part of a Sustainable Built Environment (SBE) conference series hosted by four organisations: iiSBE, CIB, UN Environment , FIDIC.
03 November 2020
DIGITALISATION AND TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION FOR A SUSTAINABLE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
For the built environment to become socio-economically effective and sustainable in line with the sustainable development goals (SDGs) digitalization and innovative technologies can help to facilitate the planning, design, building and the management of the built environment. Architect Bettina Zerza is addressing digitalization, construction decarbonization and building efficiency; BIM, digital twins, blockchain and smart building districts and cities.
02 June 2020
Visions for the next UABB: Urban + __ ?
From “City, Open Door!” to “Urban Interactions”, UABB has been running in Shenzhen for 15 years. Exhibitions end, but the discussion about “the future” never stops. What will the next UABB be like? Let’s take a look at some aspirations and expectations.
03 April 2020
Cultural Institutions, Ecology and Urbanism
Bettina Zerza is joining experts in business, art and architecture at the Karajan Music Tech Conference 2020: The Human Side of Technology. How will our lives change intellectually, physically and emotionally as the Internet of Things migrates into our urban environments. Especially in the context of a world beyond a pandemic – what will the future bring besides social distancing and self-isolation?
03 March 2020
The Climate Change Emergency –
Is Sustainable Design Now A Given?
Bettina Zerza is joining Theodore Liebman, Perkins Eastman; Kavyashri Cherala, Robert A.M. Stern Architects; Kerry Nolan, Beyer Blinder Belle Architects and Antoine AbiDargham, AECOM for a panel discussion at the New York Build Expo 2020. Jennifer Urrutia, JMR Construction Management moderated the talk focusing on NYC’s Green New Deal – Towards a Zero-Carbon Econmy and how we can future proof buildings combining industry expertise and emergent technologies.
January 2020
Eyes of the City exhibition catalogue
The Urban (Un)Seen is featured in the Eyes of the City exhibition catalogue published by the curatorial team Carlo Ratti, Michele Bonino and Sun Yimin.
22 December 2019
Urban Interactions
The Eyes of the City exhibition is curated by MIT professor Carlo Ratti (Chief Curator), Politecnico di Torino and SCUT (Academic Curators) and includes installations by Dominique Perrault Architecture, Thomas Heatherwick, Liu Jian, Antoine Picon, Terreform ONE, XKool, Long Ying, J. Meejin Yoon, Liam Young, Philip F. Yuan and Zhang Li.
21 December 2019
Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture in Shenzhen/ Hongkong
What happens when the sensor-imbued city acquires the ability to see – almost as if it had eyes? The exhibition premises are in the newly inaugurated Futian high-speed railway station in Shenzhen, connecting Mainland China and Hong Kong in less than 15 minutes. The topics are as diverse as Shenzhen’s transformation dynamics and collective memory, the transformations to urban infrastructure brought about by autonomous mobility, the increasing convergence between the natural and the artificial, and the ways in which A.I. might both support or disrupt design and construction processes.
13 November 2019
The Irwin S Chanin School of Architecture Archive of the Cooper Union
An archive of student design projects dating from the 1930’s through the present. This material documents over 4,000 student projects spanning more than eight decades of architectural pedagogy at the Cooper Union. As a whole, these records provide a comprehensive narrative of the School’s evolving and influential approach to architectural education. Bettina Zerza’s Piranesi Project, Design IV, Faculty Peter Eisenman and Guido Zuliani is featured in the online student work collection.
3 October 2019
The Urbanist: Monocle Podcast
Interview with Bettina Zerza. The episode is looking deeper into a few great projects of this year’s reSITE conference. Exploring the theme of regeneration, it features conversations and contemplations from some of the most interesting names in the urban-planning world.
24 September 2019
Resident Alien: Austrian Architects in America
Bettina Zerza is represented in the exhibition Resident Alien: Austrian Architects in America, at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York. The exhibition highlights the significant impact of Austrian-American architects on modern, postmodern, deconstructivist, digital, and post-digital design culture over the past century.
19 September 2019
reSITE 2019: REGENERATE
Bettina Zerza is speaking at reSITE 2019 REGENERATE in Prague alongside design leaders Thomas Heatherwick, MAD Architects, and UNStudio. In total, 50 globally renowned speakers from four continents will bring inspiration from cities around the world to reSITE’s flagship global forum and at the center of an audience of innovators, architects, planners, investors, and cultural, municipal, and real estate leaders.
19 September 2019
Gardens in the Machine
Bettina Zerza is participating in the “Gardens in the Machine” panel discussion at reSITE 2019, which will explore how future cities can grow and regenerate with nature. Moderated by Solene Wolff (PLANE ̶ SITE) and with Chris Precht (Precht), Stanislav Chvala (Nano Energies) and Ilias Papageorgiou (PILA).
19 March 2019
Future Workplace Summit
Bettina Zerza reflects on the digital future of work and if humans and robots can co-exist. How far can intelligent automation go?
29 July 2019
NEW DESIGN SOLUTIONS FOR POLYESTER FIBERGLASS WASTE
ZERZA is developing new design solutions for the upscaling of polyester fiberglass waste. With designaustria participation in FiberEUse, a research project for circular economy value-chains based on the reuse of end-of-life fiber reinforced composites.
10 January 2019
GLEBANITE
Rivierasca and ZERZA are developing new design solutions for Glebanite, a new material made of recycled polyester fiberglass waste. Circular Design.
October 2018
Bettina Zerza Interview
HOME MAGAZINE
May 2017
#tdzg Zagreb Design Week
EXHIBITION CATALOGUE
April 2017
Austrian Cultural Forum NYC
DER STANDARD
November 2016
Skopje Design Week
EXHIBITION CATALOGUE
01 April 2015
My Favourite Project
CIRCE MAGAZINE
May 2014
Ausstellung: Architektinnen in Salzburg – eine Spurensuche
ARCHITEKTUR AKTUELL
October 2013
Architektinnen in Salzburg – eine Spurensuche
ARCHITEKTUR AKTUELL
06 March 2012
ANGEWANDTE_NEU
Ausstellung zur Erweiterung und Sanierung der Universität für angewandte KunstWien im MAK
January 2012
The Unfinished Grid: Design Speculations for Manhattan
THE ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE NY AND THE MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
October 2011
By the City / For the City: An Atlas of Possibility for the Future of New York
INSTITUTE FOR URBAN DESIGN
May 2010
Bettina Zerza Interview
25 MAGAZINE
02 November 2009
That’s Italian
THE NEW YORKER