Michael Kleiser_CACE 2018

个人简介
Prof. Michael Kleiser University of Technology, Vienna
简介： Michael Kleiser, born in 1967, received his civil engineering degree from the Technical University of Vienna, Austria in 1994. He was a research fellow at several Universities in Vienna, Aalborg (DK) and San Diego (US) before working at the Consultants Company Schlaich Bergermann und Partner, Stuttgart, and Pauser ZT, Vienna. In 2011, he became a bridge expert at the Austrian Motorway and Expressway Operator, ASFINAG. With ASFINAG he is participant of various internal and external working groups, committees, judging and review panels regarding topics of bridge and infrastructure design as well as aesthetic issues. Michael Kleiser was strongly inspired by working with Jörg Schlaich and Alfred Pauser, who both aimed to combine structural design with appropriate aesthetics. During his career Mr. Kleiser provided the lead design as well as the structural concept of many realised bridge projects like the Seitenhafen bridge and the Erich-Arth footbridge, both situated in Vienna. Michael Kleiser also took part in numerous competitions together with renowned architects all over the world. He first got in contact with the Austrian Highways and Expressways operator ASFINAG in 2008 when he - together with the Architect Dietmar Feichtinger - compiled an ASFING internal guideline for the visual design of bridges. This year Michael Kleiser finished his PhD thesis on recommendations for bridge forms based on structural considerations called “form logic” in analogy to the spanish engineer Eduardo Torroja. Furthermore, Michael Kleiser introduced in his thesis the term of “form dynamics” to challenge engineers to visually improve their bridge designs with stunning correlations to the gestalt psychology. Kleiser keeps pointing out the role of the engineer who inevitably has an influence on the visual appearance, as he is the one who selects the structural system, and thereby decides on the proportions, forms, and dimensions of the respective bridge. The main purpose of the thesis is to encourage engineers to identify new potential for their work: the creative power of “Structural Shaping”. For many years, Michael Kleiser has shared his experience as a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences and the University of Technology in Vienna by teaching infrastructure projects and bridge aesthetics. He is a regular speaker at international conferences.

个人简介

Prof. Michael Kleiser
University of Technology, Vienna

简介：

Michael Kleiser, born in 1967, received his civil engineering degree from the Technical University of Vienna, Austria in 1994. He was a research fellow at several Universities in Vienna, Aalborg (DK) and San Diego (US) before working at the Consultants Company Schlaich Bergermann und Partner, Stuttgart, and Pauser ZT, Vienna. In 2011, he became a bridge expert at the Austrian Motorway and Expressway Operator, ASFINAG. With ASFINAG he is participant of various internal and external working groups, committees, judging and review panels regarding topics of bridge and infrastructure design as well as aesthetic issues. Michael Kleiser was strongly inspired by working with Jörg Schlaich and Alfred Pauser, who both aimed to combine structural design with appropriate aesthetics. During his career Mr. Kleiser provided the lead design as well as the structural concept of many realised bridge projects like the Seitenhafen bridge and the Erich-Arth footbridge, both situated in Vienna. Michael Kleiser also took part in numerous competitions together with renowned architects all over the world. He first got in contact with the Austrian Highways and Expressways operator ASFINAG in 2008 when he - together with the Architect Dietmar Feichtinger - compiled an ASFING internal guideline for the visual design of bridges. This year Michael Kleiser finished his PhD thesis on recommendations for bridge forms based on structural considerations called “form logic” in analogy to the spanish engineer Eduardo Torroja. Furthermore, Michael Kleiser introduced in his thesis the term of “form dynamics” to challenge engineers to visually improve their bridge designs with stunning correlations to the gestalt psychology. Kleiser keeps pointing out the role of the engineer who inevitably has an influence on the visual appearance, as he is the one who selects the structural system, and thereby decides on the proportions, forms, and dimensions of the respective bridge. The main purpose of the thesis is to encourage engineers to identify new potential for their work: the creative power of “Structural Shaping”. For many years, Michael Kleiser has shared his experience as a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences and the University of Technology in Vienna by teaching infrastructure projects and bridge aesthetics. He is a regular speaker at international conferences.