Asst. Prof. Mitterberger is an architect and researcher working at the intersection of new media, human interaction, digital fabrication, and emerging technologies.
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Prof. Dr. Daniela Mitterberger
She received her doctorate (Dr. sc.) from ETH Zurich in 2023 with a dissertation titled “Adaptive Digital Fabrication and Human–Machine Collaboration for Architecture,” and was nominated for the ETH Medal. From 2023 to 2024, she worked as a Senior Scientist at ETH Zurich within the Design++ initiative, where she co-led the Immersive Design Lab, a platform for research and teaching at the intersection of extended reality and machine learning in architecture and construction. Before joining ETH Zurich, she was an Assistant Professor at Princeton University and led the XAIA Lab from 2024 to 2026.
Mitterberger has taught and lectured internationally in graduate and postgraduate programs, including at MSD (Melbourne), UniSA (Adelaide), the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, the University of Innsbruck, ETH Zurich, Tongji University (Shanghai), and IACC (Barcelona).
Parallel to her academic career, Daniela Mitterberger also explores the boundaries between science and art with her multidisciplinary architecture office “MAEID [Büro für Architektur und Transmediale Kunst]”, which she co-founded in 2015. MAEID’s work interweaves computation, living systems and machines and challenges the relationship between humans, space and performativity. MAEID’s work has been awarded numerous international prizes and exhibited in renowned galleries, institutions and events, including the Milan Triennale 2025, Venice Biennale 2021, Princess of Asturias Awards 2021, Seoul Biennale 2020, Ars Electronica Linz, MAK Vienna, Melbourne Triennial, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and HdA Graz.
- Cooperative Augmented Assembly (CAA): Augmented Reality for On-Site Cooperative Robotic Fabrication, in Constr. Robotics (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41693-024-00138-6 Vasiliki, E., Kenny, J., Atanasova, L., Doerfler, K., Casas, G., Mitterberger, D. [journal article]
- Rethinking Digital Construction: A Collaborative Future of Humans, Machines and Craft, in Architectural Design (2024). https://doi.org/10.1002/ad.3103, Mitterberger, D. and Doerfler, K. [article]
- Diss. ETH No. 29197: Augmented Human & Extended Machine: Adaptive Digital Fabrication and Human-machine Collaboration for Architecture (2023). Mitterberger, D. [dissertation]
- Ecologia come testo, testo come ecologia, Timothy Morton, a cura di Francesco D’Abbraccio e Andrea Facchetti. Mitterberger, D., and Derme, T. [foreword]
- Sylva: An Autonomous Hydroponic Garden Cared for by Two Robots, in ACADIA - Habits of the Anthropocene (2023). Derme, T. and Mitterberger, D. [conference proceedings]
- Robotic on-site adaptive thin-layer printing: Challenges and workflow for design and fabrication of bespoke cementitious plasterwork at full architectural scale, in Archit. Struct. Constr. 3, 145- 156 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s44150-022-00062-9, Ercan Jenny, S., Mitterberger, D., Lloret- Fritschi, E. et al. [journal article]
- Tie a knot: human–robot cooperative workflow for assembling wooden structures using rope joints, in Constr. Robotics 6, 277–292 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41693-022-00083-2, Mitterberger, D., Atanasova, L., Dörfler, K., Gramazio, F. and Kohler M. [journal article]
- Degrees of Life: Human-Bacteria Interaction in Architectural Space, [winner: best project] in ACADIA - Hybrids & Haecceities (2022). Mitterberger, D. and Derme, T. [conference proceedings]
- Augmented human, extended machine: extended reality systems for robotic fabrication in architecture, engineering, and construction, in ACM XRDS (2022). https://doi. org/10.1145/3558196, Mitterberger, D. [article]
- Interactive Robotic Plastering: Augmented Interactive Design and Fabrication for On-site Robotic Plastering, [Honorable mention] in CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 174. https:// doi.org/10.1145/3491102.35018, Mitterberger, D., Ercan Jenny, S., Vasey, L., et al. [conference proceedings]
- Extended Reality Collaboration: Virtual and mixed reality system for collaborative design and holographic-assisted on-site fabrication, in Design Modeling Symbosium 2022. https://doi. org/10.1007/978-3-031-13249-0_24, Mitterberger, D., Angelaki, E., Salveridou, F., et al. [conference proceedings]
- The Synchronous Garden (SynG) New Perspectives between Architecture and Ecology in Nonlinear Urbanism: Towards Multiple Urban Futures, Birkhäuser, 2022. https://doi. org/10.1515/9783035624410-004, Mitterberger, D., and Derme, T. [article]
- Mikroorganismen im Spannungsfeld von Wissenschaft und Kunst–Ein Potpourri, in Ökologische Krisen und Ökologien der Kritik, 253 - 261 (2022). edited by Beinsteiner, A., Grünberger, N., Hug, T., Kapelari, S. Ascher-Jenull, J., Imhof, B., Mitterberger, D., et al. [article]
- Co-Corporeality of Humans, Machines, & Microbes. Birkhäuser (2022). https://doi. org/10.1515/9783035625882, Imhof, B., Mitterberger, D. and Derme, T. [book] CHRONOTOPE: Digital Craft and Embodiment in Architecture, in INFLECTION: Journal of the Melbourne School of Design, Volume 08, Edited by Michaela Prunotto, Kate Donaldson, and Manning McBride. Mitterberger, D. [article] Prototype as Artefact: Design Tool for Open-ended Collaborative Assembly Processes, In Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA). Atanasova, L., Mitterberger, D., Sandy, T., et al. [conference proceedings]
- Augmented bricklaying: Human–machine interaction for in situ assembly of complex brickwork using object-aware augmented reality Construction Robotics 4, no. 3–4, pp. 151–161, Mitterberger, D., Dörfler, K., Sandy, T., et al. [journal article]
- Is Body Architecture? article in ADATO Magazine, Point Nemo Publishing, edited by Anna Valentiny. Mitterberger, D. [article] There has never been a Patient-0, In Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA), Volume 2. Mitterberger, D., Derme, T., Vivaldi, J. and Vaillo, G. [conference proceedings]
- The Bat That Therefore I am – Exploring The Eye of the Other, by Rob La Frenais in conversation with Mitterberger, D. and Derme, T. [article]
- Digital soil: Robotically 3D-printed granular bio-composites. International Journal of Architectural Computing 18, no. 2. Mitterberger, D., and Derme, T. [journal article] Soil 3D - Printing : Combining Robotic Binder-Jetting Processes with Organic Composites For Biodegradable Soil Structures. [Honorable mention] in Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA). Mitterberger, D. and Derme, T. [conference proceedings]