Hi // Salut // Hej
Welcome to my portfolio! I'm a designer and researcher investigating the relationships between emerging technologies and creative practices and their place in broader cultural contexts. I focus on computational design, digital fabrication, AI, and bio-technologies. I have a background in architecture and worked as an urban planner, architect, and computational designer in Romania and Denmark. Currently, I serve as an assistant professor at the Computational Media and Arts thrust at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, where I lead the Art, Technology, Architecture (@A) group conducting research in two directions: AI applications for architecture (both from an architectural computing and from an architectural humanities perspective) and digitally fabricating with natural materials for architectural / design applications.
I'm recruiting research assistants and PhD candidates, and post-docs to join Art, Technology, Architecture (@A), who are interested in working on these two directions and who have the following backgrounds:
• architecture or design with an interest and skills in computational design and/or digital fabrication
• architecture or design with prior work experience in architectural/design practice
• mechanical engineering or mechatronics with an interest in art, design and/or architecture
• computer science with an interest in 3D graphics
• material science or structural engineering with an interest in art, design and/or architecture
• biology, bio-technology, or agricultural sciences with an interest in art, design and/or architecture
get in touch if interested! [ancah@ikp.aau.dk or ancahorvath@hkust-gz.edu.cn]
I've designed products, buildings and urban areas. My work is in use across Europe and has been exhibited internationally in Romania, Italy, Denmark, and Spain. I publish academic research across architecture, media art, and human-computer interaction.
Previously, I was a post-doctoral researcher and then an assistant professor in the Research Laboratory for Art and Tecnology at Aalborg University, where I maintain an affiliation as a guest researcher.
Over the years, I've collaborated with computer scientists, structural, electrical and mechanical engineers, material scientists, urban planners, geographers, sociologists, medical doctors, sculptors, music and performance artists, and theorists (art and architectural historians and philosophers of science). I enjoy working across disciplines and am a strong believer in inter-disciplinarity.
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In 2018 I started working with RELATE at Aalborg University, as a postdoctoral researcher and from 2020, I became an assistant professor with the same group.
Before coming to Aalborg University, I spent one year as a computational designer with 3d printing electronics and software company Create it Real in Aalborg (2017-2018). I ended up here with a 6 month Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs scholarship (2017) as the CEO of Genotype - my computational design consultancy.
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Between finishing my PhD (2015) and coming to Denmark I worked at Genotype from Cluj, my hometown in Romania, with clients from all over the world, such as Conduit Design, Nestoria, or Ekeart.
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Previously I did a Bsc.+Msc. in architecture at the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning from the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca in Romania (2005-2011). Immediately after I started my PhD called 'Living and Non-Living Natural Models in Computational Architecture' at the same university (2011-2015). I worked under the supervision of architect Mircea Moldovan, structural engineer Ludovic Kopenetz and architectural theorist Dana Vais.
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I also spent a year at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonya in Barcelona doing a Master in Advanced Architecture (2012-12013). Our final project was supervised by architect Enric Ruiz Geli from Cloud 9, Mirreia Luzzaraga from Takk and theoretical physicist Josep Perello.
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Apart from this, I worked as an urban planner / architect in Cluj with architecture and urban planning studios Pro Atrium and Experiment Proiect for a total of 4 years.
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