Julia Koerner

Associate Adjunct Professor and Director, Summer Programs

Julia Koerner is an award-winning Austrian designer, innovator, and pioneer in 3D printing, with exemplary cross-disciplinary work. Koerner has been sought after for collaborations that include 3D-printed costumes with Ruth E. Carter for Marvel's "Black Panther" and "Wakanda Forever," earning two Academy Awards. Prior to that, she collaborated with Iris Van Herpen and Chanel on 3D-printed Haute Couture. Furthermore, she has developed research on innovative uses of 3D printing with Swarovski, Stratasys, and Materialise. She is internationally recognized for design innovation in 3D printing and recently was awarded for her architectural design for ICON's 3d-printed affordable housing Initiative 99.

Koerner has been a faculty member at UCLA Architecture and Urban Design since 2012 and teaches graduate design studios, building construction, and research studios. Her research studio "Fit For the Future: Sustainable 3D printed building facades" has been widely published. Since 2021, she has been the Director of UCLA AUD Summer Programs TeenArch and JumpStart.

Koerner's work has been acquired and exhibited at institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (MET), the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Phoenix Museum of Art, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the MOMU in Antwerp, the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, Museum of Applied Arts MAK Vienna, and Ars Electronica. Her designs have been featured in National Geographic magazine, Vice, Wired, Dezeen, Architectural Digest, Metropolis, and the New York Times. Her peer-reviewed architectural research has been published in Springer Construction Journal, Robotic Fabrication in Architecture, Art and Design, Acadia Conference, and AAE Conference, among others. In 2019 ARCHINECT named Julia Koerner "Architecture’s Queen of 3D Fabrication”.

Koerner is the founder of JK Design and JK3D, focused on iconic, sustainable, and innovative 3D-printed architecture, installations, fashion, and home decor products. Her design work constantly embodies a beautiful organic aesthetic and leverages the unique capabilities of architectural design processes and digital fabrication to their fullest potential.

Born in Salzburg, Austria, Koerner received master’s degrees in architecture from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and the Architectural Association in London. She is based in Los Angeles and Vienna, and has previously practiced in London and New York and held academic appointments at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Lund University in Sweden and the Architectural Association Visiting Schools in France and Jordan.

She serves on the Creative Industries Council of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Economy of Austria as part of the "Innovation Program for the Creative Industries 2030."

Related topics	Technology, Material Assembly
Related Links	JK Design GmbH

juliakoerner@ucla.edu

Highlights

2024	Honorable Mention and Advancement to Phase II, ICON Initiative 99 Competition, US
2023	Highly Commended, TCT Awards for 3D Printing, UK
2022	Recipient, UCLA AUD Charles Moore Traveling Studio award
2022	Recipient, Kyoto Global Design Award, Japan
2022	Recipient, 3D Pioneers Challenge, Germany
2022	Finalist, Phoenix Award, Austria
2021	Recipient Red Dot Design Award
2020	Recipient World Omosiroi Award, Osaka Knowledge Capital, Japan
2020	Finalist US-A-Biz Award, Austrian Trade Commision Los Angeles, USA
2019	Recipient Re-Fream, European Union Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, Austria
2018	Finalist, World Technology Award in Design category, World Technology Network, New York City, USA
2018	Recipient, WIKARUS AWARD Economic Chamber, Salzburg, Austria
2015	Recipient, Los Angeles AIA LA Design Merit Award for 2x8 Evolve - Cellular Complexity
2014	Recipient, Global 3D Printshow Award “Rising Star”, London, UK
2014	Winner 2x8 AIA/LA, A+D Museum, Los Angeles
2013	TEXFAB Skin Finalist, Acadia Conference, Toronto, Canada
2012	Architektur-Preis Land-Salzburg Scholarship, Austria
2010	MAK Schindler Scholarship, architect in residence program, Los Angeles
2010	Nominated for Archiprix International Hunter Douglas Award, MIT Cambridge
2010	TISCHE Scholarship, BMUKK-Austrian Federal Ministry of Culture and Arts
2003	Scholarship International Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg, Austria