Dr. Kai Strehlke Head Digital Processes Blumer -Lehmann

Kai Strehlke is Head of Digital Processes at Blumer-Lehmann AG. In this role he coordinates the development of digital data and CNC manufacturing for large scale timber fabrication projects. He has worked to develop the processes and techniques required to manufacture complex projects such as the Swatch headquarters in Biel, the Cambridge Mosque, and the Urbach Tower. Kai completed his doctoral dissertation on “The Digital Ornament in Architecture” in 2004 at ETH Zurich. Since this time he built up and led the Department of Digital Technologies at the architectural office Herzog & de Meuron, and has further held Guest Professorships at the Technical University Graz in Austria, and more recently as Lecturer at the School of Architecture, Wood and Civil Engineering at the Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH).