Marc Ihle is an architectural designer, educator, and researcher. Born in Barcelona [Spain] in 1981, he graduated, after abroad studies of architecture at the University of Texas at Arlington [USA], the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Seville ETSA [Spain] and the University of São Paulo FAU – USP [Brazil], with distinction under the supervision of Prof. Kathrin Aste at the University of Innsbruck [Austria] in 2012.
He has founded his studio “DIGITAL LANDSCAPES” in 2015, which since 2019 is a registered company in Norway. Marc Ihle endeavors a better understanding of high degree diversity and complex natural systems on various scales. He investigates the use of laser scan technology, GIS (Geo-Information Systems), digital terrain analysis, and parametric scripting platforms to formulate and synthesize local design parameters to incorporate and negotiate natural diversity, – potentials, and -identities in his projects. He is working across disciplines with the intent to find more vernacular and locally related design methodologies for extreme alpine and arctic spaces in both Austria and Norway.
He has been lecturing at the Arctic University of Tromsø – UiT [Norway], exploring GIS, digital design- and fabrication tools for the discipline of Landscape Architecture (2019/21) under the supervision of Prof. Thomas Juel Clemmensen, where Marc Ihle is also employed since January 2023. He is further contracted as an External Lecturer at the Institute for Experimental Architecture at the University of Innsbruck, where he was priorly employed as Assistant Professor, teaching architectural-design-studio, methods in digital landscape architecture in both bachelors- and masterclasses (2014-2022), as well as conducting his research, listed as a doctoral candidate under the supervision of Prof. Marjan Colletti. Before this position, he has further taught digital design methods in landscape architecture at the University of Liechtenstein and the University of Fine Arts in Vienna – GLC-Studio with Prof. Kathrin Aste as well as at the University of Venice (Università IUAV di Venezia) with Prof. Tom Kovac of the RMIT-Melbourne and Prof. Marjan Colletti.
Apart from his academic background, he has gained practical experience in several international design offices, among others at JFAK-Architects [USA], Triptyque-Architects [Brazil] and as a project- & research leader at LAAC-Architects (2009-2015) in Innsbruck, Austria. He has been involved in all project stages, reaching from the competition, preliminary design, masterplan, detail, execution, and construction, dealing with building typologies ranging from public spaces, natural environments to high-rise structures of various kinds of use, as well as a key member of research projects, dealing with sustainable infrastructures in alpine spaces and large-scale territories.