Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Rainer NOENNIG (*1973) is Professor for Digital City Science at the CityScienceLab at HafenCity Universität Hamburg and director of the WISSENSARCHITEKTUR Laboratory of Knowledge Architecture at TU Dresden. From 1992 to 1998, he studied architecture at Bauhaus Universität Weimar, Polytech Krakow and Waseda University Tokyo. Between 1998 and 2001 he practiced as architect in Tokyo, among others at Ishiyama Experimental Underground Architecture Factory, at Arata Isozaki & Associates, and as a freelance architect. From 2001 he was Research Associate at TU Dresden, where he was appointed Junior Professor for Knowledge Architecture (2009-2015). In 2007 he received his doctoral degree from Bauhaus Universität Weimar. He taught at different universities in Japan, USA, China, Italy, Switzerland and Angola, and was Visiting Professor at Universit degli Studi dell l´Aquila, ISEN Toulon and Voronezh State Technical University. He has published several books and more than 100 scientific papers and essays. He has won several prizes, scholarships and awards, incl. the Grand Prize of the European Association for Architecture Education (EAAE). Since 2007 he is married to Yoco Fukuda-Noennig; they have two children.
