Karen Lee Bar-Sinai is an architect, urban designer, and postdoctoral fellow at the Chair of Urban Design at the Technical University of Munich. She received her B.Arch from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, holds an MSc in Cities from the London School of Economics, and a Loeb Fellowship from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Her Ph.D. at the Technion – IIT focuses on on-site robotic fabrication with found matter for architecture and landscape construction beyond architectural objects and towards forming territorial scales. Her postdoctoral research focuses on robotic modulating grounds for environmental performance purposes. Prior to her PhD, Karen Lee co-founded SAYA/Design for Change, an architectural and urban design firm. She has taught undergraduate and graduate architecture and urban design studios and seminars at the Technion IIT and at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem. She currently teaches a seminar on Precision Landscapes at TUM.

• performative urban design
• on-site digital fabrication
• robotic fabrication with found matter

Seminar

• Precision Landscapes - New fields in Urban Design

• The Register of Engineers and Architects in Israel, license number
• The Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA)

Performative urban grounds: Exploring the design of acoustic landscapes in response to airport noise. Looking at the Munich Airport as a case study, the project aims to develop a method for linking noise levels to responsive ground modulation.
Collective robotic construction: exploring strategies for transforming terrains and found matter using multiple mobile robotic tools.

Shaked, T., Bar-Sinai, K. L., & Sprecher, A. (2021). Adaptive Robotic Stone Carving: Method, Tools, and
Experiments. Automation in Construction.
Shaked, T., Bar-Sinai, K. L., & Sprecher, A. (2021). Human Sensibility, Robotic Craft: Toward Autonomous
Stonework. In Design Culture(s)-Cumulus Conference 2021. Rome, Italy.
Bar-Sinai, K. L., Shaked, T., & Sprecher, A. (2021). Robotic Tools, Native Matter: Architectural Strategies
for Geomaterial Reconstitution using Additive Manufacturing. Architectural Science Review.
Shaked, T., Bar-Sinai, K. L., & Sprecher, A. (2020). Craft to Site: Middleware for In situ Robotic Stonework.
Construction Robotics.
Bar-Sinai, K. L., Shaked, T., & Sprecher, A. (2020). Sensibility at Large: Post-Anthropocene Editing of
Landscapes. In 25th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia:
RE: Anthropocene - Design in the Age of Humans, CAADRIA 2020. Bangkok, Thailand.
Shaked, T., Bar-Sinai, K. L., & Sprecher, A. (2020). Autonomous in Craft: Embedding Human Sensibility in
Robotic Fabrication. In 25th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in
Asia: RE: Anthropocene - Design in the Age of Humans, CAADRIA 2020. Bangkok, Thailand.
Bar-Sinai, K. L., & Greenfield-Gilat, Y. (2020). Architactics - The Role and Responsibility of Architects in
Conflict Resolution: A Mission Catalog. Out Loud, (002: Borders +Architecture).
Bar-Sinai, K. L., Shaked, T., & Sprecher, A. (2020). A Pedagogical Protocol for Iterative Robotic Fabrication
on Remote Grounds. ArchNet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research.
Bar-Sinai, K. L., Shaked, T., & Sprecher, A. (2019). Informing Grounds: Robotic Sand-forming Simulating
Remote Autonomous Lunar Groundscaping. In ACADIA 2019: Ubiquity and Autonomy (pp. 258–265). The
University of Texas, Austin, TX.
Bar-Sinai, K. L., & Shaked, T. (2019). Northern Polarities Canadian Subarctic Impression. Journal of

Architectural Education, 73:1, 100–101. doi.org/10.1080/10464883.2019.1560814

Greenfield-Gilad, Y., & Bar-Sinai, K. L. (2018). Resolution Planning in Jerusalem. Urban Design,
Spring(146), 25–27.
Greenfield-Gilat, Y., Bar-Sinai, K. L., (2017). Jaffa Gate Crossing Facilities: A Spatial Study. In Governance
and Security in Jerusalem: The Jerusalem Old City Initiative, edited by T Najem, M J Molloy, M Bell, and J
Bell. UCLA Center for Middle East Development (CMED) Series. Routledge.
Greenfield-Gilat, Y., Bar-Sinai, K. L., & Shapira, A. (2009). Shared Space: Conflict Resolution and
architecture in Jerusalem. Kennedy School Review, 9, 81–86.
Bar-sinai, K. L., 2009. “Urban Second Homes: Temporal-Dwelling in London.” Open House International
34 (3).