Oliver David Krieg

Vancouver, Canada

Oliver DavidKrieg

Technology and product leader in industrialized construction and design. Fourteen years taking mass timber building systems from research to innovative manufacturing and delivered buildings.

  • PhD, summa cum laude
  • Inventor on 10+ granted and pending patents
  • Canada's Top 40 under 40, 2026

Panel installation, 230 Royal York Road, Toronto, 2025. Photo: Intelligent City

Profile

What I do

Industry

Industrialized
construction

Productizing buildings through platforms, manufacturing and delivery

Building systems developed as products: software automation, product definition, DfMA, and prefabrication, taken from research and development into a factory and delivered housing across Canada.

Built projects
Academia

Academic
research

Architecture and design through manufacturing and software automation

Ten years at the University of Stuttgart researching robotic fabrication, computational design and biomimetic timber structures, built at full scale as award-winning pavilions and prototypes.

Research projects
Practices

Where I work

Founder, since 2026

Fabrik Advisory

Technology and industrialized construction strategy and implementation

An independent advisory practice for technology and industrialized construction. Strategy for developers, builders and manufacturers, from plan to implementation, including fractional technology and product leadership for growing teams.

fabrikadvisory.com
Founder, since 2018

odk.design

Architecture and design through digital fabrication

A design and manufacturing studio working between digital design and robotic fabrication, from objects to structures. Consulting on product design and manufacturing technology, and maker of the award-winning AESTUS series of wooden vases.

odk.design
Built

Delivered buildings

230 Royal York Road, a nine-storey building clad in dark prefabricated facade panels

Photo: Intelligent City

230 Royal York Road

Toronto, Ontario · 2026

Building
Nine-storey mass timber residential, 60 units
Scope
Prefabricated structure and envelope system, delivered by Intelligent City
Developer
Windmill Development Group and Leader Lane Developments
Chief Leonard George Building, with a woven pattern of timber-look facade panels

Photo: GBL Architects

Chief Leonard George Building

1766 Frances Street, Vancouver · 2025

Building
Mass timber social housing, 79 units
Scope
Prefabricated Passive House facade, Intelligent City's first project
Developer
BC Indigenous Housing Society

All built projects

Career

Roles

  1. 2026 to now

    Founder

    Fabrik Advisory, Vancouver

    Advisory practice for technology and industrialized construction.

    Fabrik Advisory logo
  2. 2018 to now

    CTO and President

    Intelligent City, Vancouver

    Joined as the first employee. Led technology from 2018, as CTO from 2020 and President from 2025, taking a mass timber building platform from R&D to a robotic factory and delivered buildings.

    Chief Leonard George Building, Vancouver230 Royal York Road under construction, Toronto
  3. 2018 to now

    Founder

    odk.design, Stuttgart and Vancouver

    Design and manufacturing consultancy, from products to architecture.

    AESTUS vases in an interiorThree AESTUS vases with branches against a concrete wall
  4. 2012 to 2018

    Research Associate and Group Leader

    ICD, University of Stuttgart

    Built and led the institute's timber research group in robotic fabrication and computational design, from research grants to full-scale buildings.

    Industrial robot milling a plywood panel in a workshopAssembly of the BUGA Wood Pavilion segments from lifts

PhD, summa cum laude, and Dipl.-Ing. in Architecture, University of Stuttgart. Scholar of the German National Academic Foundation.

Research

Selected research

All research projects

Publications

Selected writing

  • 2Books
  • 33Peer-reviewed papers
  • 17Articles and chapters
  1. 2023Parametric Design-to-Fabrication Platforms for Scaled Industrial Implementation. Chapter in Building Better – Less – Different: Clean Energy Transition and Digital Transformation. Birkhäuser. With K. Slavin and O. Lang.
  2. 2022Architectural Potentials of Robotic Manufacturing in Timber Construction. Doctoral dissertation, University of Stuttgart.
  3. 2021Mono-Material Wood Wall: Digital Fabrication of Performative Wood Envelopes. Journal of Facade Design and Engineering 9 (1). With O. Bucklin, A. Menges, H. Drexler, A. Rohr and F. Amtsberg.
  4. 2021The Future of Wood: Parametric Building Platforms. Wood Design & Building 88. With O. Lang.
  5. 2018Affordances of Complexity: Evaluation of a Robotic Production Process for Segmented Timber Shell Structures. World Conference on Timber Engineering (WCTE) 2018, Seoul. With S. Bechert, A. Groenewolt, R. Horn, J. Knippers and A. Menges.
  6. 2016Advancing Wood Architecture: A Computational Approach. Routledge. Edited with A. Menges and T. Schwinn.

All publications

Recognition

Selected awards

  1. 2026Canada's Top 40 under 40Personal award
  2. 2025Maclean's 40 Nation MakersPersonal recognition
  3. 2024BC Cleantech Scaling Venture of the YearIntelligent City
  4. 2020German Design AwardBUGA Wood Pavilion
  5. 2019Rado Star Prize, Prix du JuryAESTUS vases, odk.design
  6. 2017ArchDaily Building of the YearICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2015–16
  7. 2015Wilhelm-Klauditz-PreisLandesgartenschau Exhibition Hall
  8. 2014Rob|Arch Pioneering Research AwardLandesgartenschau Exhibition Hall
Contact

Get in touch

For research, talks, design and advisory work.

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