Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Rainer NOENNIG (*1973) is Professor for Digital City Science at HCU HafenCity University in Hamburg, head of the WISSENSARCHITEKTUR Laboratory of Knowledge Architecture at TU Dresden, and co-founder of software startup Scenerii GmbH. From 1992 to 1998, he studied architecture at Bauhaus University Weimar, Polytech Krakow and Waseda University Tokyo.

Between 1998 and 2001 he practiced as an 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) and Interim Professor for Industrial and Commercial Building Design (2015-2016). In 2007 he received his doctoral degree from Bauhaus Universität Weimar on the theme of “Architectural Complexity”. He taught at different universities in Japan, USA, China, Italy, Switzerland and Angola.

He was Visiting Professor at Università degli Studi delle l’Aquila, ISEN Toulon, Voronezh State Technical University, and Toyo University Tokyo. His research focuses on digital cities and interactive, co-creative spaces from architectural to urban level. He has published several books and more than 150 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.