About Madeleine

Madeleine Metawati Eggers is an Indonesian-American computational designer whose expertise combines deep knowledge of algorithmic design and soft fabrication with an understanding of injustices in the built environment.

She currently works as a computational design specialist at Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, where she oversees the computational delivery of highly complex built projects.

As a lead researcher with specialization in robotic fabrication in the Sabin Design Lab at Cornell University’s department of Architecture,, she has spearheaded several innovative design research projects dealing with non-standard, material-driven 3D printing strategies using ABB six-axis robots over the past five years. Additionally to her computational design research, her design work has explored the use of computational and spatial tools in addressing issues of structural inequality, most notably in her award-winning 2019 B. Arch thesis.

Her research contributions include work on Sabin’s NSF-funded Kirigami series focusing on self-actuating materials design, published in the 2017 proceedings of the Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design (SimAUD), and two years of work leading a project on techniques for robotic sensing and 3D printing.

At Cornell University, Madeleine has held a faculty teaching position in the department of Architecture, along with a Hunter R. Rawlings III Presidential Research Scholarship. She completed her B.Arch in 2019.