Gernot Riether is Assistant Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology. He teaches architectural design studios and seminars about computation and sustainability.

He is a registered architect at the SBA, The Hague, Netherlands and currently working on planning, private and commercial projects in Europe and the US as an apartment renovation in New York, an addition to a house in Spitz, Austria and a design for a 1.6 km long riverbank of the Danube River in the Wachau valley, a cultural landscape that is protected by UNESCO World Heritage.

Gernot Riether's research focuses on design computing with a particular interest in utilize methods of computation and digital fabrication as design strategies. Areas within his research are: Design Cognition, Generative Design Systems, Digital Fabrication and Environmental Sustainability. In spring 2006 he coordinated the Solar Decathlon project for NYIT, one of 18 internationally invited teams to build an energy-efficient solar-powered house on the Mall in Washington, D.C. He is as guest critic at Cooper Union, Princeton University and Pratt Institute.

He received his Diplom Ingenieur, DI of Architecture from the University of Innsbruck, Austria in 1998 and a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University in 2000. In New York he has worked for Lindy Roy, Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto and collaborated with Galia Solomonoff and Fabian Marcaccio. He has also worked for several other architecture offices in the US, Germany and Austria.