Wolf Hilbertz

His parents had quite different personalities; whereas his father was artistic and inventive, thinking up one of the first electric razors, his mother had a more down to earth, practical approach.

After Wolf Hilbertz was born, the family moved to Ústí nad Labem / Aussig in the Czech Republic.

He married Regina Piper in December, 1962 in Berlin and, upon earning his architecture diploma in 1965, immigrated to New York City with his family in July of that year.

[citation needed] Important students and associates include Joe Mathis, Bob Swaffar, Gene Lucas, Geoffrey Wright, Forrest Higgs, Frances Carvey, Eric Vanderzee, Ed Seiber, Dr. Thomas J. Goreau, Frank Gutzeit and Ari Spenhoff.

Hilbertz laid the foundation for the discipline of Cybertecture, emergent all-encompassing evolutionary environmental systems, and invented the artificial mineral accretion process in seawater in 1976.

Starting in the late 1980s, he partnered with Dr. Thomas J. Goreau to install, maintain and monitor accretion / biorock projects in many countries.

With the help of a host of dedicated associates, students, and volunteers, Hilbertz designed and implemented seascaping projects focusing on coral conservation / fish habitat, mariculture, and erosion control.

Ongoing projects and concerns were the production of building materials and components, metals, minerals and gases from seawater, direct or indirect solar energy conversion, sustainable brine use and model seacology artificial/natural islands like Autopia Saya.

Hilbertz formed and directed The Marine Resources Co., was a co-founder and Director of Biorock Inc., and founder and President of Sun & Sea e.V., a non-profit NGO.