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About Wolf Hilbertz

Wolf Hilbertz is president of Sun & Sea, a non-profit organisation for development of new sustainable building technologies. He is an architect educated in Germany and the United States. A pioneer in organic architecture, he invented Biorock technology for growing building materials in the sea. Currently based in Dubai, he has lived in Thailand, Ireland, Canada, the US, and Germany.

Articles by Wolf Hilbertz

Wednesday 12th May

Growing a beach in the Maldives

It’s easy to take a shoreline for granted: lost in contemplation of what lies beyond, the edge itself receives little notice. But what happens when even the brink begins to crumble? Faced with this dilemma, the Global Coral Reef Alliance haven’t stood still on the beach – they’ve grown their own.
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