Prof. Block receives Rössler Prize
05.07.2018
Prof. Block is deeply honoured to have been awarded the 2018 Rössler Prize, for most promising young professor at ETH Zurich, selected by the ETH Board.
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05.07.2018
Prof. Block is deeply honoured to have been awarded the 2018 Rössler Prize, for most promising young professor at ETH Zurich, selected by the ETH Board.
30.06.2018
The Block Research Group will give a two-day master class on computational graphic statics through the COMPAS framework at IASS 2018. Sign up if you want to learn how to juggle form and forces in two and three dimensions!
28.06.2018
Invited by Prof. Gabriele Milani, Prof. Block will give a keynote at the 10th International Masonry Conference, organised on July 9-11, 2018 at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
17.06.2018 - 27.06.2018
Dr. Méndez Echenagucia will present the Funicular Floor System at the Architekturzentrum Wien on June 26th at 6:00 pm.
16.06.2018
Prof. Block has been invited ot give a lecture at the International Baukultur Days Venice - "Brücken bauen – Building bridges" on June 27, 2018.
10.06.2018
A big congrats to Dr. Andrew Liew for wining the Best Research Paper Prize of the IStructE journal Structures for his paper "Moment-Curvature-Thrust Relationships for Beam-Columns".
09.06.2018
David López López' paper on "The combination of tile vaults with reinforcement and concrete" has been published in the International Journal of Architectural Heritage.
01.06.2018
Check out the exciting highlight video summarising the first phase (2014-2018) of the NCCR Digital Fabrication! Much more to come in Phase 2!!
20.05.2018
Dr. Matthias Rippmann invited for lecture on May 29, 2018 at Symposium on Digital Fabrication at TU Munich.
08.05.2018
Check out Dr. Matthias Rippmann's new journal paper on "Computational tessellation of freeform, cut-stone vaults", to appear in Springer's Nexus Network Journal for Architecture and Mathematics.
07.05.2018
Prof. Block will deliver the closing keynote at CAADRIA 2018, which is organised at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.
03.05.2018
Our new knitting machine, a customised Steiger Libra 3.130, arrived! A hint on where we are going with it in this KnitCrete post.
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