News
10.10.2017
Invited by the architecture faculty, Dr. Matthias Rippmann will on Oct 18, 2017 give a department lecture in the 2017/2018 Form and Structure Lecture Series at the Technische Hochschule Nürnberg in Germany.
05.10.2017
Check out our new paper "Robotically controlled scale-model testing of masonry vault collapse using as-built geometry", published in Springer's Meccanica.
30.09.2017
Invited by Prof. Frédéric Migayrou and Prof. Bob Sheil, Prof. Block will on Oct 11, 2017 give a lecture in the 2017/2018 International Lecture Series at UCL - The Bartlett School of Architecture in London, UK.
28.09.2017
Invited by Profs. Mattias Schevenels and Els Verstrynge, Prof. Block will give a guest lecture hosted by the Faculties of Architecture and Engineering Science of the KU Leuven in Belgium.
26.09.2017
Prof. Block has been invited to be scientific co-chair of ROB|ARCH 2018, which will be hosted on Sep 10-14, 2018 by the NCCR Digital Fabrication at ETH Zürich.
20.09.2017
The BRG will participate at the 2017 Symposium of the International Association of Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) in Hamburg, Germany, presenting some of our latest research.
10.09.2017
Invited by Prof. Frédéric Migayrou and programme director Giles Retsin, Prof. Block is invited together with Mark Burry, Sandra Manninger and Marcelyn Gow as external reviewer for the Architectural Design (AD) programme at The Bartlett School of Architecture at UCL in London, UK.
02.09.2017
The Block Research Group will be well represented at the Design Modelling Symposium Paris 2017 with two presentations, by Mariana Popescu and Shajay Bhooshan.
25.08.2017
Invited by Laurent Ney and Prof. Mike Schlaich, Prof. Block will on Sept 6, 2017 deliver one of the keynote addresses at the 6th International Footbridge Conference at the TU Berlin.
20.08.2017
On September 1, 2017, the Seoul Biennale 2017 "Imminent Commons", curated by Hyungmin Pai and Alejandro Zaera-Polo, opens. The BRG worked together with the Chair of Sustainable Construction - Prof. Dirk E. Hebel at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) on an exhibtion called "Beyond Mining / Urban Growth", featuring a naturally grown structure!
10.08.2017
Invited by Prof. Isak Worre Foged, the Block Research Group is co-organising the 2017 UTZON(x) summer school "Robotic Based Composite Design" from August 19-27 at Aalborg University, Denmark.
01.08.2017
As of August 2017, Profs. Arno Schlüter and Philippe Block take over as the new head and deputy head, respectively, of the Institute of Technology in Architecture (ITA) at ETH Zürich.
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