News
24.02.2017
Invited by Dr. Giorgia Giardina, Prof. Block will on Tue March 7 speak as part of the inaugural lecture series of the BRE Centre for Innovative Construction Materials (BRE CICM) at the University of Bath.
14.02.2017
Check out our new journal paper on our 70% lighter floor system, "Design, fabrication and testing of a prototype, thin-vaulted, unreinforced concrete floor", published in Engineering Structures.
31.01.2017
Organised by Prof. Corentin Fivet at EPFL, on Monday Feb. 6th, Juney Lee will present his research at the international seminar on "3D Graphic Statics: Past, Present & Future".
20.01.2017
Dr. Matthias Rippmann recieves an ETH Medal, for outstanding doctoral thesis, given to the best 8% of all PhD theses at ETH Zurich! He will recieve it on Jan 20. A very big congratulations to Dr. Funicular!!
01.01.2017
Prof. Block became the new Deputy Director of the Swiss National Centre for competence in Research (NCCR) in Digital Fabrication, in charge of preparing Phase 2 of the twelve-year, interdisciplinary research programme.
19.12.2016
Invited by Dr. Mario Rinke, Dr. Matthias Rippmann will give a lecture at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts on Wednesday December 21.
28.11.2016
The BRG's freeform tile vault prototype is included in the "Schweizweit - Recent Architecture in Switzerland" exhibition at the Swiss Architecture Museum (S AM).
27.11.2016
Diederik Veenendaal will on Wednesday Nov 30 give a lecture about NEST HiLo at the Research to Reality conference, organized by 4TU.Bouw, the four universities of technology in the Netherlands.
26.11.2016
Invited by director Areti Markopoulou, Prof. Block will on Tue Nov 29 give a department lecture at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalunya (IAAC) in Barcelona.
25.11.2016
The Armadillo Vault is one of the 25 selected projects in the book published by Espazium, "Schweizer Ingenieurbaukunst 2015-2016", which selects the structural art highlights by Swiss engineering groups.
24.11.2016
The Droneport project with Norman Foster is featured in the Nov 2016 special issue of L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui.
22.11.2016
The LafargeHolcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction organises on Nov 25 a special Venice Architecture Biennale finissage event for the Droneport prototype, designed by the BRG together with ODB Engineering and the Lord Norman Foster Foundation.
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