News
20.10.2015
Prof. Block will give one of the keynote lectures at the launch symposium of the AD issue "Material Synthesis: Fusing the Physical and the Computational," edited by Achim Menges, to be held at the Deutsche Architekturmuseum (DAM) on October 30.
15.10.2015
Invited by Profs. Achim Menges and Jan Knippers, Prof. Block will critic at the final reviews on October 20-21 of the ITECH Master program at the University of Stuttgart.
26.09.2015
Ursula Frick will present her paper on "Decomposing three-dimensional shapes into self-supporting discrete element assemblies" at Design Modelling Symposium Copenhagen 2015.
14.09.2015
The second, reworked and extended edition of our book FAUSTFORMEL - Tragwerksentwurf (in German), together with Prof. Christoph Gengnagel and Prof. Stefan Peters, that gives an overview of methods, rules of thumb, and techniques for structural design, has come out with DVA.
11.09.2015
The backbone structure of NEST on the Empa campus in Dünbendorf, Switzerland has been finished, which called for a celebration and party on Friday Sept 12! HiLo, our research & innovation unit, will be one of the four first modules to "land" on the experimental building.
05.09.2015
Check out our article "Structural stone surface" in the special issue edited by Achim Menges of AD Architectural Design on "Material Synthesis: Fusing the Physical and the Computational."
16.08.2015
The BRG's research will be shown in nine presentation at the IASS Symposum 2015 on August 17-20 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Check out our contributions on our publication page.
04.08.2015
Prof. Block was interviewed for the magazine "De Ingenieur" by the Dutch engineering society (KIVI) on designing with graphic statics. Read the full article here.
10.07.2015
The postdoctoral research proposal "Acoustic insulation through structural stiffness" by Dr. Tomás Méndez Echenagucia has been awarded CHF 98k in seed funding by the Partnership Council for Sustainable Construction at ETH Zurich.
02.07.2015
Please join us for a lecture by Dr. Caitlin Mueller, Assistant Professor, Building Technology Program, Department of Architecture, MIT, and co-director, Structural Design Lab at MIT. Her talk on “Digital Structures at MIT: Digitally Designing and Making Innovative Structures" will be on Thursday, July 2, 2015, 11:00-12:00 in the NCCR DFAB Pavilion, HIP CO 11.1. More information here.
28.05.2015
Invited by Prof. Caitlin Mueller, Dr. Tomás Méndez Echenagucia gave a talk to the Building Technology Program at MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA, on June 1.
26.05.2015
The IDEAS CITY Festival in New York kicked off! Our 90 m2 waste pavilion made from recycled beverage packaging came together nicely in just three days. Check out the ETH Pavilion in the First Street Garden until May 30!
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