News
08.01.2015
David López López has been invited by Prof. Pere Roca to give a lecture on January 12th at the Advanced Masters in Structural Analysis of Monuments and Historical Constructions (SAHC) at the UPC in Barcelona.
05.01.2015
Prof. Block joined the MIT Externship Program this year to offer MIT students to "Experience the Working World with MIT Alumni". Welcome, Dimitrios Pagonakis, Tori Jensen and William Plunkett, to the BLOCK Research Group!
20.12.2014
With this icy cool compression-only christmas tree,* the BLOCK Research Group wishes you happy holidays and a good start of 2015!
17.12.2014
The project "Fábrica de Cultura", an art school for Barranquilla, Colombia, an ETH D-ARCH demonstrator by U-TT, A/S and BRG of sustainable and efficient building and construction alternatives, has been approved by the city's mayor! Read more about it here and here.
27.11.2014
Proud to share that our book "Shell Structures for Architecture" made it into Routledge's Top 10 of their 2014 Architecture Bestsellers list! Looking for a Christmas gift? The 20%-off discount code DC361 is valid until the end of 2014.
24.11.2014
The Chair of Architecture and Sturcture is looking for a proactive, spontaneous and dynamic assistant, with good organizational and communication skills, to help Prof. Block with administration, public relations, planning and coordination etc. Check out he available positions page for more information and to apply.
18.11.2014
Prof. Block has been invited by Profs. Karl-Gunnar Olsson and Morten Lund to the Architecture department of Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, for a department lecture on Dec 1 and a RhinoVAULT workshop on December 2-3. Chalmers is one of the few places in the world where one can get a dual education in "architecture and engineering".
08.11.2014
Nice article by Andrei Gheorghe about the BLOCK Research Group's research and work in architektur.aktuell 10/2014. Read the article here.
07.11.2014
Invited by Prof. Tobias Wallisser and Prof. Martin Schroth, Matthias Rippmann will give a talk at the Art Academy of Stuttgart on Nov 11. The event is part of the Jour fixe lecture series and celebrates the book launch of the publication ‘Experimente - Architektur digital konzipiert’ for which Matthias wrote an article about design tools.
03.11.2014
ALGODeQ is an international competition for algorithmic design programs. RhinoVAULT was awarded the highest prize in the category 'Structure / Physics _ Formation', and received the highest rating from the reviewers. Congratulations also to the prize winners in the other two categories - Kangaroo and LMN Architecture.
28.10.2014
Bollinger+Grohmann Ingenieure, lead by partner Prof. Agnes Weilandt, will be the structural engineer for HiLo, our research & innovation unit for NEST. We are excited to work together with this exciting engineering office.
24.10.2014
Invited by Dr. Mario Rinke of the engineering consultancy Dr. Lüchinger+Meyer Bauingenieure AG, Prof. Block will visit the office and share the BLOCK Research Group's work in a lunch seminar on Nov 5.
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