RhinoVAULT 2 released !!!
01.09.2020
Check out the first release of RhinoVAULT 2, an open-source funicular form-finding framework powered by COMPAS! Happy form finding!
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01.09.2020
Check out the first release of RhinoVAULT 2, an open-source funicular form-finding framework powered by COMPAS! Happy form finding!
25.08.2020
Invited by conference chairs Jane Bury and Jenny Sabin, Prof. Block is pleased to give a keynote at FABRICATE 2020 - Making Resilient Architecture, organised now online on September 9-12, 2020 in London. Dr. Mariana Popescu will give one of the only 20 selected paper presentations on KnitCandela.
12.07.2020
Invited by director Riyad Joucka, Prof. Block will give an online lecture on July 20th as part of the ‘Middle East Architecture Lab’ - MEAL* Live Academy.
07.07.2020
Invited by Prof. Ludger Hovestadt and hosted by Dr.sc. Hao Hua, Prof. Block will give a lecture on July 17 at 10:00 BJT as part on the online international summer school at the Department of Architecture of Southeast University, Nanjing.
04.07.2020
At the closing session of DigitalFUTURES World, the BRG received three awards!! The BRG received the first 'Matthias Rippmann Memorial Prize' for the development of RhinoVAULT 2. Dr. Mariana Popescu received a 'DigitalFUTURES Young Award', given to emerging scholars in digital architecture, and a prize was given to KnitCandela!
03.07.2020
Check out our new paper "Piecewise Rigid Displacement (PRD) method: A limit analysis-based approach to detect mechanisms and internal forces through two dual-energy criteria", published in Mechanics Research Communications.
28.06.2020
On July 10-11, Prof. Block will be part of the jury for the Awards (region Asia-Pacific) of LafargeHolcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction.
27.06.2020
The BRG will (virtually) participate in DigitalFUTURES WORLD, offering an online workshop on RhinoVAULT 2 from June 30 through July 3.
15.06.2020
Prof. Block will give a virtual lecture on "Research for practice" for CRB Campus on June 24th at 18:30.
13.06.2020
Lotte Aldinger will on June 24 give an online lecture for the ENSA-V LAB workshop on "Intelligent Fabrication".
12.06.2020
On Wed June 24, Prof. Block will have a discussion moderated by Prof. Paul Loh on the "Digital fabrication post-COVID-19: rethinking construction techniques or business-as-usual" with Professors Jane Burry (Swinburne) and Roland Snooks (RMIT), as part of the MSD at Home online series by the University of Melbourne.
10.06.2020
Invited by Prof. Thomas Auer, Prof. Block will on June 22 (virtually) join a discussion on "digital eduction in times of Corona" as part of the "Montagsreihe" lecture series at the Department of Architecture at TU Munich.
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