New article in AD Architectural Design
05.07.2017
Check out our new article "Compressive assemblies" for the special issue by Skylar Tibbits on "Autonomous Assembly: Designing for a new era of collective construction" of AD - Architectural Design.
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05.07.2017
Check out our new article "Compressive assemblies" for the special issue by Skylar Tibbits on "Autonomous Assembly: Designing for a new era of collective construction" of AD - Architectural Design.
01.07.2017
Taking over from founding director Prof. Matthias Kohler, Prof. Block is the new director of the Swiss National Centre for Competence in Research (NCCR) in Digital Fabrication.
01.07.2017
Finally the overview paper on "NEST HiLo: Investigating lightweight construciton and adaptive energy systems" has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Building Engineering.
01.07.2017
We learned the sad news that Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. sc. techn. h.c. Dr. h.c. Klaus Linkwitz, the father of the force density method, recently passed away. The BRG is thankful for having had the opportunity to have several inspiring exchanges with him.
28.06.2017
Our paper "Load-path optimisation of funicular networks" has been published in Meccanica.
15.06.2017
The moment of truth for the fullscale, 1-to-1 construction prototype of NEST HiLo's concrete roof. All day, Theo will be spraying the large prototype in the Robotic Fabrication Hall of the Arch_Tech_Lab on ETH Hönggerberg!
14.06.2017
Invited by Prof. Philip Yuan, Prof. Block will on July 2 give a keynote at the 2017 Symposium of Digital Design in Architecture at the Built Environment Technology Center at CAUP Tongji University.
13.06.2017
Invited by Prof. Philip Yuan, Prof. Block and Shajay Bhooshan will from June 24 to July 1 offer a workshop, organised by the BRG together with the CO|DE group at Zaha Hadid Architects, at DigitalFUTURE Shanghai 2017.
13.06.2017
Architects look to the past for structures of the future - a short interview of Prof. Block by Matthew Stock on Reuters News! The story also appeared in German and in Flemish.
06.06.2017
The BRG is honoured to have been invited to organise a workshop at Boisbuchet this summmer. Reserve you spot for some crazy form finding in our workshop "Unidentifeid Funicular Object"! Registration is on a first-come, first-served basis, so hurry up...
03.06.2017
The Block Research Group's research on thin funicular floor systems in unreinforced concrete is featured in an article by Hal Hodson for The Economist.
01.06.2017
On June 11, Dr. Matthias Rippmann will be one of the speakers at TEDxBasel. Get your tickets now to be part of this special event!
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