Block Research Group

News

RhinoVAULT 2 Technical Tutorial for DigitalFUTURES

26.10.2021

Invited by Prof. Neil Leach, Dr. Juney Lee will Nov 6 give a technical tutorial on RhinoVAULT 2 for DigitalFUTURES WORLD.

Department lecture Prof. Block at Rice University

25.10.2021

Prof. Block is proud to give a departmental lecture on Fri Nov 5 as part of the Rice Architecture Fall 2021 Lecture Series.

ETH Science Talk at Swiss Embassy Berlin

24.10.2021

Organised by the ETH Foundation, Prof. Block is giving an ETH Science Talk at the Swiss Embassy in Berlin.

Invited talk Prof. Block at DFG symposium at TU Dresden

23.10.2021

Invited by Prof. Asko Fromm, Prof. Block will present Striatus at the DFG symposium, organised at TU Dresden, on the reinforcement of additively manufactured concrete structures. :)

Lunch talk Prof. Block at Knight Architects

17.10.2021

Invited by Bartlomiej Halaczek, Prof. Block is excited to give a lunch talk on Oct 22 to the bridge designing office Knight Architects.

Presentation Dr. Tom Van Mele at Connect! AEC Hot Stuff

16.10.2021

Organised by Speckle, Dr. Tom Van Mele will on Oct 20 present the open-source framework COMPAS at Connect! AEC Hot Stuff.

New paper in Engineering and Computational Mechanics

08.10.2021

Check out our new paper "Understanding the rigid-block equilibrium method by way of mathematical programming", published in the ICE journal Engineering and Computational Mechanics.

Lecture Prof. Block at FTW Symposium in Bregenz

07.10.2021

Prof. Block has been invited to present on Oct 13 at the FTW Symposium of the Future - Materials for. Tomorrow.

Inauguration HiLo unit at NEST

06.10.2021

After 10 years, today, Hilo @ NEST was inaugurated!! Congrats to everyone involved, and then particularly and especially Tom! Re-watch the opening event here.

Dezeen Talk on Striatus

23.09.2021

Together with Shajay Bhooshan of BRG and ZHA|CODE and Nollaig Forrest of Holcim, Prof. Block will be part of a Dezeen Talk on the Striatus bridge, being broadcast on Mon Sep 28 at 16:00 CEST.

Talk Prof. Block at COX Architecture

16.09.2021

Invited by Tristan Morgan, Prof. Block is excited to give on Sep 30 the first R+D Webinar at COX Architecture.

Lecture Prof. Block at Global Concrete Summit 2021

04.09.2021

Prof. Block will on Sep 15 give a talk in the second session on "Innovation" of the Global Concrete Summit 2021 lecture series.

ETH Zurich
Institute of Technology in Architecture
Block Research Group
Stefano-Franscini-Platz 1, HIB E 45
8093 Zurich, Switzerland
paulson@arch.ethz.ch
block.arch.ethz.ch

+41 44 633 38 35 phone
+41 44 633 10 53 fax