Diederik Veenendaal at Kraaijvanger
17.05.2014
Diederik Veenendaal will share his work and the latest research by the BLOCK Research Group at architectural firm Kraaijvanger in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on June 3.
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17.05.2014
Diederik Veenendaal will share his work and the latest research by the BLOCK Research Group at architectural firm Kraaijvanger in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on June 3.
16.05.2014
Prof. Block has been invited to give on June 3 a lecture in the 2013/14 Sliver Lecture Series "Digital Craft: Fabricating the Virtual in the 21st Century" at the Institute of Architecture (IoA) at the Angewandte in Vienna, Austria.
15.05.2014
Prof. Block will give a lecture on Thursday May 29 at the Earth and Digital AA Visiting School "Mud body and scripts", held at Les Grands Ateliers in Lyon, France.
01.05.2014
David López López will on Monday May 5 give a lecture on the design and building of tile vaults at the Institute for Advance Architecture in Catalunia (IAAC) within the Master in Advanced Architecture program. He will also assist in a "Hands-on workshop on thin-tile vaulting".
30.04.2014
Lorenz Lachauer's and Prof. Block's paper "Interactive Equilibrium Modelling", has been published in the International Journal of Space Structures. We are developing a tool of this new flexible approach to model structural form, so look out for the first release!
18.04.2014
Our paper "Algebraic Graph Statics" has been published in Elsevier's Computer-Aided Design.
15.04.2014
Prof. Block has been invited by the editors Olivier Baverel and Bernard Maurin to be on the editorial board of the International Journal of Space Structures.
04.04.2014
Invited by Prof. Klaas De Rycke, Matthias Rippmann is giving on Monday April 7 a lecture entitled "Form finding to fabrication geometric approaches to elegant and efficient architectural design" at the école nationale supérieure d’architecture de Versailles in Paris.
10.03.2014
You can pre-order our book "Shell Structures for Architecture: Form finding and Optimization", to come out at the end of April 2014, from Routledge Architecture. The 20% discount code is DC361!
17.01.2014
Prof. Block has been invited on the managment committee as delegate for Switzerland of the new European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research (COST) Action TU1303: "Novel structural skins: Improving sustainability and efficiency through new structural textile materials and designs". The BLOCK Research Group will also be part of the research clusters “Advanced numerical simulation” and “Structural skins”.
20.12.2013
With these beautiful reciprocal snow flakes,* The BLOCK Research Group wishes you happy holidays and a good start of 2014!
21.11.2013
Prof. Block's and Lorenz Lachauer's paper "Three-dimensional Equilibrium Analysis of Gothic Masonry Vaults" has been published in the International Journal of Architectural Heritage: Conservation, Analysis, and Restoration, as part of the special issue "Select Papers from SAHC 2012 - 8th International Conference on Structural Analysis of Historical Constructions", edited by Paulo B. Lourenço, Pere Roca & Claudio Modena.
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