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19.06.2013
Invited by Klaas de Rycke, founding director of the Paris office of the engineering consultancy Bollinger + Grohmann Ingenieure, Matthias Rippmann and Prof. Block will present the BLOCK Research Group's work in an evening office talk.
06.06.2013
The ribbed tile vault, built by the student during the design-build Masterclass studio Prof. Block organized with Melonie Bayl-Smith and Dave Pigram at UTS Architecture in Sydney, Australia, has won two prizes at the 2013 Graduate & Student Awards of the AIA NSW CHAPTER: the Structural innovation in Architecture Prize, and a commendation for Digital innovation in Architecture, even though it was not submitted for this category.
26.05.2013
Invited by Prof. Dirk Hebel, Prof. Block will give a lunch talk on June 5, 2013 at the Future Cities Laboratory (FCL) of the Singapore-ETH Centre.
25.05.2013
Invited by Damon Van Horne, Prof. Block will give a lunch talk on June 4, 2013 at the Melbourne office, with broadcast to the Sydney office, of Grimshaw Architects. Grimshaw is one of the sponsors of the MADA design-build workshop. The prototype is then also being built in the ground floor gallery space of their offices in Melbourne, Australia.
24.05.2013
Prof. Block gives a keynote lecture, entitled Stone Skins - New Masonry Shells, on May 28, 2013 at Monash University Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture in Melbourne, Australia, in the transmaterial research events series, curated by Invited by Tim Schork and John Sadar.
22.05.2013
Our paper "Designing Unreinforced Masonry Models", together with our colleagues Prof. Olga Sorkine-Hornung and Dr. Daniele Panozzo, is featured in the Technical Papers Preview of ACM SIGGRAPH 2013, the prime venue for the top research in computer graphics.
14.05.2013
Invited by Tim Schork and John Sadar, Prof. Block will run a design-build workshop from May 27 to June 4, 2013 at Monash University Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture in Melbourne, Australia, based on RhinoVAULT and tile vaulting. The workshop will be co-run together with tile vaulting expert James Bellamy, who was leading the construction of the Pines Calyx masonry domes in Doover, England and the Mapungubwe Interpretive Centre soil vaults in South Africa.Read more
13.05.2013
Come check out the exhibition (running until 17.05.2013) of the final projects of Structural Design II in the main entry (D floor) of the HIL building on Science City (Hönggerberg) at ETH Zurich. On Thursday May 17, 2013 from 15:00 to 17:30, there will be the final review, followed by a short award ceremony in HIL E 4. Be impressed by the awesome projects by our first year Architecture bachelor students!
11.05.2013
Matthias Rippmann has been invited by Prof. Marco Hemmerling to give a lecture and organize a workshop at Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe, University of Applied Sciences, Germany on May 14th, 2013. The workshop within the Master of Computational Design and Construction will focus on digital form-finding and fabrication strategies.
05.05.2013
Dr. Lars De Laet is presenting our paper “Bending incorporated: designing tension structures by integrating bending-active elements†at the TENSINET SYMPOSIUM 2013 - [RE]THINKING Lightweight Structures, held on 8-10 May 2013 in Istanbul, Turkey.
01.05.2013
Our article "Das katalanische Gewölbe – Ein Konstruktionsprinzip mit Geschichte und Zukunft" is published in DETAIL 5/2013, an isse with as topic „Einfach und Komplex“.
30.04.2013
Prof. John Ochsendorf invited Prof. Block on May 1, 2013 to give a guest lecture in his “Structural Design†class for architecture and civil engineering students, the course for which Prof. Block was Prof. Ochsendorf’s teaching assistant for 5 years back in his days at MIT. The lecture “Stone Skins: New Masonry Shells†was opened up to the department.
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