Prof. Block on jury LafargeHolcim Foundation Awards - Latin America
30.05.2017
On June 9-10 in São Paulo, Prof. Block will be part of the jury of the LafargeHolcim Foundation Awards for Sustainable Construction for the region Latin America.
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30.05.2017
On June 9-10 in São Paulo, Prof. Block will be part of the jury of the LafargeHolcim Foundation Awards for Sustainable Construction for the region Latin America.
18.05.2017
Prof. Block is very honoured to give an input lecture at the Oskar von Miller Forum at TU Munich. Join for this keynote on June 1.
10.05.2017
Check out our new paper on an experimental study on the behaviour of masonry pavilion vaults on spreading supports in the Elsevier journal Structures.
03.05.2017
Check out the article on Prof. Block by Katharina Marchal for the architecture magazine MODULØR, issue 3/17.
01.05.2017
Lecture Dr. Tomás Méndez Echenagucia on May 9 at the Detmold School of Architecture of the Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Science in Germany.
10.04.2017
Interviewed by Claudia Hoffmann and edited by Peter Rüegg, Prof. Block and the BRG research on funicular floors featured on ETH News and in ETH Globe!
09.04.2017
Prof. Block has been honoured to become an associated member of the BSA-FAS, the Federation of Swiss Architects, which invites "well-known individuals who in their function are closely connected to architecture, urban development and spatial planning, quality of practice being a prerequisite for admission".
06.04.2017
Check out Diederik Veenendaal's paper on the structural design of the NEST HiLo concrete shell roof in the special issue of the Journal of the IASS on new directions for shell structures.
01.04.2017
In the April 17 issue of Baumeister- Das Architektur-Magazin, Prof. Block wrote an article on "Kann Schwäche eine Stärke sein?".
21.03.2017
Interview Prof. Block on Stone architecture - Stereotomy 2.0 by Cécile Brunengo in L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui.
16.03.2017
Prof. Block will present the paper "The Armadillo Vault: Balancing computation and traditional craft" at FABRICATE 2017, organised on April 6-8 at the Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD) at the University of Stuttgart.
14.03.2017
Prof. Block and colleagues Profs. Ochsendorf (MIT) and DeJong (University of Cambridge) called "Master Builders" in feature article on ODB Engineering in Domus 1011.
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