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Waste shell for IDEAS CITY: NY

Waste shell for IDEAS CITY: NY

15.05.2015

Using waste products as construction materials, the Chair of Dirk Hebel and the BRG will build a pavilion in New York City's First Street Garden as part of the New Museum's IDEAS CITY festival, May 28 - 30th, 2015. Read more.

Guest course Prof. Block at MEng Membrane Lightweight Structures at TU Vienna

Guest course Prof. Block at MEng Membrane Lightweight Structures at TU Vienna

24.04.2015

Invited by Dr. Julian Lienhard, Prof. Block will on May 6 give a full-day course on equilibrium form finding, based on RhinoVAULT, to the Master of Engineering Program in Membrane Lightweight Structures at the Vienna University of Technology.

Lecture Diederik Veenendaal at TU Delft workshop

Lecture Diederik Veenendaal at TU Delft workshop

01.04.2015

Diederik Veenendaal will present the BRG's flexible formwork projects and his previous work on optimized fabric formed beams, and is guest critic at the Tektoniek workshop on April 7th at TU Delft, Netherlands.

Talk Prof. Block at NEY + Partners, Belgium

Talk Prof. Block at NEY + Partners, Belgium

19.03.2015

Invited by Kenny Verbeeck, Prof. Block will give a lunch talk on March 30 at NEY + Partners in Brussels, Belgium.  

RhinoVAULT workshop at the Brussels Faculty of Engineering

RhinoVAULT workshop at the Brussels Faculty of Engineering

18.03.2015

Invited by Prof. Lars De Laet and Prof. Marijke Mollaert, Prof. Block will on March 27 at the Department of Architectural Engineering at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel give his by-now-yearly contribution to the Brussels Faculty of Engineering (Bruface) course "Spatial Structures: Design and Analysis", using RhinoVAULT to teach about equilibrium surface structures.

Keynote lecture Diederik Veenendaal at Novel Structural Skins

Keynote lecture Diederik Veenendaal at Novel Structural Skins

15.03.2015

Invited by Prof. Lars De Laet, Diederik Veenendaal will present the BRG's fabric formwork projects in a keynote lecture at the COST Action TU1303 - Novel Structural Skins meeting on March 25 in Denkendorf, Germany.

CEE Department Seminar Prof. Block at Princeton University, USA

CEE Department Seminar Prof. Block at Princeton University, USA

01.03.2015

Invited by Prof. Sigrid Adriaenssens, Prof. Block will give a lecture on March 19 in the CEE Departmental Seminar Series at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Princeton University.

Department lecture Prof. Block at UBC in Vancouver, Canada

Department lecture Prof. Block at UBC in Vancouver, Canada

28.02.2015

Invited by Prof. Joe Dahmen, Prof. Block will give a department lecture on March 16 in the School of Architecture lecture series "Form & Energy" and a RhinoVAULT workshop on March 17 at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.

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