
Lecture Prof. Block at Grounded Materials Mexico
23.11.2023
Prof. Block will on Nov 23 give a(n online) lecture to Grounded Materials México.
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23.11.2023
Prof. Block will on Nov 23 give a(n online) lecture to Grounded Materials México.
03.11.2023
Invited by Rob Otani of Thornton Tomasetti, Prof. Block is excited to give a keynote at the AECTech Symposium, organised on Nov 3 in the AIA NYC Center for Architecture.
27.10.2023
Prof. Block will on Oct 27 give a presentation with Antonio Carrillo, VP Sustainability at Holcim, on "Sustainability and Strategy" in the Board Essentials programme organised by the Institute of Law and Economics at the University of St. Gallen.
21.10.2023
Dr. Petras Vestartas will on Oct 21 give a lecture on COMPAS Wood as part of the "frontiers of timber construction" panel on DigitalFUTURES World.
13.10.2023
Prof. Block won the 2023 Dandelion Award for championing student entrepreneurship, selected for the Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich.
09.10.2023
Join us on Mon Oct 9 for the Biofrontiers symposium, co-organised by the BRG and the chair of Digital Building Technologies (ETH), as part of Future Cities Laboratory Global. Register for the hybrid event on the Biofrontiers webpage!
06.10.2023
Lotte Scheder-Bieschin will present her paper on flat-foldable, curve-creased plate formworks at Advances in Architectural Geometry (AAG) 2023, organised at the University of Stuttgart on Oct 6-7.
03.10.2023
Prof. Block will on Oct 3 share BRG's work at the "Circular Concrete" event at Buildwise - The Belgian innovation centre for the construction sector in Brussels.
29.09.2023
Check out our new paper on the design, engineering, and construction of KnitNervi, published in the Elsevier journal Structures.
28.09.2023
On Sep 29, Prof. Block has been invited to hold a discussion with Matthias Hartmann on "Sustainable Cities – How Can We Make Cities CO2 Neutral" at the Alps Forum 2023.
19.09.2023
Congratulations to Dr. Kam-Ming Mark Tam for successfully defending his doctoral thesis, titled "Learning Discrete Equilibrium - Trans-topological Inverse Pattern and Force Design Using Machine Learning & Automatic Differentiation", with Prof. Andreas Krause (Computer Science, ETH Zurich), Prof. Nathan Brown (PennState), and Robert Otani (Thornton Tomasetti) as external examiners. Additionally, Mark was nominated for an ETH Medal!
18.09.2023
Prof. Block is excited to share the BRG's research in an online MIT Architecture Alumni (MIT ArchA) event on Sep 18 at 17:00.
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