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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.

Keynote Prof. Block at AECTech in NYC

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.

Prof. Block lecture at University St Gallen

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.

Lecture Dr. Vestartas on DigitalFUTURES World

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.

Dandelion Award for Prof. Block

13.10.2023

Prof. Block won the 2023 Dandelion Award for championing student entrepreneurship, selected for the Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich.

FCL Biofrontiers Symposium at ETH

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!

Paper presentation Lotte Scheder-Bieschin at AAG '23 in Stuttgart

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.

Keynote Prof. Block at Buildwise event on Circular Concrete

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.

New journal paper in Structures

29.09.2023

Check out our new paper on the design, engineering, and construction of KnitNervi, published in the Elsevier journal Structures.

Prof. Block at Alps Forum 2023

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.

Successful doctoral defense Kam-Ming Mark Tam

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!

Talk Prof. Block at MIT ArchA webinar

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.