Events

The Digital Bamboo pavilion was designed for easy assembly and dis-assembly as a project by the MAS ETH DFAB. It will next will be exhibited in the Marinaressa Gardens, as part of the European Cultural Center exhibition "Time Space and Existence” which…

Join Postdoc researcher Ena Lloret Fritschi as she hosts professor Yasmeen Lari to present her Impact Lecture: Barefoot Social Architecture.Yasmeen Lari studied at Oxford Polytechnic (now Oxford Brookes University) before returning to Pakistan, where she began her practice in the 1960s . She made her name with a number of prestigious state commissions in the 1980s, but also…

Tuesday, October 5th the NCCR Digital Fabrication will jointly host the next installment in our Seminar Series on “Innovation and Risk” with Swiss Re. This seminar series is targeted at the wider construction and manufacturing sector, pairing presentations from researchers and…

Recent advances in robotic technologies in architecture and civil engineering are pushing the development and integration of sensing solutions, allowing the quasi-real-time adaptation of building processes. Sensing is gradually enabling the handling of unknown or imprecise geometries and unforeseen construction errors and allow for quality inspection during and…

Online Event - Sage Lenier, lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, and Philippe Block, professor at ETH Zurich, discuss the topic of sustainability from their own research perspectives and how they would tackle societal and architectural challenges.

During the event, you will hear about research perspectives from the diverse and interconnected domains of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Computer Science. The event will also feature the opening of the Immersive Design Lab (IDL) which was initiated and implemented by Gramazio Kohler…

Join professor Catherine de Wolf as she hosts professor Hanif Kara to present his Impact Lecture: Thickness of Impakt. Professor Hanif Kara is a design director of the engineering practice AKT II, based in London, where he leads the firm’s 350 designers and technicians, who collectively offer 50…

Silke Langenberg is Full Professor of Construction Heritage and Preservation at the Department of Architecture of ETH Zürich. With the naming of her professorship, she claimed a new research area at ETH Zurich, which deals with the perception and…

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EVENT RUNDOWN (Swiss times)10:00-10:03 Introductionby Libing Gu, Head of Academic Relations, Swissnex in China10:03-10:15 Computational Structural Geometryby Prof. Dr. Philippe Block, Professor at the Institute of Technology in Architecture at ETH…