LaN RETURNS to Microsoft NERD July 7 – 9 2010… as part of LaN FLIGHT >>

Join us in-full or specifically for the LaN sessions @ Microsoft

July 7 – 9, 9am-2pm daily, details forthcoming

see April 2010 LaN @ Microsoft session details below

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ARCHITECTURAL RESPONSE  time / tech / tectonics

**IF JOINING US FROM OUT OF TOWN… WE HAVE A GROUP ACCOMMODATION email asap monika@livearchitecture.net

3 day workshop on LIVE aspects of digital design & fabrication for architecture

Its clear in 2010 perhaps more than ever that significant shifts in economies and culture can occur extremely rapidly; climatic crisis can devastate enormous populations in seconds. Our architectural response is critical. The architectural recourse of one crisis needs to be more than a temporary fix as it is often the only opportunity to implement further preventative measures for a future occurrence.  This workshop exposes digitally-driven technologies aiding the architectural realm in developing design intentions in accordance with  environmental, material & production parameters.  Workshop explores how to implement TODAY the utilization of advancing technologies whether a student or design professional.  Parametric approaches are not limited to the software one uses but more importantly a shift in thinking of multi-phase aspects of an architectural project. Join us in forwarding the relevance of these practices to very real-world scenarios. LaN asks you to abandon representation modes of design and practice LIVE.

APR 12- 14 BOSTON 1-7pm daily @ MICROSOFT NEW ENGLAND RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CENTER

• APR 12 MON
• 1pm – 4pm
• LECTURE : ARCHITECTURAL RESPONSE
• LECTURE : FABRICATION TECHNOLOGIES
• INSTRUCTIONAL : RHINO FOR FABRICATION
  
• Learn the 3d modeling environment of Rhinoceros through a fabrication focus. Emphasizing commands and strategies relevant to machining complex geometries… let us frame your modeling thinking back to design, materiality, and advanced geometry. Participants will gain a geometrical understanding of surface types and how they can be analyzed, categorized, and most importantly…constructed.
• break
• 4:30 -6pm
• DIRECTED WORKSESSION
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• APR 13 – TUES
  
• 1pm-4pm
• LECTURE : PARAMETRIC: modeling / production / performance / process
• INSTRUCTIONAL: RHINOCAM
• RhinoCAM leads us on an exploration of CNC milling–3axis, 5 axis, 7 and on.  LaN walks participants through machinery & processes, technical aspects of  Rhinocam & of course the design to production feedback loop–machining aspects that drive your design from initial phases. Output is no longer an afterthought.  Rhinocam exercises include 2, 2.5, & 3D surfacing operations. Simulations via RhinoCAM in Rhinoceros simulate machining operations as if we are beside the equipment itself.
• INSTRUCTIONAL: DESIGN DEVELOPMENT IN RHINO
• Working between 3D geometry and 2D fabrication, session continues with use of Rhino plug-in RhinoNEST.  Also instructed will be the use of scripts for the non-scripter. You may not generate scripts yet on your own, but there’s no reason not to make use of the vast opensource platform that Rhino has become. Learn how to engage with the community and make the tools work for you.
• break
• 4:30-6pm
• DIRECTED WORKSESSION

• recommended evening public events
  
• lecture: GARY HANEY | SOM NY
• 6pm @ Northeastern School of Architecture
• <event link>
• Gary Haney increasingly employs an algorithmic approach to building design in which rule-based frameworks serve as the basis for exploring form in relation to its associated performance. His process incorporates extensive materials research, environmental simulations, and computational scripting to test and challenge the physical, structural, and programmatic parameters of a given project. This research-intensive, performance-driven approach
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• HARVARD GSD SYMPOSIA ON ARCHITECTURE 1 / The Return of Nature: The Nature of Architecture with Peter Eisenman, Jorge Silvetti, and Sarah Whiting
• 6:30pm – 8:00pm ·   Piper Auditorium Harvard Graduate School of Design
• <event link>

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• APR 14 – WED
  
• 1-4pm
• LECTURE: GEOMETRY FOR PERFORMANCE
• INSTRUCTIONAL:  INTRODUCTION TO GRASSHOPPER
• Grasshopper is considered a graphical algorithm editor and requires no knowledge of programming or scripting, but enables designers to generate and control complex forms. Session gives an introductory view of this vast interface.
• INSTRUCTIONAL:  continuing GRASSHOPPER
• break
• 4:30-6pm
• DIRECTED WORKSESSION

fee for professionals: $395 or $700. for 2

PRO OPTIONS

1 PRO $395.00 2 PROS $700.00

fee for students: $295 or $900. for 4 (register by APR 7)

STUDENT OPTIONS

1 STUDENT $295.00 4 PACK STUDENTS – REG BY APR 5 $900.00