LaN / Microsoft New England Research & Development Center WORKSHOP *SCHOLARSHIPS*
26 February 2010 LaN announces:
LaN recognizes the generous support of sponsors enabling us to host our workshops in incredible settings fee-free. This enables LaN to forward the benefit to our participants. LaN now announces 2 Scholarships for the BOSTON APRIL 12-14 2010 Architectural Response Workshop, [...]

ARCHITECTURAL RESPONSE time / tech / tectonics
continues… BOSTON…CHICAGO & other locations to be announced Email connect@livearchitecture.net to suggest a locale
Critical Practices of ‘LIVE ARCHITECTURE’
3 day seminar 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 [...]
[call for participants]
UrbanBuddy (www.urbanbuddy.com) and Live architecture Network (www.livearchitecture.net) are collaborating to organize a series of cost-effective design exchange workshops for students and other interested parties to be held in multiple locations each year. Participants will simultaneously explore Barcelona, Chicago and New York City; three incredible urban centers. urbanFAB [workshop] will reveal global concepts while [...]

ARCHITECTURAL RESPONSE / time / technology / tectonics
March 23-27 2010 Boulder / Denver Digital Design & Fabrication Spring Break Workshop hosted by RNL Design – downtown Denver
img credits: Harshad Sharma
critical practices of live architecture
march 23 – tues – PRE-SHOP SESSION – Rhinoceros 3d modeling for beginners *(also may be taken exclusively by those [...]
This video shows a typical day early on in the first studio [ArboReal House] of the 2009-2010 IaaC Masters of Advanced Architecture. The studio is divided into two phases. The first phases consists of student teams adopting a tree species in Barcelona and studying a specimen of that species to understand its reactions [...]

CNC PROTOCOL
DESIGN TO FABRICATION COMMUNICATION
LaN 2010 Boston workshop sponsored by
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JAN 6 – 9 2010 @ Microsoft New England Research & Development Center Microsoft New England Research & Development Center
The Microsoft New England Research & Development Center is a research and software innovation campus located in the heart of Cambridge, [...]

ROCK | WALL
LaN BOULDER – DENVER workshop NOVEMBER 24-28 >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>sponsored by:
students $350 ($250 early student fee by nov 13); professionals $395
*LaN ANNOUNCES WORKSHOP SPONSORSHIP BY MCNEEL Academic participants may now purchase a Rhinoceros Educational License for only an additional $50. If interest please email connect@livearchitecture.net with [...]

pLaN
personal LaN consultation / tutorship
Launching week coming to Boulder/Denver Week of Nov 22
Universal rates apply for academic & professional clients during promo week – Nov 22 – 30
$45- hr / $120-3hr
professionals // project consultation / digital design & fabrication training
students // tutorship of studio project/thesis or other assistance
Please reserve your session via submission of [...]

Current exploration into alternative interfaces for presenting and interacting with associative models. Here we see two examples of communication from an iPod Touch 2g to McNeel’s Grasshopper plug-in for Rhino. This is made possible by Open Sound Control (OSC) and the User Datagram Protocol (UDP). In these examples, a Processing interface was utilized to show [...]

LaN Workshop: Digital Fabrication via Rhino
Sponsored by Sweet Onion Creations
Boulder & Denver Colorado
October 19-25 2009
Directed by Shane Salisbury & Monika Wittig
professional fees:
single or multi- participants
1 Professional Participant $395.00 2 Professional Participants $700.00 3 Professional Participants $995.00 4 Professional Participants $1,200.00 5 Professional Participants $1,400.00
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student fees:
$195 register by Oct 9
$295 register after Oct [...]

LaN Workshop: Digital Fabrication via Rhino
Sponsored by Sweet Onion Creations
Bozeman, Montana
October 14-17 2009
Directed by Shane Salisbury & Monika Wittig
Questions: connect@livearchitecture.net or 406. 212. 4758
$195 register by Oct 2
$245 register Oct 6 – 10
$295 register after Oct 10
*please note: recent site issues noted with our links deactivating. Any trouble? Email us to be [...]

LaN OnSite Barcelona v2 workshops concluded with composite fabrication processes and associative design production. Participants joined a two phase / six module workshop series that immersed them in contemporary digital design and fabrication techniques. McNeel Rhinoceros was the base platform for all design and parameterization. Through the Grasshopper plugin for Rhino, participants [...]

LaN announces its second ON-SITE:Barcelona workshop with modules to be held August 10-30, 2009. In 2008, LaN’s first BCN workshop at IaaC / Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia drew participants from 12 countries to attend lectures and technical seminars furthering their understanding of digital design and fabrication in architecture. This year LaN extends the [...]
Grasshopper Training
Jul 27-29 2009
Barcelona, Catalunya
EUR 795
Course Description:
This workshop will give students a functional understanding of the Grasshopper. Allowing them to build on this understanding into more advanced projects of their own.
Details…
Location:
McNeel Europe (map)
c/ Roger de Flor 32-34 bajos
Barcelona, Catalunya 08018
spain
To Register:
e-mail: Rodrigo Barcena
phone: + 34 93.319.9002
http://www.eu.rhino3d.com/training/training_form_eu.htm

‘Vertical Neighborhood’ MoMA Tower Proposal
July 2009
PARAMETRIC CONSULTATION
NEW YORK TOWER PROPOSAL
Vertical Neighborhood is a mixed Use New York high rise scheme conceived by the New York based architecture Firm – Axis Mundi with Parametric modeling and digital design by Live Architecture Network members Carlo Ciampoli and James Coleman.
“A more diverse, complex, heterogeneous, and environmentally-minded city need [...]

The following selected projects are the result of the second Parametric Design seminar which took place at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalunya [IaaC] in the third term of the 2008-2009 class. The seminar, taught by LaN co-director Luis E. Fraguada, focused on developing prototypes which synthesized research studio and seminar work into one [...]
Photos by Alberto Algaba Salazar
This recently completed workshop on SCRIPTING + DIGITAL FABRICATION brought together students, educators, and professionals to experience for the first time scripted processed applied to architectural prototyping and manufacturing. The workshop had dual locations with an intense Rhinoscript session taking place May 21-23rd in Donostia (San Sebastian), Spain and a CNC [...]

Live architecture Network is providing consulting services to the New York based architectural firm Axis Mundi for the development of parametric concept models of a high rise building.
The project will be released to the media in mid June. Stay tuned for images of this provocative design proposal!
www.axismundi.com

ARCHEOGRAPHY IV
April 30 2009 – June 30 2009
Live Architecture Network with Biba Bell
SUPERFRONT architecture gallery and project space is proud to present ARCHEOGRAPHY IV, a performative installation produced in conjunction with Movement Research Festival 2009: ROLL CALL. The exhibition features new works of architecture and performance conceived collaboratively by Live Architecture Network and choreographer Biba [...]

A big thank you to Brooklyn’s best Metal fabricator David Stanavich owner of Brooklyn Custom. LaN utilized custom rolled 3/4″ Metal Pipes to create the splines that make up the framework for the Archeography IV installation. Accurate curve radii was of utmost importance for the project and thanks to Brooklyn Custom’s highly sophisticated shop [...]

Curso, de carácter teórico-práctico, tiene como objetivo introducir a los participantes en la fabricación digital y las posibilidades que ésta ofrece en el área de la arquitectura y el diseño, tanto como plataforma de comprobación de ideas como de producción directa de objetos finales.
Los participantes serán introducidos en el uso de softwares de modelado 2d [...]

Friday, April 24th, 2009 @ 1930hr
Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia
Pujades 102 baixos, Poble Nou, 08005 Barcelona
Theodore Spyropoulos co-directs the Architectural Association Design Research Lab [DRL] (London). He directs the experimental architecture and design studio Minimaforms with Stephen Spyropoulos. He is a visiting Research Fellow at MIT since 2006 and curates the AA [...]