These images document some of the moments throughout the Architectural Association Shanghai Visiting School 2010 which tool place from August 13th through the 22nd. Thanks to Tom Verebes for inviting a great group of tutors to lead the 70 participants through the Post Shanghai Expo Brief. In all the paticipants were divided into 5 units [...]

Images from the second day of the Live Parameters workshop being held at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IaaC). What you see here are images of the first LaN Urban Sensing Kit (working title). This kit was designed by Felipe Pecegueiro do Amaral Curado, Oriol Carrasco, and Alba Armengol Gasull and includes a [...]

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SEPT 10 – 13 2010 @ MIAMI sponsored by Act Interiors
4 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 [...]
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The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia Summer School has been in session since Aug 19th 2010. This one month course is about to come to an end next week, but before we finish, we want to share some of the work in progress. The road to this summer school began with a mutual agreement [...]
LaN will be instructing a workshop at this years Advances in Architectural Geometry Conference 2010 in Vienna, Austria. Workshops for AAG10 are Saturday September 18th and Sunday September 19th 2010 and the conference will be September 20 and 21. We are pleased to be included in the program for this year’s event as there are [...]
LaN Co-Director Luis E. Fraguada has been invited to teach a unit at the Architectural Association’s Shanghai Visiting School, directed by Tom Verebes. The visiting school takes place from Friday August 13th – Saturday August 21st 2010. The event will be hosted at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Architecture Shanghai Study Center and [...]

Project Architect: Quim Girbau & Neus Mateu
Design Consultation and Fabrication: Medio Design
Parametric Design and Geometry Consultation: Luis E. Fraguada – LaN
This project for the design the UDON Chueca restaurant in Madrid was recently completed by Arquitects Quim Girbau & Neus Mateu. Medio Design and LaN collaborated on the ceiling which traverses the span of the [...]
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LaN announces its third On Site Barcelona workshop August 23rd through 29th at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IaaC): Live Parameters.
One of the key elements in any associative design model is the data to which it responds. The ‘Live Parameters’ workshop will investigate several modes for interacting with real time, real life data [...]

Collaborative Cloud is an installation which investigates distributed and decentralized design and fabrication. The interface (in the link above) allows you to design and give information to a piece of the cloud, thus anyone can participate in the project’s growth over the next 8 months. The physical construction will take place at the Disseny Hub [...]

LaN-FLIGHT is a traveling seminar / tour of digital fabrication practices and programs. This immersion experience is intended to draw a diverse group of professionals and students from afar for a full schedule of exchanges with leading practices, fabrication lab visits, & LaN seminars… all while [...]

LaN / LIVE ARCHITECTURE NETWORK workshop
organized by
University of Oregon – Portland School of Architecture & Allied Arts
SUMMER IN THE CITY is a special offering of classes and workshops for students interested in art, architecture, landscape architecture, design, and creative uses of technology. We invite students who are motivated learners and who want to [...]

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JUNE 2-6 2010 Boulder / Denver Digital Design & Fabrication Workshop hosted by RNL Design – downtown Denver
*arch response workshop will be 4 sessions over 5 days with 1 optional intro to Rhino session, times TBA
Its clear in 2010 perhaps more than ever that significant shifts [...]

STUDIO DESCRIPTION
LaN will be returning to MSU School of Architecture to teach a a summer design studio (ARCH 458) The studio will investigate parametric design and digital fabrication through the use of Rhino software. The final outcome of the studio will be digitally designed / fabricated product that focuses on parametric production and [...]

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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FABberz (www.fabberz.com) and LaN (www.livearchitecture.net) are collaborating to organize a series of workshops for students and other interested parties to be held in multiple locations each year, leading up to the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. While digital production tools have been commercially available for some time, [...]
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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 [...]

LaN COFFEE (work)SHOP
Coffee Shop Seminars
LaN is pleased to announce two one night seminars during a stop over in San Juan, Puerto Rico. These sessions are introductory sessions and are a precursor to a further in-depth LaN workshop to take place late April. Professionals and students alike are invited to participate!
Downtown San Juan, Puerto Rico
March 16 [...]

LaN Focus: Fabricating for Haiti
LaN invites professionals and students alike to attend a 4 day workshop (evenings + weekend) focused on research and development of temporary structures for the displaced victims of the Haiti Earthquake. Participants will learn Digital Design and Fabrication methods and later apply those methods in project proposals. The workshop will [...]

UPDATE: The fund raising for the first edition of this workshop series has been successful! In 30 days, 54 wonderful supporters pledged from $1 – $1000 to make this event possible. We want to thank them and everyone else who’s actions were paramount in spreading the word.
FABberz (www.fabberz.com) and LaN (www.livearchitecture.net) are collaborating to hold [...]

Photos By Tom Verebes
These images show a recent collaboration between Ocean CN, Crystal Design, and LaN for the Hong Kong – Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale 2009. LaN was asked to develop a custom user interface for an associative urban model in order to provide visitors to the biennale with the experience of designing their own city. [...]