Networked Fabrication for Urban Provocations. Shifting Paradigms from Mass Production to Mass Customization Computational architecture and design course Conventional construction methods all depart from the basic premises of mass production: standardization, modulation and a production line. What these systems developed during the last two centuries fail to take into account are the evolutionary leaps and [...]

JANUARY 20-22: BOULDER COLORADO USA 2012 INTRO to RHINOCEROS for DESIGN-TO-FABRICATION Evening + weekend sessions of LaN instruction on Rhinoceros modeling for digital fabrication. Special interest will be placed on modeling for physical production through digital manufacturing means. Participants will not only learn to model complex geometries wisely, but also iterative design approaches [...]

LaN + SOLIDO hands-on workshop // Rhino-to-Rhinocam / 3 & 5 axis CNC Milling / 3d Scanning 4 evening sessions & 2 weekend day sessions with on-site equipment This workshop is intended to suit a range of levels– those with no Rhinoceros modeling or CNC machining experience will gain experience working with between modeled geometeries [...]

Workshops send us on many planes to distant places… but in between our ventures LaN is looking to power-up digital fabrication locally in Boulder/Denver. For those of you reading this from afar we want to give you access to the many resources & reasons to fly here to name a few… topographic features / entrepreneurial bend [...]

PROCEED TO LaN @ BOULDER / DENVER FALL 2011 WORKSHOPS >> August 29-31 2011 LaN @ CLUB WORKSHOP DENVER 3 evening workshop on LIVE aspects of DIGITAL DESIGN & FABRICATION for DESIGNERS 3 evenings of LaN instruction on Rhinoceros Modeling and Digital Fabrication Strategies. Special interest will be placed on modeling for physical production through digital [...]

AUGUST 09 – AUGUST 19 2011 Boulder Colorado USA > Great Sand Dunes National Park > Denver A TEN DAY MIGRATING SUMMER WORKSHOP ULTIMATELY EXPLORING DIGITAL DESIGN & FABRICATION OF STRUCTURES INFLUENCED BY LIVE FORCES– PRIMARILY FLUID ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN WIND & SAND & RESULTANT LAND FORMATIONS. CAN WE QUANTIFY ANALYZE AND ENGAGE WITH THE ENORMOUS [...]

>> LATEST TORONTO VERSION >> OCT 1 & 2 2011 >> REGISTER NOW LaN @RYERSON DIGITAL FABRICATION WORKSHOP AUG 22 – AUG 26 2011 (5 days fulltime) INSTRUCTED BY LaN: Monika Wittig, Shane Salisbury & tba *all skill levels–including no previous Rhino experience–are welcome *workshop will utilize digital fabrication equipment available at Ryerson (3d printer [...]

LaN returns to BOZEMAN MONTANA this summer… Follow the studio’s progress & fabrication tours in California on the LaN MSU studio FACEBOOK page LaN will also be teaching public workshops in Bozeman, if interested let us know by responding below View Bozeman, Mt in a larger map IMAGES: [top] BMW Oracle America’s Cup Trimaran (photo [...]
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VIEW FALL 2011 BOULDER / DENVER WORKSHOPS >> //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// RHINO DIGITAL DESIGN MARCH SESSIONS – DENVER / BOULDER SESSIONS HELD MONDAY (DENVER) AND TUESDAY (BOULDER) 6-900PM MARCH 14 - APRIL 19 *laptop needed *if you care to rent a laptop email us *all instructed software available for free trial downloads – registrants will receive links [...]

To follow up a successful intro to digital design and Rhino seminar, we will be offering an advanced seminar. This seminar is intended for both return participants of the first seminar wishing to continue their Rhino education, and for intermediate to higher level designers interested in learning more advanced operations in digital design and Rhino [...]

PROCEED TO LaN @ DENVER / BOULDER FALL 2011 WORKSHOPS >> Digital Fabrication Seminar with hands on machine experience sponsored by CLUB WORKSHOP Week 1: Sunday March 13 Laser Cutters and 2-d Subtractive Fabrication Week 2: Sunday March 27 3d Printers and Additive Fabrication Weeks 3 and 4: Saturday April 2 & 9 CNC mill [...]

LaN announces a DENVER introductory session on RHINOSCRIPTING instructed by LaN’s Aaron Thurs & Fri FEB 17-18, 6-9:00pm: RhinoScripting $95 includes 2 nights of instruction RHINOSCRIPT is easy to learn, powerful tool in the Rhino environment for customizing and automating the design process Two sessions provide an introduction to the underlying concepts of programming and their application [...]
LaN co-director, Luis Fraguada, along with Tomas Diez (Fab Lab BCN Manager) and Felipe Pecegueiro, will be conducting the Urban Feeds cluster at Smart Geometry 2011 in Copenhagen. Registration to the workshops and conferences ends soon. For the Urban Feeds cluster we are working with Libelium and Urbiotica to provide participants with the unique opportunity [...]

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//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// *update 34 registrants as of 17 JANUARY LaN DIGITAL FABRICATION SEMINAR – BOULDER interested in Denver version? SESSIONS HELD WEDNESDAY 6-930PM JANUARY 19 – FEBRUARY 16 DOWNTOWN BOULDER / BOULDER CAMPUS tba 5 sessions – $295. REGISTRATION that exceeds: 50 participants – all receive $50 reimbursement 70 participants – all receive LaN sponsored complimentary Rhinoceros [...]

ARCHITECTURAL RESPONSE WORKSHOP FEBRUARY 19-21 @ MIAMI 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 [...]

LAN ON SITE ROME – 15 to 20 NOVEMBER 2010 HOST// ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI ARCHITETTURA TUTORS// LaN DIRECTORS >> CarloMaria Ciampoli begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting, Luis Fraguada & Monika Wittig CNC SUPPORT// SOLIDO >> Filippo Moroni PROGRAM// WALL^2: The idea of Wall-Squared surfaces as a way of initiating explorations of complex surfaces. ITERATIVE design will be the emphasized [...]

Assist LaN in generating a bottom-up system for workshop planning… you tell us instead of us telling you where & when! Check to indicate interest in particular locales. Once 5 expressions of interest are made a soft-launch will be announced for that location. Interested participants will then be invited to comment on brief specifics. *Please [...]

If you would further care to assist us via documenting the workshop or with LaN MSU studio’s upcoming exhibition @ The Emerson Center you will be offered a further discount for the workshop – 3 available With LaN MSU ’real studio’ exhibition coming this fall to The Emerson Center for the Arts & Culture…. LaN [...]

Boulder 350 Global Work Party ‘Creating and Celebrating Climate Solutions on 10/10/10′ LaN joins the lineup of over 40 workshops being offered http://boulder350.org/workshops/ ARCHITECTURAL RESPONSE time technology tectonics presented by LaN / Live Architecture Network Its clear in 2010 perhaps more than ever that significant shifts in economies and culture can occur extremely rapidly; climatic [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]