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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, [...]
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 [...]

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 [...]

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 from a recent trip Oulu, Finland. LaN co-director, Luis Fraguada, was invited to Oulu to lecture and teach at the Generate Seminar. The seminar was organized by the Algorithmic Architecture Project Group at the University of Oulu, Department of Architecture. Many, many sincere thanks to Eetu Arponen, Eva Haggrén, Aulikki Herneoja, Eeva Hinkka, Hannes [...]

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 [...]

LaN Digital Fabrication and Rhino Workshop
San Juan, Puerto Rico
*December 2 – 5
location: Classes will take place in in the following location:
TASK
420 Calle San Antonio esquina Calle Sagrado Corazon, Suite 1
Santurce, Puerto Rico 00909
*tentative Digital Fabrication explorations by using the CNC machine at the Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico/ 10 tents 10 [...]

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 [...]
Henning Rambow, professor at HTWK Leipzig organized the First Parametric Design Workshop last June, 2009. Six tutors and 40 participants from all around Europe and beyond took to Leipzig for 4 days of intense teaching, learning, and production.
Rhino Grasshopper was utilized as the main design tool, allowing participants to explore various aspects of the workshop [...]

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 co-director, Luis Fraguada, has been invited by McNeel Europe to instruct a RhinoScript workshop during the eCAADE 2009 Istanbul Conference. The 2-Day intensive session will be held September 14-15, 2009. For more information, visit the eCAADE 2009 website.
About eCAADE:
What is eCAADe?
eCAADe (Education and research [...]

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 [...]

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LaN has been invited to teach at an upcoming parametric design workshop in HTWK Leipzig. Workshop tutors include:
[Barcelona] Ioulietta Zindrou, Maite Bravo, Verena Volger, Luis Fraguada
[Bukarest] Dimitrie Stefanescu
[Leipzig] Henning Rambow, Patrik Bedarf
The workshop will focus of associative modelling using Rhino/Grasshopper and digital fabrication with a laser cutter. This course will take place from June 26th – [...]
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 [...]

LAN ON-SITE: ROMA
March 22- March 29, 2009
HOST// ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI ARCHITETTURA
TUTORS// LaN DIRECTORS >> CarloMaria Ciampoli Luis Fraguada & Monika Wittig
CNC SUPPORT// SOLIDO >> Filippo Moroni
EVENTS// workshop concludes with ROME’S PREMIERE PECHA KUCHA NIGHT
PROGRAM// WALL^2:
The idea of Wall-Squared surfaces as a way of initiating explorations of complex surfaces. ITERATIVE design will be [...]

LaN has been invited to present a workshop at this year’s Design Modelling Symposium in Berlin. For more information, please visit the organization’s website: DMSB2009. It is an honor to be included in this event. Thank you to the organizers and Visual Dream.

LaN is pleased to announce the second round of its Barcelona ON-SITE series. Please save the dates and stay tuned for further details in the days to come.

image: 3dprint @ Solido / wall design by Rome workshop participant PierPaolo Presta