[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 [...]

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 [...]

LaN kindly thanks Mariana Ibañez & Simon Kim of I|K studio for their lecture as part of LaN @ Microsoft Boston workshop JAN 7-9. LaN encourages you to view more about their fascinating work at http://i-k-studio.com/
Lecture: Augmented Design Environments
I|K studio (Mariana Ibañez and Simon Kim)
We recognize that there is a design methodology [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

photo credit: ‘Tornado III’ via Fickr user Lethbridge_man’s
Massive Customization: preventative architectural parameters
Its a gray day & perhaps one to be mindful of the one topic that deserves to come before the rebuilding of environments that have encountered extraordinary destruction through both human initiated (repurcussions of politics / economics / terrorism) & natural forces (climatic)… [...]

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 [...]

‘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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]
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Denver Int’l Airport Emerging Artist Program Winners Announced
Denver, Colorado; May 2008 – Denver International Airport (DIA) and the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs (DOCA) announced the winners of their Emerging Artist Program in its inaugural year. The commission called for a temporary installation in the highway median en route to Denver’s International Airport. The Live [...]

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.