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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 [...]
[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 [...]

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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Provided are some examples of how to bridge between OpenOffice’s Calc program and Rhinoscript or Grasshopper.

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)… [...]

Synchronous UDP Receiver
GH version 0.6.0019
Description:
This definition allows receiving with the User Datagram Protocol through .net. Please note, this definition uses a synchronous structure, meaning Rhino/GH will hang until some data is received from an external application. Please run the included Processing Sketch in order to begin transmitting continuous data to GH.
Examples:
http://www.livearchitecture.net/archives/3664
http://www.livearchitecture.net/archives/3732
http://www.livearchitecture.net/archives/3745
Requirements:
Grasshopper 0.6.0019
Processing 1.0.5: http://www.processing.org
UDP Library [...]
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 co-director, Luis Fraguada, has been invited by the Department of Architecture at the University of Oulu to lecture and instruct a workshop the the upcoming International Seminar of Algorithmic Architecture: Generate. The seminar is hosted Algoritminen Architecture Working Group, composed of Oulu University students and young architects. The seminar will take place on October [...]