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AA Shanghai Visiting School 2010 Wrapup
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 [...]
WIP: LaN Live Parameters 2010
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 [...]
MICHAEL SILVER – virtual critic / lecturer @ MSU
[ all respondents from Montana State University - LaN studio participants, summer 2010 ] > http://facebook.com/lanmsu
HAVING A VIRTUAL CRITIC / LECTURER… WORTHWHILE EXPERIENCE?
I would say yes. In my mind it makes more sense to have a virtual critic than it does to fly some one from half way across the globe just [...]
LaN ARCH RESPONSE…. MIAMI SEPT 10-13
ARCHITECTURAL RESPONSE time / tech / tectonics
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 [...]
WIP: IaaC Summer School 2010
http://fablabbcn.org/informalism/
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 @ Advances in Architectural Geometry 2010
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 @ AA Shanghai Visiting School
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 for UDON Restaurant Madrid
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 [...]
LaN Interview in July 2010 Digimag
Thanks to Sabina Cuccibar for the oportunity to discuss our work in July’s Digimag. LaN Interview on Digimag. The interview is in Italian, here is a google translation (many mistakes) to English and Spanish. We first met Sabina at the Design Modelling Symposium 2009 in Berlin.
DIGICULT is an Italian cultural platform online and offline, which [...]
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Live Parameters: LaN On-Site Barcelona 3 Workshop
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 Project
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 JUL 7-13 …digifab en route w/LaN
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 @ U of OREGON – Portland AUG 12-14
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 [...]
DEN: ARCH RESPONSE wrkshp JUN 2-6
ARCHITECTURAL RESPONSE / time / technology / tectonics
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 [...]
Smart Geometry 2010 Barcelona
These images show a glimpse into what were the workshop sessions during the Smart Geometry 2010 event, which took place at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IaaC) from the 19th through the 24th of April (with Conference sessions taking place at the Petit Palau). This event came to Barcelona and IaaC thanks to [...]
LaN Summer Studio Montana State University
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 [...]
BOS: LaN @ MICROSOFT JULY 7-9
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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ARCHITECTURAL RESPONSE time / tech / tectonics
**IF JOINING US FROM OUT OF TOWN… WE [...]
DIA Workshop / Competition April 23rd – May 5th
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!
Information and Registration available at http://www.diaworkshop.net
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 NERD Scholarships – APRIL
**if you have arrived to assist LaN in voting for 2 scholars… please scroll below to the entries in the reply field, review and submit 2 names / your affiliation in the reply field…
please note this is not an experience competition– judging will be on interest and intended application following workshop– all [...]
urbanFab June 28 – July 17 BCN/Chicago/NYC
[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 [...]
LaN stopover @San Juan MAR 16-17
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 [...]
Fabricating for Haiti MAR 11-14 Santo Domingo Wrkshp
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 [...]
