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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 experience levels [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Designing Interface Architecture – Brazil 2010
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 [...]
LaN at Hong Kong – Shenzhen Biennale 2009
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 [...]
IaaC: ArboReal Studio Video
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 to environmental [...]
Generate Seminar Review, Oulu, Finland
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 [...]
BOSTON JAN 2010: CNC PROTOCOL Workshop @ Microsoft
CNC PROTOCOL DESIGN TO FABRICATION COMMUNICATION LaN 2010 Boston workshop sponsored by >> 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, Massachusetts. [...]
ROCK|WALL Boulder WORKSHOP NOV 24-28
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 [...]
starting NOV 22 Boulder … personal LaN pLaNS
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 [...]
**LaN WORKSHP @ San Juan Dec 2-5
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 [...]
Alternate Interface: Control Grasshopper from iPod
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 @ Boulder & Denver Oct 19- 25
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 >> student fees: $195 [...]
LaN workshop @ Bozeman Montana Oct 14-17
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. [...]
Grasshopper and Rhinoscript Connections to OpenOffice
Provided are some examples of how to bridge between OpenOffice’s Calc program and Rhinoscript or Grasshopper.
MASSIVE CUSTOMIZATION
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)… [...]
Grasshopper UDP Receiver
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: [...]
HTWK Leipzig Workshop Results
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 [...]
LaN @ Generate: International Seminar of Algorithmic Architecture
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 [...]
LaN OnSite BCN2 Workshop Results
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 were able to [...]
LaN @ eCAADe 2009 Istanbul
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 in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe) [...]
final week to REGISTER Barcelona wrkshp
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 [...]
