The Journal for Digital Landscape Architecture (JoDLA) 6-2021 is online!

 

The open-access Journal for Digital Landscape Architecture (JoDLA) 6-2021 is online available at https://gispoint.de/jodla.html. Research papers representing practical and theoretical approaches regarding the latest technological advances in digital landscape architecture will be presented these days at the DLA virtual conference 2021, May 26–28, with the topic Resilient Landscape Architecture and Global Change.

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IAAC Global Summer School 2021 - Online workshop applications open!

Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia

Global Summer School 2021 // July 5-29, 2021

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) is glad to launch another edition of the Global Summer School (GSS21), the 14th edition of the international summer educational program focussing on designing the future of our cities. The program will take place online from IAAC Barcelona from July 5 through July 29.

This year, the GSS21 offers a unique online platform interconnecting its extraordinary network of faculty, industry collaborators, and laboratories in the most extensive online educational summer course of 2021. Since the first editions, we have digitally connected, meeting, sharing, and learning together in an incredible global environment of innovators and educators.

IAAC decided to launch a novel, flexible model, enriching our digital routes within a new format. The GSS21 will offer four online workshops exploring the impact of novel tools in the definition of a new Advanced Architecture at different scales. The program is an opportunity for architecture, design, art students, and professionals alike to conduct multi-level investigations on computational design, urban analytics, design for robotics—controlling IAAC robots remotely—and environmental design.

This new program will celebrate alternative learning models dealing with the challenges of transforming our cities, architecture, and technology. Each participant can now trace a personal path in this dynamic format, picking a single GSS21 workshop or enrolling in the entire program. Every module will be run by IAAC faculties, allowing the participants to interact, work and develop projects in a class environment, taking part in Global Lectures and meeting international experts and guests.

“The world is seeking new minds in design, architecture, and construction to address emerging challenges in our societies and cities,” said Aldo Sollazzo, director of the IAAC Global Summer School. “Programs such as the Global Summer School provides the budding minds of the architecture field with the tools they need to shape new solutions.”

The previous edition of GSS20 was a success, counting more than 150 international participants worldwide joining together an explorative summer educational program. Students and professionals interested in participating need to apply here by June 25, 2021.

Join the biggest educational summer program ever done before!

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IAA Mobility Design Competition 2021

 

Design and architecture students are welcome to participate in the IAA Mobility Design Competition 2021.
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Share your creative interpretations for the future of mobility and you could be presenting your concepts to a room full of design experts and leaders from some of the top global mobility Companies at the IAA Mobility Conference in Munich, Germany.

The competition has three categories:

• Mobility in the city of the future
• Urban Transportation of the future
• Mobility UX / UI of the future

⁠⁠Design briefings, information, and participation requirements are available here.

Participants are welcome to use Rhino and Grasshopper to create their concept designs.

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New online workshop for landscape architects: Rhino + Lands Design

Asuni has organized a new workshop for landscape architects that first covers essential functions of Rhino (including 2D drafting and layouts) and later the main features of Lands Design.

Rhino + Lands Design

• June 9, 14, 16, 2021 (Rhino); 22, 28 and June 22, 28, 30, 2021 (Lands Design)
• 17h-19h GMT+2 / 10 AM US Central time
• Language: English
• Price: 360€+VAT (Students 50% off)

Lands Design

• June 22, 28, 30, 2021
• 17h-19h GMT+2 / 10 AM US Central time
• Language: English
• Price: 180€+VAT (Students 50% off)

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Webinar: Wacom + RhinoCAM (in Spanish) - May 27, 2021

Webinar: Wacom con RhinoCAM 2021
May 27 at 10:00 am CEST

Icreatia has organized a new webinar where you will learn how to combine modeling in Rhino with Wacom tablet and milling with RhinoCAM.

Complete info and registration (in Spanish)...

Free Webinar: Grasshopper is for All Engineers! Not Just for Architects (June 24, 2021)

Free Webinar: Grasshopper is for All Engineers! Not Just Architects
June 24, 2021 (14:00-15:00 CEST or 20:00-21:00 CEST)
Speaker: Krzysztof Wojslaw

"Absurd shapes and crazy geometry is not the only job for parametric tools. In this webinar, I want to convince you that Grasshopper can be used in all engineering disciplines.

I will summarise my four years of work on projects designed and implemented with the use of Grasshopper and will present various uses and applications of parametric design."

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Syntactic Elements V1.0 Webinar by DesignMorphine (June 26, 2021)

Syntactic Elements V1.0 Webinar by DesignMorphine

June 26, 2021

Syntactic Elements V1.0 will explore a direct mesh-to-fabrication workflow through mesh strip element discretization with Grasshopper. This technique is suitable for multiple scales of installations and materials ranging from paper to metal plating. 

In this course, we will adapt mesh form-finding techniques using Kangaroo to site-specific considerations. We will then deconstruct the resultant mesh into triangle strips using Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) to ensure various design goals. The proposed workflow can rationalize doubly-curved geometries and forms that resist quad panel planarization. Using parallel data streams to reference relationships between parts and the whole, we will develop a labeling system that doubles as an assembly ruleset and apply it to the fabrication data. Students will be able to export their results in color-coded, optimally packed curves suitable for laser cutting or similar processes. 

Ultimately, students will learn how to design, optimize, rationalize, and document parts that can be laser cut to construct a real-world structural whole that can be easily assembled for quick and efficient fabrication.

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DesignMorphine Masters Degree (Sep 2021-June 2022)

DesignMorphine Masters Degree

Sep 2021 to Jun 2022 (9 Months)

Everything humanity has designed so far is limited and based on how our bodies are designed and work, the way they experience reality around us. However, in this age and time, we have reached a crossroads where technology can and will eventually shape not only our minds but our bodies. In this sense, designing the future entails, first and foremost, designing the body that will live in that future. Challenges inevitably arise and demand innovators and pioneers to overcome them; new tools and technologies are required to materialize the answer; limits and boundaries will be crossed, and the equilibrium will change. In this journey, the compass will be a scalable notion of the human condition. Housing, transit systems, and the ways one moves around in the city, as well as the whole structure of the city itself, are essential aspects one has to consider when designing for this new reality. 

We are designing the whole world. It’s not a mere design process; it’s cosmogony.

One of the main software used in the program is McNeel Rhinoceros.

Complete details and registration...

Training for Trainers Workshop - June 9-11, 2021

Training for Trainers Workshop

June 9-11, 2021
9:30 AM-1:30 PM
Hosted Online by McNeel Europe

Expert users of Rhino who want to get accredited as Authorized Rhino Trainers now have a chance to participate in this certification workshop hosted online by McNeel Europe and delivered by Vanessa Steeg.

To know more about the Rhino Authorized Training Program, click here...

Price of the course: €195 (+ taxes, if applicable).

Seats are very limited. Sign up now!

Registration is now open...

Rhino 7 + Grasshopper Spanish Workshop

 

LimaUno is offering its 4th season workshop for architecture students and related professionals, Rhinoceros 7 + Grasshopper. During this course, students will learn about explicit modeling from NURBS, Mesh to advanced SubD, parametric modeling with Grasshopper and Pufferfish, Physics Simulation and Analysis with Kangaroo and G-code generation, 3D printer hacking with Silkworm and Firefly-Kinect data analysis.

There are no requirements for previous experience for this course; participants will begin with the basics and end the class with advanced concepts and tools.

The course is in Spanish via Zoom. 

Dates: May 27–June 28, 2021

Fee: 300.00PEN (US$85.00 +VAT, if applicable) (Volume discount available)

Language: Spanish (International students with basic-intermediate Spanish level can apply)

Location: Lima-Peru. Live-streamed via Zoom

Register here!

Questions? Contact estudio.lima.uno@gmail.com

Check out Rhino3D.Education for the latest courses on Rhino, Grasshopper, and more!

AIAAF 2021 (AI Aided Architectural Fabrication 2021 Symposium) - May 21, 2021

AIAAF 2021 

AI Aided Architectural Fabrication 2021 Symposium

May 21, 2021

The idea for AIAAF is to meet with other researchers, manufacturers, architects, engineers to showcase the works, discuss the existing research problems and potentially form some partnerships. While the event is open to the public, the talks are technical and academia-oriented. The name may suggest a very narrow niche for the speakers, but AIAAF is a premise of the future—a wide spectrum of topics will be covered.

AIAAF is a platform established to:

• Showcase the projects which are using fabrication aided by AI
• Discuss outstanding robotic fabrication projects
• Get familiar with the cutting edge simulation, modeling and AI methods
• Find out new areas of collaboration between the AI and Fab disciplines

Lineup

• Gabriella Rossi (CITA)
• Nathan Miller (Proving Ground)
• Victor Sardenberg (Leibniz Universität Hannover)
• Lidia Atanasova (Technical University of Munich)
• Anatolii Kotov (Brandenburg University of Technology)
• Cedric Droogmans, Luis Jayme Buerba, Elena Jaramazovic and Lorenzo Masini (IAAC Alumni)
• Chien-hua Huang (China Academy of Art)

Cost: Free

Organizer: Brandenburg University of Technology

Language: English

Complete details and registration...

Computational Design: NEXT 5.0 - July 17-18, 2021

The Past, Present & Future: An online interactive conference with global frontiers. Two-Day Online Conference with Live Presentations, Tutorials, Interactive Sessions, Live Mentorship & Panel Discussions. A collaborative initiative by ParametricArchitecture (PA) with rat[LAB]EDUCATION, DesignMorphine, A>T. Computational Design: NEXT 5.0 brings together pioneers and professionals from all industries to meet and discuss new emerging technologies in art, architecture, design, and manufacturing.

Computational Design: NEXT is a collaborative initiative by some of the global frontiers of Computational Design to open up an Online Learning platform as a comprehensive online conference comprising of discussions, dialogues, tutorials, and mentorship to a global audience through thought-provoking and meaningful conversations curated by ParametricArchitecture (PA), one of the leading media platforms focussing on Computational Design and its various subsets.

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Rhino UK User Group Meeting | May 20, 2021

Join SimplyRhino UK and McNeel on a new edition of the Rhino UK User Group Meeting.

Date: Thursday, May 20, 2021
Time: 18:30–20:00 (UK Time)

Presentation #1 – Astheimer Design – Delivering Mobility Solutions for a Sustainable* Future

AURA image ©Astheimer Design

Founded in 2009 by Carsten Astheimer with Russell Gillott, the Astheimer team has grown into a talented multidisciplinary team of designers and design engineers enabling the design, development, and building of road-going vehicles, award-winning boats, vertical take-off and landing aircraft, and more.

Carsten spent a large part of his career in Italy, the birthplace of automotive design, building and running one of the studios for Pininfarina. He then became design director for Brunswick, a multinational marine company where he met Russell, now the design director at Astheimer.

Presentation #2 – McNeel – Rhino 7, Design Possibilities

Kyle Houchens

Scott Davidson and Kyle Houchens will deliver McNeel's presentation.

The goal of the presentation is to showcase some of the new features of Rhino 7 and the possibilities they bring for design. The session will also demonstrate how users can apply these new tools to their workflow.

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GhPython Dive Deeper online course

 

Have you ever struggled with coding in Rhino and Grasshopper? 

Thousands of people have joined us in the GhPython Introduction Online course and found coding much easier and fascinating!

With the interest of participants in a level two course, in order to extend their knowledge and learn more features about GhPython, we are happy to introduce you to the second level of GhPython Online called GhPython Dive Deeper. 

In this course, you will learn more data types, more functions, list comprehensions, format methods, creating color and animation in GhPython, differences between Rhino Common and rhinoscriptsyntax, and the amazing part of Rhino.Inside.Revit which lets you enjoy using Rhino with your Revit models, and vice versa.

Please, make sure that you have completed the GhPython Intro course before getting started for GhPython Dive Deeper. 

You will have the opportunity to upload your codes and question to get answers from your teacher, Niloofar Zaker. 

Join us for GhPython Dive Deeper by enrolling here!

View all of the courses we offer here!

.Questions? Contact Niloofar Zaker 

Niloofar Zaker is a computational designer who works on parametric modeling in Rhino and Grasshopper with Python. She has a background in architecture, and after several years of working in this field, she believes coding is becoming the language of the near future. She is excited to share her experiences with you throughout the course. 

Check out Rhino3D.Education for the latest courses on Rhino, Grasshopper, and more!

New video tutorial for SectionTools in Rhino 7

 

In this video, Rajaa Issa shows the general workflow and the new functionality in SectionTools for Rhino 7 for Windows.

SectionTools is a free plugin by McNeel to create dynamic 3D sections and 2D layouts that update with model changes. Download and documentation are available here...

SectionTools video tutorial...

PAZ - Archicad + Grasshopper (Beginner)

PAZ Academy (Parametric Academy Zurich)
May 13, 2021 | 1:30 PM-5:00 PM CET

Join this 3-hour workshop if you are a beginner and want to be an Archicad user or if you are curious about parametric design and the Archicad-Grasshopper Live Connection. The skill level of the workshop is beginner.

During these three hours, you will receive a brief introduction to Rhino, Grasshopper, and of course, Archicad-Grasshopper Live Connection. You will develop a case study during the workshop based on a useful daily design issue.

After understanding the basics and gaining some hands-on experience, Andrés and Nora from Paz Academy will answer some specific questions, building the community while having a cold beer!

Also, join them in a Private 3H Workshop. You can select your ideal date, time, and language (English, Spanish, German, or Hungarian).

Details and registration...

Monoceros Online Workshop - May 27-30, 2021

Monoceros is a suite of tools for computational design using the Wave Function Collapse algorithm. It is used for optimally occupying an envelope with discrete modules, where a set of user-defined rules can constrain the spatial relationship between those modules. Using the Wave Function Collapse algorithm provides an innovative and fast solution to the emerging architectural problem of discrete aggregation for design, architecture, and urban planning. 

Monoceros is a plugin for Rhino / Grasshopper created at Subdigital and is available to download for free on food4Rhino. 

You can learn more from the Book of Project Monoceros.

With Monoceros you can

• Design discrete aggregates in Grasshopper
• Distribute modules in a meaningful way
• Fill envelopes without gaps
• Automatically set up your project
• Design by showing examples
• Have full control of data and assembly
• Interfere with the solver
• Analyze the result in realtime
• Combine Monoceros with other plugins

Monoceros Online Workshop
brought to you by arx.ace on May 27-30, 2021

In four days of lectures and hands-on exercises, you will be introduced to a broad architectural context, explained the basics, guided through real-life examples, and revealed advanced concepts of a controlled discrete assembly.

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Into the Wild - design competitions by Non Architecture

Nature is the designer of this world. Since ancient history, we have always imagined and represented nature in a great many ways across history, painting it and worshipping it. Today we ended up undervaluing it.

Architects and designers have control over our built environment; by designing cities and buildings to empower rather than disconnect from ecosystems, we can change our proximity to the environment and change our physical relationship to it. Rekindling our relationship with nature is a task that architecture and urban design are well suited to tackle. Recognizing and making decisions based on nature’s value will be essential for building a better world.

Bringing nature back into our cities and enhancing existing ecological zones can deliver a truly impressive array of benefits, ranging from health and well-being to climate change adaptation and mitigation. However, reconciling cities with nature requires more than just a scientific approach.

Into the Wild is a compilation of design challenges that aim to approach the element of nature from different perspectives.

In this scenario, Rhino software presents itself as a powerful creative tool to design and develop the most innovative proposal to submit on this series of competitions.

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Teaching engineering students to use pencil and paper alongside digital design

In this article, Imperial College London discusses how their classes teach the roles of sketching, building paper models, and using Grasshopper.

Engineering students taught to use pencil and paper alongside digital design...

Useful Resources for Teaching Rhino

Useful Resources for Teaching Rhino
13 May 2021
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM CET
Hosted by McNeel Europe

Whether you teach architecture, industrial design, engineering, art, mathematics or you just started with a YouTube channel, this session will give you some ideas, insights, learnings, and cool perspectives to teach Rhino.

Learn how to incorporate Rhino into your current design curriculum, and discover all the material available for teachers: Rhino features, extra and market-specific tools, guides, videos, social and learning platforms, teachers advice, tips for online teaching, certifications, exams, training and much more!

Join Carla Sologuren from the McNeel Europe team on this free online webinar in English and let her introduce you to these Useful Resources for Teaching Rhino.

Don’t miss the chance to be part of our teachers' community!

Seats are limited.

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Parametric Design Webinar (Rhino + Grasshopper)

Parametric Design Webinar
June 14, 2021 

Are you interested in gaining Parametric competency to push your design skills to the next level? Are you ready to learn a very exciting and powerful tool that will take your ideas and concepts to a whole new realm? 

This Parametric Design Webinar will provide you with the necessary knowledge and ability to use Grasshopper, a free visual programming plugin in Rhinoceros. 

If you already know Grasshopper and would like to uplift your parametric knowledge, you can choose Option 2. 

• Option 1: General Webinar for Beginners - 8 Days / 16 hours in total: Starts June 14, 2021 
• Option 2: Intensive Webinar for Intermediates - 4 Days / 8 hours in total: Starts June 21, 2021 

Time Zone: CET / Berlin Germany Time 

Language: English

Participants will be given a certificate of participation at the end of the webinar.

Complete details, registration, and webinar....

Free-Form from Scratch Workshop by Design-to-Production, May 10-12

 

Free-Form from Scratch Workshop 

by Design-to-Production

Date: May 10-12

Time: 3 times 2 hours 19h30-21h30 CEST

Tutors: Sylvain Usai, Fabian Scheurer, and Evy Slabbinck (all Design-to-Production)

Design-to-Production has seen its share of free-form projects and experienced quite some dead ends and wrong turns. Do you want to know the secrets behind these amazing buildings? Join this workshop and learn all about the roadmap for the entire project life of a free-form project based on case studies. Design-to-Production shares its knowledge in an interactive practice-based manner and with a holistic approach, enabling participants to ask the right questions at the right time and safely navigate through the solution space of free-form structures.

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AA Visiting School Khartoum

 

AA Visiting School Khartoum

@aaKhartoum

A Blue Dilemma (December-2021)

The AA Visiting School Khartoum takes place at the confluence of the Blue Nile and White Nile (the elephant trunk), a meeting node between Africa and Arabia. Khartoum will be the first stop where the Architectural Association School of Architecture will exhibit the School’s output. 

A Blue Dilemma (December-2021) looks at the often-neglected relationship between the unpredictability of altered water passages and the erasure of heritage.

The school’s agenda explores the intersection of climate change and heritage while reflecting on new modes of representation. The continuous reshaping of the flow of rivers is both a cause and effect of human patterns of behavior that have reshaped settlements at its shoreline throughout history. Today the course of the Nile is being altered once more through new urban developments and climate change posing a threat to sites adjacent to its riverbed. The school studies the challenges posed by climate change through the chosen site at Meroe and the ongoing alterations of water passages. Participants will engage with invited anthropologists, architects, artists, bioarchaeologists, community initiatives, and historians through lectures, seminars, studios, and workshops.

The school is structured around three modules:

• First module: Explores various aspects of mapping climate change.
• Second module: Delves into the intersection of climate change and heritage at the site to draw lessons from historical cycles of environmental challenges.
• Third module: Is oriented toward the production of models and drawings that explore the materiality of the site.

Rhino and Grasshopper will be used during the last module.

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New OFFMIAU workshops (in Spanish): Architectural Modeling (May 8-16) and V-Ray for Rhino (May 22-30)

Miaucademia - OFFMIAU announces new Rhino workshops (in Spanish):

• May 8-16 MPA - Modelado de Proyectos de Arquitectura con Rhinoceros 7
  
  
• May 22-30 PIA – Producción de Imagen de Arquitectura con VRay5

Enjoy!