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More than Fabrication: How does Architecture get built?

21 Oct 2026

ACADIA 2026 Innovative Research Award of Excellence

01 Jun 2026

Go See Workshop

26 Sep 2025

Talk at What Design Can Do

29 Jul 2025

George Guida, xFigura

10 May 2025

Biennale Architettura 2025

27 Mar 2025

Design Across Scales - Additive Manufacturing in Construction

16 Sep 2024

Design Modelling Symposium 2024

04 Sep 2024

Digital Concrete 2024

29 Aug 2024

Cadenza opening

Open position · Trainee

Internship - Mycelium and digital fabrication

18 Jun 2024

3D Printing Earth Architecture

14 May 2024

Finalists in 3D Pioneers Challenge

23 Feb 2024

Prefabrication of Tor Alva started

30 Nov 2023

Digital Findet Stadt 2023 Vienna

22 Nov 2023

Create Talk

21 Oct 2023

Papers presented at ACADIA 2023

20 Oct 2023

Installation of Cadenza at STEP2

09 Oct 2023

Biofrontiers Symposium 2023

25 Sep 2023

Virginia San Fratello & Norman Hack

13 Sep 2023

Future of Construction 2023

19 Apr 2023

Fabrication- & Material-Aware Architecture

02 Mar 2023

STEP2 concrete stair fabrication starts

10 Dec 2022

Inclusive Automation & Craftable Realities

07 Dec 2022

Towards a new Monolithic

23 Nov 2022

Schichten aus Schaum

29 Sep 2022

Control and Emergence in Foam 3D Printing

27 Sep 2022

FRAME Awards 2022 - Best Use of Material

23 Sep 2022

Sustainable Digital Construction

11 Aug 2022

Dezeen Award 2022

16 May 2022

TILT-UP FUTURE THINK 3.0

11 May 2022

Architected Porosity

12 Apr 2022

Best Paper CAADRIA 2022

27 Jan 2022

Printing almost Air

15 Oct 2021

Shaping the City Forum 2021

01 Oct 2021

Machine sensing for mineral foam 3D printing

22 Sep 2021

Beyond Transparency - Robotic Glass Architecture at the Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue

24 Aug 2021

BETON SUISSE Award for the DFAB House

07 Jul 2021

Building Clarity : New construction techniques in glass

26 May 2021

Tectonics of Concrete Printed Architecture

28 Apr 2021

Papers presented at AAG 2020

25 Apr 2021

Creativity and Technology as environmental care

29 Mar 2021

Papers presented at CAADRIA 2021

12 Mar 2021

Additive Futures

12 Mar 2021

Designing with density - 3D printed monolithic architecture

11 Mar 2021

Additive Construction

26 Jan 2021

Additive Construction

16 Dec 2020

IDEAL ARCHITECTURE - THE OFFICE

10 Dec 2020

Digital Fabrication and Artificial Intelligence

03 Dec 2020

The new roles of the computer in the design process

28 Oct 2020

Design Review: Tectonic Behavior

20 Oct 2020

AIA Symposium on Artificial Intelligence in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction

29 Sep 2020

Digital Bamboo Pavilion Exhibition at the ZAZ Bellerive

29 Sep 2020

Vernissage of Digital Bamboo at the ZAZ Zentrum Architektur Zürich 29 september 17:30

21 Jul 2020

The role of architecture in times of big data and artificial intelligence

08 Jul 2020

Numerical Material – Towards a High Definition Architecture

15 Jun 2020

FAST COMPLEXITY: 3D PIONEERS CHALLENGE FINALIST

20 Apr 2020

Digital Technology in Architecture - Lecture

03 Mar 2020

Digital Real Estate Summit

02 Mar 2020

Concepts for Mobile Architectures

22 Feb 2020

Additive Days 2020

20 Feb 2020

Frame Award 2020

07 Dec 2019

Seminar Korean Scientists and Engineers Association in Switzerland

04 Dec 2019

Concrete Choreography Movie shown at World Architecture Festival

29 Nov 2019

DBT presents at TedX Zurich 2019

27 Nov 2019

Numerical Material - Lecture

20 Nov 2019

Concrete 3D Printed Columns - Lecture at BE-AM Symposium

19 Nov 2019

Column exhibited at Formnext

13 Nov 2019

Manufatura Digital, Arquitetura e Tecnologia.

29 Oct 2019

Paper Presented at 14th Conference on Advanced Building Skins

26 Oct 2019

Paper Presented at ACADIA 2019 Ubiquity and Autonomy

09 Oct 2019

Paper Presented at Form and Force - Joint International Conference of IASS Symposium 2019 and Structural Membranes 2019

08 Oct 2019

Green Building Festival

03 Oct 2019

Keynote at 2nd Annual Design Research Conference

12 Sep 2019

HOW TO BUILD A HOUSE: ARCHITECTURAL RESEARCH IN THE DIGITAL AGE

30 Aug 2019

3D Printed Column at Scientifica 2019

28 Jun 2019

Concrete 3D Printed Column exhibited at Design Labor: Material + Technik at Museum für Gestaltung

27 Jun 2019

Tectonics of Concrete Printed Architecture at ScalingUp 3D

05 Jun 2019

24. Industriebauseminar

04 Jun 2019

Tectonics of Concrete Printed Architecture at Swiss Tunnel Congress 2019

19 May 2019

Digital Grotesque at Fiskars Village Art & Design Biennale

16 Apr 2019

Numerical Material - Concrete Choreography

09 Mar 2019

BETON – Material für die Zukunft (Pecha Kucha Talk)

12 Dec 2018

Round Table at Computational Design Week

25 Nov 2018

ICCX Middle East 2018

24 Nov 2018

Digital Grotesque exhibited at Stucco Storico

10 Nov 2018

How to build in future?

09 Nov 2018

Paper Presented at TxA Emerging Design + Technology

29 Oct 2018

Implenia BIM Community Days

11 Oct 2018

LevisErgon at Olma Messen St.Gallen

29 Sep 2018

SmartSlab at OpenHouse Zurich

25 Sep 2018

Paper presented at AAG2018

20 Sep 2018

Papers presented at eCAADe2018

14 Sep 2018

Paper Presented at Rob|Arch 2018

11 Sep 2018

DBT at Digital Concrete 2018

10 Sep 2018

Workshop Led at Rob|Arch 2018

14 Jun 2018

Foster + Partners SMG

13 Jun 2018

Next Build

05 May 2018

3D-Druck: Wie eine Technologie unser Leben verändert

22 Mar 2018

IAAC Open Thesis Fabrication Presentation

21 Mar 2018

IAAC’s roundtable ‘3D Printing in Architecture’

16 Mar 2018

Lei Yu

15 Mar 2018

Nervous Systems

12 Mar 2018

SXSW

06 Mar 2018

3D-Printed Architecture Symposium

15 Feb 2018

Manuel Kretzer

14 Feb 2018

Session: "The Future of Architecture"

13 Feb 2018

3D Printed Reinforced Beam at Material Experience

31 Jan 2018

University of Innsbruck Final Presentations

20 Dec 2017

Smart FDM Formwork MAS Final Presentation

21 Nov 2017

3D Manufacturing Technologies in Construction

11 Nov 2017

Milestones. A Curated Art Show. What?

01 Nov 2017

Digital Fabrication

31 Oct 2017

Conversation at Archi-Union

31 Oct 2017

The Writing and Printing of Architecture

30 Oct 2017

Additive Structures

23 Oct 2017

ITECH Final Thesis Presentations

15 Oct 2017

Shanghai Urban Space Art Season 2017

09 Oct 2017

A Digitally Fabricated New World. What?

15 Sep 2017

ETH Week 2017: Manufacturing the Future

12 Sep 2017

Parallelism in Architecture, Environment And Computing Techniques (PACT)

04 Sep 2017

Robotics: Materiality in Robotic Fabrication

02 Sep 2017

Electrical Skin at Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2017

02 Sep 2017

Architektur aus dem 3D Drucker

01 Sep 2017

Scientifica 2017: Was Daten verraten

18 Aug 2017

AM Expo - Forum Lifestyle

18 Aug 2017

KUB (Kammer unabhängiger Bauherrenberater)

18 Aug 2017

NCCR Digital Fabrication networking event

21 Jun 2017

Building Future 2030

07 Jun 2017

Concrete Canoe Baptism

15 Mar 2017

Digital Grotesque at MUTATIONS-CRÉATIONS / IMPRIMER LE MONDE

17 Jan 2017

DBT at the World Economic Forum 2017

28 Nov 2016

Computational Design Workshop @ Oxford Brookes

20 Nov 2016

Zwischen Ideal und Empirie

27 Oct 2016

BE-AM | Symposium zur additiven Fertigung im Bauwesen

19 Oct 2016

RTC2016 Europe

28 Sep 2016

Digitale Fabrikation in der Architektur, Symposium SIA

20 Sep 2016

AM Expo

18 Sep 2016

Sparc Canada

27 Jul 2016

AA Visiting School Madrid

16 Jun 2016

Laufen Symposion 2016

09 Jun 2016

SkelETHon wins 1st Prize for Design Innovation at the 16th Concrete Canoe Regatta in Germany

28 May 2016

Incidental Space at Architecture Biennale Venice 2016

20 Apr 2016

ABB Robot arrived

20 Apr 2016

Undrawable, unbuildable