The FloaTree pavilion received the first prize in the “Design Competition and Exhibition of Innovative Lightweight Structures 2024”, at the IASS 2024 Symposium in Zurich (ETH).

The Hypar Up pavilion received the first prize in the “Design Competition and Exhibition of Innovative Lightweight Structures 2023”, at the IASS Symposium 2023 in Melbourne, Australia.

At the IASS Symposium 2023, Gabriele Mirra and I were presented with the Tsuboi Award for "the most meritorious paper published in the Journal of the IASS in 2022".

Sofia Colabella, Gabriele Mirra, Michael Mack and I are thrilled to lead a masterclass on Aeolus at the upcoming IASS Symposium 2023 in Melbourne. Aeolus is an acoustic modelling plugin for Grasshopper (Rhinoceros 3D) developed and released by Gabriele Mirra via Food4Rhino. The masterclass will focus on architectural acoustics with Aeolus.

Our new article: "An Artificial Intelligence Agent That Synthesises Visual Abstractions of Natural Forms to Support the Design of Human-Made Habitat Structures" has been published in “Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution”.

On 21 August 2021, I was interviewed by Federico Solchi on SBS Italian Radio. Click on this link to visit the SBS Italian Website or play the video below to listen to the interview.

This DigitalFUTURES talk brings together a group of world-leading architecture and engineering scholars who are experts on computational structural design methods.

Sofia Colabella, Alessandro Liuti and I completed a 3-day workshop on “Mixed Reality”, directed by Fologramand NExT Lab at the Melbourne School of Design (MSD).

The International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) is currently celebrating Frei Otto with a Special Issue of the IASS Journal (Vol.59, No.1, March 2018).