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).

In 2007, I started my PhD working on the development of a GA for the structural optimisation of free-form structures. I first tested the ...

This paper was recently presented at the IASS-IACM 2008 (Ithaca NY, USA).

This paper was recently presented at the IASS-IACM 2008 (Ithaca NY, USA).

[…] the computer is a device with the power and speed to meet the requirements of the limits of our imaginations. We need this power to compress evolutionary time and space so that results can be achieved more realistically in our life-times...

This is my first paper. It was presented at the Special Workshop on the “Advanced Numerical Analysis of Shell-like Structures”, which was held in ...