Lecture at ESA

Philipp Eversmann and Paul Ehret kindly invited me to give a lecture at the Ecole Spéciale d'Architecture, Paris, on April 30, as part of the seminar In Silico Design. Recent research from the BLOCK Research Group and the Chair of Structural Design, both ETH Zurich, will be presented.

"What do you want, brick?"

To express is to drive.

And when you want to give something presence,

you have to consult nature.

And there is where Design comes in.

And if you think of Brick, for instance,

and you say to Brick,

"What do you want Brick?"

And Brick says to you

"I like an Arch."

And if you say to Brick

"Look, arches are expensive,

and I can use a concrete lentil over you.

What do you think of that?"

"Brick?"

Brick says:

"... I like an Arch"

Louis Kahn

from John Lobell: Between Silence and Light, p. 59.