Novedge Pulse™ of Tobias Schwinn

Parametric Design and Digital Fabrication workshop at the Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto (FAUP) as part of the 1st eCAADe Regional International Meeting “Future Traditions” in Porto, Portugal. The 2-day workshop was held from 3-4 April 2013 i [more...]

In 2007, I attended my first Smartgeometry Conference in New York as part of a group of selected participants from the SOM NY office. We more or less represented its computational design group which at that time was loosely forme [more...]

Schwinn, T., La Magna, R., Reichert, S., Waimer, F., Knippers, J., Menges, A.: 2013, Prototyping Biomimetic Structures for Architecture, in Stacey, M. (Ed.), Prototyping Architecture: The Conference Papers, Building Centre Trust, London, 2013, pp 224-244. (ISBN 978-0-901919-17-5 [more...]

On February 22, I had the priviledge to present our paper “Prototyping Biomimetic Structures for Architecture” at the Prototyping Architecture Conference (Feb 21 – 23) together with my colleague Frédéric Waimer from the Institute of Building Structure and Structural Desig [more...]

Institute for Computational Design (ICD), Prof. Achim Menges Institute for Building Structures and Structral Design, Prof. Jan Knippers University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning In November 2012 the Institute for Computational Design (ICD) and the Institute o [more...]

Schwinn, T.: Programmable Logic, in Leach, N., Yuan, P. F., (Eds.), Scripting the Future, Tongji University Press, Shanghai, pp. 56-61. ISBN: 978-756084835 [more...]

Schwinn, T., Krieg, O., Menges, A.: Robotically Fabricated Wood Plate Morphologies, in Brell-Cokcan, S., Braumann, J. (Eds.), Robotic Fabrication in Architecture, Art and Design, Springer, pp. 48-61 [more...]

Videos of the presentations of the Confluence BIM Symposium in Copenhagen have recently been made available online on the CITA website and on Vimeo. Following is the recording of my presentation “Integrative Digital Fabrication” that I gave in Copenhagen o [more...]

From Dec 14 – 16, we hosted a workshop titled “Wood Morphologies” on robotic fabrication of wood plate structures at the University of Stuttgart. The workshop was part of the series of workshops that were spread across Europe from Rotterda [more...]

On Dec 18, my colleague Oliver Krieg and I presented our paper “Robotically Fabricated Wood Plate Morphologies”, including the results of the RobARCH workshop hosted by the ICD in Stuttgart, at the RobARCH Conference in Vienna (17-18 Dec 2012 [more...]

Schwinn, T., Krieg, O., Menges, A., Mihaylov, B., Reichert, S.: 2012, Machinic Morphospaces: Biomimetic Design Strategies for the Computational Exploration of Robot Constraint Spaces for Wood Fabrication, in Cabrinha, M., Johnson, J., Steinfeld, K. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA), San Francisco, pp. 157-168. …Read Mor [more...]

On October 19, Oliver Krieg, a former student and now colleague at the ICD, and I presented our research paper titled “Machinic Morphospaces: Biomimetic Design Strategies for the Computational Exploration of Robot Constraint Spaces for Wood Fabrication” at the ACADIA 2012 conference in San Francisco. Not only was the conference a great opportunity to connect …Read Mor [more...]