AA San Francisco Summer School 2010

We have roughly 60 attendees from 20 countries!

If you take any photos during the workshop, please post them to Flickr and add the tag “biodynamicstructures”. The photos will automatically show up on this website in the flickr feed to the right. They will also show up on the Facebook page for the workshop.

The 10-day Biodynamic Structures workshop starts tomorrow morning at 9am. The workshop sold out with nearly 60 attendees from over 20 countries. We are excited to get started and look forward to an intense workshop session. Please check out the updated schedule.

The latest Biodynamic Structures workshop schedule and event map has just been released!
[Schedule_v6] [Event Map]

http://www.cca.edu/news/2010/05/27/architectural-association-global-visiting-school-and-california-college-arts-offer-b

We are happy to announce that Brett Steele, Director of the AA School, will be joining us as a lecturer and for the closing event during the Biodynamic Structures workshop.

The workshop has reached capacity and can no longer accept applications. Thanks to all that have signed up and we look forward to a productive session in July!

We have established a Biodynamic Structures Facebook Group Page and a Twitter Feed (bioworkshopsf) to keep workshop participants informed on the latest news, events and updates.

A few days ago McNeel has released a new version of the Rhino 5 beta (although I’m not sure how much longer they can call it a beta when they state that it is now MORE stable than Rhino 4). The new version includes some great new features involving the implementation of python as a new scripting language for Rhino. Check out the new python scripting subdomain on Rhino’s site..

In addition, today David Rutten released a new version of Grasshopper (either called 0.7 or 1.0 WIP). This is a major release for grasshopper so many things have changed. Specifically, custom scripts will probably have to be reworked as the underlying connection to RhinoCommon commands has changed.

Workshop instructors Andy Payne and Jason Kelly Johnson are hard at work developing the next version of Firefly, a new Grasshopper toolbar that will streamline communication between GH, the Internet and the Arduino board. A series of new custom components within Firefly will allow two-way communication between physical interactive models and parametric digital models created in Grasshopper. This new toolbar will be released exclusively during the AA/CCA BioDynamic Structures Global Workshop.