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AAG2016 Conference: Lord Norman Foster & Francis Aish
Advances in Architectural Geometry Conference in 2016: Lord Norman Foster & Francis Aish – Swiss Architecture News
14 Sep 2016
Advances in Architectural Geometry Conference 2016
Lord Norman Foster & Francis Aish Deliver Keynote at AAG2016 Conference
Zurich, CH ? September 14, 2016 ? On Monday 12 September 2016, the renowned architect Lord Norman Foster, together with Francis Aish, Head of Applied Research and Development at Foster + Partners, presented a public keynote lecture to the Advances in Architectural Geometry Conference (AAG2016) organised by the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Digital Fabrication at ETH Zurich. In this joint keynote they presented an overview of the design and construction development for the Mexico City International Airport. This lecture was not only a significant event for the AAG conference with over 450 participants in attendance, but it was also the first event to occur in the Arch_Tec_Lab, the new building of ETH Zurich?s Institute of Technology in Architecture (ITA).
From left to right – Lord Norman Foster, Francis Aish, Martha Tsigkari:

As introduction, Sacha Menz, Head of ETH Zurich?s Institute of Technology in Architecture, welcomed the audience to the presentation of Lord Foster and Francis Aish, and to the new Robotic Fabrication Labor...