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05-25 | Conference
May ⏤ 2025
Les artefacts de L'intelligence - Invited lecture (in French!) - "Vers une nouvelle Alliance"
An exquisit conferrence by the "Société Française des Architectes" and the CNRS. It was a unique opportunity to exchange thoughts and think about AI and our profession, amongst a varied group of intellectuals and practicing architects.
I played took counterbalancing role, speaking about Materiality (instead of virtuality...)
My first ever full keynote in FRENCH!

12-24 | Conference
February ⏤ 2025
Advanced School "Morphing Structural Materials – From Biology to Physics to Architecture" - September 2025
This will be the best opportunity for whoever wants to learn about self-shaping matter. I am excited to take part in this advanced school, along with great Master of Physics and biology. Stay tuned, registration will soon be open!

12-24 | Conference
December ⏤ 2024
Innovation and sustainability in archietctural composites: between practice and academia
This invitation to lecturet at the 15th annual conference of the Israeli Engineers Society was a greaet occasion to present my dual perspective, between academic research and practice, in the field of alternative processes in architectural composites

12-24 | Conference
December ⏤ 2024
Learning from Paris
I love Paris. I love talking about Paris. I love making others fall in love with Paris. Above all, it is a pleasure to bring others to LEARN FROM PARIS. This time, it was the excellence program of civil service commission. Thank you for this invitation to come and present the ongoing urban evolution of this great city

09-24 | Conference
September ⏤ 2024
eCAADe conference
This year's eCAADe conference was a great mixture of professional updating, meeting old friends and masters from long ago, and presenting our work in 3 different papers, with warm and meaningful support of greatgroup of Technion colleagues and friends

08-24 | Conference
August ⏤ 2024
CurvoBio
I had the honour and pleasure to be invited to present my architectural perspective on sustainability and curavture, to find multiple crossings and possible paths for collaboration with curious and brilliant biologist who explore curvature on cellular or mollecular scale.

06-24 | Conference
June ⏤ 2024
Innovation in Building Skins
One day of carefully selected speakers amongst the prinpal local actors in building-envelopes design, engineering and fabrication. We will be taking part in this high-profile meeting point for all those who are involved in the making of our intense urban skyline, with my presentation of innovative composite building skins, on behalf of Xenom Composites

06-24 | Conference
June ⏤ 2024
Student Research Conference
I am so proud of Ofri Dar, my talented master's student who presented her research on Frustrated Ceramics at the Faculty's Student Research Conference (at the Technion) and got the second prize! With a tight and well-crafted presentation, she definitly deserved it!

05-24 | Conference
May ⏤ 2024
Conference hommage à Maurizio Brocato: Innovation, de la matière àl'architecture
Last year, we have dramatically and suddently lost a great man, a brilliant engineer, an original researcher and for me, an inspirational supervisor. It is exciting to be invited to give a talk at this conference, a two-days hommage to this great person, both at the Paris Malaquais school of architecture, and at Ecole des Ponts.

05-24 | Lecture
May ⏤ 2024
Wizo lecture series : Form and structure

A last moment change, and I was lucky to have Tom Shaked as my partner for this lecture! As part of the Sustainaility&Architecture lecture series, by the Architecture department at Wizo Haifa Academy of Design.

04-24 FrustratedLab
April ⏤ 2024
FrustratedLab is settling in

Frustrated Lab is settling in! We have the privilege of being hosted by the National Building Research Institute, at the Technion of course. Come by and have a coffee….

01-24 | Grant
January ⏤ 2024
Grant acceptance - Ministry of science and technology

I am excited to announce the reception of a research grant by the Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology. "Frustrated Ceramics: Sustainable mouldless fabrication of architectural ceramics by self-shaping" is the first research project i will be leading as a Technion researcher! looking forward to others that will follow...

12-23 | Conference
December 12-14 ⏤ 2023
i am delighted to be invited as a speaker by the Berlin cluster of excellence 'Matters of Activity' and participate in the conference "Architectured materials across scales". I will present my ongoing research on alternative architectural composites, as architectured materials

10-23 | Meeting
October 16-18 ⏤ 2023
Invited to participate at 'Complex material structures, Natural and Architectd' - the 57th meeting of Society for Natural Philosophy
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I am hounoured to be invited speaker at this conference, at a special session on architectured materials. The session is dedicated to the memory of dear Prof. Maurizio Brocato, a unique person that has left us too early. We were just about to start a new research collaboration at the moment of his unexpected leave.

08-23 | Installation
August ⏤ 2023
We have been working on that project for a long time now, and these special panels have been waiting for a while to be up there ! It is exciting to see this operation starting to go on live.

07-23 | Meeting
July ⏤ 2023
An academic encounter a few years ago has been revived thanks to this Erasmus opportunity

07-23 | Presentation
July ⏤ 2023
"Frustrated ceramics" taken up to level of craftsmanship by Hagar Ofek, final presentation Bezalel Masters in Industrial design

Final presentation of Masters Industrial design - Student Hagar Ofek

06-23 | Presentation
June 27 ⏤ 2023
Another group of talented students from the Department of Architecture at Wizo Haifa Academy of Design has gone through the journey from a component to a system, experiencing materials and fabrication processes, and some digital parametric design too . What a pleasure !

06-23 | Conference
June 11 ⏤ 2023
Proud to be giving a talk on behalf of Xenom composites at this one-day conference, on the magic of architectural composites . There are some very promissing speakers there, such as Anat Stern represeting Zaha Hadid Architects, Daniel Diez from MVRDV, Mariano Efron from Paris-based Architecture Studio, and many more, I am sure this will be a fascinating day

06-23 | Workshop
June 05-06 ⏤ 2023
Another group of talented students from the Department of Architecture at Wizo Haifa Academy of Design has gone through the journey from a component to a system, experiencing materials and fabrication processes, and some digital parametric design too . What a pleasure !




















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