A small office that produces new types of responsive building technologies that work to improve and transform the built environment http://www.orambra.com/ tsterk@orambra.com (Tristan Sterk) Mon, 3 Aug 2009 00:00:00 CST en-us In 2008 our work was featured on the Discovery Science series titled "Weird Connections" A partial clip of the feature is now available on You Tube for viewing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DDXGttVtzM http://www.orambra.com office@orambra.com (ORAMBRA office) Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 CST A new research relationship has been forged between Tristan d'Estree Sterk (Assistant Professor SAIC and Founding Partner of ORAMBRA) and Argonne National Laboratory, USA. http://www.anl.gov/ http://www.orambra.com office@orambra.com (ORAMBRA office) Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 CST Tristan d'Estree Sterk participated on the jury of the SOM Structural Engineering Traveling Fellowship (2010 Award), for the advancement of Architectural Engineering and the integration of aesthetics considerations in the engineering of buildings and bridges. http://www.som.com/ http://www.orambra.com office@orambra.com (ORAMBRA office) Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 CST The Quiet War: Architecture and Digital Technologies – Long ago a quiet war sent the deepest core of western beliefs into battle with the natural world. This war happened well before our modern societies adopted the technical systems, processes, products and values that have enabled much of today's architectural thinking and doing. http://www.chicagoarchitecturalclub.org/ http://www.orambra.com office@orambra.com (ORAMBRA office) Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 CST Filamentos reviewed in a new French Magazine "Planete Robots". January Edition http://www.accessoweb.com/Planete-Robots-Nouveau-magazine-presse-ecrite_a5833.html http://www.orambra.com office@orambra.com (ORAMBRA office) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 CST Actuated Tensegrity Structure projects recently published in a new Birkhauser Press book by Michael Schumacher, Oliver Schaeffer and Michael-Marcus Vogt. Volumes available in German and English) http://www.amazon.com http://www.orambra.com office@orambra.com (ORAMBRA office) Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:00:00 CST Just in time for Christmas, our work has been recently published in a new children's book by Paul Beck called "SKYSCRAPERS - Master Engineer" (Published by Becker and Mayer and Silver Dolphin) http://www.beckermayer.com/title.php?mtid=20608 http://www.orambra.com/filamentosa.html office@orambra.com (ORAMBRA office) Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:00:00 CST Critiques held on 4 December 2009 http://www.orambra.com/keynoteACADIA09.html http://www.acadia09.org office@orambra.com (ORAMBRA office) Fri, 4 Dec 2009 00:00:00 CST "Thoughts for Gen X - Speculating about the Rise of Continuous Measurement in Architecture" was the opening address for ACADIA09: Building a Better Tomorrow. The paper provides a brief account of the global moves in compututational design as it relates to architectural theory since modernism. http://www.orambra.com/keynoteACADIA09.html http://www.acadia09.org/ office@orambra.com (ORAMBRA office) Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 CST Tristan d'Estree Sterk was the technical chair for the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture's 2009 annual architecture and technology conference "reForm(): Building A Better Tomorrow" held at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago http://www.acadia09.org http://www.saic.edu/ office@orambra.com (ORAMBRA office) Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 CST Forthcoming lecture (fall 2010) http://arts.muohio.edu/ http://arts.muohio.edu/ office@orambra.com (ORAMBRA office) Sun, 2 Aug 2009 00:00:00 CST Curated by Mark Shepard and organized by The Architectural League of New York (http://www.archleague.org) September 17 - November 7, 2009 http://www.sentientcity.net/exhibit/?p=73 http://www.archleague.org office@orambra.com (ORAMBRA office) Sun, 2 Aug 2009 00:00:00 CST Invited to guest critic at The Institute of Design, Chicago May 15 2009 http://www.iit.edu/ http://www.id.iit.edu/ office@orambra.com (ORAMBRA office) Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 CST Tristan d'Esree Sterk (founding partner of ORAMBRA) was a guest critic at The School of Architecture, UPenn on May 6 2009 http://www.upenn.edu/ http://www.design.upenn.edu/ office@orambra.com (ORAMBRA office) Wed, 6 May 2009 00:00:00 CST Lecture given to the Chicago Computational Design Forum on April 8 2009 http://chicompdg.blogspot.com/2009_04_01_archive.html http://www.blogger.com/profile/07707474813898161813 office@orambra.com (ORAMBRA office) Wed, 8 Apr 2009 00:00:00 CST Public lecture given to The University of British Columbia School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture on March 4 2009 http://www.orambra.com/media/links/ubc.html http://www.sala.ubc.ca/ tsterk@orambra.com (Tristan Sterk) Wed, 4 Mar 2009 00:00:00 CST ORAMBRA represented at The Center for Architecture's Multidisciplinary Innovation Public Panel in NYC on February 4 2009 http://www.orambra.com/media/links/aianypanel.html http://www.aiany.org/ office@orambra.com (ORAMBRA office) Wed, 4 Feb 2009 00:00:00 CST ORAMBRA on show in MAKE IT WORK at the Center for Architecture NYC 22 Jan - 25 April 2009 http://www.orambra.com/media/links/makeitwork.html http://cfa.aiany.org/ office@orambra.com (ORAMBRA office) Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:00:00 CST Tristan is the Technical Chair for "ACADIA09: reForm()" at SAIC, Chicago Illinois 0ct 22, 23, 24, 25 2009 http://www.acadia.org/acadia2009/ http://www.orambra.com/ tsterk@orambra.com (Tristan Sterk) Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:00:00 CST Keynote address given to the British Columbia Building Envelope Council in Vancouver Canada on 26 September 2008 http://www.bcbec.com http://www.bcbec.com/BCBEC%204_page_flyer.pdf office@orambra.com (ORAMBRA office) Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:00:00 CST