Philippe Block

ETH Zurich — Switzerland

Engineering · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Innovations in Concrete and Construction Materials(59), Architecture and Computational Design(42), Masonry and Concrete Structural Analysis(36), Structural Analysis and Optimization(35), BIM and Construction Integration(30)

Publications174 total

Circularity assessment of 3D-printed polymer façades
2025Open Access
Biofabrication and performance of mixed-density mycelium modules
2025Open Access
Rankine Reciprocal Diagrams in Three Dimensions
Cambridge University Press eBooks·2025
Bending-active formwork systems for concrete shells – A classification and state-of-the-art review
Structures·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Well-conditioned AI-assisted sub-matrix selection for numerically stable constrained form-finding of reticulated shells using geometric deep Q-learning
Meccanica·2024· 5 citedOpen Access
Heinz Isler’s physical form finding of the HIB tennis shells
Structures·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Editorial for special issue on additively manufactured structures
Engineering Structures·2024
Creasing the British Museum: Topology Finding of Crease Patterns for Shell Structures
Journal of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Unreinforced concrete masonry for circular construction
Architectural Intelligence·2024· 7 citedOpen Access
Heinz Isler’s Form-Finding Models for his “HIB” Shells: Between Experiment and Design
Lecture notes in civil engineering·2023· 1 cited
A bending-active gridshell as falsework and integrated reinforcement for a ribbed concrete shell with textile shuttering: Design, engineering, and construction of KnitNervi
Structures·2023· 6 citedOpen Access
Curved-Crease Flat-Foldable Bending-Active Plate Structures
2023· 1 citedOpen Access
Structural design and engineering of Striatus, an unreinforced 3D-concrete-printed masonry arch bridge
Engineering Structures·2023· 46 citedOpen Access
Thrust Network Analysis for Masonry Assessment
Courses and lectures·2023· 2 cited
An Integrated Modelling Approach for the Seismic Collapse Assessment of Masonry Towers
International Journal of Architectural Heritage·2022· 5 citedOpen Access
Structural analysis of unreinforced masonry spiral staircases using Discrete Element modelling
Structures·2022· 6 citedOpen Access
Digitally fabricated ribbed concrete floor slabs: a sustainable solution for construction
RILEM Technical Letters·2022· 42 citedOpen Access
Print-Path Design for Inclined-Plane Robotic 3D Printing of Unreinforced Concrete
2022· 7 cited
Design-to-Fabrication Workflow for Bending-Active Gridshells as Stay-in-Place Falsework and Reinforcement for Ribbed Concrete Shell Structures
2022· 1 cited
An energy-based strategy to find admissible thrust networks compatible with foundation settlements in masonry structures
Mechanics Research Communications·2022· 12 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Tom Van Mele(28), Matthias Rippmann(11), A.C. Liew(9), Diederik Veenendaal(6), Antonino Iannuzzo(6), Lorenz Lachauer(5), John Ochsendorf(4), A. Dell’Endice(4), Matthew J. DeJong(3), Juney Lee(3), Benjamin Dillenburger(3), Mariana Popescu(3), Lex Reiter(3), Tomás Méndez Echenagucia(3), Francesco Ranaudo(3), Daniele Panozzo(2), Olga Sorkine‐Hornung(2), Robert J. Flatt(2), Masoud Akbarzadeh(2), David López(2)