Philippe Block is a Belgian structural engineer, architect and professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), born on 4 May 1980. He is known for research and structural design of compression-only shell and vaulted structures in masonry and unreinforced concrete, combining computational methods and digital fabrication with material-efficient, circular construction. He studied architectural engineering at Vrije Universiteit Brussel and then at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where his 2009 doctorate introduced thrust network analysis, a method for judging the safety of historic unreinforced masonry vaults and for designing compression-only shells. At ETH Zurich he founded the Block Research Group, whose projects include the Armadillo Vault at the Venice Biennale in 2016, KnitCandela in Mexico City and the 3D-printed masonry bridge Striatus. He co-founded the firm Ochsendorf DeJong and Block and, in 2023, the spin-off Vaulted AG, and he has sat on the board of the Holcim Group since 2020.
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Philippe Block (born May 4, 1980) is a Belgian professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), structural engineer, architect, and researcher at the Block Research Group (BRG), entrepreneur and co-founder of Vaulted AG, and board member at the Holcim Group.
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Philippe Block (born May 4, 1980) is a Belgian professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), structural engineer, architect, and researcher at the Block Research Group (BRG), entrepreneur and co-founder of Vaulted AG, and board member at the Holcim Group.
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Philippe Block (born May 4, 1980) is a Belgian professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), structural engineer, architect, and researcher at the Block Research Group (BRG), entrepreneur and co-founder of Vaulted AG, and board member at the Holcim Group.
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