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This paper discusses a key subject of research at ISCTE-IUL. Digital fabrication in architecture offers new perspectives and design innovation in three main areas: academia, research and professional practice. In order to investigate these new challenges and its contributions to architecture in Portugal, a group of multidisciplinary researchers organized a symposium that presented a state of the art in digital fabrication. The main points were the creation of the Vitruvius FabLab–IUL laboratory and the definition of appropriate new lines of research in digital fabrication.
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Paio, A., Eloy, S., Rato, V.M. et al. Prototyping Vitruvius, New Challenges: Digital Education, Research and Practice. Nexus Netw J 14, 409–429 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00004-012-0124-6
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