This event features a line-up of contributors from the groundbreaking 'Contemporary Techniques in Architecture' issue of Architectural Design, a publication which addresses the most far-reaching and innovative developments in digital practice to have taken place in the last five years. It specifically focuses on the way techniques are being transferred from design methodology all the way through to prototyping and construction. Welcome by AD editor Helen Castle. Ali Rahim, guest-editor of Contemporary Techniques in Architecture, introduces the emergent themes of the issue. Michael Weinstock on the work of the engineer Cecil Balmond. Michael Hensel on the work of OCEAN North.Jeff Turko on the transference of automotive crash-testing techniques to architecture.