Prof. Arno Pronk’s research focuses on creating and designing curved surfaces using (inflatable) moulds. He had been employed at the offices of Dirrix van Wylick and Marlies Rohmer and worked mainly in housing, including the design for one- and multifamily dwellings in Vijfhuizen by Architectural Office Marlies Rohmer. He realized several buildings characterized by an innovative use of materials and systems. The garage in Delft contains four hyper shells of 8 by 8 meters made of profiled steel. In an office for BuroA+ in Kelpen, several new materials and techniques, including the first application of the infra+ floor developed in collaboration with Jos Lichtenberg, have been applied. The Blob pavilion by Jurgen Bey is the first building created with the so-called Blowing Structure Method. He was Chief editor of NBD-bouwdetails and Lector Material science at St Lucas Brussels/Ghent. He is chairman of the IASS Workgroup 21 on manufacturing and materials. He examines how what can be done with polyester, can also be done with ice or sprayed concrete. His research project include the Trefoil Self-sufficient Office-boat, realized using Pronk’s Blowing Structure Method, an innovation-demonstration building for the marina in IJburg, The Netherlands, in co-operation with BAM Concrete Technics and Tentech. Elements from the research project of making freeform architecture with membranes have been used for the entrance of an underground bicycle cellar in the city centre of Eindhoven, designed by Massimiliano Fuksas. Pronk realized several structures in ice like the world record of longest span in ice (30 meter) and the highest thin shell structure in ice (30,5 meter). For this last project Pronk received the WA Design price of the most innovative architectural structure in China.