IASS-IACM 2008 Session: New Optimization Techniques -- Session Organizers: Andrew BORGART, Edgar STACH -- "Computational structural form finding and optimization of pneumatic structures" by Andrew BORGART (TU Delft), Edgar STACH (University of Tennessee) -- "Responsive building envelopes: Optimization for environmental impact" by Patrick TEUFFEL (University of Leeds) -- "Using evolutionary computation to explore geometry and topology without ground structures" by Peter VON BUELOW (University of Michigan) -- "Structural morphology and self-organization" by Edgar STACH (University of Tennessee) -- "Feasibility of free-forms" by Ivan MARKOV (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) -- "From nanostructure to mega stadiums" by Gordana JAKIMOVSKA (Kohn Pederson Fox Associates)