Monthly Archives: April 2011

MAA Research Trips: Pictures from Dubai

(Above: IAAC Inside 0-14 Tower in Dubai. IAAC Tweet: “RS2@O-14 tower by Reiser+Umemoto/amazing concrete exoskeleton structure+skin freeing the building core and the floors from columns”) Students in the Masters in Advanced Architecture Program are split into three Research Studios (RS1: Emergent Territories, RS2: Self Sufficient Buildings, RS3 Digital Tectonics). This week each will be exploring [...]

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Smart Geometry 2011

IAAC community at SG 2011. Foto: Nicholas Waissbluth Smart Geometry workshops and conference finished with a talkshop and symposium, right after 4 days of intensive sessions on different workshops based on the subject: Building the Invisible. Talkshop was an opportunity to open debates, pose questions, challenge orthodoxies, and propose new ideas regarding the use, production [...]

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Emergent Territories Research Studio- 2nd Term Final Presentation

Students of the 2010/2011 Master in Advanced Architecture Emergent Territories Studio had their final presentations on Friday April 1. In Phase II of the MAA program students attend one of three Research Studios: Self-Sufficient Buildings, Digital Tectonics or Emergent Territories. The Phase II final presentations for the Self Sufficient Buildings and Digital Tectonics Research Studios [...]

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Digital Tectonics Research Studio- 2nd Term Final Presentations

Students of the 2010/2011 Master in Advanced Architecture Digital Tectonics Studio had their final presentations on Thursday March 31. In Phase II of the MAA program students attend one of three Research Studios: Self-Sufficient Buildings, Digital Tectonics or Emergent Territories. The Phase II final presentations for the Self Sufficient Buildings and Emergent Territories Research Studios were [...]

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IAAC Everywhere- MAA Research Trips 2011

(Self Sufficient Buildings- Dubai and Abu Dhabi, Above- Masdar City) The Masters in Advanced Architecture program will be traveling the world! Each year the MAA program takes its research out of Barcelona and explores a different region of the world. Past trips include India, Romania, Taiwan, Slovenia-Croatia, and Brazil. This year, the three Research Studios [...]

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