Monthly Archives: June 2011

Final Presentations- Emergent Territories

The Masters in Advanced Architecture 2010/11 came to an end today with the third and final day of presentations for the week. In their final projects, the Emergent Territories Studio, led by Willy Müller and assisted by Maite Bravo, proposed: various new and innovative ways to make urban and public space multifunctional; a vision of [...]

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Final Presentations- Self Sufficient Buildings Studio

The 2010/11 MAA Students in the Self Sufficient Buildings Studio wrapped up their year with today’s presentation of final projects. The goal of each project was to create a self-sufficient city block in Barcelona. This Studio was led by IAAC Director Vicente Guallart and Javier Peña. The studio assistant was Rodrigo Rubio. For the final [...]

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Final Presentations- Digital Tectonics Studio (Fab Bots 2.0)

The Digital Tectonics Studio 2010/11, led by Marta Malé-Alemany, came to its end today with final presentations by the MAA Students. The jury panel included outside guests: Branko Kolarevic and Vera Parlac from the Laboratory for Integrative Design at the University of Calgary; Matias del Campo and Sandra Manninger from Span Architecture; Valerie Bergeron from [...]

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Sant Joan Workshop at Fab Lab BCN

The 24th of June is the day for celebrating Sant Joan in Catalunya. On the eve of Sant Joan, people go to the beach to dance, make bonfires and set off fireworks to welcome the summer. In the Fab Lab BCN…we make. The Sant Joan workshop participants were part of McKinsey & Company, a global [...]

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Peter Cook- Closing Lecture of the 2010/2011 Series

Last night, for the MAA CLOSING LECTURE, IAAC welcomed Sir Peter Cook, a part of Architectural history. One of the six revolutionist of 60′s, when Archigram created history with their futuristic architectural  magazines.  When Peter Cook, Greene and Webb met in 1961, the first Archigram magazine was issued. After that Peter Cook, David Greene, Mike [...]

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Digital Tectonics Studio Project – Catenary with Crystals

MAA Students: Gamze Gunduz (Turkey) , Virat Kumar (India), Diego López Ibarra (Mexico) Studio: Digital Tectonics Studio Instructor: Marta Malé-Alemany, MAA Co-Director Project: Catenary with Crystals Student Summary: The aim of the project is to exceed the catenary principle, the ideal form of architecture, with the help of bouyancy and flexibility of threads while using [...]

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Digital Tectonics Studio Project- Recycled FaBric(k)

MAA Students: Saiqa Iqbal (Bangladesh), Vittal Sridharan (India), Amay Gurkar (India), Harshad Sutar (India) Studio: Digital Tectonics Studio Instructor: Marta Malé-Alemany, MAA Co-Director Project: Recycled FaBric(k) Student Summary: Recycled FaBric(k) is a project targeting recently demolished sites or disaster hit areas and re-instating the site-found broken bricks as potent design components. The project utilizes the [...]

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