Monthly Archives: November 2011

MICHAEL WEINSTOCK Open Lecture

Students of the MAA at IAAC had the change to attend 2 class sessions with Michael Weinstock the passed days. Michael Weinstock is an architect,  currently Director of Research and Development and Director of the Emergent Technologies and Design programme in the Graduate School of the Architectural Association School. Michael Weinstock had two sessions with [...]

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Introductory Studio MIDTERM PRESENTATIONS

After more than one month of work, the 2011-2012 MAA Students presented their work as it was developed within the Introductory Studio class, tutored by Areti Markopoulou (IAAC Master  program director) and Tomas Diez ( Fablab Barcelona manager ) with the assistance of Ioanna Spanou (Landscape Architect) and Tomas Vivanco Larrain (Architect). The presentations were divided [...]

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MAA -Master sessions – Vicente Guallart

Vicente Guallart (founder of IAAC and recently chief Architect of Urban Habitat at Barcelona City Hall), last week started tutoring the 1st term Master Sessions of the MAA master. Master sessions have the character of lectures and debates around the subject of contemporary and future cities. The debates are mainly driven by subjects of social, [...]

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Energy Seminar lecture: Jochen Scheerer

Jochen Scheerer, ASEPMA director and comisión coordinator of water management in AQUA Spain, offered a special class to the MAA students dedicated to the cycle of water. Starting with the main point, where water is the basis of life and the question of how we as architects could manage it, depending where we are. During [...]

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OTF Visit : Sagrada Familia

The students of the Open Thesis Fabrication had a VIP visit to Sagrada Familia the previous week . The tour was made by  Andrés de Mesa and Jeronimo Buxaren, who made sure that the students get close to the ongoing works while the were able to access areas that are restricted for the touristes and [...]

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Open Thesis Fabrication Lecture : Jelle Feringa

Monday 7th Jelle Feringa, Hyperbody team member and founding partner of EZTC , had  a lecture for the Open Thesis Fabrication students at IaaC. Jelle presented part of his PhD research titled ¨Design by Simulation¨, a thesis that is focusing on the close coupling of advanced simulation methods with evolutionary computing methods. In recent projects, [...]

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IAAC OPEN DOORS -MAA Lecture Michael Sorkin

Michael Sorkin visited Barcelona last week while he was invited for a lecture at IAAC and as a jury at WAF 2011 . Sorkins  lecture at IAAC was part of the añual IAAC Open Doors Event, a special day of the year were the public has the opportunity to meet the institute. During his lecture [...]

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