Above image, Antoni Vives and Marta Malé-Alemany
Last Friday IAAC inaugurated the Master in Advanced Architecture 2011/12. The inauguration started with a welcome speech from the Rector of UPC Antoni Giró , the president of IAAC Javier Niéto and Antoni Vives the Deputy Mayor of the urban Habitat of Barcelona at the Barcelona City Hall.
Marta Malé – Alemany , the acting director of IAAC after her speech welcomed the guest lecturer Thom Mayne.
Thom Mayne from Morphosis opened this year’s Lecture series with his lecture: ¨Questions (on the continuity of Contradiction)¨
The North American architect during his lecture presented older and new projects that depicted his notion in terms of dynamic dialogue and sensibility in a synthesis were ¨deconstruction rather puts things together than separating them¨
¨We create ourselves as absolut fabrication¨ Thom Mayne
Thom Mayne and Vicente Guallart (founder of IAAC)