Monthly Archives: April 2012

ENDESA visit at IAAC

Sr. Josep Maria Rovira, General director of Endesa Catalonia along with Sr.Alex Fabreras, Director of distribution of the northeast area of Endesa Catalonia, visited today the IAAC installations to assist ENERGRID mid project presenation.Energid is an initiative of Endesa, developed by IAAC in collaboration with i2Cat and UPC.

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Melissa Sterry (E2HUB) – MAA Spring Lectures

Melissa Sterry started her lecture ¨Building A Bionic City: The Place Where Science Fiction Becomes Fact¨ with the question: What is the city of the future? A question that, as she says, humanity has been pondering for millennium. ” …Architects, planners and developers generally present the future city as an idyllic setting, comprised pristine buildings and [...]

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JDSA Francisco Villeda_DS1_Workshop

Last weekend DS1 had a workshop with Francisco Villeda . Francisco Villeda is an Associate Architect at JDSA Copenhagen (Julien de Smedt Architects) and IAAC alumni.  Francisco has experience in international competitions and projects and has a high level of professionalism regarding to design, visualization, and team management. The students during the workshop were focused on their [...]

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MAA – TERM III – Classes have started! DS3

The 3rd term of the MAA 2011-12 has started. The RS3-Digital Tectonics Master Studio has started with renewed energy and two work sessions dedicated to summarize and present the state of the students work in both the technical and the conceptual fields. A new more dialectic format that encourages participation has been tested these days for the presentations [...]

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RS2 goes to MIT

RS2 goes to Boston. Visits started at MIT’s Media Lab new Building, by Fumihiko Maki, where CBA (Center for Bits and Atoms) Fab Lab is settled. Researchers like Kenny Cheung or Nadia Peak where presenting their works. Group also visited Carlo Ratti’s Senseable City Lab where Copenhague Wheel prototype was being tested. At MIT architecture department [...]

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IAAC presents at Harvard + WYSS Institute

Object 3D print test of a plastic origami RS2 visits the WYSS Institute with Benjamin Hutton, the nanotechnology and micro-robotics research center associated to Harvard Engineering University. There, researchers presented their advances on intelligent surfaces, adaptive transparency engineered polymers, and flying or inflatable micro-robotics. Areti Markopoulou presented last research and academic projects of IAAC. Afterwards, [...]

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RS2 visits StoreFront +more at NYC

RS2 visits last architectural icons at New York before going to Princeton and Boston. After checking in F.Ll.Wright’s Guggenheim Museum, group crossed Central Park going to Soho, where Sanaa’s New Museum and Steven Holl’s StoreFront art gallery stands.

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