Monthly Archives: December 2012

MAA Studio Final Presentation

Today the MAA students presented the Studio Project that they have been developing during the 1st term. During all the day, the 16 groups of students proposed each one an intervention in one street of Barcelona, in order to get a smart public space. The work was presented in front of the tutors that have [...]

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17th DECEMBER – MAA02 FINAL PRESENTATION

Image by: Mohsen Marizad  |  MAA02 2010-2012 – Design Studio Mid-Review Presentation: “THE SOLAR BUILDING” – Tutors: Jordi Pages + Lluis Viu (Max de Cusa Arquitectes) – Jury Board: Manuel Gausa (IAAC Dean) Areti Markopoulou (MAA Master program Director) David Steegmann (ETSAB Professor) Santi Ibarra (F451 Arquitectura Director) Luís Fraguada (IAAC Computational Expert) – Presentation [...]

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18th DECEMBER – MAA FINAL PRESENTATION

Image by: Alejandra Diaz De Leon, Dulce Adriana Luna, Drew Carson, Priyanka Narula, Marjan Jelveh  |  MAA 2012-2013 – Design Studio Final Presentation: “SMART CITY & PUBLIC SPACE” – Tutors: Areti Markopoulou (MAA Master program Director) Rodrigo Rubio (IAAC Project Manager) Tomas Diez (FabLab BCN Director) Maite Bravo (IAAC Faculty) Pablo Ros (IAAC Faculty) – [...]

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19th DECEMBER – OTF FINAL PRESENTATION

Image by: Liv Grete Strømme Framgard |  OTF 2012 – Tutors: Fabian Scheurer (Designtoproduction Director) Mette Ramsgard Thomsen (CITA Director) Javier Peña (Xpiral Director) Luís Fraguada (IAAC Computational Expert) – Jury Board: Manuel Gausa (IAAC Dean) Areti Markopoulou (MAA Master program Director) Enric Ruiz Geli + Mireia Luzárraga (Cloud9 Architects) Marco Poletto (EcoLogic Studio) Curro [...]

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IAAC LECTURE SERIES: JULIUS POPP

Tonight Julius Popp, an interdisciplinary artist, gave us a lecture focusing on the process of thought and the creation of meaning in an social environment.. The talk covered different works – for example bit.fall a word writing waterfall, bit.flow a letter creating chaotic tube machine, macro.spheres an inverted world model and micro.adam a machine questioning the relation between body, environment and [...]

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IAAC Valldaura Inauguration

Valldaura is IAAC’s countryside campus and self-sufficiency research center, situated in the wonderful Collserola Natural Park. Yesterday, December 4th, 2012 has been named Valldaura Day in IAAC’s history.  On this day, we celebrated the 862nd anniversary of the first settlement in Valldaura (1150), when a group of Cistercian monks built their ancient Monastery on the [...]

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IAAC LECTURE SERIES: JAVIER PEÑA

Tonight IAAC had the pleasure to welcome Javier Peña, founder of the architecture office XPIRAL, who gave us a lecture explaining through different XPIRAL designs how the low and the traditional materials can work together with the digital technologies: understanding this material-technique connection as the chance to generate a wide range of innovative possibilities, and rethinking how [...]

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