Monthly Archives: March 2013

MAA_01 Research Studio II: Self-Sufficient Building, 2nd Term Presentations

On Wednesday, March 20th, students from the Master in Advanced Architecture_01 2012-2013, Research Studio II: Self-Sufficient Building, will present their 2nd term projects. Join them tomorrow, from 11 am until 19.30 pm, at IaaC.

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MAA_02 2nd Term Final Presentation

On Tuesday, March 19th, students from the Master in Advanced Architecture 2011-2013 will present the advances on their projects for the 2nd term of their thesis year. Join them tomorrow, from 10 am until 02 pm, at IaaC.

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MAI Dialogues: Pablo Valbuena & Jaime Serra

This Monday, March 18th, MAI Dialogues presents Pablo Valbuena & Jaime Serra talks. 19.00hs, IaaC Auditorium. Pablo Valbuena has become internationally recognized for his augmented architectures, dynamic forms where light and phisical structures combine to create a new hybrid language for form and space. Trained as an architect and having worked previously in videogames, his [...]

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Experimental Structures Seminar Final Presentations, March 11th

Tonight in IAAC will take place the Final Presentation of the Experimental Structures Seminar. The aim of the seminar was to investigate the extreme possibilities of textile constructions and structures which make them possible. Starting from analyzing existing technologies, students studied the possibilities of building portable and packable pavilions. Three models in a 1:1 scale and two models in [...]

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Peter Trummer Lecture at IAAC

Tonight IAAC welcomed Peter Trummer lecture “From the city as a filed to the city as an object” within the Winter IAAC Lecture Series. The lecture unfolded the relationship between urban planning and urban design. A disciplinary knowledge that ones was united and was invented by Ildefonso Cerda and his Theory of urbanization. Urban planning is [...]

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Winter Lecture Series: Peter Trummer

Lecture: From the city as a field to the city as an object. Peter Trummer is Professor for Urban Design and Head of the Institute for Urban Design & Spatial Planning at the University of Innsbruck. He was Head of the Associative Design Program at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam from 2004 to 2010. He [...]

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05 MARCH – ENCRYPTED MEGA CITIES FINAL PRESENTATION

While in this decade cities will grow exponentially to host more than half of the world population, architects are not yet ready to design adaptive urban models capable to react to this phenomenon. “Encrypted mega-cities” is a seminar that provides an opportunity to think critically about urban potentials responding to this growth through a mode [...]

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