Monthly Archives: April 2013

Dave Pigram & Iain Maxwell lecturing at IAAC ////// Thursday 11th at 19:30

By admin | Published: April 11, 2013

Lecture: Negotiated Formation // Supermanoeuvre For the last 7 years supermanoeuvre [Iain Maxwell and Dave Pigram] have been vigorously pursuing and developing methodologies that increase the number and quality of feedback relations between design and making: design intent, matter and the methods of production. The pursuit has taken the form of commissioned and speculative projects, technical [...]

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MAA in Italy – workshop in D-Shape lab with Enrico Dini

By admin | Published: April 10, 2013

MAA – Digital Tectonics / Fabrication Ecologies >> Research Trip in Italy Day 6 and 7 // From digital to material workshop, Students are 3D printing architectural components and models from their projects with local sand in D-Shape, Pisa. Thanks to Enrico and Riccardo Dini.

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MAA in Italy – workshop about hemp

By admin | Published: April 9, 2013

MAA – Digital Tectonics / Fabrication Ecologies >> Research Trip in Italy Day 4 //  from the hemp to the fibers workshop in Zola Predosa, Bologna. Thanks to “Signora Luisa” and her team.

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MAA in Italy – visit to Lingotto and Pininfarina

By admin | Published: April 8, 2013

RSIII – Research Studio in Digital Tectonics – Fabrication Ecologies directed by Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto, is now traveling in Italy: Day 1 // visit Lingotto and Arduino Lab in Turin. Prof. Ostorero have accompanied the students to visit Lingotto building, the automobile factory built by Fiat, with its amazing rooftop test track, the Jean Prouve Exhibition and [...]

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MAA in CADAQUES – Visit to Dali’s Museum and Sant Ferran Castle

By admin | Published: April 5, 2013

MAA’s students from Self Sufficient Building Research line, directed by Enric Ruiz Geli and Mireia Luzárraga, are now attending the research trip to Cadaques. First step of the trip is the visit to Dali’s Museum in Figueras and Sant Ferran Castle.

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MAA in LA – Day 4,5,6 – Visit to Architectural Projects

By admin | Published: April 5, 2013

The MAA Research Trip to Los Angeles of the Emergent Territories Studio culminated with visits to some of the most important architectural projects in LA. The students had the opportunity to visit important projects, such as the Eames House (Ray & Charles Eames), the Binocular Building, Indiana Avenue Houses and Walt Disney Concert Hall (Frank Gehry), Stahl [...]

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IAAC MAA in LA-Day 3-Master Class by Hernan Diaz Alonso

By admin | Published: April 3, 2013

The MAA Emergent Territories Studio workshop finalized with an Master Class titled “Monstrous Forms” delivered by Hernan Diaz Alonso at the C-HUB in Sciarc Kappe library. The lecture provided the framework for this studio, that “will explore the predominant effect of ‘isomorphism’ being the aggregation of diverse forms of design intelligence into an almost universal [...]

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