Monthly Archives: October 2013

OTF Desk Crit with George Jeronimidis

Today the IAAC OTF researchers had the pleasure of a desk crit with Prof. Jeronimidis, checking the development of their projects and helping them with his critics. During the presentations, the researchers discussed their proposals and how these could be further elaborated.

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IAAC Trip to FRAC Centre

Today IaaC students will be travelling to Orleans to the FRAC Centre to particpate in both ArchiLab’s symposiums “Architecture and sciences: A new naturalness” the 24th October and “The nature(s) of the artefact” the 25th of October.

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Tuesday 29th of October: ARNDT GOLDACK LECTURE – Dynamic Lightweight Structures

Tuesday 29th of October 2013 Arndt Goldack Lecture: Dynamic Lightweight Structures @ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium Open to the Public Dr.-Ing. Arndt Goldack  was born in 1969 in Stuttgart, Germany. In 1996 he graduated in civil and structural engineering at the University of Stuttgart, and in 2004 Awarded Doctorate (Dr.-Ing.), Thesis “Structural behavior and Bracing of High [...]

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GEORGE JERONIMIDIS LECTURE – Biomimetics and Bioinspiration

Tonight we had the pleasure of taking part in the Fall Lecture Series 2013 George Jeronimidis Lecture on Biomimetics and Bioinspiration. We were invited to think about architecture in relation to biology, for example: plants share many of the same characteristics as buildings, they are fixed in their context, they must accept what nature and [...]

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Tuesday 22nd of October: GEORGE JERONIMIDIS LECTURE – Biomimetics and Bioinspiration

Tuesday 22nd of October 2013 George Jeronimidis Lecture: Biomimetics and Bioinspiration - Smart solutions for functional architecture @ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium Open to the Public  Professor George Jeronimidis is currently Emeritus Professor of Composite Materials Engineering  and Director of the Centre for Biomimetics in the School of Construction Management at the University of Reading.  In 2009 [...]

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IAAC ROUND TABLE: “BEYOND GREEN” Sustainable 21st Century Global Cities

This evening IAAC had the pleasure of hosting the IAAC Round Table BEYOND GREEN Sustainable 21st Century Global Cities, with the Participation of Ron Beit (Newark Real Estate Board member – RBH Group, USA), Ignacio Jiménez de Laiglesia (Real Estate developer – “Valencia Litoral”, Spain), Mario Chang (Strategic Advisor, USA), Russel De La Rosa (Derosa group architects, Project architect for Four Corners Millenium, [...]

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Monday 21st of October: IAAC ROUND TABLE: “BEYOND GREEN” Sustainable 21st Century Global Cities

Monday 21st of October 2013 IAAC Round Table: Beyond Green – Sustainable 21st Century Global Cities @ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium Open to the Public   With the participation of: Ron Beit (Newark Real Estate Board member – RBH Group, USA) Ignacio Jiménez de Laiglesia (Real Estate developer – “Valencia Litoral”, Spain) Mario Chang (Strategic Advisor, USA) [...]

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