Yearly Archives: 2013

IAAC 2 days Workshop in Intensive Networking Games Strategies Playground Positions

By admin | Published: June 5, 2013

“That’s thirty minutes away, I’ll be there in ten” Pulp fiction The concept of the workshop was to develop 6 fields of play directed by 6 teams so as to produce a reflection around and on the new lines of thought in contemporary architecture and the contemporary position of the architect in this socio-cultural scenario. [...]

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IAAC LECTURE SERIES: ACHIM MENGES

By admin | Published: June 3, 2013

Material Computation in Architecture Computation, in its most basic meaning, refers to the processing of information. In this way, both machinic processes operating in the binary realm of the digital, as well as material processes operating in the complex domain of the physical can be considered computational. The lecture will introduce Achim Menges’ work on [...]

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ACHIM MENGES lecturing at IAAC on the 3rd of June

By admin | Published: May 31, 2013

Achim Menges at IaaC Lecture “Material Computation in Architecture” 3rd of June // 19:30 // IAAC Auditorium // C/Pujades 102 BARCELONA Achim Menges, born 1975, is a registered architect and professor at University of Stuttgart where he is the founding director of the Institute for Computational Design (since 2008).  In addition, he has been Visiting Professor in Architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate [...]

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IAAC LECTURE SERIES: ENRICO DINI

By admin | Published: May 30, 2013

  Tonight at IAAC, Enrico Dini, an italian civil engineer, gave us a lecture explaining how he developed his idea of printing houses. Enrico showed some images about his first attemps, and then he explained how he figured out the whole process. Finally a debate took place and several students could ask and comment some [...]

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Enrico Dini lecturing at IAAC on Thursday 30th at 19:30

By admin | Published: May 30, 2013

Enrico Dini at IaaC Lecture: “D-Shape: petrified algorythms” 30th of May // 19:30 // IAAC Auditorium // C/Pujades 102 BARCELONA Enrico Dini is an Italian civil engineer who spent most of his career in automation and robotics for the footwear industry. Since the late 90′s Enrico came into contact with rapid prototyping techniques used to facilitate [...]

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MAA visiting iGuzzini España HQ

By admin | Published: May 30, 2013

Today a group of MAA students visited iGuzzini España Headquarters in Barcelona, by Josep Miàs – MiAS ARCHITECTS. The offices of the Italian lightening company are located in a spherical glass structure, wrapped in a special fabric solar protector and hanged from a complex central pillar, whereas the showroom and storage area is contained in [...]

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Smart Citizen Project @ CentroCentro Cibeles

By admin | Published: May 28, 2013

The “Smart Citizen” project will be presented at the Simposio Ciudad Intelligente | Ciudad Creativa | Smart City on the 11th of June at 17.15 at the CentroCentro, Palacio de Cibeles. Smart Citizen is a sensor board based in Arduino that could be used as a environmental conditions detector in each citizen’s balcony, using their [...]

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