Yearly Archives: 2013

Peter Trummer Lecture at IAAC

By admin | Published: March 7, 2013

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

By admin | Published: March 6, 2013

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

By admin | Published: March 5, 2013

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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EXPERIMENTAL STRUCTURES SEMINAR – CONSTRUCTION WEEKEND WORKSHOP

By admin | Published: March 4, 2013

This weekend we had an intensive workshop at IAAC building our 1:1 pavilions for the experimental structures course. Next Monday the 11th of March there will be the final presentation.

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Machinic Conversations II

By admin | Published: March 4, 2013

During this 4 days workshop, students from the Fabrication Ecologies research line of the Master in Advanced Architecture 2013 were able to develop and test a new fabrication protocol deploying Hemp fibres by means of an industrial robot. Through the production of a 1:1 scale prototype, the 4 teams explored the design opportunities arising from [...]

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ENCRYPTED MEGA-CITIES Seminar Final Presentation

By admin | Published: March 4, 2013
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Smart Citizen platform at World Mobile Congress 2013

By admin | Published: February 28, 2013

During this week, Smart Citizen platform will be displayed at the World Mobile Congress 2013. At the entrance of the Mobile Barcelona Festival booth (3C28 in hall 3) organized by mLove; IaaC and Fab Lab Bcn, together with MID and Hangar.org, features the Smart Citizen platform. Smart Citizen is a device to generate participatory processes of people in the cities. [...]

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