Yearly Archives: 2013

Today the MAA students of the Introductory Studio “When Energy Becomes Form” directed by Claudia Pasquero, Marco Poletto and Carmelo Zappulla, visited, with professor Silvia Bures, the algae bioreactor and constructed wetlands of the GEMMA- Group of Environmental Engineering and Microbiology at the Dept. of Hydraulics, Maritime and Environmental Engineering of Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, in Barcelona. [...]

Today the Introductory Studio Tutored by Javier Peña, Rodrigo Rubio, Oriol Carrasco and Stefanos Levidis, Presented their prototypes and project advancement for the mid-term review, before the Studio tutors, as well as IAAC Academic Coordinator Silvia Brandi, Antonio Sanmartin, and Claudia Pasquero. Check out their progress!

Tonight we had the pleasure of hosting IAAC Faculty Claudia Pasquero, representing ecoLogicStudio, that she co-fouded with MArco Poletto, also IAAC Faculty. The lecture illustrated bio-inspired algorithmic design methods at the core of ecoLogicStudio’s works and academic research. Computation, both analogue, biologic and digital, is deployed to enable the study of iterative, adaptive and resilient [...]

Today the Digital Fabrication Seminar, tutored by Edouard Cabay, Alexandre Dubor, Anastasia Pistofidou and Chirag Rangholia, presented their Laser Cutting works before the Seminar tutors, IAAC MAA Director Areti Markopoulou and IAAC Academic Coordinator Silvia Brandi, as well as special guest Juan Pablo Quintero from MedioDesign Barcelona, presenting 1:1 scale tower installations in the IAAC Courtyard, [...]

Tonight we had the pleasure of hosting Anupama Kundoo as part of the Fall Lecture Series of 2013, as well as a VIP audience, including Benedetta Tagliabue, Enrico Dini, Odile Decq, and Areti Markopoulou. Anupama presented us with a road map of her architectural experiences, that influenced how she thinks and designs, and the final [...]

This year IAAC was featured at the  Design Intelligence: Advanced Computational Research 2013 in Beijing. The exhibition, opened in 751-D, Beijing, China, on Friday 26 September 2013 and  included the work of 32 of the leading schools of architecture in the world, including the IaaC, AA, Harvard, USC, UPenn, MIT, Yale, Princeton, SCI-Arc, UCLA, UMichigan, Bartlett, DIA, [...]