Tonight the IAAC Lecture series for the academic year of 2014/15 was kicked off with an Opening Lecture by Winy Maas – MVRDV.
Some Opening words were given by Josep Parcerisa Bundo, Vice-Rector of Architecture at the UPC, Manuel Gausa, IAAC Dean, Areti Markopoulou, IAAC Academic Director, and Silvia Brandi, IAAC Academic Coordinator, welcoming the 250 people present in the audience, among which the 120 new students from over 35 different countries, representatives of the local architecture community, both professional and academic, and the IAAC faculty and staff.
After this, Winy Maas started discussing ’What’s Next?’ The lecture covered recent works of architecture and urbanism developed with MVRDV, as well as with the research institute The Why Factory, a think tank run in collaboration with Delft University of Technology, visualizing scenarios and models of the future city.
