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ALFREDO BRILLEMBOURG // Radical Urbanism: A Search for a New Architecture

By admin | Published: May 8, 2014

Tonight we had the pleasure of hosting Alfredo Brillembourg, as part of the IAAC Spring Lecture Series, presenting his concepts of Radical Urbanism  and the search for a new architecture. Mr Brillembourg presented Urban-Think Tank (U-TT), an interdisciplinary design practice dedicated to high-level research and design on a variety of subjects, concerned with contemporary architecture [...]

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PRACTISE FABRICATION // BRICK WORKS THIN-TILE VAULT // day 2

By admin | Published: May 7, 2014

Day 2 of the Brick Works Thin-Tile Vault Seminar was and intense and productive day at the Valldaura Self-Sufficient Labs. The day started out with recycling wood for the formwork necessary to accomplish the structure, that was later assembled. The group of students and tutors also dug the soil for the foundations, then laying out [...]

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PRACTISE FABRICATION // BRICK WORKS THIN-TILE VAULT

By admin | Published: May 5, 2014

IaaC, in collaboration with Map13 Architects: Marta Domenech, David Lopez, Mariana Palumbo, and BLOCK Research Group, ETH Zurich, are happy to announce the inauguration of an intensive, 2 week-long workshop where a team of 27 Students will design and contruct a thin-tile vault in our forest campus in Valldaura. Advanced digital tools along with traditional century-old Catalan masonry [...]

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Thursday 8th of May: ALFREDO BRILLEMBOURG // Radical Urbanism: A Search for a New Architecture

By admin | Published: May 2, 2014

Thursday 8th of May 2014 Alfredo Brillembourg Lecture: Radical Urbanism: A search for a new architecture @ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium Open to the Public ALFREDO BRILLEMBOURG Alfredo Brillembourg was born in New York in 1961. He received his Bachelor of Art and Architecture in 1984 and his Master of Science in Architectural Design in 1986 [...]

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Barcelona implements its self-sufficiency agenda // IAAC | Fab Lab Barcelona in el periodico

By admin | Published: April 30, 2014

IaaC | Fab Lab Barcelona was featured in El Periodico as a central player for Digital Fabrication innovation in Barcelona, and in preparation for FAB10, the 10th International Fab Lab Conference that will be held in IaaC | Fab Lab Barcelona this year. Barcelona is a city with an important and imposing industrial history, and that [...]

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PHILIPPE RAHM // Thermodynamics cities

By admin | Published: April 29, 2014

Tonight we had the pleasure of hosting Philippe Rahm as part of the IaaC Spring Lecture Series with a lecture entitled Thermodynamic Cities. Mr Rahm discussed themes regarding thermodynamics applied to architectural design, on all scales, through a series of works that have been developed in his Studio Philippe Rahm Architectes. Philippe Rahm is architect, [...]

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Massimo Banzi featured in La Contra // La Vanguardia

By admin | Published: April 28, 2014

Massimo Banzi came to IaaC on the 28th of February 2014 to share his thoughts on “Open Sourcing Innovation” as part of the IaaC Winter Lecture Series. In this occasion he was interviewed by Lluís Amiguet of La Contra, and the interview was published yesterday, check it out!

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