Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
Tonight we had the pleasure of hosting Richard Blythe as part of the IAAC Fall Lecture Series. The Dean of RMIT started his discourse on the Ticklish Subject of Architecture with a series of images of typical Australian architecture, or “monuments”, that is the Bigs: the Big Banana, the Big Merino, the Big Earth Worm…etc [...]
Beforelight and IAAC held the “Creating participatory lighting prototypes” Workshop, within the European-funded project Urban Lightscapes, this weekend. Urban Lightscapes is a European Project focused on the multifaceted study of urban lighting, through an interdisciplinary platform that involves artists, designers and citizens, with utter goal to promote open dialogue and residents’ active participation. Involving three [...]
Thursday 28th of November 2013 Neil Leach Lecture: Adaptation @ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium Open to the Public NEIL LEACH Neil Leach is a Professor at the University of Southern California. He has also taught at the Architectural Association, Columbia GSAPP, Cornell University, Dessau Institute of Architecture and SCI-Arc, and is a regular contributor to IaaC. [...]
A huge congratulations to the Smart Citizen Project, winner of the 2013 Word Smart Cities Awards for the Most Innovative Initiative at the Smart City Expo World Congress!!!!!
Today the When Energy Becomes Form Studio had their Mid Term Review with Claudia Pasquero, Marco Poletto and Carmelo Zappulla, as well as MAA Director Areti Markopoulou, during which the students presented the research developped until now as well as their bio-technological prototypes, presenting morphology, materiality and aesthetic novelty, through the emergent qualities of specific flows [...]
Tuesday 26th of November 2013 Richard Blythe Lecture: The Ticklish Subject of Architecture @ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium Open to the Public RICHARD BLYTHE Dr Richard Blythe is Professor in Architecture and Dean, Architecture + Design at RMIT University, Australia a position he has held since June 2007. In 2010 he led the establishment of the RMIT [...]