Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
Today we had the pleasure of hosting a Lecture by Ben Flanner, the head farmer and CEO of Brooklyn Grange. during the Lecture Ben described the many facets and projects of the Brooklyn Grange, a 2.5 acre rooftop farm in New York City. As the population in cities rise, these appear to be evermore removed [...]
In parallel to the 5th Advanced Architecture Contest, the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IaaC) and Hewlett-Packard are also running the international People’s Choice Award. On IaaC’s Facebook page, inside the 5th Advanced Architecture Contest Album, vote by giving “like” to the picture of your choice. The most popular image will win an HP Designjet web connected Printer. The People’s Choice Award will be open untill December [...]
Tuesday 19th of November 2013 Ben Flanner Lecture: Brooklyn Grange @ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium Open to the Public BEN FLANNER Ben Flanner is the head farmer, CEO, and co-founder of Brooklyn Grange rooftop Farm, based in New York City. A pioneering urban farm operation, the business produces vegetables, herbs, and honey on 2 ½ [...]
Today the MAA students of the Introductory Studio “Wind energy machines” Tutored by Javier Peña, Rodrigo Rubio, Oriol Carrasco and Stefanos Levidis have visited the experimental wind labs of TechnoWind, located in Sant Guim de Freixenet (Lleida). Alvaro Ibañez and Josep Maria Pujol showed us the instalations that Technowind use to test their windmills, Technowind by [...]
IAAC was invited to be part of the Nuqat, Platform for Creatives in the Middle East, represented by IAAC MAA Director Areti Markopoulou, Fab Lab Bcn Coordinator Anastasia Pistofidou and Yousef Alnafisi, IAAC Alumni from Kuwait. Areti and Anastasia are speakers at the Conference, as well as heading a workshop on 3D Printing. Have a [...]
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!