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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, [...]

The Hand-Made vs Machine-Made Protocols Seminar started last week, and already some very  interesting structures are being developed. The students also had a first crit with Anupama Kundoo, Arndt Goldack, Areti Markopoulou, Silvia Brandi and Gerd Fleischmann.

Since 2008 the world has changed. The economic system has undergone all kinds of system failures. So far we have seen the meltdown of the housing industry, bank savings, big organizations, companies and so on. But we have also witnessed new initiatives that are based on alternative financial models, informal currency systems and community based [...]