Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
Nicholas Negroponte is the founder and Chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab, and also known as the founder of the One Laptop per Child Association (OLPC). In 1967, Negroponte founded MIT’s Architecture Machine Group, a combination lab and think tank which studied new approaches to human-computer interaction. In 1985, he created the [...]
Last night at IAAC, architect Bernard Tschumi, gave a lecture presenting “Red is not a color”, focused on his recently published book. During the lecture, Mr. Tschumi discussed concepts in architecture through a comprehensive documentation of his 30-year investigations as a designer, builder, and theorist.
Yesterday, architect Bernard Tschumi before his Lecture, visited IAAC’s Studios and talked with the students about their projects.
Today at Emergent Territories Studio all the research-groups had their Mid-terms reviews. During the whole day the students presented to the jury the state of their work, related to the Besòs river site, one of the hardest locations in Barcelona. The jury was composed by Maite Bravo, Areti Markopoulou, Willy Muller and Luis Fraguada, all [...]
Today at Emergent Territories Studio, Judith Leclerc, founder of “CollLeclerc“, had a desk crit with students, checking the development of their projects and helping them with her critics. During the presentations, the students showed her the proposals that they are developing in the territory of the Besòs river, one of the most complex and controversial sites [...]
Bernard Tschumi Architect, New York/Paris Professor, Columbia University Bernard Tschumi is an architect based in New York and Paris. First known as a theorist, he exhibited and published The Manhattan Transcripts (1981) and wrote Architecture and Disjunction, a series of theoretical essays (MIT Press, 1994). In 1983, he won the prestigious competition to design and [...]
Last Tuesday IaaC and Fab Lab Bcn hosted the presentation of Demos developed during the Seventh International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction – TEI 2013. This event was the opportunity to showcase 45 demos from a diverse group of researchers, designers and students from Eindhoven University of Technology, Keio-NUS CUTE Center, Bauhaus-University Weimar, [...]