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IAAC LECTURE SERIES: JULIUS POPP

By admin | Published: December 12, 2012

Tonight Julius Popp, an interdisciplinary artist, gave us a lecture focusing on the process of thought and the creation of meaning in an social environment.. The talk covered different works – for example bit.fall a word writing waterfall, bit.flow a letter creating chaotic tube machine, macro.spheres an inverted world model and micro.adam a machine questioning the relation between body, environment and [...]

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IAAC Valldaura Inauguration

By admin | Published: December 4, 2012

Valldaura is IAAC’s countryside campus and self-sufficiency research center, situated in the wonderful Collserola Natural Park. Yesterday, December 4th, 2012 has been named Valldaura Day in IAAC’s history.  On this day, we celebrated the 862nd anniversary of the first settlement in Valldaura (1150), when a group of Cistercian monks built their ancient Monastery on the [...]

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IAAC LECTURE SERIES: JAVIER PEÑA

By admin | Published: December 3, 2012

Tonight IAAC had the pleasure to welcome Javier Peña, founder of the architecture office XPIRAL, who gave us a lecture explaining through different XPIRAL designs how the low and the traditional materials can work together with the digital technologies: understanding this material-technique connection as the chance to generate a wide range of innovative possibilities, and rethinking how [...]

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25N – making up VALLDAURA!

By admin | Published: November 28, 2012

On the 4th of December we are going to open a new research center of IAAC, situated in the countryside campus of Valldaura. On this day we will celebrate the 852nd anniversary of the first settlement in Valldaura, when a group of Cistercian monks built an ancient Monastery, and to remember this event IAAC Community is going to create [...]

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IAAC LECTURE SERIES: GONZALO DELACÁMARA

By admin | Published: November 27, 2012

Tonight at IAAC Gonzalo Delacámara, expert on Economic Ambiental Science, gave us a lecture challenging the current dogmas about the energy and economic crisis. During the first part of the lecture Gonzalo Delacámara analysed some of the economical main aspects that are related to the future of our energy, specially in terms of people and goods [...]

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Final Presentation of the 2nd Digital Fabrication exercise

By admin | Published: November 25, 2012

Today the MAA students presented the work of the 2nd Digital Fabrication exercise. The aim of this project was to explore 3 dimensional manufacturing processes by the use of the CNC milling machine, and the development of molds for casting pieces. The work has been focused in the design of a construction brick module, the [...]

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IAAC LECTURE SERIES: NEIL LEACH

By admin | Published: November 22, 2012

Tonight Neil Leach gave us a lecture challenging the negative attitude towards technology and computation in general and digital fabrication in particular – an attitude that is still prevalent in certain architectural circles-, and argued instead for a more receptive approach based on the ideas of Gilles Deleuze. The lecture went on to look at [...]

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