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IAAC as academic partner of Visualising.org was this past weekend the Barcelona Hub of 2012 Visualizing Global Marathon.  IAAC hosted over 100 participants from ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences; Universitat Pompeu Fabra; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya; Escola Tècnica Superior d’Enginyers de Camins, Canals i Ports de Barcelona; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; Elisava; IED; Bau [...]

Tonight Mette Ramsgard Thomsen gave us a lecture questioning the role of digital in architecture: How can new ways of understanding the digital lead to new ways of understanding the material? Often digital and material are seen as different domains in architectural thinking. By questioning the role of the digital, her talk pointed to new ways [...]

Today at Open Thesis Fabrication Programme, Mette Ramsgard Thomsen, Professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, had a desk crit with students, checking the development of their projects.

Tonight, according to the program of Lecture Series, IAAC welcomed Catarina Mota, one of the most eminent representatives of the Hacking movement. Catarina, a Global TED Fellow born in Portugal, is cofounder of Lisbon Hackerspaces network, Open Hardware Summit Co-Chair and founder of Open Materials, a project born to create a community around open, shareable and DIY materials. Catarina gave [...]

Brian Peters, a real brilliant IAAC Alumni, has been published today in DEZEEN, the world famous design and architecture digital magazine, for his work about the adaptation of a desktop 3D printer to produce ceramic bricks for building architectural structures. His work, called Building Bytes 3D Printed Briks, is now on show at Dutch Design Week. The resulting Building Bytes project predicts [...]