Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
For the previous session of Energy seminar Francesc Bonvehi. Mr. Bonvehí is a senior Industrial Engineer with over 30 years of professional experience. He has been active in the energy and building sectors acquiring network capability, responsiveness to deliver and entrepreneurial skills.
It has been an exciting week for the MAA students with guest workshops inside the theory seminar of the 1st term of the master. The past days Mark Bury has been sharing his knowledge with the MAA students by presenting some of his research related to Sagrada Familia construction and explaining how one can mix new technologies [...]
Students of the MAA at IAAC had the change to attend 2 class sessions with Michael Weinstock the passed days. Michael Weinstock is an architect, currently Director of Research and Development and Director of the Emergent Technologies and Design programme in the Graduate School of the Architectural Association School. Michael Weinstock had two sessions with [...]
After more than one month of work, the 2011-2012 MAA Students presented their work as it was developed within the Introductory Studio class, tutored by Areti Markopoulou (IAAC Master program director) and Tomas Diez ( Fablab Barcelona manager ) with the assistance of Ioanna Spanou (Landscape Architect) and Tomas Vivanco Larrain (Architect). The presentations were divided [...]
Jochen Scheerer, ASEPMA director and comisión coordinator of water management in AQUA Spain, offered a special class to the MAA students dedicated to the cycle of water. Starting with the main point, where water is the basis of life and the question of how we as architects could manage it, depending where we are. During [...]
On Thursday, 12 May, IAAC welcomed Dr. Gunter Pauli for an open lecture in the IAAC Auditorium. Dr. Gunter Pauli was born in Antwerp in 1956. He graduated with a degree in economics from Loyola’s University in Belgium and obtained his masters in business administration from INSEAD in France. He is the founder of the [...]
IAAC and the Fab Lab BCN were recently featured in a story about the future of 3D printing on TV3 Televisió de Catalunya. Tomas Diez, Project Manager in the Fab Lab BCN, and Marta Malé-Alemany, Co-Director of IAAC’s MAA Program, explained the work that went into the current exhibition on display at DHUB Barcelona, Full [...]