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Tonight we had the pleasure of hosting Izaskun Chinchilla, IAAC Post-graduate Master Alumni 2003-2007, as part of the IAAC Spring Lecture Series. Izaskun discussed the notion of ‘biophilia’ that has been recently addressed by several authors in the field of architectural design. Biophilic spaces and objects, are supposed to connect with natural preferences of humans, [...]

Tonight we had the pleasure of hosting Li Xiangning, as part of the IAAC Spring Lecture Series 2015, discussing the transformation of Shanghai’s modern city, towards building its current contemporary configuration. Li Xiangning is full professor in history, theory and criticism at Tongji University College of Architecture and Urban Planning. He is also Assistant Dean and [...]

  COMPUTATIONAL COUTURE Clothes can be considered as the very first form of mediators between body, space and events, condensing in their aesthetics not only the evolution of its relation to the physical functions of the body (movement, protection, temperature regulation) but also the evolution of cultural expression precisely by exceeding the purely indexical performative [...]

Tonight, as part of the Spring Lecture series 2015, we had the pleasure of hosting Farshid Moussavi who discussed the Function of Style, title of her last book, and part of the Function triolgy: ‘The Function of Ornament’, ‘The Function of Forms’, and ‘the Function of Style’ based on her research and teaching at Harvard. What [...]