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IAAC @ BCN LLUM – Data net, Sensing real time behavior

iaac — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 14:44:17 +0000

Data net – Sensing real time behaviour is an installation that IAAC was invited design by the Barcelona City Council to within the BCN LLUM festival during the Santa Eulàlia cellebration.

In the courtyard of the museum Marés DATA NET is born, another tree next to the existing ones.This new tree, though, is forming an interactive mesh covering the patio of the museum.
You see the installation illuminated but you also find yourselves, as visitors, participating in the project.
The intensity of the lighting of the installation reacts to the location and the density of the visitors through a series of sensors thatracks people´s movement.
This way, visitors are not only observers of a space but participants in its creation, definition and variation.
DATA NET is reflecting a living organism that moves and evolves according to the data generated by the public.

Authors: IAAC
Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia; Rodrigo Aguirre, Silvia Brandi, Guillem Camprodon, Alexander Dubor, Luis Fraguada, Areti Markopoulou, Anastasia Pistofidou.

Lighthig expert: Pablo Martinez.

3d Scanning: Henrik Leander Evers (CITA Copenhague)

Fabric manipulation: Claudio Marza.

Collaboradors: Moritz Begle, Karen Beyens, Alejandra Diaz de Leon, Blanca Duarte, Robert Garita, Anna Popova, Chirag Rangholia, Aldo Sollazzo, Angeliki Terezaki, Sebastian Varela.

Photo Credits: Filippo Poli

IAAC Winter Lecture Series 2014

iaac — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 16:10:50 +0000

IAAC is proud to announce the Winter Lecture Series 2014:

9th January 2014

DAVID MOCARSKI
Architect and Professor
Art Centre College of Design – Pasadena USA

10th January 2014
METTE RAMSGAARD THOMPSEN
Architect and Professor
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture – Director of CITA – Copenhagen

16th January 2014
MARIA AIOLOVA
Architect, Professor and LEED AP
Co-founder of Terreform ONE – New York

28th January 2014
LUCA GALOFARO
Architect and Professor
IaN+ – Rome

31st January 2014
HERNAN DIAZ ALONSO
Architect and Professor
Xefirotarch – Los Angeles
Graduate Programs Chair SCI-Arc – L.A.

6th February 2014
ETHEL BARAONA
Critic, writer and curator
dpr-barcelona – Barcelona

14th February 2014
RONEN KADUSHIN
Designer and Professor
Open Design – Berlin

20th February 2014
SIMON SCHLEICHER
Research Associate at the ITKE
Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design – Stuttgart

28th February 2014
MASSIMO BANZI
Interaction Designer, Educator and Open Source Hardware advocate
Co-founder of the Arduino project

7th March 2014
MOSÈ RICCI
Architect and Professor
Polytechnic University of Genoa – Genoa

11th March 2014
MARIA SISTERNAS
Architect
Projects Director at Urban Habitat, City Council – Barcelona

27th March 2014
FRANCIS SOLER
Architect
Francis Soler Architecte – Paris

Events supported by Moritz, Barcelona

IAAC @ LLUM BCN

iaac — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 15:09:31 +0000

IAAC will be partcipating with an installation in this year’s LLUM BCN festival centered on the art of light. The IAAC installation is part of the Patis Transformats Section of the event, consisting in professionals and academics, along with the participation of students, in the field of architecture and design.

IAAC will be transforming the Patio of the Museu Frederic Marès, generating a light mesh whose intesity will var according to the number of visitors in the patio. So come and visit the patio and make the light shine bright!

Friday 14th of February: RONEN KADUSHIN – Open Design: Products in a Networked Culture.

iaac — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 14:36:44 +0000

Friday 14th of February 2014
Ronen Kadushin
Lecture: Open Design: Products in a Networked Culture.

@ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium
Open to the Public

RONEN KADUSHIN
Ronen Kadushin is an Israeli designer and design educator living in Berlin since 2005. He taught furniture design and design creativity courses at leading Israeli and European design academies since 1993. In 2004 Kadushin developed the Open Design concept, where the designs of his products can be downloaded, copied, modified and produced, much as in Open Source software.
Based on this concept, he formed Open Design, a design and production company for furniture, lighting and accessories which are produced in Berlin and sold in Europe and the USA. Open Design products are regularly presented in solo and group exhibitions world wide, and published in professional literature. Kadushin is teaching Open design courses in universities and speaks at conferences. Kadushin is the author of the Open Design Manifesto.

Thursday 6th of February: ETHEL BARAONA – It’s the economy, stupid.

iaac — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 09:30:09 +0000

Thursday 6th of February 2014
Ethel Baraona
Lecture: It’s the economy, stupid.

@ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium
Open to the Public

ETHEL BARAONA POHL

Critic, writer and curator. Co-founder of the independent publishing house dpr-barcelona and editor at Quaderns, her [net]work is a real hub linking several publications and actors on architecture and theory. Working as contributing editor for different blogs and magazines, she has written articles for Volume, Domus, The New City Reader [Istanbul edition] and MAS Context.. She has been invited to present her work in events like Postópolis! DF, and lectures in Athens, Jerusalem, and Oslo, among others. Associate Curator for “Adhocracy”, first commissioned for the Istanbul Design Biennial in 2012 and exhibited at The New Museum, NYC [May 2013] and Lime Wharf, London [Summer 2013]. Curator, with César Reyes, of the third Think Space programme with the theme ‘Money’.

dpr-barcelona. An independent publishing company based in Barcelona founded by Ethel Baraona and César Reyes, focused on architecture and city issues. Showing a clear innovative way to bring the contents to the public. Their projects, both digital and printed, transcend the boundaries of conventional publications, approaching to those which are probably the titles of architecture in the future.

Friday 31st of January: HERNAN DIAZ ALONSO – Form and Gloom

iaac — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 13:02:34 +0000

Friday 31st of January 2014
Hernan Diaz Alonso
Lecture: Form and Gloom.

@ 20.30, IAAC Auditorium
Open to the Public

HERNAN DIAZ ALONSO

Hernan Diaz Alonso is principal and founder of the Los Angeles-based design practice Xefirotarch. Before becoming the Graduate Programs Chair at SCI-Arc he has served for the past several years as Distinguish Professor of Architecture and the Graduate Thesis Coordinator at SCI-Arc. Previously, he has taught as a design studio professor at Columbia University GSAPP and he is the head studio professor in the “Excessive” post-graduate program at the Universitat fur angewandte Kunst in Wien. He was recently honored by Yale University with the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professorship of Architectural Design for fall 2010. He lectured at major institutions around the world, notably at the Venice Architecture Biennale, London Architecture Biennale, Archilab. His architecture designs have received numerous awards and his work has been widely published, including the “Excessive” monograph and an upcoming monograph by Thames and Hudson. In 2005, Diaz Alonso was the winner of PS1 MoMa’s Young Architects Program (YAP) competition. His work has since been the subject of solo shows at the San Francisco MoMa in 2006, the Art Institute of Chicago and the MAK Centre, Wien in 2007.

Tuesday 28th of January: LUCA GALOFARO (IaN+) – This is not a manifesto

iaac — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 15:41:26 +0000

Tuesday 28th of January 2014
Luca Galofaro (IaN+)
Lecture: This s not a manifesto.

@ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium
Open to the Public

LUCA GALOFARO

Luca Galofaro is an architect and an educator, from 2009 to 2012 he was professor at Ecole Speciale d’Architecture in Paris, in 2013 professor of Urban design at the Bartlett school in London. He obtained the Master degree of Spatial Science at the International Space University, UHA Huntsville, Alabama. He worked at Eisenman Architects in New York and he is author of several books published by Bruno Zevi´s collection of Universal Architecture and contributes to various magazines on architecture. He is the author of two blogs about architectural research: www.the-booklist.com, www.the-imagelist.com

He is co-founder and member of IaN+ architecture from 1997.

IaN+ was set up in 1997 and materializes around the core of its three members with diverse professional formation and experience: Carmelo Baglivo (30.11.’64), Luca Galofaro (19.03.’65), for design project and theory, Stefania Manna (06.07.’69) for engineering. IaN+ multi-disciplinary agency aims at being a place where theory and practice of architecture overlap and meet.
Ian+ office, won the gold medal for Italian architecture in 2006, was nominee for the Iakov Chernikov Prize in 2011, received a honorable mention in the category Built Environment for the Zumtobel Award 2012 and was candidated for the Italian Architecture Gold Medal IV edition 2012. Ian+ Is finalist to the Agha Kahn Award 2013, and received the honorable mention at the Piranesi Award 2013. Their projects, are part of the permanent collection of FRAC Centre (Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain), which features experimental architectural projects.

IaN+ projects have been selected for many exhibitions all around the world. Among them, “Testify! The consequences of architecture” at NAi Rotterdam(2011); the Venice Biennale (2000, 2004, 2008, 2010); the Brazilian Architecture Biennale in San Paolo (2007); the London Biennale of Architecture( 2006); ArchiLab (2000, 2001 2002) in Orléans (France).
They have been participating to many national and international architectural competitions, gaining several prizes and mentions.
They won the first prize for the competition Busan Opera House (2011) and an honorable mention for the National Museum of Afghanistan (2012) “Social Housing Masterplan Cà D’oro – Mestre” in Venice (2010).

He carries on teaching activities in workshops and design course in several schools of Architecture and Design since 1992.

WINGS 2014 – Materializing Data through Landscape

iaac — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 21:04:17 +0000

This weekend we hosted the IAAC WINGS 2014 workshop at IAAC and the Valldaura Self Sufficent Labs campuses.

WINGS stands for Workshop in Intensive Networking Games and Strategies, and aims to deal with the process of architecture with a ludicrous approach, using games to generate architecture. This was fulfilled thanks to the enthusiasm not just of the students, consisting in the IAAC Master in Advanced Architecture students, as well as visiting students from the CIEE (Council on International Educational Exchange) from the USA, and students from the Polytechnic School of Genoa (Italy), but also the extreme enthusiasm of the Tutors (both from IAAC and invited by IAAC), coming from diverse disciplinary backgrounds – Architects, Designers, Artists, Actors and Anthropologists.

The theme chosen this year was that of Materializing Data through Landscape. Each group composed of 2 or more tutors and around 15 students were given open data sources that they studied on Friday, at the Pujades 102 campus, finding data sets that emerged to them as points of interest on the basis of which to conceive an installation, performance, land art, sensorial experience, and much more.

Day 2 of the workshop, held in the Valldaura Self Sufficient Labs, brought to life the installations and performances conceptualised through game play the day before, giving way to the transformation of the Valldaura landscape through the materialisation of data.

The tutors were: Manuel Gausa, Maria Aiolova, Marc Aureli Santos, Amadeu Santacana, Joan Maroto, Ana Martinez, Lisa Marrani, Anastasia Pistofidou, Laila Tafur, Ovidiu Cincheza, Georg Ladurner, Alexandre Dubor, Norma Deseke, Nicola Canessa, Jonathan Minchin, Drew Carson, Guillem Camprodon, Gaia Grossi and Mathilde Marengo.

IAAC @ BSSA

iaac — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 15:08:24 +0000

This week Areti Markopoulou, the MAA Director, and Silvia Brandi, the MAA academic coordinator, flew to Mumbai, India, as they were invited to be members of the NMIMS’s Balwant Sheth School of Architecture (BSSA) Final Jury.

They also had the opportunity to meet up with some of the IAAC Alumni, among which Kartik Gala, Yogesh Karekar, Nidhi Shah, Hemant Purohit and Renu Gupta.

MARIA AIOLOVA – The Art of Urbaneering

iaac — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 21:21:49 +0000

Tonight we had the pleasure of hosting Maria Aiolova, discussing the Art of Urbaneering, as part of the Winter Lecture Series 2014.

During the lecture, Maria touched series of themes very much of interest today: Whose job is it to create a city? Our intention is to jumpstart a new profession that can re-invent and negotiate the complex mix that encompasses a city. We have defined a radical new occupation to regenerate, pioneer, and sustain the future urban realm. These innovative multi-disciplinarian advocates are called Urbaneers. Their immense task is to manifest and facilitate the City 2.0 across the globe. Each Urbaneer is an individual with a different set of versatile abilities that merge previously disparate occupations. They range from combined ecological architects and engineers to action based urban planners and developers. Almost any recombined professional activities will work, so long as they meet the constantly changing needs of urbanization. Urbaneers perform in a role akin to Jane Jacobs, but at the magnitude and accomplishment of Robert Moses. An excellent historical example of an Urbaneer is Frederick Law Olmstead. For years, we have shaped a school called ONE Lab that has expanded on this very notion. Now, the Global Architecture and Design Programs will instruct in the art of Urbaneering to students seeking to augment their sensibilities and operate within cities.

MARIA AIOLOVA is an educator, architect and urban designer in New York City. Her work is focused on the theory, science and application of ecological design. She is a Co-Founder of Terreform ONE. In 2013, Maria was appointed Academic Director of Global Architecture and Design of CIEE (Council on International Educational Exchange). Presently, Maria chairs the ONE Lab NY School for Design and Science and the One Prize Design and Science Award. She is an institutional adviser to New Lab at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. She won the 2013 AIA NY Award for Urban Design. Maria is currently a visiting faculty at University of Applied Arts Vienna. Most recently, she taught at Pratt Institute and Parsons the New School for Design. Formerly, she served as Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer of ETEX Corporation, a bio-tech company in Cambridge, MA. Maria is an inventor, who holds 18 technology patents. She was the winner of the Victor J. Papanek Social Design Award, and the Museum of Arts and Design in 2011. Maria has won a number of design competitions including first place in the CHARLES/MGH Station, Boston, and the Izmir Post District International Competition, Turkey. She also won the Zumtobel Group Award for Sustainability and Humanity and the Build Boston Award.