Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
Vicente Guallart (founder of IAAC and recently chief Architect of Urban Habitat at Barcelona City Hall), last week started tutoring the 1st term Master Sessions of the MAA master. Master sessions have the character of lectures and debates around the subject of contemporary and future cities. The debates are mainly driven by subjects of social, [...]
The students of the Open Thesis Fabrication had a VIP visit to Sagrada Familia the previous week . The tour was made by Andrés de Mesa and Jeronimo Buxaren, who made sure that the students get close to the ongoing works while the were able to access areas that are restricted for the touristes and [...]
Monday 7th Jelle Feringa, Hyperbody team member and founding partner of EZTC , had a lecture for the Open Thesis Fabrication students at IaaC. Jelle presented part of his PhD research titled ¨Design by Simulation¨, a thesis that is focusing on the close coupling of advanced simulation methods with evolutionary computing methods. In recent projects, [...]
Michael Sorkin visited Barcelona last week while he was invited for a lecture at IAAC and as a jury at WAF 2011 . Sorkins lecture at IAAC was part of the añual IAAC Open Doors Event, a special day of the year were the public has the opportunity to meet the institute. During his lecture [...]
The students of the MAA presented their first assignment of the Digital Fabrication class. The Digital Fabrication introductory course is intended to initiate students in the use of advanced digital design methods and fabrication processes in an integrated way, to make physical things from virtual data. It will focus on the design, development of construction [...]
Andreu Ulied, CEO of MCRIT S.L., had a special session with the MAA students, as part of the Energy class seminar, concerning the mobility systems, as an introduction to environmental impacts and resources consumption related with mobility in buildings and cities. The session had the carecter of an open debade with the students.
On Monday Michael Knauss from DFAB ARCH ETHZ during his lecture ¨Designing Processes¨, presented the research that is being developed at Gramazio & kohler DFAB ARCH and the projects that thay have constructed. Materiality is one of the key points of their research and throughout their processes one could tell that the complexity of the [...]