Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
Last Friday Abha joshi Ghani that heads the Urban Development and Local Governement Practice in the World bank´s Sustainable Development network had a lecture at IAAC under the title : ¨Urbanization- a developmental perspective on equitable, inclusive and green growth¨. During her Lecture Abha underlined the need for a sustainable urbanism in our times. Abha [...]
The GIS ( Geographic Information System) class is part of the Many Slow Cities into a Smart City Research Studio of the first term. GIS is the merging of cartography, statistical analysis, and database technology and is tutored by Ioanna Spanou (Landscape Architect) and Margerita Neri (Landscape Architect). Through the GIS analysis tool, students are [...]
The Open Thesis Fabrication group had a visit this week at Media-TIC by Cloud9. The tour at the building was made by Mireia Luzárraga (cloud9). The general context of the area and how Media Tic is standing next to its surroundings as well as the facades systems and the electronic control that responces to the [...]
Ramón Sagarra gave a lecture class about the concept of Smart Cities in Barcelona and he explained the work being done within this field in 22@. Ramón Sagarra Rius is an industrial engineer by the High Technical School of Industrial Engineering of Barcelona, MBA by ESADE and Master in industrial automatization and robotics by UPC. [...]
The Digital tools class is oriented to facilitate the students with the knowledge of contemporary design tools in order to enable 3D and 2D strategies for design and representation. This seminar class is tutored by Luis Fraguada with the assistance of Amay Uday Gurkar .
Above image, Antoni Vives and Marta Malé-Alemany Last Friday IAAC inaugurated the Master in Advanced Architecture 2011/12. The inauguration started with a welcome speech from the Rector of UPC Antoni Giró , the president of IAAC Javier Niéto and Antoni Vives the Deputy Mayor of the urban Habitat of Barcelona at the Barcelona City Hall. [...]
Salvador Rueda , is the director of the ¨Ecologia Urbana¨since 2000. Sarvador Rueda is a biology scientist that holds as well a diploma in Energy management, a diploma in Environmental Engineering and has a licence of Psycology. Salvador Rueda had a lecture about the structure of the city plan of Barcelona and the reasons for [...]