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WINGS 2014 – Materializing Data through Landscape

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 [...]

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IAAC @ BSSA

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, [...]

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MARIA AIOLOVA – The Art of Urbaneering

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 [...]

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IAAC WINGS 2014 – Materializing Data through Landscape

IAAC WINGS 2014 – Workshop in Intensive Networking Games Strategies Materializing Data through Landscape 100STUDENTS from over 45 countries 3INSTITUTES IAAC – Barcelona UNIGE – Genova CIEE – United States 2DAYS 17—18 January 2014 2LOCATIONS IAAC 22@ Valldaura Self Sufficent Labs 1GAME…

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RS3 Workshop – ADAPTIVE SELF-PARAMETRISATION

This week the Research Studio 3 DIGITAL MATTER – INTELLIGENT CONSTRUCTIONS partook in the Adaptive Self-Parametrisation workshop, in parallel with CITA. The workshop was held by David Stasiuk –  digitalization of the physical models for the self parametrization -, Henrik Leander Evers – 3D scanning expert -, as well as the RS3 studio directors: Areti Markopoulou with [...]

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Thursday 16th of January: MARIA AIOLOVA –
The Art of Urbaneering

Thursday 16th of January 2014 Maria Aiolova Lecture: The Art of Urbaneering. @ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium Open to the Public MARIA AIOLOVA 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. [...]

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Friday 10th of January: METTE RAMSGAARD THOMPSEN – CITA Research Practice

Friday 10th of January 2014 Mette Ramsgaard Thompsen Lecture: CITA Research Practice. @ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium Open to the Public METTE RAMSGAARD THOMPSEN Mette Ramsgard Thomsen is an architect working with digital technologies. Her research centres on the relationship between crafts and technology framed through “Digital Crafting” as way of questioning how computation, code, material [...]

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