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FanCity Theatre: Recent IAAC Graduates Take Honorable Mention in NYTC Competition

Andrea Debilio (Italy), Morten Bulow (Denmark), Antonio Atripaldi (Italy), recent graduates of the Master in Advanced Architecture 2010/2011 program, have won honorable mention in the Arch Medium New York Theater City competition. The students’ proposal, FanCity Theatre, was one of over 300 proposals submitted to Arch Medium and voted on by the jury. Here is [...]

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1st Annual Alumni Meeting at Can Valldaura

This past Sunday, after the graduation celebrations, students from the Master in Advanced Architecture Class of 2010/11 met at Can Valldaura with IAAC alumni from the past ten years for the 1st Annual Alumni Meeting. At this event, which coincided with the 10th Anniversary of the Master’s in Advanced Architecture program, the recent graduates and [...]

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Graduation: Master in Advanced Architecture Class of 2010/2011

On Saturday, July 2, the Master in Advanced Architecture class of 2010/2011 graduated from IAAC. This year’s graduating MAA class was made up of 56 students from over 25 countries. It was a day to celebrate after all of the hard work put in by the MAA students this year. In the final weeks of [...]

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Final Presentations- Emergent Territories

The Masters in Advanced Architecture 2010/11 came to an end today with the third and final day of presentations for the week. In their final projects, the Emergent Territories Studio, led by Willy Müller and assisted by Maite Bravo, proposed: various new and innovative ways to make urban and public space multifunctional; a vision of [...]

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Final Presentations- Self Sufficient Buildings Studio

The 2010/11 MAA Students in the Self Sufficient Buildings Studio wrapped up their year with today’s presentation of final projects. The goal of each project was to create a self-sufficient city block in Barcelona. This Studio was led by IAAC Director Vicente Guallart and Javier Peña. The studio assistant was Rodrigo Rubio. For the final [...]

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Final Presentations- Digital Tectonics Studio (Fab Bots 2.0)

The Digital Tectonics Studio 2010/11, led by Marta Malé-Alemany, came to its end today with final presentations by the MAA Students. The jury panel included outside guests: Branko Kolarevic and Vera Parlac from the Laboratory for Integrative Design at the University of Calgary; Matias del Campo and Sandra Manninger from Span Architecture; Valerie Bergeron from [...]

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Sant Joan Workshop at Fab Lab BCN

The 24th of June is the day for celebrating Sant Joan in Catalunya. On the eve of Sant Joan, people go to the beach to dance, make bonfires and set off fireworks to welcome the summer. In the Fab Lab BCN…we make. The Sant Joan workshop participants were part of McKinsey & Company, a global [...]

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