Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
On Thursday, June 9, IAAC and Santa & Cole opened the exhibition Humanizar la Ciudad. Arquitecturas de Madrid y Barcelona. The exhibition brings together 30 proposals by architects from Barcelona and Madrid which propose a new paradigm for the twenty-first century where the needs of citizens take precedence over arbitrary urban growth and where sustainable [...]
MAA students are working hard in preparation for their final presentations at the end of the month. This year final presentations will be held the week of June 27. All presentations are open to the public. We invite you to come to see the students present. More information will be provided closer to the week [...]
MAA Students in the Multidisiplinar Optimization seminar have finished the course and are now finalizing their projects. This seminar was led by Santiago Marin (Vortica). You can learn more about this seminar in our Seminar Preview post from last month. You can find more MAA Student projects from the seminar in the Multidisiplinar Optimization Student [...]
On Wednesday, 1 June, Fab Academy 2011 program presented their projects for an Open House at the Fab Lab BCN in IAAC. Over the Fab Lab video conference network, 15 Labs from around the world shared the last 6 months of projects from Circuit production to Furniture design. More than 8 countries such as Iceland, [...]
This week MAA students from the Emergent Territories and Self Sufficient Buildings Development Studios took part in a workshop that gave an introduction to arduino, showing how it works, the connections that you can use, and the functionality of such things as light sensors, temperature sensors, and small motors that you can connect to the [...]
In Final Phases of the Masters in Advanced Architecture program students attend one of three Research Studios: Self-Sufficient Buildings, Digital Tectonics or Emergent Territories. At the end of Phase II MAA Students presented their initial proposals. Throughout Phase III they will refine this research for their final presentations. On Tuesday, the Digital Tectonics studio presented [...]
In Final Phases of the Masters in Advanced Architecture program students attend one of three Research Studios: Self-Sufficient Buildings, Digital Tectonics or Emergent Territories. At the end of Phase II MAA Students presented their initial proposals. Throughout Phase III they will refine this research for their final presentations. Last week, MAA Students in the Emergent [...]