Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
(Above- IAAC Faculty Javier Peña working with MAA Student Manuel Alejandro Huerta Fernandez (Mexico) in DS2) Last week students in the Masters for Advanced Architecture Program began work in their Development Studios. Phase III of the MAA Program is an Open Educational Structure where the students attend a Development Studio plus 1 seminar engaged with [...]
Students: Miguel Guerrero (Spain), Natasa Pistofidou (Greece), Carolina Miro (Spain), Chryssa Karakana (Greece) Research Studio: Digital Tectonics Studio Instructor: Marta Malé-Alemany, MAA Co-Director Student Summary: “Earth´s abundance of sand and the critically self-organizing nature of granular materials were the inspiration of this research. To this day sand has predominantly been used in construction as a [...]
(Above: Digital Team by MAA Student Mani Khosrovani (Iran) from RS3: Digital Tectonics-Switzerland, Germany. Taken at the Weissenhof Museum in “Le Corbusier” House. Winner of the exhibition photo contest.) On the evening of 6 May 2011, IAAC held a special exhibition chronicling the 2011 MAA Research Trips. The exhibition featured research, videos and photos created [...]
Cradle to Cradle: Beyond Beautifiers Ignasi Cubiñá is CEO and Co-founder Eco Intelligent Growth (EIG). He has a BS in Biological Sciences and 15 years experience in the food and pharmaceutical industries. Since 2006 he has worked as an advisor on Cradle to Cradle implementation for business development with institutions and private companies at EIG. [...]
In collaboration with the exhibition Parameter: Digital Collaborative Design in Tel Aviv, IAAC faculty Areti Markopoulou and Luis Fraguada held a five day workshop called Data Driven Structures. In this workshop participants were challenged to rethink urbanity based on information gathered throughout the city. The goal of the workshop was to understand how could data-driven [...]
On Friday, 29 April, IAAC welcomed Or Ettlinger for its most recent installment in the 2010/2011 Open Lecture Series. Dr. Or Ettlinger is an Assistant Professor and senior researcher of virtual architecture and media theory at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Ljubljana. His exploration of virtual architecture and virtual space has spanned [...]