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MAA Research Trips: Pictures from Dubai

By iaac | Published: April 4, 2011

(Above: IAAC Inside 0-14 Tower in Dubai. IAAC Tweet: “RS2@O-14 tower by Reiser+Umemoto/amazing concrete exoskeleton structure+skin freeing the building core and the floors from columns”) Students in the Masters in Advanced Architecture Program are split into three Research Studios (RS1: Emergent Territories, RS2: Self Sufficient Buildings, RS3 Digital Tectonics). This week each will be exploring [...]

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Smart Geometry 2011

By iaac | Published: April 4, 2011

IAAC community at SG 2011. Foto: Nicholas Waissbluth Smart Geometry workshops and conference finished with a talkshop and symposium, right after 4 days of intensive sessions on different workshops based on the subject: Building the Invisible. Talkshop was an opportunity to open debates, pose questions, challenge orthodoxies, and propose new ideas regarding the use, production [...]

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Emergent Territories Research Studio- 2nd Term Final Presentation

By iaac | Published: April 1, 2011

Students of the 2010/2011 Master in Advanced Architecture Emergent Territories Studio had their final presentations on Friday April 1. In Phase II of the MAA program students attend one of three Research Studios: Self-Sufficient Buildings, Digital Tectonics or Emergent Territories. The Phase II final presentations for the Self Sufficient Buildings and Digital Tectonics Research Studios [...]

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Digital Tectonics Research Studio- 2nd Term Final Presentations

By iaac | Published: April 1, 2011

Students of the 2010/2011 Master in Advanced Architecture Digital Tectonics Studio had their final presentations on Thursday March 31. In Phase II of the MAA program students attend one of three Research Studios: Self-Sufficient Buildings, Digital Tectonics or Emergent Territories. The Phase II final presentations for the Self Sufficient Buildings and Emergent Territories Research Studios were [...]

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IAAC Everywhere- MAA Research Trips 2011

By iaac | Published: April 1, 2011

(Self Sufficient Buildings- Dubai and Abu Dhabi, Above- Masdar City) The Masters in Advanced Architecture program will be traveling the world! Each year the MAA program takes its research out of Barcelona and explores a different region of the world. Past trips include India, Romania, Taiwan, Slovenia-Croatia, and Brazil. This year, the three Research Studios [...]

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Self Sufficient Buildings Research Studio- 2nd Term Final Presentations

By iaac | Published: March 31, 2011

Students of the 2010/2011 Master in Advanced Architecture Self Sufficient Buildings Studio had their final presentations on Wednesday March 30. In Phase II of the MAA program students attend one of three Research Studios: Self-Sufficient Buildings, Digital Tectonics or Emergent Territories. The final presentations for the Digital Tectonics and Emergent Territories Research Studios were held [...]

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IAAC at Smart Geometry 2011

By iaac | Published: March 28, 2011

Following last’s year Smart Geometry conference, hosted in Barcelona, IAAC faculty Luis Fraguada and Tomas Diez and alumni Felipe Pecegueiro are leading the Urban Feeds cluster (assisted by MAA student Morten Bulow) at the Smart Geometry Workshops and Conferences 2011, which is taking place in Copenhagen from March 28th to 31st. Urban Feeds cluster aims to [...]

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