Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
Phase 2 (second term) is almost over and Research Studio Final Presentations are around the corner, so everyone is busy working on their projects. Phase 2 of the Masters in Advanced Architecture program is an Open Education Structure where students attend a Research Studio and 1 Seminar related to this studio plus 2 elective Seminars [...]
(Above: Shigeru Ban at IAAC) Last Friday, 18 March, IAAC welcomed Shigeru Ban for our Open Lecture Series. Despite the difficult circumstances after the terrible earthquake in Japan the previous weekend, Mr. Ban presented ¨ Works and Humanitarian Activities ¨. In his presentation, Mr. Ban shared with the audience projects like, the Paper House, the Nomadic Museum, [...]
The Designing Associativity Seminar is titled as such in order to acknowledge the effort of designing relationships versus explicit objects or forms. MAA Students look at ways to construct logics which take advantage of diverse data sources, algorithms, geometry, and manufacturing processes. Architecture as a practice and experience has often dealt with the negotiation of [...]
During the Emergent Territories Workshop MAA Students have been working on large infrastructure areas in Barcelona called ´Rondas´, a network of mobility and its surroundings, consisting of different large scale projects. In these they have been investigating the relation between the programmatic decisions, both formal and spatial as well as structural, in relation to their [...]
MAA students of Digital Tectonics Research Studio are having an intensive Processing workshop with Thiago Mundim. Before the workshop started they had an introduction of Processing simulations and what they can achieve with this powerful tool. Thiago presented his project Knitectonics, structured spaces made with different fabrics and simulation.
Each year IAAC hosts various groups of students and researchers from around the world making IAAC a dynamic center for learning and innovation. Since January a group of students from the University of Texas at San Antonio have been at IAAC with their professors Maria Solé Bravo and Natali Canas working and learning about digital fabrication. [...]
Ara(e)Na (picture above) is one of the projects presented by MAA students. Marta Malé-Alemany, Luis Fraguada, Victor Viña, and Thiago Mundim were part of the jury during the Mid Review presentations.