Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
IAAC, Noumena and Advok communication are very pleased to announce the launch of RESHAPE ® digital craft competition. RESHAPE ® is a competition of computational design and digital fabrication focused, in its first edition, on the topic of LIVING space. RESHAPE ® is seeking designers and fabrication centers to create a network of ideas and production. All [...]
Today we ad the pleasure of Hosting the Open Thesis Fabrication Final Presentations to an international jury consisting in Silvia Bures (agricultural engineer), Joan García (GEMMA UPC), Tomasz Jaskiewicz (TU Delft), Manuel Kretzer (ETH Zurich), Mitchell Joachim (Terreform NY), Alex Sasplugas (CRICURSA), Toni Cumella (CUMELLA CERAMICA), Josep Mª Serra (SATA&COLE), Gemma Pagès (BREINCO), Jordi Ribatallada (ASCAMM), Mònica López (SNABOGADOS), Ignasi Espiell (VOLARTPONS), as well as the IAAC [...]
Check out the results of the Digital Fabrication Exercise on CNC milling, with molding, casting and composite explorations.
This evening we had the pleasure of partaking in the Lecture on behalf of Neil Leach, as part of the IAAC Fall Lecture Series 2013. During the Lecture entitled Adaptation a series of topics were touched around the following concepts: within contemporary architecture design a significant shift in emphasis can be detected – a move [...]
Since 2008 the world has changed. The economic system has undergone all kinds of system failures. So far we have seen the meltdown of the housing industry, bank savings, big organizations, companies and so on. But we have also witnessed new initiatives that are based on alternative financial models, informal currency systems and community based sharing models. In [...]
Manuel Gausa, IAAC Dean, has been interviewed by Llàtzer Moix , Chief editor of culture of La Vanguardia, one of the newspapers most read in Catalunya.