Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
IAAC inaugurated yesterday the second year of the two years Master’s programme in Advanced Architecture MAA02. The new Masters programme allows senior students, which already develop the appropriate sensibility and tools during the first year programme, to get into the deep of a personal investigation, about the themes of the advanced technology, architecture and urbanism. During [...]
On Monday IAAC welcomed Prof: Mariano Marzo, full professor of Stratigraphy at the Faculty of Geology of the University of Barcelona where he teaches Petroleum Geology and Energy Resources. Mr Marzo’s research interests focus on the application of clastic sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy, reservoir modeling and basin analysis to the exploration and production of hydrocarbons. During a [...]
Last night, for the MAA OPENING LECTURE, IAAC welcomed John Palmesino and Hernan Diaz Alonso. John Palmesino is a swiss architect and urbanist, he has lead the researches at ETH Studio Basel–Contemporary City Institute between 2003 and 2007. He has also co-founded Multiplicity, an international research network involved in contemporary architecture, urbanism, arts and general culture. [...]
Students of the Open Thesis Fabrication, presented to their tutors. The proposals of the projects that they are interested to work with during their studies at OTF program and the direction of research that they wish to follow.
IAAC participates to the Venice Biennale 2012 – Common Grounds – and the Spanish Pavilion ¨SpainLab¨ / Academic Lab / with the project: Archadapting, An evolution to the past. Arch-adapting: An evolution to the past, is an essay on architectural phenomena of adaptation to new realities of architectural creation, from the moment of the conception [...]
As part of the Open Thesis Fabrication program, the collaborative industries presented to the students their projects as well as the research that they are developing. The OTF Program is a unique research program, developed as a non-profit partnership between IAAC and a series of well-established industrial partners and companies. The objective of this collaboration [...]
Open Thesis Fabrication 3.0 Inaugurated with the welcoming speech from the new IAAC Dean Manuel Gausa along with Areti Markopoulou, research and Development Director, that presented the program to the students.