Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
IAAC Global Summer school ended last week. 15 students of different nationalities, participated in this edition of IAAC Summer School : SMARTitSELF. After 2 weeks of intense workshop, with experimentation on prototypes among others, the team proceeded to the construction of an 1:1 prototype. ¨Heliocell¨, the project of this edition of Summer School, is a [...]
Continuing the research agenda: Fab Labs and Informalism between the “Unidad 00″ at the Architecture and Urbanism School of the Universidad Central de Venezuela, and IAAC-Fab Lab Barcelona, this year a second version of the dedicated summer school is going to take place in Barcelona at IAAC Campus between 3rd and 31st of August. The [...]
These days, a group of interior design students from the Institut Créad in Lyon (France) are participating in one of the IAAC Digital Fabrication Workshops focused on furniture design using digital tools. The students design proposals are passing through a selection process that will end up with one of the designs being built in 1:1 scale at the Fabrication Laboratory (FabLab [...]
One of the visionaries of the idea of IAAC and co-creator of Metapolis Group, the Architect and Professor at the University of Geneva, Manuel Gausa, returns to IAAC assigned as the Dean of the Institute. Manuel Gausa along with the historian and cultural manager Antonio Nicolau as the General Director of IAAC and the economist [...]
The IAAC Global Summer School 2012: SMART itSELF started on Friday with an introduction on the program’s objectives and aims by the main tutors of the workshop : Areti Markopoulou, Rodrigo Rubio, Tomas Diez and Luis Fraguada. 15 Participants of different nationalities will be working on the ideas of Heliocell. During the course the participants [...]
One more edition of the Master in Advanced Architecture MAA 2011-12 has come to its end. IAAC with pride celebrated with the MAA students, their effort and the hard work that they conducted during this year, with a graduation ceremony to remember!
Students of the MAA 02 presented their state of investigation as well as their digital and physical experiments, as they are developed in the second year of the MAA_02.