Caroline Bos from UNStudio lecture “On the Verge”
25th of April at 19:30 at the IAAC Auditorium
Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
This Monday, March 18th, MAI Dialogues presents Pablo Valbuena & Jaime Serra talks. 19.00hs, IaaC Auditorium.
Pablo Valbuena has become internationally recognized for his augmented architectures, dynamic forms where light and phisical structures combine to create a new hybrid language for form and space. Trained as an architect and having worked previously in videogames, his art projects in galleries and public space interventions preludes the explosion of “projection mapping” as a technique and has been extensively exhibited worldwide.
Jaime Serra is one of the most important names in the field of infographics today. Currently head of graphics at La Vanguardia, his body of work goes beyond the conventions of graphics for journalism and enters into the territory of information visualization and even visual poetry. His work is currently being exhibited at Ars Santa Mónica.
The conference will be streaming LIVE from IaaC’s youtube channel.
Tonight IAAC welcomed Peter Trummer lecture “From the city as a filed to the city as an object” within the Winter IAAC Lecture Series.
The lecture unfolded the relationship between urban planning and urban design. A disciplinary knowledge that ones was united and was invented by Ildefonso Cerda and his Theory of urbanization. Urban planning is understood as the regimes that form the knowledge on which urban decisions are based on. This can span from administrative to legislative to economical and technical ones. Urban design is understood as a material projection on which urban environments are formed and shaped. The lecture shown the shift within the discipline of urban design form understanding cities as a field problems towards a the understanding of cities as objects.