Category Archives: Lecture Series

Winter Lecture Series: Peter Trummer

Lecture: From the city as a field to the city as an object.

Peter Trummer is Professor for Urban Design and Head of the Institute for Urban Design & Spatial Planning at the University of Innsbruck. He was Head of the Associative Design Program at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam from 2004 to 2010. He received his Master Degree at the Technical University in Graz by Günther Domenig and received his Postgraduate Degree at the Berlage Institute in Amsterdam in 1997. He is a former Architect at UN Studio before establishing his own practice in 2001 to 2005. He writes his PHD on “population thinking in architecture”. He was Guest Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Sci-Arc Southern California Institute of Architecture, at the Technical University in Munich and hold the 1. Roland Rainer Chair at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He lectures, teaches and is invited as a critic at the the AA in London, the University for Applied Art in Vienna, the IAAC in Barcelona, the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam, the SCI-Arc in Los Angeles, the University of Pennsylvania and at Rice University in Houston.

Recently he has published a series of Essays: “Associative Design – from Type to Population” in AD Reader: Computational Design Thinking, “Morphogenetic Urbanism” in AD Digital Cities, “Population Thinking in the age of Bio-politics” in Volume 18, , “Vom Typus zur Population“ in Arch+189, “The Architecture of the Many” in Morpho-Ecologies and gave recently an interview in Manifold. He currently has finished a Studio Publication at the Academy of Fine Arts under the Title: “Urbanism in the Age of Bio-Politics”.

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Nicholas Negroponte Lecture

In his lecture entitled ‘Ending Poverty in 10 Years’, Mr. Negroponte talked about how technology can help developing countries fight against poverty by teaching kids means to educate themselves.  ”If you can learn to read, you can read to learn”.

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Nicholas Negroponte visits IaaC

Before giving his lecture today, Nicholas Negroponte visited IaaC. During the tour around the Institute’s facilities, Mr. Negroponte had the opportunity to watch the student’s projects and talk with them about their work.

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IaaC Lecture Series: Nicholas Negroponte

Nicholas Negroponte is the founder and Chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab, and also known as the founder of the One Laptop per Child Association (OLPC).

In 1967, Negroponte founded MIT’s Architecture Machine Group, a combination lab and think tank which studied new approaches to human-computer interaction. In 1985, he created the MIT Media Lab with Jerome B. Wiesner, a pre-eminent computer science laboratory for new media and a high-tech playground for investigating the human-computer interface. In 1992, Negroponte became involved in the creation of Wired Magazine as the first investor contributing, from 1993 to 1998, with a monthly column: “Move bits, not atoms.” Negroponte expanded many of the ideas from his Wired columns into a bestselling book Being Digital (1995), which made famous his forecasts on how the interactive world, the entertainment world and the information world would eventually merge. Negroponte is a digital optimist who believed that computers would make life better for everyone.

In 2006, Negroponte stepped down as lab chairman to focus more fully on his work with One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) although he retains his appointment as professor at MIT.

On Tuesday, February 26th, Nicholas Negroponte will be lecturing at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia – IAAC.

Nicholas Negroponte’s lecture at IAAC, will be streaming live in our youtube channel

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Bernard Tschumi’s Lecture @IAAC: “Red is not a Color”

Last night at IAAC, architect Bernard Tschumi, gave a lecture presenting “Red is not a color”, focused on his recently published book. During the lecture, Mr. Tschumi discussed concepts in architecture through a comprehensive documentation of his 30-year investigations as a designer, builder, and theorist.

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Bernard Tschumi visits IAAC

Yesterday, architect Bernard Tschumi before his Lecture, visited IAAC’s Studios and talked with the students about their projects.

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IaaC Lecture Series: Bernard Tschumi

Bernard Tschumi

Architect, New York/Paris

Professor, Columbia University

Bernard Tschumi is an architect based in New York and Paris. First known as a theorist, he exhibited and published The Manhattan Transcripts (1981) and wrote Architecture and Disjunction, a series of theoretical essays (MIT Press, 1994). In 1983, he won the prestigious competition to design and build the Parc de la Villette, in Paris. Since then, he has made a reputation for groundbreaking designs that include the New Acropolis Museum, Le Fresnoy Center for the Contemporary Arts, and the Vacheron-Constantin Corporate Headquarters, among other projects. Tschumi’s work has been widely exhibited, with solo exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Venice Biennale. He served as Dean of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University in New York from 1988 to 2003. The New Acropolis Museum has been widely acclaimed, receiving awards from the American Institute of Architects, the French Ministry of Culture, and was one of six finalists for the Mies van der Rohe 2011 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture.

Abstract: Bernard Tschumi will discuss concepts in architecture and his recently published book, a comprehensive documentation of his 30-year investigations as a designer, builder, and theorist. (Bernard Tschumi, Architect, New York and Paris; Professor, Columbia University)

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