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Tuesday 28th of January: LUCA GALOFARO (IaN+) –
This is not a manifesto

By iaac | Published: January 21, 2014

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Tuesday 28th of January 2014
Luca Galofaro (IaN+)
Lecture: This s not a manifesto.

@ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium
Open to the Public

LUCA GALOFARO
Luca Galofaro is an architect and an educator, from 2009 to 2012 he was professor at Ecole Speciale d’Architecture in Paris, in 2013 professor of Urban design at the Bartlett school in London. He obtained the Master degree of Spatial Science at the International Space University, UHA Huntsville, Alabama. He worked at Eisenman Architects in New York and he is author of several books published by Bruno Zevi´s collection of Universal Architecture and contributes to various magazines on architecture. He is the author of two blogs about architectural research: www.the-booklist.com, www.the-imagelist.com

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MARIA AIOLOVA – The Art of Urbaneering

By iaac | Published: January 16, 2014

Tonight we had the pleasure of hosting Maria Aiolova, discussing the Art of Urbaneering, as part of the Winter Lecture Series 2014.

During the lecture, Maria touched series of themes very much of interest today: Whose job is it to create a city?  Our intention is to jumpstart a new profession that can re-invent and negotiate the complex mix that encompasses a city.  We have defined a radical new occupation to regenerate, pioneer, and sustain the future urban realm. These innovative multi-disciplinarian advocates are called Urbaneers. Their immense task is to manifest and facilitate the City 2.0 across the globe.  Each Urbaneer is an individual with a different set of versatile abilities that merge previously disparate occupations.  They range from combined ecological architects and engineers to action based urban planners and developers.  Almost any recombined professional activities will work, so long as they meet the constantly changing needs of urbanization.  Urbaneers perform in a role akin to Jane Jacobs, but at the magnitude and accomplishment of Robert Moses. An excellent historical example of an Urbaneer is Frederick Law Olmstead.  For years, we have shaped a school called ONE Lab that has expanded on this very notion.  Now, the Global Architecture and Design Programs will instruct in the art of Urbaneering to students seeking to augment their sensibilities and operate within cities.

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Thursday 16th of January: MARIA AIOLOVA –
The Art of Urbaneering

By iaac | Published: January 13, 2014

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Thursday 16th of January 2014
Maria Aiolova
Lecture: The Art of Urbaneering.

@ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium
Open to the Public

MARIA AIOLOVA
Maria Aiolova is an educator, architect and urban designer in New York City.  Her work is focused on the theory, science and application of ecological design. She is a Co-Founder of Terreform ONE. In 2013, Maria was appointed Academic Director of Global Architecture and Design of CIEE (Council on International Educational Exchange). Presently, Maria chairs the ONE Lab NY School for Design and Science and the One Prize Design and Science Award. She is an institutional adviser to New Lab at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. She won the 2013 AIA NY Award for Urban Design. Maria is currently a visiting faculty at University of Applied Arts Vienna. Most recently, she taught at Pratt Institute and Parsons the New School for Design. Formerly, she served as Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer of ETEX Corporation, a bio-tech company in Cambridge, MA. Maria is an inventor, who holds 18 technology patents. She was the winner of the Victor J. Papanek Social Design Award, and the Museum of Arts and Design in 2011. Maria has won a number of design competitions including first place in the CHARLES/MGH Station, Boston, and the Izmir Post District International Competition, Turkey.  She also won the Zumtobel Group Award for Sustainability and Humanity and the Build Boston Award.
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METTE RAMSGAARD THOMPSEN – CITA Research Practice

By admin | Published: January 10, 2014

Tonight we had the pleasure of hosting Mette Ramsgaard Thompsen. During the lecture she elaborated the design and research practice developed at CITA.

CITA uses a practice based research methods focussed on the conceptualisation, design and realisation of working prototypes and full scale demonstrators. CITAs work has a strong cross-disciplinary focus consolidates new collaborations with interdisciplinary partners from the fields of engineering, design, robotics and material science.

We are proud to announce that this year IAAC and CITA will be collaborating in the development of the Research Studio in the Masters in Advanced Architecture investigating Digital Materials and Intelligent Constructions.

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Friday 10th of January: METTE RAMSGAARD THOMPSEN – CITA Research Practice

By iaac | Published: January 8, 2014

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Friday 10th of January 2014
Mette Ramsgaard Thompsen
Lecture: CITA Research Practice.

@ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium
Open to the Public

METTE RAMSGAARD THOMPSEN
Mette Ramsgard Thomsen is an architect working with digital technologies. Her research centres on the relationship between crafts and technology framed through “Digital Crafting” as way of questioning how computation, code, material and fabrication challenge architectural thinking and material practices. Her work is practice lead and through projects such as Thicket, Slow Furl, Listener and Vivisection she investigates the design and realisation of a behavioural space.
Mette is a Professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, where she heads the Centre for Information Technology and Architecture [CITA].
CITA uses a practice based research methods focussed on the conceptualisation, design and realisation of working prototypes and full scale demonstrators. CITAs work has a strong cross-disciplinary focus consolidates new collaborations with interdisciplinary partners from the fields of engineering, design, robotics and material science.We are proud to announce that this year IAAC and CITA will be collaborating in the development of the Research Studio in the Masters in Advanced Architecture investigating Digital Materials and Intelligent Constructions.
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Thursday 9th of January: DAVID MOCARSKI introduced by ENRIC RUIZ GELI – ART CENTER meets IAAC

By iaac | Published: January 7, 2014

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Thursday 9th of January 2014
David Mocarski introduced by Enric Ruiz Geli
Lecture: ART CENTER meets IAAC

@ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium
Open to the Public

After the Lecture Refreshments will be offered at Media-TIC, 22@Barcelona.

Cloud 9 and and Art Center are building together the project “a Mediterranean case study” in Aiguablava. The professors David Mocarski, James Meraz, Jason Pilarski and Kenneth Cameron and four students are in Barcelona to develop the construction and to meet the IAAC – FabLab. Art Center is the school number one in America in car design and product design. They are the designers of Apple stores, they have the cameras of James Cameron, designers of BMW cars, of TESLA cars, and the professor David Mocarski is the chairman of the Graduate & Under Graduate Environmental Design Department at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, he has an approach Holistic.

DAVID MOCARSKI
David Mocarski has explored the boundaries of the creative process for more than thirty years. He is the principal of Arkkit forms design, as well as chairman of the Graduate & Under Graduate Environmental Design Department at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena USA. Arkkit forms was founded in 1982 as a highly inter-disciplinary design studio. Arkkit forms has explored projects as diverse as packaging for Baron Philippe Rothschild, France and Taylor of Old Bond Street London, explored Furniture collections for DWR, Design Within Reach, Fiam Italia, Driade, Frag, Viccarbe, Ello, Galerkin and Artedi, designed corporate Brand & Identity development for: Vichan Winery, Napa Valley and CrossLynn Vineyards, entertainment graphics and collateral for Sony-Columbia-Tristar and a long list of contract, residential and exhibition spatial projects. Mocarski is known Internationally for his one-off and limited edition furniture works as well as residential & commercial spatial projects internationally.
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Thursday 28th of November: NEIL LEACH – ADAPTATION

By admin | Published: November 25, 2013

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Thursday 28th of November 2013
Neil Leach
Lecture: Adaptation

@ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium
Open to the Public

NEIL LEACH
Neil Leach is a Professor at the University of Southern California. He has also taught at the Architectural Association, Columbia GSAPP, Cornell University, Dessau Institute of Architecture and SCI-Arc, and is a regular contributor to IaaC. He is the author, editor and translator of 23 books, including Rethinking Architecture, The Anaesthetics of Architecture, Designing for a Digital World, Digital Tectonics, Digital Cities, Machinic Processes, Swarm Intelligence, Scripting the Future, Fabricating the Future and Camouflage. He has been co-curator of a series of exhibitions worldwide including the Architecture Biennial Beijing. He is currently working on a research project funded by NASA to develop a robotic fabrication technology to print structures on the Moon and Mars and is working on a publication about Space Architecture.
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