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Tuesday 4th of November // OPENING LECTURE // Winy Maas – MVRDV // What’s Next?

By admin | Published: November 2, 2014

Markthal Rotterdam, MVRDV architecten

IAAC Lecture Series 2014/15

Tuesday 4th of November 2014

OPENING LECTURE

Winy Maas – MVRDV

Lecture: What’s Next?

@ 18.30, IAAC Auditorium

Open to the Public

 

18.30 // Opening

18.40 // Welcome – Manuel Gausa, IAAC Dean

18.50 // Welcome – Areti Markopoulou, IAAC Academic Director

19.00 // Lecture – Winy Maas, MVRDV

 

WINY MAAS

Prof. Ir. Ing FRIBA HAIA (1959, Schijndel, The Netherlands) is an architect, urban designer and landscape architect and one of the co-founding directors of the globally operating architecture and urban planning firm MVRDV, based in Rotterdam, Netherlands, known for projects such as the Expo 2000 and the vision for greater Paris, Grand Paris Plus Petit. He is furthermore professor at and director of The Why Factory, a research institute for the future city, he founded in 2008 at TU Delft. He is Professor for Architecture and Urban Design at TU Delft, and has been Visiting Professor at ETH Zurich, Berlage Institute, MIT, Ohio State and Yale University. In addition he designs stage sets, objects and was curator of Indesem 2007. He curates exhibitions, lectures throughout the world and takes part in international juries. In 2013 Winy Maas joined the Economic Development Board of Rotterdam (EDBR). In 2012 he was appointed urban supervisor for the city of Almere and since 2003 he has been supervising the Bjørvika urban development in Oslo. With both MVRDV and The Why Factory he has published a series of research projects.

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IAAC Fall Lectures Series 2014

By admin | Published: November 1, 2014

IAAC Fall Lecture Series 2014

IAAC is proud to announce the Fall Lecture Series 2014:

4th November 2014

WINY MAAS
MVRDV

11th November 2014

YAEL REISNER + MANUEL JIMENEZ GARCIA
Yael Reisner Studio + madmdesign

18th November 2014

JAN KNIPPERS
Knippers Helbig Advanced Engineering

19th November 2014 // 12.00-14.00

KENGO KUMA
Kengo Kuma and Associates

25th November 2014

BUILT BY ASSOCIATIVE DATA
Ali Basbous + Luis fraguada

1st December 2014

AARON BETSKY
Critic, Curator, Educator, Lecturer and Writer

IAAC Lecture series is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Lectures are held at the IAAC Auditorium from 19.30 – 21.00 (unless otherwise indicated)

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Master in Advanced Architecture 2014/15 & 2014/16 // Opening Ceremony

By admin | Published: September 30, 2014

Opening Ceremony

Master in Advanced Architecture 2014/15 & 2014/16

Wednesday 1st of October

The ceremony kicked off with a warm welcome to all the new students on behalf of the IAAC Academic coordinator Silvia Brandi. She then passed the word to the IAAC Dean, Manuel Gausa, who gave the students some insight around the founding concepts of IAAC and the agenda developed here.

The students then presented themselves, receiving some IAAC gadgets, followed by the presentation of the first term content.

The evening closed with a nice moment of communion between the new students, the current students, the alumni and the IAAC team!

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OTF 5.0 // Visits to CRICURSA and BRIENCO

By admin | Published: September 17, 2014

Today the IaaC OTF Researchers visited CRICURSA with Joan Tarrus and  BREINCO with Gemma Pagès.

CRICURSA was founded in 1928 with the intention of bringing form, material and processing into high technology glass bending, in order to explore the possibilities of bent glass as a decorative element. After more than 8o years of experience, now offers architectural glass, curved and flat interior and exterior glass, and is present in many of the most famous architectural works around the world.
introduction of new glass-made solutions. Passionate about architecture, creativity and innovation, their aim is to continue inspiring the best engineers and architects in the world, in close collaboration with Facades and installers and all professionals, partnering CRICURSA to the efficiency and capacity to deliver ideas and concepts of the designers.

BREINCO is a Catalan company dedicated to the production urban elements and urban furniture using concrete.
Its phylosophy is oriented to define a new generation of products which are set to improve our surroundings
thanks to their sustainability, while constantly striving for eco-efficiency in the manufacture of products,
using recycled materials and incorporating new technology in the design of multifunctional spaces.
Following these strategic guidelines, BREINCO has evolved its product research and development, and has
created a new line of products, eco-logic®, being the first Spanish company to produce air clean® concrete
pieces with photocatalytic properties, which cause a decontaminating, self-cleaning effect and which reduce
the emission of environmentally-harmful NOx. Read More »

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OTF 5.0 // Visits to CERÀMICA CUMELLA and SANTA&COLE

By admin | Published: September 15, 2014

Today the OTF 5.0 Researchers went to visit Ceràmica Cumella and Santa&Cole, check it out!

Ceràmica Cumella

The family workshop CERÀMICA CUMELLA, founded in 1880 in Granollers (Barcelona), originally devoted
to the manufacturing of traditional ceramics and pottery for daily use, has finally become the central core
of an intense public and professional activity. Ceràmica Cumella has lately experienced a notorious increase
in the industrial production of serial pieces -floorings, socles, lattices, coatings, steps, modular elementsundoubtedly
specific in many cases, since they are ordered pieces. Cumella with the conviction of a necessary
integration of technical tradition and innovative process, encouraging with a steady hand and continued
research, for example, on the definition of colours and the manufacturing of the corresponding glazes, both
for mechanical or manual applications; or on finding solutions on how to keep up with present technological
requirement. Toni Cumella spontaneously associates craftsmanship with serial production, personalization,
adaptability, history and culture, not necessarily by this order. He sees it all as a use of concepts, techniques
and processes so as to achieve a specific form of life.

Santa&Cole

For 28 years now, Santa & Cole has lived for industrial design, an art consisting of focusing on everyday
objects in order to seek a better use experience, thereby leading us to reflect upon material culture.
Santa&Cole generate elements of domestic and urban furniture and lighting, plant elements (living matter)
and books (likewise alive). A range that is only apparently dispersed, converging upon a single concern: not
to accumulate, but rather to select; not to enjoy quantity, but rather quality. Santa & Cole is organized around
four core themes : 1. Strategy, Structure and Knowledge, 2. Editing Policy, 3. The Importance of Design for
Santa & Cole and 4. Policy Knowledge Management. Read More »

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GreenARCH EU Project // 1st Newsletter

By admin | Published: September 10, 2014

The first number of the newsletter of the GreenARCH project is on line. Discover the aim of the project, the partners involved, the first results and the next steps.

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Click here to read the newsletter!

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GreenARCH EU Project // 1st Meeting in Barcelona

By admin | Published: September 10, 2014

The first meeting: Barcelona
July 2014

The official partnership and FOAT (associated partner) met for the first time in Barcelona on the 27th and 28th of March 2014, hosted by IAAC. During the first day, partners had the chance to visit IAAC headquarters, before starting a discussion about project management issues and activities to be implemented in preparation, during and after the meeting and, in general, throughout the project life. Afterwards, each partner introduced itself, describing the organization and its main activities and projects carried out in the last years. Also the associated partners were introduced, FOAT by its representatives and RIBA by the UK partner (USE).
The second day was subdivided into two parts. The first was dedicated to the analysis and description of each partner country context, in relation to architecture competition. Each partner introduced the national regulatory framework and described how it is applied to competitions (public or private), providing also information about how they are taken into account. The second part of the day dealt with a discussion among partners starting from a common problem to be addressed by the project, that is provide more professional opportunities for young architects. At the end of the meeting, partners have achieved important results to move on with project activities.
The final consideration, in order to improve the European dimension, is the importance of building a network in each country, acting as a database, where in particular young architects can subscribe and become the contact point for those offices and firms which want to participate to a competition in another country. In order to do that, it would be important to build a system able to identify skills and competencies and define a course to train competition programmers.

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Check out the pictures here

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