Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
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This weekend the Emergent Territories students participated in an intensive workshop in order to enhance his Maya knowledge. Maya is a software used in many fields such as Engineer or Designer, but also some architecture streams like the one leaded by Hernan Diaz Alonso uses this 3d and animation software.
The workshop was given by Jose Carlos Lopez Cervantes during the whole saturday and sunday. The activity endedwith a presentation of all the urban projects that the students are developing in the Besos river.
Bill Hillier at the IaaC
Lecture “Spatial sustainability in cities: or, do cities really have neighbourhoods?”
7th of May // 19:30 // IAAC Auditorium // C/Pujades 102 BARCELONA
Bill Hillier is Professor of Architectural and Urban Morphology in the University of London, Chairman of the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, Director of the Space SyntaxLaboratory in University College London and a director of Space Syntax Limited. He was the pioneer of ‘space syntax’ in the nineteen seventies, and authored The Social Logic of Space (Cambridge University Press, 1984, 1990) with Julienne Hanson, Space is the Machine’ (CUP 1996), and over a hundred and fifty publications on space and other aspects of architectural and urban theory. Current research interests are in space syntax as a theory of the city, the relation between cities and urban societies, the syntax of generative buildings, the links between objective spatial laws and spatial cognition, the aesthetics of space, and the space syntax paradigm as a philosophical position.
Enrique Walker at the IaaC
Enrique Walker is an architect and Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, where he also directs the Master of Science program in Advanced Architectural Design. His publications include, Tschumi on Architecture: Conversations with Enrique Walker (Monacelli, 2006) and Lo Ordinario (Gustavo Gili, 2010).
