Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
Friday January 26th, Master in Advanced Interaction students presented the final projects of the Physical Computing workshop that they have been developing during the 1st term.
The project has been directed by Alex Posada.
To see the projects click here.
The Fab Academy 2013 started this Wednesday, 9am Boston, 3pm Barcelona, 11pm Tokyo. More than 120 students from 24 different Fab Labs in the world are participating in one of the most complete courses in the principles, applications and implications of digital fabrication. The Fab Academy is structured in different units dedicated to different processes of digital fabrication, from the design of a circuit board, the fabrication of large structures, to code applications for your computer. The course is structured through a final project that every student needs to develop and present at the end of the semester.
To check the participating Fab Labs: http://academy.cba.mit.edu/2013/labs/index.html
To check student’s personal websites: http://academy.cba.mit.edu/2013/students/index.html
To access to the video archive of the class: http://academy.cba.mit.edu/2013/videos/index.html
To access to the Fab Academy 2013 content: http://academy.cba.mit.edu/2013/schedule/index.html
Fab Academy Barcelona first Class from Fab Lab Barcelona on Vimeo.
If you have any enquiries about the Fab Academy, please send us an email to: coordination@fabacademy.org
Today at IAAC, in the context of the Advanced Architecture Theory Course leaded by Manel Gausa, we had a theoretical duet about the current role of the architect in the current situation. The architects Eduard Bru and Eduard Sancho dialogued about the main aspects of the architecture profession after a brief individual exposition of each position.
Archdaily, the most visited architecture blog in the world, for the 4th consecutive year, presents the Building of the Year Awards naming Endesa Pavilion amongst the nominates.
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Tonight the critic and architecture curator Lucy Bullivant gave us a lecture questioning the role of the concept of “master plan” in the current urban developments. During the lecture, Lucy explained us that we need to achieve cross-scalar, social-ecological resilience through adaptive systems in order to achieve a relational urbanism that matches the way we conceive of nature now, shifted from the tree of life to the web of life, with nested systems, food webs, ecosystems, relation browsers, cloud computing and distributed energy systems…
Today at IAAC Manel Gausa gave us a Theory Master Class exploring the figure of the architect through the history of architecture. The role of the architect have been changing since the first architecture exercise, merging with the socio-political context of each history period. Gausa explained this evolution through concepts as “representation”, “tool” or “construction”, and gave us an idea about its relations through the whole history.
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