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MAA Research Trips: Exhibition 2011

By iaac | Published: May 6, 2011

(Above: Digital Team by MAA Student Mani Khosrovani (Iran) from RS3: Digital Tectonics-Switzerland, Germany. Taken at the Weissenhof Museum in “Le Corbusier” House. Winner of the exhibition photo contest.)

On the evening of 6 May 2011, IAAC held a special exhibition chronicling the 2011 MAA Research Trips. The exhibition featured research, videos and photos created by the students in the Master in Advanced Architecture program. The exhibition was held at the Corretger5 gallery in Barcelona.

Each year the MAA program takes its research out of Barcelona. Past trips include India, Romania, Taiwan, Slovenia-Croatia, and Brazil. This April each MAA Research Studio explored a different part of the world: RS1 Emergent Territories (Hong Kong), RS2 Self Sufficient Buildings (Dubai, Abu Dhabi) and RS3 Digital Tectonics (Germany, Switzerland).

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Open Lecture Series 2010/2011: Ignasi Cubiñá

By iaac | Published: May 6, 2011

Cradle to Cradle: Beyond Beautifiers

Ignasi Cubiñá is CEO and Co-founder Eco Intelligent Growth (EIG). He has a BS in Biological Sciences and 15 years experience in the food and pharmaceutical industries. Since 2006 he has worked as an advisor on Cradle to Cradle implementation for business development with institutions and private companies at EIG.

¨The problem is located in the fact that we are creating structures that are not evolving¨

Ignasi Cubiña, through his lecture, gave an extended analysis on the basic focus of Cradle to Cradle and why now, more than ever, industry and architecture need to support the ¨technical cycle¨ by bringing to life products of shorter life span, with the ability to recycle themselves. The next question would be: How can we eliminate waste by design?

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Phase III Seminar Preview: Metabolic Structures

By iaac | Published: May 5, 2011

Seminar: Metabolic Structures

Faculty: Cristina Sendra (Eco Intelligent Growth)

In Phase III of the Masters in Advanced Architecture students will continue to work on their final projects in their Research Studios and they will also attend three seminars that cover a wide variety of topics.

Metabolic Structures Seminar will work with applying efficient design concepts to buildings, urban infrastructure and apparatus. There will be three important sources to be taken into account:

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IAAC Global School: Data Driven Structures Workshop in Tel Aviv

By iaac | Published: May 3, 2011

In collaboration with the exhibition Parameter: Digital Collaborative Design in Tel Aviv, IAAC faculty Areti Markopoulou and Luis Fraguada held a five day workshop called Data Driven Structures.

In this workshop participants were challenged to rethink urbanity based on  information gathered throughout the city. The goal of the workshop was to understand how could data-driven structures affect the construction of the physical world, how cities and its built elements could be viewed as informational architecture systems.

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Open Lecture Series 2010/2011: Or Ettlinger

By iaac | Published: May 2, 2011

On Friday, 29 April, IAAC welcomed Or Ettlinger for its most recent installment in the 2010/2011 Open Lecture Series.

Dr. Or Ettlinger is an Assistant Professor and senior researcher of virtual architecture and media theory at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Ljubljana. His exploration of virtual architecture and virtual space has spanned both formal education and professional experience across the multiple disciplines from which these emerging fields derive. This fifteen-years of research has ranged from architecture to computer science, from product design to digital imaging, from classical drawing to information design, and from art history to media theory.

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Visiting Students: UNIBE

By iaac | Published: April 29, 2011

This week IAAC is hosting undergraduate architecture students from Universidad Iberoamericana in the Dominican Republic. The students, led by IAAC Alum Bianny Poueriet Galarza, have been taking a 4-day (express) Digital Fabrication class using CNC cutting techniques in the Fab Lab BCN with Tomas Diez, Fab Lab Barcelona Project Manager..

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Phase III Seminar Preview: Material Systems

By iaac | Published: April 27, 2011

Seminar: Material, Materiality and Material Systems

Faculty: Claudia Pasquero, Marco Poleto (EcoLogicStudio)

In Phase III of the Masters in Advanced Architecture students will continue to work on their final projects in their Research Studios and they will also attend three seminars that cover a wide variety of topics.

The Material Systems seminar will investigate the relationship between material, materiality and material systems in the realm of architecture. The method of investigation will involve discussion as well as digital and material experiment.

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