Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
IAAC Fall Lecture Series 2014 Monday 1st of December 2014 Aaron Betsky Lecture: The Architecture of Hunting and Gathering @ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium Open to the Public AARON BETSKY Aaron Betsky is a critic, curator, educator, lecturer, and writer on architecture and design, who, from 2006 to January 2014, was the director of [...]
Tonight we had the pleasure of hosting BAD – Built by Associative Data, presented by Ali Basbous and Luis Fraguada, both IAAC Alumni, as part of the 2014 Fall Lecture Series. Through the presentation of a series of their projects, Ali and Luis showed how with each project BAD strives to give a simple answer [...]
IAAC Fall Lecture Series 2014 Tuesday 25th of November 2014 Built by Assoiciative Data – Ali Basbous + Luis Fraguada Lecture: BAD Bits @ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium Open to the Public ALI BASBOUS - IAAC Alumni Ali Basbous (Beirut, 1973) is the Founder and Director of BAD; A Canadian, Lebanese Architect living between Barcelona and [...]
Tonight we had the pleasure of having Jan Knippers lecturing as part of the IAAC Fall Lecture series 2014. Mr Knippers discussed Biological Design Strategies for Integrative Structures, presenting various examples of bottom-up design processes based on the transfer of biomimetic design principles and digital fabrication strategies. Following the analysis of the structural principles of biological role [...]
IAAC Fall Lecture Series 2014 Wednesday 19th of November 2014 Kengo Kuma Lecture: “Smallness” — The world is moving toward small things @ 12.00, IAAC Auditorium Open to the Public KENGO KUMA Kengo Kuma completed his master’s degree at the University of Tokyo in 1979. After studying at Columbia University as Visiting Scholar, he [...]
IAAC Fall Lecture Series 2014 Tuesday 18th of November 2014 Jan Knippers Lecture: Biological Design Strategies for Integrative Structures @ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium Open to the Public JAN KNIPPERS Jan Knippers specialises in complex parametrical generated structures for roofs and façades, as well as the use of innovative materials such as glass-fibre reinforced polymers. Since [...]
Tonight was the second lecture of the IAAC Fall Lecture Series 2014, and we had the pleasure of hosting a lecture by Yael Reisner and Manuel Jimenez Garcia. The Lecturers discussed how design is an optimist driver for using life in a better way or living better the used of life, in particular through the [...]