Thursday 7th of November 2013
ecoLogic Studio
Lecture: Ecology Beyond Nature

@ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium
Open to the Public

The day was kicked off with a tour of the facility, allowing them to understand in detail what was presented to them earlier in the week.

This tour was followed by the presentation of the first term Studios, one with Javier Peña, Rodrigo Rubio, Oriol Carrasco and Stefanos Levidis; and the other with Marco Poletto, Claudia Pasquero, and Carmelo Zappulla.

A 0 km paella lunch was then served, giving the students time to relax and get to know each other.

The afternoon was then again dedicated to the First term Studios, that have officially started!

The evening was kicked off with a few words of welcoming on behalf of the Academic Coordinator Silvia Brandi, followed by the IaaC Dean Manuel Gausa.

The Master Program Director Areti Markopoulou then presented the Institute, showing past projects developed in IaaC, among which Hyperhabitat, the FabLab House, the Endesa Pavilion, and the Smart Citizen Platform. The presentation continued with an excursus of the future lines of research development that will be undertaken during the Masters in Advanced Architecture, giving the new students an idea of what extents they can potentially reach during their time in IaaC.

Nuria Diaz, the Director of the Valldaura Self Sufficient Labs, presented her domain, outlining the Labs’ current development and advancement in the field of self-sufficient and sustainable living, and its potential future development, in which the students will have the opportunity to partake.

Finally the new students were called up to the stage to briefly present themselves, giving an idea of their hopes for their future experience in IaaC, as well as being given a cnc FabLabBcn fabricated bag, a small token of the potentials of the cnc machines and prototyping that they will shortly get into.

IaaC will be Welcoming the MAA 2013-2014 Students on the 2nd of October.

Stay Tuned for more information on the Inauguration Ceremony featuring a Lecture with ERIC OWEN MOSS, to be held on the 16th of October.

Today was the final day for the visiting workshop programme in Environmental Design and Planning of Urban Spaces, hosted in the IaaC facilities, with the participation of a group of students from Greece and Cyprus. The workshop was completed with outstanding results, and many happy faces!

‘Behind the Green Door – Architecture and the desire for sustainability’ explores how architecture, city planning, scientific practice, business opportunity and political power shifted their focus and discourse, during the last 30 years, under the umbrella of the term ‘sustainable’.

The exhibition seeks to build an a-critical landscape of the contemporary culture of design for selfsufficiency through an impressive selection of 600 material samples, models, games, photographs, videos and prototypes.

The Endesa Pavilion multiscalar prototype, façade system and generative process will be exhibited there during the next months.

The Students were given a tour of the Pavilion during which the concept, design and fabrication of the Pavilion were explained.

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia and HP are pleased to announce the 5th Advanced Architecture Contest, on the theme of SELF-SUFFICIENT HABITAT.

The aim of the competition is to promote discussion and research through which to generate insights and visions, ideas and proposals that help us envisage what the city and the habitat of the 21st century will be like.
The competition is open to architects, engineers, planners and designers who want to contribute to progress in making the world more habitable by developing a proposal capable of responding to emerging challenges in areas such as ecology, information technology, architecture, and urban planning
The prize (Total value: 50.000, 00 EUR) will be distributed at the discretion of the Juries following the bases scheme. The competition jury, which is composed of architects, professionals in a wide range of fields and directors of some of the world’s foremost architecture schools, is looking for outstanding proposals at any scale, for any city in the world on Smart Cities, Eco neighborhoods, Self-sufficient buildings, Intelligent homes or any other proposal that analyzes the phenomena of Self-sufficient Habitats.
The Registration is FREE, and the competition entries should be submitted digitally in PDF files via the Internet.

Marcos Cruz at IaaC

Lecture “Neoplasmatic Design”
13th of June // 20:00 // IAAC Auditorium // C/Pujades 102 BARCELONA

Marcos Cruz is the Director of the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, where he is also a Reader and Studio Master of Diploma/MArch Unit 20. His varied teaching activity has been carried out at University College London and University of Westminster in London, University of California Los Angeles, Tunghai University and Feng Chia University in Taiwan, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture in Copenhagen, among others. Cruz studied at the Escola Superior Artística do Porto – ESAP (1997). In London he gained a master’s degree with distinction in Architectural Design at the Bartlett (1999) and got a PhD (2007). His investigations about Neoplasmatic Architecture, focused on a contemporary discussion about the body and the impact of bio-technology on architecture, won the RIBA President’s Research Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis (2008). Cruz founded with Marjan Colletti the atelier marcosandmarjan in 2000, combining the practice and teaching of architecture, along with experimental design research. The work has been extensively published and exhibited. This includes the participation in the Venice Biennale (2004) and the solo exhibition Interfaces/Intrafaces at the iCP Hamburg and TU Braunschweig (2005/06). Apart from numerous exhibition installations, they built two pavilions and worked on a large entertainment complex in Beijing.