Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
Today at DHUB, a Conference day was dedicated to “Design & 3D Printing: New fields of Application” organised by ASERM, DHUB and the Barcelona City Council. Additive fabrication presents great potential of growth in many industrial sectors, as well as in the fields of research, space, health and art. Thanks to the versatility of additive [...]
Last Tuesday we had the pleasure of hosting the Winter Lecture Series 2014 with Maria Sisternas, as well as some important guests attending the lecture such as Mr Antoni Vives – Deputy Mayor for the Urban Habitat of the Barcelona City Council - and Mr. Vicente Guallart – Chief Architect of the Barcelona City Council. During [...]
Tonight we had the pleasure of hosting the Winter Lecture Series 2014 with Mosè Ricci, as part of the International Seminar regarding Theory and Landscape, entitled “Landscape and Emotion, the resurrection of Emotional Geographies”, and organised in collaboration with the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Observatori del Paisatge and IaaC. In his lecture Prof. Ricci discussed the [...]
Tuesday 11th of March 2014 Maria Sisternas Lecture: Everyday city. @ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium Open to the Public MARIA SISTERNAS Maria Sisternas trained as an architect at EtsaB-UPC, was awarded with the Fundación Caja Madrid Scholarship and holds a MSc in City Design and Social Sciences from the London School of Economic. She has lectured [...]
Thursday 20th of February we had the pleasure of hosting the Winter Lecture Series 2014 with Simon Schleicher. In architecture, kinetic structures enable buildings to react specifically to internal and external stimuli through spatial adjustments. While these mechanical devices come in all dimensions, they are conceptualized as uniform and standardized modules. Typically, they gain their [...]
Today IaaC had the pleasure of hosting a group of journalists as part of HTC’s Barcelona Design Experience. The group, including journalists from the UK, Germany, Russia and Spain, toured IaaC together with MAA Director Areti Markopoulou and Alexandre Dubor (Research and Development). The main interest of the tour regarded additive manufacturing. The journalists were [...]
Friday 28th of February 2014 Massimo Banzi Lecture: Open sourcing innovation. @ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium Open to the Public MASSIMO BANZI Massimo Banzi is the co-founder of the Arduino project. He is an Interaction Designer, Educator and Open Source Hardware advocate. He has worked as a consultant for clients such as: Prada, Artemide, Whirlpool, V&A Museum [...]