Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
On the 25th of June in IAAC 2013 from 10:00 am to 08:00 pm Tutors: Enric Ruiz Geli Mireia Luzárraga Support Seminar Tutors: Silvia Bures Josep Perellò Iker Mugarra International Jury Board: Manuel Gausa – IAAC Dean Areti Markopoulou – MAA Director – IAAC Manja van de Worp – AA School of Architecture Eduard Bru [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This year a group of IaaC students along with IaaC Academic Coordinator Silvia Brandi attended the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture, Mies van der Rohe Award 2013 architectural debate and presentation ceremony. The students were given the opportunity to participate in the debate regarding Architecture and its development along with a series of world class [...]
“That’s thirty minutes away, I’ll be there in ten” Pulp fiction The concept of the workshop was to develop 6 fields of play directed by 6 teams so as to produce a reflection around and on the new lines of thought in contemporary architecture and the contemporary position of the architect in this socio-cultural scenario. [...]
Material Computation in Architecture Computation, in its most basic meaning, refers to the processing of information. In this way, both machinic processes operating in the binary realm of the digital, as well as material processes operating in the complex domain of the physical can be considered computational. The lecture will introduce Achim Menges’ work on [...]
Achim Menges at IaaC Lecture “Material Computation in Architecture” 3rd of June // 19:30 // IAAC Auditorium // C/Pujades 102 BARCELONA Achim Menges, born 1975, is a registered architect and professor at University of Stuttgart where he is the founding director of the Institute for Computational Design (since 2008). In addition, he has been Visiting Professor in Architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate [...]