IAAC will be visiting Russia next week in a series of conferences with Areti Markopoulou, IAAC Master Program Director, on Advaneced Architecture, Towards the next city.

This tour was made possible thanks to Sreda (www.sredadesign.org), general organisation partner for the Global Summer School in St. Petersburg,  Simplex Noise (www.simplex-noise.com), lecture co-organisation in Russia, and Daniyar Yusupov, St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (DAS).

26th of May/26 Мая, 15:00 – St.Petersburg/ С.Петербург,

St.Petersburg State University of Architecture and Engineering, aud.632a/

С.Петербургский Государственный Архитектурно-Строительный Университет, ауд. 632а.

26th of May/ 26 Мая, 19:00 – St.Petersburg/С.Петербург,

Zonaspace, Etazhi, Ligovsky prospect b. 74/Зона Действия, Проект Этажи, Лиговский 74 б.

27th of May/ 27 Мая, 20:00 – Moscow/ Москва

STRELKA, Institute for Media, Architecture and Design/СТРЕЛКА, Институт Медиа, Архитектуры и Дизайна.

28th of May/ 28 Мая, 15:00 – Moscow/Москва,

MARKHI, Moscow Institute of Architecture, aud. 309/МАРХИ, Московский Архитектурный Институт, ауд. 309.

29th of May/ 29 Мая, 13:00 – Kazan/Казань,

Kazan State University of Architecture and Engineering, aud. 3-410/Казанский Государственный Архитектурно-Строительный Университет, ауд. 3-410

30th of May/ 30 Мая, 17:00 – Ekaterinburg/Екатеринбург,

Center of Design Development/Уральский Центр Развития Дизайна, ул. Карла Либкнехта, 25

31th of May/31 Мая, 12:00 – Tyumen/Тюмень,

Tyumen Architectural Educational Center/ЦАПП, Центр Архитектурной Подготовки

Friday 23rd of May 2014

John Palmesino
Lecture: Fathoms

@ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium
Open to the Public

JOHN PALMESINO
John Palmesino is an architect and urbanist. He has established Territorial Agency together with Ann-Sofi Rönnskog. Territorial Agency is an independent organisation that innovatively promotes and works for sustainable territorial transformations. Territorial Agency works to strengthen the capacity of local and international communities in comprehensive spatial transformation management. Territorial Agency’s projects channel available spatial resources towards the development of their full potential. Territorial Agency’s work builds on wide stake-holder networks. It combines analysis, projects, advocacy and action. Territorial Agency’s projects include the Athropocene Observatory with Armin Linke and Anselm Franke, and a series of researches on European transformation processes. He is the director of AA Territories Think Tank and a Unit Master at the Architectural Association in London, he teaches at Goldsmiths, University of London.

IaaC was represented by Rodrigo Rubio tonight at the Roca Gallery Barcelona that hosted a conference regarding Self Sufficient Energy, and in particular the Case of the Solar Decathlon in Catalonia. The evening was kicked off by Georg W. Reinberg who gave an introduction entitled “Towards an efficient and productive Architecture”. A series of projects and prototypes were then presented among which the Fab Lab House developed in IaaC for the Solar decathlon 2010 held in Madrid. Other projects presented included: Torsten Masseck (Low3); Jordi Mitjans, Adrià Vilajoana, Bernat Colomé, Martí Obiols, Guillem Ramon Pernau, Sara Ferran, (ETSAV).

This was the first session of a Series of conferences that will be held at the Roca Gallery Barcelona all regarding the theme of Efficiency in Architecture.

Friday 25th of April 2014
Eva Franch
Lecture: Anger, Impossibilities and Objects

@ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium
Open to the Public

EVA FRANCH
Franch is an architect and founder in 2003 of OOAA (office of architectural affairs). Since 2010, Franch is the Executive Director and Chief Curator of Storefront for Art and Architecture. She studied at TU Delft and earned an M. Arch from ETSAB-UPC, and an M. Arch. II from Princeton University. She has lectured internationally on art, architecture and the importance of alternative practices in the construction and understanding of public life. Franch has taught at State University of New York Buffalo and at Rice University where she directed the Masters Thesis studio. At Storefront, her most recent projects include the launch of a new publication Series in partnership with Lars Müller, exhibitions such as No Shame: Storefront for Sale and POP: Protocols, Obsessions, Positions, the launch of the Storefront International Series and projects such as WorldWide Storefront, commissioning major design projects such as the Speechbuster, and developing projects like the Competition of Competitions. Most recently Franch, together with a curatorial and design team, has been selected by the State Department of the United States to represent the U.S. Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale.

Image credits: Past Futures, Present, Futures, 2012. Storefront for Art and Architecture. Photo by Naho Kubota

To end the trip to Copenhagen on a lighter and more touristic note, the Students and tutors then had the pleasure of visiting BIG.

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 at the Postgraduate Diploma in Sustainable Architecture and Urbanism at La Salle (PAMUS) since 2010 and serves as a Board member of COAC. She is a regular contributor to the “Revista Diagonal” and took part of the Commission of Architecture at the Barcelona Metropolitan Strategic Plan 2010-2020. Her interests focus on the links between the economic, social and legal issues that contribute to the development of contemporary cities, as well as the influence that urban form can play over citizens’ quality of life. She is currently Director Projects at the Urban Habitat Department of the Barcelona City Council.

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 adjustability by connecting rigid elements with highly strained hinges. Even though this construction principle may be generally beneficial, it has some major drawbacks for architectural applications. Adaptation to irregular geometries, for example, can only be achieved with additional mechanical complexity, which makes these devices often very expensive, prone to failure, and maintenance-intensive.

Simon Schleicher is searching for a promising alternative to the still persisting paradigm of rigid-body mechanics and has found inspiration in flexible plant movements. By using modern computational modeling and simulation techniques, he can reveal the plants’ compliant mechanisms and integrate them into bio-inspired flexible structures. In various case studies, he demonstrates the transfer process in more detail and shows how bio-inspired mechanisms can be used, for example, to shade double curved facades.

Friday 28th of February 2014
Massimo Banzi
Lecture: Open sourcing innovation.

@ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium
Open to the Public

Jueves 6 de Marzo

Sala Albert Calsamiglia, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

9:30 – 10:00
Inscripción y recogida de la documentación

10:00 – 10:30
Inauguración y presentación del Seminario
Joan Nogué (UdG-OPC), Isabel Valverde (UPF), Antoni Luna (UPF)

10:30 – 11:30
Presentación del libro El Hombre y la Tierra: naturaleza de la realidad geográfica de Eric Dardel; prólogo de Jean-Marc Besse en la edición en castellano dentro de la colección “Paisaje y Teoría” de Biblioteca Nueva – Siglo XXI.
Jean-Marc Besse (CNRS, UMR Géographie-Cité), Joan Nogué (UdG-OPC)

11:30 – 12:00
Descanso

12:00 – 13:00
Conferencia Inaugural
Rafael Argullol (UPF), “El hombre ante el infinito. 30 años de La atracción del abismo”

13:00 – 16:00
Pausa

Paisaje y Emoción en las artes visuales

16:00 – 17:00
Conferencia
Abigail Solomon-Godeau (University of California Santa Barbara), “Haunted Landscapes in Recent Photographic Art Practices”

17:00 – 17:15
Descanso

17:15 – 18:30
Comunicaciones
Nuria Llorens (UAB), “Soledades en la pintura de paisaje clásica del siglo XVII”
Kerstin Thomas (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) “The Mood of Landscape: Gauguin, Hodler, Leistikow”
Isabel Valverde (UPF), “Mal du pays(age): nostalgia, paisaje y modernidad”

18:30 – 18:45
Descanso

18:45 – 19:30
Comunicaciones
Alan Salvadó (UPF), “Un recorrido por la geografía de las emociones a través de imágenes del cine contemporáneo”
Rosa Cerarols, Antonio Luna (UPF), “Paisaje, cine y género”

19:30 – 20:00
Discusión y Mesa Redonda

Viernes 7 de Marzo

Sala Albert Calsamiglia, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Geografía, emociones y paisaje

10:00 – 11:30
Conferencia
Jean-Marc Besse (CNRS, UMR Géographie-Cité), “Géographie psychique. Notes sur le sentiment de l’espace”

11:30 – 12:00
Descanso

12:00 – 13:30
Comunicaciones
Marta Tafalla (UAB), “Paisaje y Sensorialidad”
Joan Nogué (UdG/OPC), “Emoción, lugar y paisaje”
Pol Capdevila (UPF), “La construcción de la temporalidad en El cielo gira”

13:30 – 14:00
Discusión Mesa Redonda

14:00 – 16:00
Pausa

16:00 – 17:00
Mesa Redonda
David Moriente, Antonio Luna (UPF), Paisaje Urbano y Trauma.
Moderadora: Isabel valverde (UPF)

17:00 – 18:00
Descanso y traslado al IAAC
Auditori, Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), Pujades 102

Arquitectura, paisaje y emoción

18:00 – 19:00
Conferencia
Mosé Ricci (Università di Genoa), “Landscape: Urbanscape?”

19:00 – 20:30
Mesa Redonda
Moderador: Manuel Gausa (IaaC)

20:30 – 21:00
Clausura y Aperitivo

Thursday 20th of February 2014
Simon Schleicher
Lecture: Bio-inspired Mechanisms – Designing with flexibility.

@ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium
Open to the Public