Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
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 [...]
BCN Re.set - Ephemeral Architecture in the Public Space During next summer the public space of Barcelona will be transformed by six ephemeral installations designed by six international architects, in cooperation with the leading architecture and design schools in Barcelona. IAAC will be collaborating together with the Indian architect Anupama Kundoo for the construction of an [...]
An amazing workshop was held this weekend at IAAC with the designer Ronen Kadushin about Open Design: “As makers convincingly push on to become a cultural movement, they create a new breed of products that is free from traditional product design discipline, and the need to be perfect. These products are an authentic expression of [...]
Thursday 20th of February 2014 Simon Schleicher Lecture: Bio-inspired Mechanisms – Designing with flexibility. @ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium Open to the Public SIMON SCHLEICHER Simon Schleicher is an architectural designer, researcher, and educator from Germany. He received a Masters degree from MIT in Architecture and a Bachelors degree from the University of Stuttgart. At the moment, [...]
This MAI Research Studio will be conducted by the Department of Industrial Design at the Eindhoven University of Technology and specifically by the following professionals: Eunjeong Jeon, Martijn ten Bhomer, Kristi Kuusk, Eva Deckers and Oscar Tomico. Other partners for the research studio will be the Higher School of Design (ESDi), part of the Fundació [...]
FabLab house has won the Peoples Choice Awards at the Solar Decathlon Europe Competition in Madrid. A pioneer in a different approach to design and technology, The FabLab house has incorporated different systems of social spaces, where self-sufficient habitats are able to produce energy, food and other goods. It is developed on a network of [...]