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Thursday 9th of January: DAVID MOCARSKI introduced by ENRIC RUIZ GELI – ART CENTER meets IAAC

iaac — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 11:39:32 +0000

Thursday 9th of January 2014
David Mocarski introduced by Enric Ruiz Geli
Lecture: ART CENTER meets IAAC

@ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium
Open to the Public

After the Lecture Refreshments will be offered at Media-TIC, 22@Barcelona.

Cloud 9 and and Art Center are building together the project “a Mediterranean case study” in Aiguablava. The professors David Mocarski, James Meraz, Jason Pilarski and Kenneth Cameron and four students are in Barcelona to develop the construction and to meet the IAAC – FabLab. Art Center is the school number one in America in car design and product design. They are the designers of Apple stores, they have the cameras of James Cameron, designers of BMW cars, of TESLA cars, and the professor David Mocarski is the chairman of the Graduate & Under Graduate Environmental Design Department at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, he has an approach Holistic.

DAVID MOCARSKI

David Mocarski has explored the boundaries of the creative process for more than thirty years. He is the principal of Arkkit forms design, as well as chairman of the Graduate & Under Graduate Environmental Design Department at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena USA. Arkkit forms was founded in 1982 as a highly inter-disciplinary design studio. Arkkit forms has explored projects as diverse as packaging for Baron Philippe Rothschild, France and Taylor of Old Bond Street London, explored Furniture collections for DWR, Design Within Reach, Fiam Italia, Driade, Frag, Viccarbe, Ello, Galerkin and Artedi, designed corporate Brand & Identity development for: Vichan Winery, Napa Valley and CrossLynn Vineyards, entertainment graphics and collateral for Sony-Columbia-Tristar and a long list of contract, residential and exhibition spatial projects. Mocarski is known Internationally for his one-off and limited edition furniture works as well as residential & commercial spatial projects internationally.

David has also been involved with art & design education for more than thirty five years. In addition to developing the curricular direction for the Environmental Design department at Art Center College of Design, he has taught Fine Arts, Illustration, Graphics & Packaging, photography and Industrial design. Many of his students have gained significant global recognition for their efforts. His sponsored studios with Bernhardt design has defined a new model for how industry interfaces with education. He has been instrumental in the evolution of Art Center ’s International Study Abroad programs in Tokyo, Copenhagen, and Berlin and has worked closely with DesignMatters on Humanitarian projects for: GE Healthcare Africa project and Un Techo Para Chile “ Safe Water Chile, Peru & Columbia” He has been has been instrumental in the development of theGrauate & Under Graduate Environmental Design program at Art Center and it’s focus on “Designing Spatial Experience”. He has been an educational leader at Art Center since 1978.

Mocarski’s work is highly sculptural in nature, driven by research, content and context. He believes that design is “from the first moment of encounter to the last moment of interaction”. Whether it’s creating an object, a place or a destination, he feels that the outcome is always about providing a supreme experience and that the most effective design is always about: attraction, involvement, interaction & producing satisfaction and/or inclusion beyond expectation. He also believes that nothing is more compelling than engagement & surprise, whether t be in the design of objects or spaces. Mocarski is known for exploring new materials, technologies and manufacturing techniques in his search of meaningful solutions. What is clear in his work is a unrelenting passion for all things art and design.

Mocarski has exhibited his work internationally since 1971, first in fine arts and later with limited edition and commission furniture works. His mentors are the early modernists such as Carlo Mollino, Gerrit Rietveld, Jean Prouve and Eileen Gray. He has always held a strong commitment to the idea of bringing “Art into Life”.

IAAC LECTURES: ENRIC RUIZ GELI

admin — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:38:18 +0000

Tonight IaaC welcomed Enric Ruiz Geli lecture “It’s all about particles” within the Spring IaaC Lectures. During the event, Enric Ruiz Geli explained his concept of architecture through some projects that he developed with his office Cloud 9. Buildings like “Villa Nurbs”, “Once…a wave” or the “Hotel Prestige Forest” have a total digital background that allows the architect to conceive and produce the building avoiding traditional constraints. Beside this important fact, Enric understands the environment as particles conformed by different chemical elements (Co2, Ho2…), and face every project trying to unfold an architectonical answer through this idea of particles, that becames not only a visualisation tool but also and specially a production tool.

Enric Ruiz Geli Lecture at IAAC on 16th of April

admin — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:45:49 +0000

Enric Ruiz Geli is going to lecture at IAAC on the 16th of April within the IAAC Lecture Series – 2012-2013 Spring Term: “It’s all about particles”

IAAC Auditorium // 16th of April 2013 // 19:30

ENRG is the architect of VillaNurbs, Media-ICT, El Bulli Foundation, the Millenium Project, VillaBio.

His Project Hotel Forest belongs to the MoMA collection.
His project New York Aquarium Project belongs to the FRAC collection.
The Media-ICT has been awarded “The Best Building of the Year 2011″, by WAF.
Media-ICT is a Net Zero Building , built at a construction market cost of 1.300 €/m2.
ENRG has created 6 patents, around the living lab VillaNurbs, from 2002, until 2011, as a master piece of Digital Fabrication.
ENRG has Lectures and relationship with a map of Labs such as IAAC, Angewandte, AA, UCLA, Passadena Art Center, CITA, RMIT, MIT, Bartlett, ETHZ, IE School of Architecture among others.
Cloud 9 agenda is to look at PILOT Projects in Global Warming Scenarios.
ENRG is master unit at the AA, where he focuses on this global warming scenarios research towards a green agenda.
ENRG is director of the Self-Sufficient Building Research Studio, within the Master in Advanced Architecture at IAAC.

Cloud 9 has signed “knowledge contracts” to transfer the Media-ICT knowledge in: Taipei, Kuwait, Moscou and the OECS.
ENRG belongs to the Advisory Comitee of Tecnalia.
ENRG belongs to the design team lead by Jeremy Rifkin, to develop the TIR in cities.
ENRG and Ferran Adria are creating el Bulli Foundation as a living laboratory in Cap de Creus.
ENRG has lead the Millennium Project in Valladolid, with an urban retrofitting Project using for the first time 10 urban wind turbines.

Next lecture in IAAC: Caroline Bos - UNStudio on the 25th of April

MAA in CADAQUES – Visit to Dali’s Museum and Sant Ferran Castle

admin — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 09:51:11 +0000

MAA’s students from Self Sufficient Building Research line, directed by Enric Ruiz Geli and Mireia Luzárraga, are now attending the research trip to Cadaques. First step of the trip is the visit to Dali’s Museum in Figueras and Sant Ferran Castle.