Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
(Above: Shigeru Ban at IAAC) Last Friday, 18 March, IAAC welcomed Shigeru Ban for our Open Lecture Series. Despite the difficult circumstances after the terrible earthquake in Japan the previous weekend, Mr. Ban presented ¨ Works and Humanitarian Activities ¨. In his presentation, Mr. Ban shared with the audience projects like, the Paper House, the Nomadic Museum, [...]
IAAC had the pleasure to welcome one of the ‘ New York Five’. Peter Eisenman came back to Barcelona after 15 years with a lecture at IAAC . Peter Eisenman and “Whither Achitecture?” Wither, as Mr. Eisenman explained, means to dry/to die, whither with “h” on the other hand has another significance: what of …Therefore “what [...]
Students from Greece offered a dinner with traditional food, drinks and Greek music background. Tasty dishes like pita souvlaki, greek salad, tiropitakia, mousaka, ouzo and more. Thank you for everything guys, it was delicious!.
3.600m above the sea level. The XI Architecture Biennale of Bolivia has been the most international edition of its history. This biennale had a very significant focus on sustainable architecture and emergent technologies, putting toghether experts from Japan, Argentina, England or Spain, in a cycle of conferences that took place at different sites in La [...]
Small, independent, and global. IaaC opens new opportunities for project development and collaboration in Brasil. IaaC team members Areti Markopoulou (IaaC Global School Director) and Tomas Diez (Fab Lab Bcn Project Manager) visited Sao Paulo to offer two conferences both at the post-graduate and undergraduate program of architecture and urbanism of the “Faculdade de Arquitetura [...]
Eduardo Cabay , architect at Cloud-9 explaining the concept of Media-Tic The visit in Media-Tic was a real experience for the students since the MEDIA-TIC is a building for technologies, an image ofunity where the entire range of digital diversity and complexity exists under one roof, in one place: amaterial. A material that is different [...]