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Anupama KUNDOO junto con IAAC diseñará una instalación efímera en Barcelona

admin — Wed, 19 Feb 2014 16:50:55 +0000

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 ephemeral architecture in Raval – Barcelona.

The architect Benedetta Tagliabue (EMBT/Fundació Enric Miralles) and the stage director Àlex Ollé (La Fura dels Baus) will lead and coordinate this intervention in Barcelona, as part of the events programmed to commemorate the Tercentenary BCN. Within this event some of the most outstanding public spaces in Barcelona will be altered by a series of seven artistic and architectural installations reflecting on such concepts as identity, freedom and democracy.

This initiative will mark the first time that some of the city’s schools of architecture, have worked together on a single project, an educational, architectural and artistic undertaking imbued with enormous symbolic value for the enjoyment of all citizens.

Here the list of the installations:

1. Ciutadella. Central installation. Benedetta Tagliabue (EMTB) and Àlex Ollé. Ciutadella Park

2. Identity. URBANUS (Liu Xiaodu, architect) + La Salle School (URL). Plaça Nova

3. Freedom. Anupama Kundoo + IAAC. Plaça de Salvador Seguí

4. Europe. Urban-Think Tank (Alfredo Brillembourg) + ESARQ (UIC). Plaça del Mar

5. Diversity. Odile Decq. Plaça dels Àngels

6. Democracy. Sir Peter Cook. Plaça de la Mercè

7. Memory. Grafton Architects. + Elisava. Arc de Triomf

Organised by: Barcelona Institute of Culture. Barcelona City Council.

Shigeru Ban Lecture at IAAC: Works and Humanitarian Activities

iaac — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:10:03 +0000

(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, the Centre Pompidou-Metz and more by giving a structural explanation as well as the conceptual background that supports his projects. He explained the influence of modernism and Mies Van de Rohe, in terms of transparency and structural strategies, on his projects, using the Farnsworth house and the Barcelona Pavilion as main examples.

After the devastating earthquake in Japan the previous week, it was interesting to see how Shigeru Ban is greatly involved in humanitarian works with disaster relief projects such as Paper Log House (Kobe of Japan in 1995, Turkey in 2000, India in 2002), Paper Church (Kobe,1995), Tsunami Reconstruction Project (Kirinda, Sri Lanka, 2005), Temporary Elementary School (Chengdu, China 2008), L’Aquila Temporary Concert Hall (L’Aquila, Italy, in progress) and his proposal for temporary shelters in Japan.

(Above: Director of IAAC, Vicente Guallart introducing Shigeru Ban)

(Above: Shigeru Ban spoke in front of a full audience at IAAC)

IAAC Lecture Series: Peter Eisenman

iaac — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 22:27:03 +0000

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 of Achitecture?”

“I don’t want to be controversial , I just want to tell you about the world that we live in today¨

Peter Eisenman was a member of the New York Five five architects (Eisenman, Charles Gwathmey, John Hejduk, Richard Meier and Michael Graves) back in 1967 and editor of the critical magazine ‘oppositions’ in 1973.

As founder and design principal of Eisenman Architects, Mr. Eisenman has received multiple awards such as:

Wolf Prize in Architecture awarded by the Wolf Foundation in Israel,
Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement by the International Architecture Biennale in Venice in 2004,
Medal of Honor from the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects in 2001,
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award in Architecture in 2001.

Mr. Eisenman has also created a great number of award-winning projects such as the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, the Wexner Center for the Visual Arts and Fine Arts Library at The Ohio State University in Columbus, and the Koizumi Sangyo Corporation headquarters building in Tokyo.

Mr. Eisenman is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Popular Science magazine named Mr. Eisenman one of the top five innovators of 2006 for the University of Phoenix Stadium for the NFL Arizona Cardinals.

He is currently the Charles Gwathmey Professor of Architecture at Yale.

Peter Eisenman (Eisenman Architects),Vicente Guallart (Director IAAC) and Willy Müller (Co-Director MAA).

Peter Eisenman and IAAC MAA students.

Greek dinner party

iaac — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:05:10 +0000

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!.

IaaC at Bolivia Architecture Biennale, 3.600m above the sea level

iaac — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 23:24:51 +0000

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 Paz, such as the Colegio de Arquitectos de La Paz building, and the San Francisco Museum.

IAAC was invited to give the closing lecture of the one week event. Areti Markopoulou and Tomas Diez, gave a conference about IAAC educational programs and research projects, such as the Master in Advanced Architecture, the Fab Academy, the Solar House Project or the Fabrication Laboratory Exhibition curated by the institute at the Design Hub of Barcelona.

Following the events of the biennale, both IAAC staff members were invited by the Ambassador of Spain at La Paz, Mr. Ramon Santos, together with the AECID representatives and the Biennale organizators, shared a conversation about the future challenges of architecture and digital fabrication both in Spain and Latin America.

IaaC at Sao Paulo – Brasil

iaac — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:01:32 +0000

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 e Urbanismo” of the University of Sao Paulo, and to define collaboration opportunities in the development of research projects pursuing the application of the new technologies in the construction of a more efficient, sustainable and advanced architecture.

An international cooperation agreement has been signed between IaaC and FAU-USP, and his Director Sylvio Barros Sawaya, reinforcing the relationship between institutions, by the knowledge transfer and support from IaaC on the development of new fabrication facilities and LAME-USP.

Open Thesis Fabrication visit at Media-Tic

iaac — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:02:16 +0000

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 to the glass found in other offices, different to the solid walls of apartment blocks, a different material: the result of training,research, production and dissemination: ETFE.The visit was made from Eduardo Cabay.

Visit at the exhibition Fabrication Laboratory at DHUB with the MAA students

iaac — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 18:35:42 +0000

The Master in Advanced Architecture students visited the exhibition Fabrication Laboratory at DHUB Barcelona. An exhibition designed by IAAC and curated by Marta Male-Alemany. Areti Markopoulou, Nota Tsekoura and Carlos Ipser explained them the exhibition step by step and familiarized them with the technology of digital fabrication, the experimental tendencies and its possible future, while having the chance to see firsthand works of important profesionals in the field.

MAA-Master in Advanced Architecture Inauguration

iaac — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 19:23:13 +0000

During the inauguration of the Master in Advanced Architecture the board of Directors presented to the students the objectives of the master and the vision of the school as well as the projects developed throughout the 10 years of its history. This year IAAC welcomed 70 students from 30 countries and 4 continents.

Catalan Presidential Candidate Artur Mas at IaaC

iaac — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 19:01:30 +0000

Artur Mas, candidate for President of Catalonia and former “conseller en cap” visited today IaaC and had a tour to the facilities of the school. The Board of Directors of the Institute for Advanced Architecture demonstrated to him new technologies that have been absorbed by architecture and had an extended conversation about the vision of potential innovation in the city of Barcelona and Catalonia in general, from the territorial, urban to the building scale.