Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
With the ocasion of the BMWi presentation (new hybrid electric car model from BMW), the company invited IAAC to present their ideas on design and sustainability. Several design and research projects from last year where exhibited and alumni where exposing their ideas. Among others, we exhibited PetFlakes from Digital Fabrication, mDusse from Self-sufficient Buildings and [...]
On Thursday, June 9, IAAC and Santa & Cole opened the exhibition Humanizar la Ciudad. Arquitecturas de Madrid y Barcelona. The exhibition brings together 30 proposals by architects from Barcelona and Madrid which propose a new paradigm for the twenty-first century where the needs of citizens take precedence over arbitrary urban growth and where sustainable [...]
In collaboration with the exhibition Parameter: Digital Collaborative Design in Tel Aviv, IAAC faculty Areti Markopoulou and Luis Fraguada held a five day workshop called Data Driven Structures. In this workshop participants were challenged to rethink urbanity based on information gathered throughout the city. The goal of the workshop was to understand how could data-driven [...]
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 [...]
IaaC’s work in Mumbai explored current conditions and dynamics of the territory. Changing coastal conditions, learning from slums as the largest housing type, critiquing the unjustified escalation of land value and the various actors that work within this mechanism were part of the study as well. Rapid growth in the population of cities and hurried [...]