Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
Tonight we had the pleasure of hosting at IaaC a Lecture by TU Berlin Researcher Arndt Goldack as part of the Fall Term Lecture Series of 2013. There is a trend in architecture and structural engineering towards more and more lightweight structures, as such structures are not only elegant but also minimizing the use of [...]
Tuesday 29th of October 2013 Arndt Goldack Lecture: Dynamic Lightweight Structures @ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium Open to the Public Dr.-Ing. Arndt Goldack was born in 1969 in Stuttgart, Germany. In 1996 he graduated in civil and structural engineering at the University of Stuttgart, and in 2004 Awarded Doctorate (Dr.-Ing.), Thesis “Structural behavior and Bracing of High [...]
Tonight we had the pleasure of taking part in the Fall Lecture Series 2013 George Jeronimidis Lecture on Biomimetics and Bioinspiration. We were invited to think about architecture in relation to biology, for example: plants share many of the same characteristics as buildings, they are fixed in their context, they must accept what nature and [...]
Tuesday 22nd of October 2013 George Jeronimidis Lecture: Biomimetics and Bioinspiration - Smart solutions for functional architecture @ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium Open to the Public Professor George Jeronimidis is currently Emeritus Professor of Composite Materials Engineering and Director of the Centre for Biomimetics in the School of Construction Management at the University of Reading. In 2009 [...]