Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
Today at Emergent Territories Studio all the research-groups had their Mid-terms reviews. During the whole day the students presented to the jury the state of their work, related to the Besòs river site, one of the hardest locations in Barcelona. The jury was composed by Maite Bravo, Areti Markopoulou, Willy Muller and Luis Fraguada, all [...]
Today at Emergent Territories Studio, Judith Leclerc, founder of “CollLeclerc“, had a desk crit with students, checking the development of their projects and helping them with her critics. During the presentations, the students showed her the proposals that they are developing in the territory of the Besòs river, one of the most complex and controversial sites [...]
This MAI Research Studio will be conducted by the Department of Industrial Design at the Eindhoven University of Technology and specifically by the following professionals: Eunjeong Jeon, Martijn ten Bhomer, Kristi Kuusk, Eva Deckers and Oscar Tomico. Other partners for the research studio will be the Higher School of Design (ESDi), part of the Fundació [...]
Today Manuel Gausa presented his concepts and the theories he developed on informational and open logics. Manuel believes that in the last 20 years a new way of thinking has emerged, that is a new operative logic, associated to a new territory of research, or “mental map”, through more open ways of conceiving and organizing [...]
Today at Emergent Territories Studio, Maria Bohigas, Strategic Director at Barcelona Regional, had a desk crit with students, checking the development of their projects and helping them with her critics.
The first design assignment for the students of the Master in Advanced Architecture 2013 was to develop and test communication protocols to control and manipulate the behavior of a large industrial robot. Since 6-axis machines such as the one in the IAAC Fab Lab are directly inherited from the mass production of cars and other industrial products, [...]
Tonight at IAAC, Alisa Andrasek, architect, curator and founding principal of Biothing gave us a lecture explaining how computational simulations could allow us to access to behavioral tendencies of matter at a finer grain. Through several projects, Alisa showed the different uses that the new technologies can offer to architecture, not only in terms of visualization but specially in [...]