Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
Tonight we had the pleasure of hosting the Winter Lecture Series 2014 with Mosè Ricci, as part of the International Seminar regarding Theory and Landscape, entitled “Landscape and Emotion, the resurrection of Emotional Geographies”, and organised in collaboration with the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Observatori del Paisatge and IaaC. In his lecture Prof. Ricci discussed the [...]
Friday 7th of March 2014 Mosè Ricci Lecture: Learning from Detroit. @ 18.00, IAAC Auditorium Open to the Public The lecture Learning from Detroit with Mosè Ricci, is not only part of the IaaC Winter Lecture Series 2014, but is also part of an international conference on theory and landscape: Landscape and Emotion, the revival [...]
Thursday 20th of February we had the pleasure of hosting the Winter Lecture Series 2014 with Simon Schleicher. In architecture, kinetic structures enable buildings to react specifically to internal and external stimuli through spatial adjustments. While these mechanical devices come in all dimensions, they are conceptualized as uniform and standardized modules. Typically, they gain their [...]
Thursday 20th of February 2014 Simon Schleicher Lecture: Bio-inspired Mechanisms – Designing with flexibility. @ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium Open to the Public SIMON SCHLEICHER Simon Schleicher is an architectural designer, researcher, and educator from Germany. He received a Masters degree from MIT in Architecture and a Bachelors degree from the University of Stuttgart. At the moment, [...]
Marcos Cruz at IaaC Lecture “Neoplasmatic Design” 13th of June // 20:00 // IAAC Auditorium // C/Pujades 102 BARCELONA Marcos Cruz is the Director of the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, where he is also a Reader and Studio Master of Diploma/MArch Unit 20. His varied teaching activity has been carried out at University College London and University [...]
Material Computation in Architecture Computation, in its most basic meaning, refers to the processing of information. In this way, both machinic processes operating in the binary realm of the digital, as well as material processes operating in the complex domain of the physical can be considered computational. The lecture will introduce Achim Menges’ work on [...]
Achim Menges at IaaC Lecture “Material Computation in Architecture” 3rd of June // 19:30 // IAAC Auditorium // C/Pujades 102 BARCELONA Achim Menges, born 1975, is a registered architect and professor at University of Stuttgart where he is the founding director of the Institute for Computational Design (since 2008). In addition, he has been Visiting Professor in Architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate [...]