Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
Tonight at IAAC, Enrico Dini, an italian civil engineer, gave us a lecture explaining how he developed his idea of printing houses. Enrico showed some images about his first attemps, and then he explained how he figured out the whole process. Finally a debate took place and several students could ask and comment some [...]
Enrico Dini at IaaC Lecture: “D-Shape: petrified algorythms” 30th of May // 19:30 // IAAC Auditorium // C/Pujades 102 BARCELONA Enrico Dini is an Italian civil engineer who spent most of his career in automation and robotics for the footwear industry. Since the late 90′s Enrico came into contact with rapid prototyping techniques used to facilitate [...]
Tonight at IAAC, Stefano Boeri gave us a lecture explaining his way of producing architecture and specially the relation that this field has with politics. Stefano focused on two projects, one related to the harbour architecture, and the other one related with how can we use vegetation as a main element to produce a tower. [...]
Stefano Boeri at IaaC Lecture: “Mar Adentro” 23rd of May // 19:30 // IAAC Auditorium // C/Pujades 102 BARCELONA Stefano Boeri, born in 1956, is a Milan-based architect and founder of “Stefano Boeri Architetti”. From 2004 to 2007 he was editor in chief of Domus international magazine. From 2007 to 2011 he was editor in chief of [...]
Today Marie-Ange Brayer presented the upcoming 9th edition of Archilab, centered on architecture and science in the computational field. ArchiLab, the international laboratory of architecture, was created in 1999 by Marie-Ange Brayer and Frederic Migayrou in Orleans, France. It is an international laboratory engaged in research and experimentation, aiming to defend the young generation of [...]
Marie-Ange Brayer at IaaC Lecture: “Naturalizing Architecture” 21st of May // 19:30 // IAAC Auditorium // C/Pujades 102 BARCELONA Since 1996, Marie-Ange Brayer has been director of the Centre Regional Contemporary Art Collection [FRAC, Centre] in Orléans, France, where the collection is channelled towards the linkage between art and research architecture. The FRAC Centre has been putting together [...]
Today’s theory duet focused on the re-postioning of architecture and architecture theory in the contemporary society, in particular through the editorial experiences of Axel Sowa (Candide) and Ricardo Devesa (DC Papers).