Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
Tonight IAAC welcomed Peter Trummer lecture “From the city as a filed to the city as an object” within the Winter IAAC Lecture Series. The lecture unfolded the relationship between urban planning and urban design. A disciplinary knowledge that ones was united and was invented by Ildefonso Cerda and his Theory of urbanization. Urban planning is [...]
In his lecture entitled ‘Ending Poverty in 10 Years’, Mr. Negroponte talked about how technology can help developing countries fight against poverty by teaching kids means to educate themselves. ”If you can learn to read, you can read to learn”.
Before giving his lecture today, Nicholas Negroponte visited IaaC. During the tour around the Institute’s facilities, Mr. Negroponte had the opportunity to watch the student’s projects and talk with them about their work.
Nicholas Negroponte is the founder and Chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab, and also known as the founder of the One Laptop per Child Association (OLPC). In 1967, Negroponte founded MIT’s Architecture Machine Group, a combination lab and think tank which studied new approaches to human-computer interaction. In 1985, he created the [...]