Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
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 [...]
Last night at IAAC, architect Bernard Tschumi, gave a lecture presenting “Red is not a color”, focused on his recently published book. During the lecture, Mr. Tschumi discussed concepts in architecture through a comprehensive documentation of his 30-year investigations as a designer, builder, and theorist.
Yesterday, architect Bernard Tschumi before his Lecture, visited IAAC’s Studios and talked with the students about their projects.
Bernard Tschumi Architect, New York/Paris Professor, Columbia University Bernard Tschumi is an architect based in New York and Paris. First known as a theorist, he exhibited and published The Manhattan Transcripts (1981) and wrote Architecture and Disjunction, a series of theoretical essays (MIT Press, 1994). In 1983, he won the prestigious competition to design and [...]
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 [...]
Open Synthesis: Increased Resolution Fabric of Architecture Because of architecture’s nascent tendency to synthesize myriad of agencies involved in the formation of design, it has the potential to play an important role within accelerated convergence of matter and information. While data visualization techniques widespread in other fields are productive for the communication and legibility of [...]
Tonight the critic and architecture curator Lucy Bullivant gave us a lecture questioning the role of the concept of “master plan” in the current urban developments. During the lecture, Lucy explained us that we need to achieve cross-scalar, social-ecological resilience through adaptive systems in order to achieve a relational urbanism that matches the way we conceive [...]