Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
Tonight Julius Popp, an interdisciplinary artist, gave us a lecture focusing on the process of thought and the creation of meaning in an social environment.. The talk covered different works – for example bit.fall a word writing waterfall, bit.flow a letter creating chaotic tube machine, macro.spheres an inverted world model and micro.adam a machine questioning the relation between body, environment and [...]
Tonight IAAC had the pleasure to welcome Javier Peña, founder of the architecture office XPIRAL, who gave us a lecture explaining through different XPIRAL designs how the low and the traditional materials can work together with the digital technologies: understanding this material-technique connection as the chance to generate a wide range of innovative possibilities, and rethinking how [...]
Tonight at IAAC Gonzalo Delacámara, expert on Economic Ambiental Science, gave us a lecture challenging the current dogmas about the energy and economic crisis. During the first part of the lecture Gonzalo Delacámara analysed some of the economical main aspects that are related to the future of our energy, specially in terms of people and goods [...]
Tonight Neil Leach gave us a lecture challenging the negative attitude towards technology and computation in general and digital fabrication in particular – an attitude that is still prevalent in certain architectural circles-, and argued instead for a more receptive approach based on the ideas of Gilles Deleuze. The lecture went on to look at [...]
Tonight IAAC welcomed the italo-american architect Marcella Del Signore, who gave a lecture about PROTOTYPING THE TEMPORARY CITY Today the notions of temporality and event play an important role in the strategic definition of the contemporary city. The concept of the temporary city unfolds out of an understanding that the city as our social, economical, [...]