Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
Today Manuel Gausa presented the tale of Beauty and the Beast as a paradigm of dualities. The lecture was presented in four parts: I. DUALITIES AND DICHOTOMIES: DIVISIONS, OPPOSITIONS AND CONTRAPOSITIONS II. A RECURSIVE DIAGRAM: LOST PARADISE, LATENT PARADISE, FORBIDDEN PARADISE, THE LOST PARADISE / THE LALTENT PARADISE/ THE FORBIDDEN PARADISE (OR THE HELL) III. [...]
Amazing lecture by Dave Pigram and Max Maxwell yesterday night at IAAC. Dave and Max are now running a workshop with IAAC Students titled Negociated Formations: “The final outcome of the workshop will be a highly speculative, performative and ornamental shell-structure at 1:1. Form is the primary instrument throughwhich architecture engages the world” Dave Pigram [...]
Lecture: Negotiated Formation // Supermanoeuvre For the last 7 years supermanoeuvre [Iain Maxwell and Dave Pigram] have been vigorously pursuing and developing methodologies that increase the number and quality of feedback relations between design and making: design intent, matter and the methods of production. The pursuit has taken the form of commissioned and speculative projects, technical [...]
While in this decade cities will grow exponentially to host more than half of the world population, architects are not yet ready to design adaptive urban models capable to react to this phenomenon. “Encrypted mega-cities” is a seminar that provides an opportunity to think critically about urban potentials responding to this growth through a mode [...]
This weekend we had an intensive workshop at IAAC building our 1:1 pavilions for the experimental structures course. Next Monday the 11th of March there will be the final presentation.
During this 4 days workshop, students from the Fabrication Ecologies research line of the Master in Advanced Architecture 2013 were able to develop and test a new fabrication protocol deploying Hemp fibres by means of an industrial robot. Through the production of a 1:1 scale prototype, the 4 teams explored the design opportunities arising from [...]