Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
Ara(e)Na (picture above) is one of the projects presented by MAA students. Marta Malé-Alemany, Luis Fraguada, Victor Viña, and Thiago Mundim were part of the jury during the Mid Review presentations.
While systemic thinking provides the cultural substratum for an understanding of the relationship between cause and effect in the realm of complexity, the discipline of architecture still lacks operational instruments for the organization of complex material transformations [artificial ecologies]. This thesis framework will therefore concentrate on the development of such instrument, the “eco-Machinic Apparatus”, an [...]