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II Seminario Internacional Sobre Teoría y Paisaje: Paisaje y emoción. El resurgir de Las Geografías Emocionales.
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IAAC LECTURES SERIES: MARIE-ANGE BRAYER – director of FRAC Center
Today Marie-Ange Brayer presented the upcoming 9th edition of Archilab, centered on architecture and science in the computational field. ArchiLab, the international laboratory of architecture, was created in 1999 by Marie-Ange Brayer and Frederic Migayrou in Orleans, France. It is an international laboratory engaged in research and experimentation, aiming to defend the young generation of [...]
Marie-Ange Brayer – director of FRAC Center – lecturing at IAAC on the 21st of May
Marie-Ange Brayer at IaaC Lecture: “Naturalizing Architecture” 21st of May // 19:30 // IAAC Auditorium // C/Pujades 102 BARCELONA Since 1996, Marie-Ange Brayer has been director of the Centre Regional Contemporary Art Collection [FRAC, Centre] in Orléans, France, where the collection is channelled towards the linkage between art and research architecture. The FRAC Centre has been putting together [...]
IAAC Green Dictionary Research Project
Today we started the research for the Green Dictionary Project!!! Ten years after the appearance of the Metapolis Dictionary of Advanced Architecture IAAC boosts The Green Dictionary, an ambitious multi-format project (print and digital) focused on sustainable development issues, energy self-sufficiency , creative management of resources, innovation and interaction with the environment, recycling and urban [...]
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Theoretical Duet: Federico Soriano and Pedro Uzaiz
Today’s theoretical duet saw Federico Soriano (director of the Departamento de proyectos arquitectonicos of the ETSAM) and Pedro Urzaiz (secretary of the COAM) as the protagonists of a discourse revolving around the concepts of telling tales. In particular, how can one tell the tale of a particular scene or architectural element? It seems that an [...]
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THEORY COURSE – Beauty and the Beast Master Class
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. [...]
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THEORY COURSE – Dis-positions – Open and another look: opened logic, logical information
Today Manuel Gausa presented his concepts and the theories he developed on informational and open logics. Manuel believes that in the last 20 years a new way of thinking has emerged, that is a new operative logic, associated to a new territory of research, or “mental map”, through more open ways of conceiving and organizing [...]