IAAC Lecture Series 2014/15

Tuesday 4th of November 2014

OPENING LECTURE

Winy Maas – MVRDV

Lecture: What’s Next?

@ 18.30, IAAC Auditorium

Open to the Public

18.30 // Opening

18.40 // Welcome – Manuel Gausa, IAAC Dean

18.50 // Welcome – Areti Markopoulou, IAAC Academic Director

19.00 // Lecture – Winy Maas, MVRDV

WINY MAAS

Prof. Ir. Ing FRIBA HAIA (1959, Schijndel, The Netherlands) is an architect, urban designer and landscape architect and one of the co-founding directors of the globally operating architecture and urban planning firm MVRDV, based in Rotterdam, Netherlands, known for projects such as the Expo 2000 and the vision for greater Paris, Grand Paris Plus Petit. He is furthermore professor at and director of The Why Factory, a research institute for the future city, he founded in 2008 at TU Delft. He is Professor for Architecture and Urban Design at TU Delft, and has been Visiting Professor at ETH Zurich, Berlage Institute, MIT, Ohio State and Yale University. In addition he designs stage sets, objects and was curator of Indesem 2007. He curates exhibitions, lectures throughout the world and takes part in international juries. In 2013 Winy Maas joined the Economic Development Board of Rotterdam (EDBR). In 2012 he was appointed urban supervisor for the city of Almere and since 2003 he has been supervising the Bjørvika urban development in Oslo. With both MVRDV and The Why Factory he has published a series of research projects.

IAAC is proud to announce the Spring Lecture Series 2014:

22nd April 2014

BENJAMIN BARBER

Political theorist

Author of “If Mayors Ruled the World” – New York

25th April 2014

EVA FRANCH

Architect

Director of Storefront for Art

and Architecture – New York

29th April 2014

PHILIPPE RAHM

Architect

Principal in Philippe Rahm architects – Paris

8th MAY 2014

ALFREDO BRILLEMBOURG

Architect

Principal in Urban-Think Tank

Professor at ETH – Zürich

13th May 2014

MAURIZIO CARTA

Architect and Urbanist

Professor at the Università degli Studi – Palermo

15th May 2014

ECOSISTEMA URBANO

Group of Architects

and Urban Designers – Madrid

22nd May 2014

EUROPEAN ARTS, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY NETWORK

Tangibility and Sense of Presence through Physical Interaction – Visual and Sound Performances

of Haptic Interfaces, Super Collider and Max MSP

29th May 2014

JOHN PALMESINO

Architect and Urbanist

Principal in Territorial Agency – London

26th June 2014

WINY MAAS

Architect and Urbanist

Principal in MVRDV – Rotterdam

Events supported by Moritz, Barcelona