IaaC @ Roca Gallery Barcelona

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IaaC was represented by Rodrigo Rubio tonight at the Roca Gallery Barcelona that hosted a conference regarding Self Sufficient Energy, and in particular the Case of the Solar Decathlon in Catalonia. The evening was kicked off by Georg W. Reinberg who gave an introduction entitled “Towards an efficient and productive Architecture”. A series of projects and prototypes were then presented among which the Fab Lab House developed in IaaC for the Solar decathlon 2010 held in Madrid. Other projects presented included: Torsten Masseck (Low3); Jordi Mitjans, Adrià Vilajoana, Bernat Colomé, Martí Obiols, Guillem Ramon Pernau, Sara Ferran, (ETSAV).

This was the first session of a Series of conferences that will be held at the Roca Gallery Barcelona all regarding the theme of Efficiency in Architecture.

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EVA FRANCH // Anger, imposibilidades y objetos

Tonight, as part of the IAAC Spring Lecture Series, we had the pleasure of hosting Eva Franch presenting a lecture on Anger, Impossibilities and Objects.

Eva Franch is an architect and founder in 2003 of OOAA (office of architectural affairs). Since 2010, Franch is the Executive Director and Chief Curator of Storefront for Art and Architecture. She studied at TU Delft and earned an M. Arch from ETSAB-UPC, and an M. Arch. II from Princeton University. She has lectured internationally on art, architecture and the importance of alternative practices in the construction and understanding of public life. Franch has taught at State University of New York Buffalo and at Rice University where she directed the Masters Thesis studio. At Storefront, her most recent projects include the launch of a new publication Series in partnership with Lars Müller, exhibitions such as No Shame: Storefront for Sale and POP: Protocols, Obsessions, Positions, the launch of the Storefront International Series and projects such as WorldWide Storefront, commissioning major design projects such as the Speechbuster, and developing projects like the Competition of Competitions. Most recently Franch, together with a curatorial and design team, has been selected by the State Department of the United States to represent the U.S. Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale.

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Martes 29 de abril: ciudades PHILIPPE RAHM // Termodinámica

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Tuesday 29th of April 2014

Philippe Rahm
Lecture: Thermodynamics cities

@ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium
Open to the Public

PHILIPPE RAHM
Philippe Rahm is architect, principal in the office of Philippe Rahm architectes, based in Paris, France. His work, which extends the field of architecture from the physiological to the meteorological, has received an international audience in the context of sustainability. In 2002, he was chosen to represent Switzerland at the 8th Architecture Biennale in Venice, and was one of the 25 Manifesto’s Architects of Aaron Betsky’s 2008 Architectural Venice Biennale. He is nominee in 2009 for the Ordos Prize in China and in 2010 and 2008 for the International Chernikov Prize in Moscow where he was ranked in the top ten. He has participated in a number of exhibitions worldwide (Archilab, Orléans, France 2000; SF-MoMA 2001; CCA Kitakyushu 2004; Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2003-2006 and 2007; Manifesta 7, 2008; Louisiana museum, Denmark, 2009; Guggenheim Museum, New-York 2010). In 2007, he had a personal exhibition at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal. Mr. Rahm was a resident at the Villa Medici in Rome (2000). He was Headmaster at the AA School in London in 2005-2006, Visiting professor at the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture in Switzerland in 2004 and 2005, at the ETH Lausanne in 2006 and 2007, at the School of Architecture of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts of Copenhagen in 2009-2010, in Oslo at the AHO in 2010-2011.

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Benjamin Barber // Si Alcaldes gobernó el mundo: City, Metro Región y Provincia – ¿Cuál es el nivel adecuado de Gobernanza Urbana?

Last night we had the pleasure of hosting Benjamin Barber as part of the IaaC Spring Lecture Series 2014. Before starting the Lecture itself, Barber was given a tour of the IaaC facilities by MAA Director Areti Markopoulou, having the opportunity to see and discuss some of the works developed in the Master in Advanced Architecture and the Open Thesis Fabrication programs.

In the audience Vicente Guallart, Chief Architect of the Barcelona City Council, Manuel Sanroma, President of the City Protocol Society, Joan Subirats, Full Professor of Sociology, as well as Antoni Munne and Montae Ingla, Arcadia editors were all present for the discussion that Barber proposed.

Barber discussed themes of city governance, starting with some brief historical notes, to then elaborate the potentials city governance and the city itself has in future of democracy with respect to the older Nation state models. Cities and their leaders are now taking decisions that were once reserved to the nation states relative to climate change, immigration, and much more. Cities, with their multicultural connotation, are, in contraposition to the States an their monocultural connotation, in a position to face these imposing problems, together, in a sort of global democracy. The aggregate force of cities has the potential to have a powerful and direct effect on the market place, and not only. Cities, and their citizens, need to be heard, they need to have a larger voice.

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Viernes 25 de abril: EVA FRANCH – Anger, imposibilidades y objetos

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Friday 25th of April 2014
Eva Franch
Lecture: Anger, Impossibilities and Objects

@ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium
Open to the Public

EVA FRANCH
Franch is an architect and founder in 2003 of OOAA (office of architectural affairs). Since 2010, Franch is the Executive Director and Chief Curator of Storefront for Art and Architecture. She studied at TU Delft and earned an M. Arch from ETSAB-UPC, and an M. Arch. II from Princeton University. She has lectured internationally on art, architecture and the importance of alternative practices in the construction and understanding of public life. Franch has taught at State University of New York Buffalo and at Rice University where she directed the Masters Thesis studio. At Storefront, her most recent projects include the launch of a new publication Series in partnership with Lars Müller, exhibitions such as No Shame: Storefront for Sale and POP: Protocols, Obsessions, Positions, the launch of the Storefront International Series and projects such as WorldWide Storefront, commissioning major design projects such as the Speechbuster, and developing projects like the Competition of Competitions. Most recently Franch, together with a curatorial and design team, has been selected by the State Department of the United States to represent the U.S. Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale.

Image credits: Past Futures, Present, Futures, 2012. Storefront for Art and Architecture. Photo by Naho Kubota

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Martes 22 de abril: Benjamin Barber –
Si Alcaldes gobernó el mundo: City, Metro Región y Provincia – ¿Cuál es el nivel adecuado de Gobernanza Urbana?

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Investigación Viajes MAA2013 / 14 // Self Edificios suficientes en Figueres y Cadaqués

This year the Self Sufficient Buildings Research line has gone to Figueres and Cadaques for their research trip to visit some of the architectural (and not only) highlights of this part of the Spanish coast. Among these the Dali Museum, elBulli, Villa Nurbs, Villa Bio, and much more.

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