Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
Last night at IAAC, architect Bernard Tschumi, gave a lecture presenting “Red is not a color”, focused on his recently published book. During the lecture, Mr. Tschumi discussed concepts in architecture through a comprehensive documentation of his 30-year investigations as a designer, builder, and theorist.
Today at Emergent Territories Studio all the research-groups had their Mid-terms reviews. During the whole day the students presented to the jury the state of their work, related to the Besòs river site, one of the hardest locations in Barcelona. The jury was composed by Maite Bravo, Areti Markopoulou, Willy Muller and Luis Fraguada, all them experts in the advanced architecture field.
Today at Emergent Territories Studio, Judith Leclerc, founder of “CollLeclerc“, had a desk crit with students, checking the development of their projects and helping them with her critics. During the presentations, the students showed her the proposals that they are developing in the territory of the Besòs river, one of the most complex and controversial sites in Barcelona.
Bernard Tschumi
Architect, New York/Paris
Professor, Columbia University
Bernard Tschumi is an architect based in New York and Paris. First known as a theorist, he exhibited and published The Manhattan Transcripts (1981) and wrote Architecture and Disjunction, a series of theoretical essays (MIT Press, 1994). In 1983, he won the prestigious competition to design and build the Parc de la Villette, in Paris. Since then, he has made a reputation for groundbreaking designs that include the New Acropolis Museum, Le Fresnoy Center for the Contemporary Arts, and the Vacheron-Constantin Corporate Headquarters, among other projects. Tschumi’s work has been widely exhibited, with solo exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Venice Biennale. He served as Dean of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University in New York from 1988 to 2003. The New Acropolis Museum has been widely acclaimed, receiving awards from the American Institute of Architects, the French Ministry of Culture, and was one of six finalists for the Mies van der Rohe 2011 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture.
Abstract: Bernard Tschumi will discuss concepts in architecture and his recently published book, a comprehensive documentation of his 30-year investigations as a designer, builder, and theorist. (Bernard Tschumi, Architect, New York and Paris; Professor, Columbia University)
Last Tuesday IaaC and Fab Lab Bcn hosted the presentation of Demos developed during the Seventh International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction – TEI 2013. This event was the opportunity to showcase 45 demos from a diverse group of researchers, designers and students from Eindhoven University of Technology, Keio-NUS CUTE Center, Bauhaus-University Weimar, MIT Media Lab, University of Munich, Microsoft Research Cambridge, University of Madeira and University Hangzhou among others. The demos were made based on the Papers and Works in progress developed during the Studios and Design Challenge, and focused on experimenting with conductive paints and fabrics, different types of sensors, small robots, applications for future smart cities, applications for special interactive tables, tablets and smartphones, etc.
Fab Lab Barcelona presented the Studio 13: From Microcontrollers to Cities, centering the attention in Smart Cities.
This MAI Research Studio will be conducted by the Department of Industrial Design at the Eindhoven University of Technology and specifically by the following professionals: Eunjeong Jeon, Martijn ten Bhomer, Kristi Kuusk, Eva Deckers and Oscar Tomico. Other partners for the research studio will be the Higher School of Design (ESDi), part of the Fundació del Disseny Tèxtil (FUNDIT) by the person of Marina Castan, Bywire.net by the person of Marina Toeters and Sietske Klooster by the person of Sietske Klooster.
The research studio explores smart textile technology as an emergent design space and proposes a new design practice focused in textiles as an intimate and central element in daily life.
More info here.
