Tonight IAAC had the pleasure to welcome Javier Peña, founder of the architecture office XPIRAL, who gave us a lecture explaining through different XPIRAL designs how the low and the traditional materials can work together with the digital technologies: understanding this material-technique connection as the chance to generate a wide range of innovative possibilities, and rethinking how architectural projects are the bridge which links social and economic behaviour in an efficient network. He also exposed how we will be able to apply this connection methodologies in several scales, programmes and fields of the innovative process as an heterogeneous creative mechanism.

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Tonight at IAAC Gonzalo Delacámara, expert on Economic Ambiental Science, gave us a lecture challenging the current dogmas about the energy and economic crisis. During the first part of the lecture Gonzalo Delacámara analysed some of the economical main aspects that are related to the future of our energy, specially in terms of people and goods transportation. In the second part Gonzalo answered many questions asked by the students, some of them connected to their research works.

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Tonight Neil Leach gave us a lecture challenging the negative attitude towards technology and computation in general and digital fabrication in particular – an attitude that is still prevalent in certain architectural circles-, and argued instead for a more receptive approach based on the ideas of Gilles Deleuze. The lecture went on to look at some of the latest developments in digital fabrication, including two NASA sponsored research projects to develop a robot to fabricate structures on the Moon and Mars.

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