Exhibitions
Digital Matter Intelligent Constructions // Final Presentations
Digital Matter Intelligent Constructions // Final Presentations The Digital Matter Intelligent Constructions Research Studio, led by Areti Markopoulou, with Faculty Assistants Alexandre Dubor and Angelos Chronis, had its final presentations on Tuesday the 28th of June 2016. The…
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Design with Nature // Final Presentations
Design with Nature // Final Presentations The final presentations of the Design with Nature Research Studio, led by Javier Peña and Rodrigo Rubio with Oriol Carrasco, were held on the 21st of June at IAAC. There…
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Exhibitions
MAA Individual Thesis // Final Presentations
MAA Individual Thesis // Final Presentations On the 27th and 28th of June we had the MAA Individual Thesis Final Presentations at IAAC and Corretger5 Gallery. The jury panel included international guests like Fanny Lopez (École d’Architecture…
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Blender Kicks-off the IAAC Pro Workshop Series
Blender Kicks-off the IAAC Pro Workshop Series The Blender workshop has been the first appointment with the IAAC Pro program, a series of workshops for professionals who are interested in improving their computer aided design and programming skills in order…
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Seminars
MAA // New Interfaces Seminar Final Presentations
New Interfaces Seminar – Final Presentations Virtual and Augmented Reality concepts are almost half a century old. Ivan Sutherland, regarded by many as the father of CAD, invented a head mounted display in 1968. Steve…
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Presentations
MAA // Lightweight Structures Seminar Final Presentations
MAA Lightweight Structures Seminar – Final Presentations The way humans and animals build their dwellings is highly conditioned by the limited available resources in a certain environment: a key point of the success of a…
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MaCT
MaCT // Senseable City: Carlo Ratti’s Lecture and Seminar
At the dawn of the digital revolution, it was widely believed that the Internet would dramatically reduce the importance of physical space. In 1995, some scholars went as far as predicting an imminent death of…
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Alumni
IAAC Alumni’s Visions Presented at the 15th Venice Biennale
VDNKh Laboratory of the Future for the Russian Pavilion at the 15th Architecture Venice Biennale HSE Graduate School of Urbanism and the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia are launching a joint project the VDNKh Laboratory…
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Exhibitions
Live Knowledge – IAAC at the 15th Venice Biennale
Live Knowledge – IAAC at the 15th Venice Biennale The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia will take part to the 15th Venice Biennale, titled Reporting From the Front and curated by Alejandro Aravena, with…
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MAA // Skin2 Seminar Final Presentations
Master in Advanced Architecture – Skin2 Seminar Final Presentations What will the human of the future be like? Focusing on the human skin, as a means for protection but also a mediator of our senses…
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Alumni
IAAC Alumni // CINNO – FabLab VERITAS Launch
CINNO – FabLab VERITAS Launch & Noumena Workshop Tomorrow and until the 28th of May, San José, Costa Rica will see the official launch in the FabLab network of the Research Center for Innovation (CINNO)…
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Exhibitions
Archaeology of the Digital // Enric Ruiz Geli at the CCA
Archaeology of the Digital – Enric Ruiz Geli at the CCA Archaeology of the Digital: Complexity and Convention is the third exhibition related to the development of a strategy for collecting and preserving digital archives…
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Alumni
VDNH Laboratory of the Future // IAAC Workshop in Moscow
The one-week VDNH Laboratory of the Future workshop took place in Moscow, Russia, organised by the HSE’s Graduate School of Urbanism Moscow, in collaboration with the IAAC | Project for the Self Sufficient City. The…
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MaCT // Robotic City Seminar Final Presentations
MaCT Robotic City Seminar – Final Presentations Last Tuesday the students of the Master in City & Technology presented to a jury chaired by Winy Maas the final outputs of the Robotic City Seminar. The Why Factory…
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Alumni
Memories from the first IAAC Alumni Meeting
Memories from the first IAAC Alumni Meeting Over the last ten years, the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia has received and been home to over 500 students from more than 60 countries, including China, the…
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MAA // Advanced Robotic Fabrication Seminar
Phriends* for Shells at the Advanced Robotic Fabrication Seminar During Phriends* for Shells, the Master in Advanced Architecture‘s Seminar in Advanced Robotic Fabrication, students fabricated five earthen shells with perforations and non uniform thickness, under the supervision of Innochain…
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MaCT // Urban Big Data & Poblenou Urban Stories
Urban Big Data Unveil Poblenou Urban Stories Are you curios to know which is the Unhappiest spot of Poblenou? Could you tell where in the neighborhood Male or Females usually hang out? Have you ever been…
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Alumni
IAAC Alumni // Shape Changing Materials Workshop
Shape Changing Materials Workshop at Parsons School of Design Last month IAAC Visiting Programs Coordinator and Alumni Efilena Baseta led a workshop about smart textiles at Parsons school in New York. Aim of the Shape Changing Materials workshop was to bring together smart materials…
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MaCT & The Why Factory // Robotic City Workshop
From April 25th to 29th, Master in City & Technology (MaCT) students joined the Robotic City Workshop, ran by The Why Factory (T?F) and in collaboration with students from TU Delft, which took place at the Institute…
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CIEE Global Architecture & Design Program
CIEE Global Architecture & Design Program // Final Presentations
CIEE Global Architecture & Design Program 2016 – Final Presentations Last Thursday 28th of April the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia hosted the final presentations of the CIEE Global Architecture and Design Program. Connected with Maria Aiolova of Terreform ONE in New York,…
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Exhibitions
Bio and Beyond // MAA at the Edinburgh International Science Festival
The Master in Advanced Architecture at the Edinburgh International Science Festival Co-curated by the Science Festival, Summerhall and ASCUS Art & Science, the exhibition Bio and Beyond brings together work from both local and international artists inspired by…
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Musical Robotic Façade by Isern, Cumella & IAAC
A team formed by Isern associats, Ceramica Cumella and the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) has built a musical robotic facade made with a robot that translates Max Richter’s music in lines on…
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Research Trips > Master in City & Technology
From April 8th to 18th, Master in City & Technology (MaCT) students went to Mumbai, India, for their Project Studio Research Trip. The Pilot Project Thesis Studio is about design for the Responsive City. If…
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IaaC at Smartgeometry Workshop 2016 – Hybrid Domains
IaaC at Smartgeometry Workshop 2016 – Hybrid Domains Smartgeometry held its yearly workshop and conference, this year entitled sg2016: Hybrid Domains, at the Chalmers University of Technology, in Gothenburg, Sweden, from 4-9 April 2016. The event has…
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Open Thesis Fabrication Pavilion Featured by Arte Channel
Open Thesis Fabrication Pavilion Featured by Arte Channel This morning the rooftop of the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia became a documentary set. The Open Thesis Fabrication (OTF) Aquaponic Pavilion will be featured in a…
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Interactive 3D printing – Rob|Arch 2016 Workshop
Interactive 3D printing – Rob|Arch 2016 Workshop Robotic fabrication processes enable designers and architects to explore the boundaries between digital and material worlds. Beyond optimization criteria or parametric design, new design strategies such as generative design…
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Embodied Interaction Seminar – Master in Advanced Interaction
Embodied Interaction Seminar – Advanced Interaction Studio This seminar, support of the Master in Advanced Interaction, has been investigating embodied interaction through the lens of diverse technological and theoretical fields. In collaboration with BeAnother Lab and FabTextiles, goal of the seminar…
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Carlo Ratti and Bruno Moser // Master in City & Technology
This week the Master in City & Technology has kicked off two of the courses of its third-term: the pilot project thesis studio Design for the Responsive City led by IaaC Academic Director Areti Markopoulou and Foster+Partners Bruno Moser, and the SenseAble City…
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