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Areti Markopoulou to Lecture at Hyperbody’s Symposium #GSM3
Areti Markopoulou to Lecture at Hyperbody’s Symposium #GSM3 Game Set and Match 3 | GSM 3 is the last of the three symposia organized by Hyperbody, TU Delft since 2000. It reviews the past and…
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Exhibitions
MAA and MaCT Venice Research Trip
MAA and MaCT Venice Research Trip MAA and MaCT Students and Coordinators are just back from their research trip to Venice, in occasion of the International Architecture Exhibition, Reporting from the Front, curated by Alejandro Aravena. The aim of…
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IAAC Academic Director Areti Markopoulou // IoA Sliver Lecture Series
Areti Markopoulou to Lecture at IoA Sliver Lecture Series Next November 9th IAAC Academic Director Areti Markopoulou will take part to the SLIVER Lecture Series of the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Institute of Architecture (IoA), that…
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InnoChain Workshop // Robotic Steering and Control
InnoChain Workshop – Robotic Steering and Control Robotic steering and control introduced alternative robotic control protocols for design based interfaces. During the InnoChain Workshop, led by IAAC Robotic Experts Alexandre Dubor and Djordje Stanojevic, starting from basics of…
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Exhibitions
ecoLogic Studio’s META-Folly Exhibited at CCCB
ecoLogic Studio’s META-Folly Exhibited at CCCB The exhibition 1,000 m2 of Desire – Architecture and sexuality, which will be at CCCB Barcelona from the 25th October 2016 to the 19th March 2017, looks at the way Western…
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Jaume Prat // Motion Frames from the Edge of a Discipline
Jaume Prat – Motion Frames from the Edge of a Discipline Last night our guest lecturer Jaume Prat Ortells, invited as part of the Fall Lecture Series 2016, inspired the audience with his lecture: Motion Frames…
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Alumni
IAAC at ACADIA Conference 2016 // POSTHUMAN FRONTIERS
IAAC at ACADIA 2016 // POSTHUMAN FRONTIERS: Data, Designers and Cognitive Machines The ACADIA 2016 Conference, to be held from October 27th to 29th at the University of Michigan Taubman College in Ann Arbor, will foster design work and research…
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Ben van Berkel of UNStudio Opens IaaC Lecture Series 2016/17
UNStudio Director Ben van Berkel Opens IaaC Lecture Series 2016/17 Last Wednesday evening we had the pleasure of hosting Ben van Berkel, founder and principal architect of UNStudio, for the Opening Lecture of this year’s…
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Introduction to Digital Fabrication – Final Presentations
Introduction to Digital Fabrication – Final Presentations Digital Fabrication is an introductory course of the Master in Advanced Architecture tutored by IAAC Digital and Robotic Fabrication Expert Alexandre Dubor exploring new production techniques through the relation between computer…
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Alumni
Third Coast Atlas Book Launch
Third Coast Atlas Book Launch Last Wednesday 19th of October IAAC hosted the book launch of the Third Coast Atlas: Prelude to a Plan edited by IAAC Alumni Daniel Ibañez, Clare Lyster, Charles Waldheim, Mason…
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Exhibitions
GSS Moscow at the Architectural Festival Zodchestvo
IaaC Global Summer School-Moscow is exhibiting the final project developed during the GSS program at the International Architectural Festival Zodchestvo in Moscow. The festival Zodchestvo is a review of achievements in architecture and urban planning in…
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Alumni
IAAC Alumni Looks at Silk as a Construction Material
IAAC Alumni Ilaria la Manna’s Bombix Bricks project looks at silk as a valid construction and structural material to be used within architecture. The overall goal is to create a growing space, acting as a temporary…
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Pylos /// Material and Machine Printing – OTF Workshop
Pylos /// Material and Machine Printing – OTF Workshop Last Monday the Open Thesis Fabrication 2016/17 students presented the findings from the Pylos /// Material and Machine Printing Workshop, run by Sofoklis Giannakopoulos, Expert in Additive Manufacturing, and IAAC Robotic Expert Djordje Stanojevic. The previous…
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IAAC Academic Year 2016/17 Kick Off!
Last monday, in a crowded main hall, IAAC team members warmly welcomed the 150 new students from 41 different countries who decided to make their life changing experience at IAAC Barcelona this year. IAAC Academic Coordinator Mathilde Marengo gave some words…
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DIGITAL KNOT – Temporary Praying Shelter
Gereh-S?z?: (lit. “making knot”), a form of geometric interlaced strap-work ornament that is commonly found in architecture and the minor arts throughout the Islamic world. In Persian Islamic architecture gereh-s?z? designs exist in a variety…
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Exhibitions
Barcelona-Beijing: Hyperconnected Cities Exhibition
Barcelona-Beijing: Hyperconnected Cities Exhibition The exhibition Barcelona-Beijing: Hyperconnected Cities of the Cervantes Institute of Beijing showcases projects developed this year during the Global Summer School Program – run by the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia in seven different locations around…
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Responsive Cities Symposium
RESPONSIVE CITIES – Urbanism in the Experience Age Symposium Some of the brightest minds in the fields of Sociology, Urban Sciences, Technology and Architecture gathered in Barcelona to discuss the Future of our Cities The first edition…
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Digital Urban Orchard Presented at AAG 2016
Advances in Architectural Geometry (AAG) is a biennial symposium where theoretical and practical works linked to new geometrical developments are presented during an international gathering which has reached now its fifth edition. This symposium aims to bring together the diverse components of the…
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Poblejoc – Activating the Superilla Public Space
In which ways can people have a more active role in the design of their spaces? How technology can enhance our capability of understanding and interact with our space? Poblejoc, an interactive installation conceived during the Active Public…
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Alumni
Future Traditions Workshop in Tehran
Future Traditions – How Digital Technologies can Contribute to Rethink Vernacular Architecture How modern architecture can be adapted to local needs, materials and traditions? How new digital tools can help redesign vernacular architecture able to fit our…
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MaCT The Responsive City // Final Presentations
MaCT The Responsive City – Final Presentations The final presentations of the The Responsive City Design Studio of the Master in City & Technology, led by Senior Faculty Areti Markopoulou and Guest Faculty Bruno Moser (Foster + Partners) with the assistance of MAA Coordinator Marco…
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IAAC Graduation & Academic Excellence Awards Ceremony
IAAC Graduation and Academic Excellence Awards Ceremony The Graduation Ceremony took place on June 30th at the Valldaura Self-sufficient Labs, officiated by IAAC Academic Coordinator Mathilde Marengo. More than a hundred students coming from forty different countries, and accompanied by their…
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Intelligent Cities // The Future of Newark
Intelligent Cities // The Future of Newark Last Wednesday June 29th Willy Müller and Jordi Vivaldi selected nine students projects developed during Intelligent Cities Research Studio to be presented and reviewed by Coop Himmelb(l)au Founding Director Wolf D. Prix, Sci-Arc…
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Wolf D. Prix // IAAC Closing Lecture 2016
Wolf D. Prix – IAAC Closing Lecture 2016 Last week we had the pleasure of hosting Wolf D.Prix, Coop Himmelb(l)au, for the Closing Lecture of this year’s IAAC Lecture series 2015/16. After the welcome words of IAAC Academic Director Areti Markopoulou,…
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IAAC Global Summer School Kick-off
IAAC Global Summer School Kick-off Yesterday we had the kick-off of the IAAC Global Summer School, the biggest summer program in the world, with 110 students divided in six locations around the globe. So what was happening in…
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Advanced Interaction // Final Presentations
Advanced Interaction // Final Presentations This year’s Advanced Interaction Research Studio, led by the Senior Faculty Carlos Gomez and the Guest Faculty Eugenio Tisselli, took place on Tuesday the 21st of June at the Studio P52 Art Gallery in Barcelona,…
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Self-sufficient Building // Final Presentations
Self-sufficient Building // Final Presentations On Sunday the 19th of June were the Self-sufficient Building Research Studio, led by Enric Ruiz Geli and Mireia Luzàrraga, Final Presentations. The jury board included IAAC Academic Director Areti Markopoulou, Academic…
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Intelligent Cities // Final Presentations
Intelligent Cities // Final Presentations On the 20th of June we had the Final Presentations of Intelligent Cities Research Studio, led by Willy Müller and Jordi Vivaldi (Senior Faculty) with Starks Lara (Studio Support Seminar), Maite Bravo (IAAC Theory…
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