Educational Program - Master in Advanced Architecture

Master in Advanced Architecture
Emergent territories
Self-sufficient Buildings
Digital Tectonics

MAA01 (1 year, 75 ECTS)
MAA02 (2 years, 130 ECTS)

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia offers a 1 year and a 2 year Master programme in Architecture and Urbanism accredited by the UPC School of Professional & Executive Development.

Directors of the program plus the academic staff, are committed to a long-term prospectus of creating an international research and academic centre in Barcelona, bringing together international students, professors and researchers from different fields in order to materialize experimental forms of communication, inhabitation and planning.
The programme is oriented at graduates who wish to commit and develop their design research skills in the context of new forms of practice within architecture and urbanism, ranging from large-scale environments to digital fabrication.
Over the last three years, the IAAC has received students from more than 30 different countries, including  China, Skopje, United Kingdom, U.S.A, Russia, Germany, Australia, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Ecuador, Peru, Germany, Iraq, Thailand, Turkey, India, Poland, Cyprus, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Spain, Guatemala, Bangladesh, Colombia, Korea, making it in an exceptionally international and multicultural place.

Programme
The Master in Advanced Architecture emerges this year as an innovative educational format that offers interdisciplinary skills and understanding through the researching of territorial, architectural and parametric design operations for the production of Self-sufficient Habitats. Proposing a dynamic, customized structure, the Institute gives students the opportunity to create single or multi-scalar Studio agendas based on their academic interests within the programme. In this way, the IAAC puts together an experimental and learning environment for the training of architects with both theoretical and practical responses to the increasing complexity of contemporary urban environments, economic forces, information flows, fast-growing cities and massive energy consumption and waste production.
With access to the IAAC Studio working space and its prototypes fabrication lab, students have the opportunity to be part of a highly international group, including faculty members, researchers and lecturers, in which they are encouraged to develop collective decision-making processes and materialize their project ideas.
The aim of the Institute is to form graduates who, after the completion of the programme, will be able to develop their acquired skills in a diversity of professional environments, engaging projects that range from large-scale sustainable planning and building construction to the industrialized fabrication of architectural components.

FACULTY

Willy Muller (Architect)
Marta Malé-Alemany (Architect)
Javier Peña Galiano (Architect)
Michael Weinstock (Architect)
Julian Vincent (Biologist)
Pierre Belanger (Achitect/Urbanist) 
Vicente Guallart (Architect)
Mark Burry  (Engineer)
Areti Markopoulou (Architect)
Tomas Diez (Urbanist)
Victor Viña (Programmer)
Michel Rojkind (Architect)
Neil Leach (Architect)
Lluís Viu Rebés (Architect)
Jordi Pages Ramon (Architect)
Salvador Rueda (Biologist)
Luis Fraguada (Architect)
Andreu Ulied (Engineer)
Jochen Sheerer (Biologist)
Rodrigo Rubio (Architect)
Christine Otto Kanstinger (Architect)
Santiago Martin (Mechanical Engineer)
Usman Haque (Architect)
Natalie Jeremijenko (Artist)
Claudia Pasquero (Architect)
Marco Polleto (Architect)
Alex Posada (Telecommunication Engineer)
Gregory Epps (Designer)
Jelle Feringa (Engineer)
Micahel Knauss (Architect)
Edouard Cabay (Architect)
Jose Pedro Sousa (Architect)
Cristina Sendra (Chemical Engineer)
Maite Bravo (Architect)
Aaron Betsky (Architect and Critic)
Valérie Bergeron (Architect)
Gonzalo Delacámara (Economist)
Olaf Gipser (Architect)
Florian Foerster (Civil Engineer)
Uriel Fogué (Architect)
Gerard Passola (Ecologist,Biologist)
Izaskun Chinchilla (Architect)
Andrés Jaque (Architect)
José Pérez de Lama (Architect)
Luis Lafuente Molinero (Mathematic)
Jordi Mansilla (Architect)
Xavier Mayor Farguell (Ecologist,Biologist)
Miguel Mesa (Architect)
Moisès Morato (Industrial Enginner)
Sabine Müller (Architect)
Javier Peña (Chemic Engineer)
Andreas Quednau (Architect)
Max San Julian (Architect)
Spyros Stavoravdis (Architect)
Martin Sobota (Architect)
Belinda Tato (Architect)
José Luís Vallego (Architect)
Bostian Vuga (Architect)

PREVIOUS LECTURERS
Shigeru Ban, Peter Eisenman, Peter Cook, Farshid Moussavi, Massimiliano Fuksas, Theo Jansen, Thom Mayne, Chris Wan, Ben Van Berkel, Gunter Pauli, Neil Gershenfeld, Philip Ball, John Palmesino, Usman Haque, Natalie Jeremijenko, Pierre Belanger, Pier Giorgio Oliveti, Jane Burry, Carlo Ratti, Michael Sorkin, Mike Weinstock, Yona Friedman, Nader Tehrani, Manuel De Landa, Ricardo Bofill, Behrok Khoshnevis, Mike Schlaich, Hanif Kara, Brett Steele, Pepe Ballesteros, Santiago Cirugeda Parejo, Luca Galofaro, Toyo Ito, Bostian Vuga, Axel Kilian, Benedetta Tagliabue, Alejandro Gutierrez, Juan Herreros, Winka Dubbeldam, Neil Leach, Minsuk Cho, Alfonso Vegara, Behrok Khoshnevis, Stephen Wolfman, Michael Rojkind,Duncan Lewis, Greg Lynn, Winy Maas, Josep Lluís Mateo, Fernando Menis, Enric Ruiz-Geli, Alfredo Payá, Jaime Salazar, Max Sanjulián, Amadeu Santacana, Alejandro Zaera-Polo, José María Torres Nadal, Ben van Berkel, Mark Wigley, Yung Ho Chang, ILSA & Andreas Ruby, Jacub Szczesny, Jou Min Lin, Lucy Bullivant, Momoyo Kaijima, Andrés Jaque, Carlos Arroyo, Angel Borrego, Colectivo Zuloark, Ecosistema Urbano, Bernhard Franken, Jaime Lerner, and many others.

APPLICATION AND SELECTION PROCEDURE
All Master Programme applicants should submit digitally at applications@iaac.net  the following documents:

• Completed application form
• Letter of intent
• Copy of (valid) passport
• Legalized copy of your applicant’s architecture degree (Bachelor or higher degree from other professions) officially translated both in English and inSpanish. The legalisation should be done according to the country of origin of the applicant. In the following link can be found all the information about the above requirement: http://www.fundacio.upc.ed/acollida.php?origen=P3_Internacional
• Two letters of recommendation
• Portfolio containing representative samples of design work (academic and / or professional). The portfolio should not exceed DIN A4 format.
• Curriculum Vitae
• A non-refundable application fee of 120€, payable by bank transfer to:

Instituto de Arquitectura Avanzada de Cataluña
Bank: Caixa de Arquitectos
Account Number: 3183-0800-8200-0064-8636
IBAN: ES86 3183 0800 8200 0064 8636
BIC/SWIFT: CASDESBB

Note: in the bank transferring SUBJECT must appear the applicant’s name. All documents should be submitted in English. These documents will be reviewed and will serve to determine whether you will be admitted to the program.

TUITION FOR STUDENTS ATTENDING THE MAA_01 (9months)
Tuition for the year 2011/2012 is 14.250€. The selected candidates must send to the Institute a scanned proof of a down payment of 2.000€ to confirm participation, maximum 6 weeks after their acceptance.. The remaining part of the tuition fee (12.250€) may be paid either in one or two instalments, 60% (7.350€), before 1 September 2012 and 40% (4.900€) before 15 January 2013.

All payments must be paid  by bank transfer only to:

Instituto de Arquitectura Avanzada de Cataluña
Bank: Caixa de Arquitectos
Account Number: 3183-0800-8200-0064-8636
IBAN: ES86 3183 0800 8200 0064 8636
BIC/SWIFT: CASDESBB
Note: in the bank transferring SUBJECT must appear the applicant’s name

TUITION OF STUDENTS ATTENDING MAA_01 AND OPEN
THESIS FABRICATION (4months)
The tuition for the Students that will decide to enter both the Master in Advanced Architecture and the Open Thesis Fabrication project for the year 2012/2013 is 19.000€. The selected candidates must send to the Institute a scanned proof of a down payment of 2.300€ to confirm participation, maximum 6 weeks after their acceptance. The remaining part of the tuition fee (16.700€) may be paid either in one two installments, 60% (10.020€), before 1 September 2012 and 40% (6.680€) before 15 January 2013.

All payments must be paid by bank transfer only to:

Instituto de Arquitectura Avanzada de Cataluña
Bank: Caixa de Arquitectos
Account Number: 3183-0800-8200-0064-8636
IBAN: ES86 3183 0800 8200 0064 8636
BIC/SWIFT: CASDESBB
Note: in the bank transferring SUBJECT must appear the applicant’s name

TUITION FOR STUDENTS ATTENDING THE MAA_02 (18months)
Tuition for the year 2012/2014 is 28.500€. The selected candidates must send to the Institute a scanned proof of a down payment of 2.500€ to confirm participation, maximum 6 weeks after their acceptance. The remaining part of the tuition fee (26.000€) may be paid either in two installments of 50% (13.000€) before 1 September 2011 and 50%(13.000€) before 1 September 2012 or divide each year installment of (13.000€) in two, 40% (5.200€) , before 1 September 2012 and 60% (7.800€) before 15 January 2013 and 40% (5.200€), before 1 September 2013 and 60% (7.800€) before 15 January 2014.

 All payments must be paid  by bank transfer only to:

Instituto de Arquitectura Avanzada de Cataluña
Bank: Caixa de Arquitectos
Account Number: 3183-0800-8200-0064-8636
IBAN: ES86 3183 0800 8200 0064 8636
BIC/SWIFT: CASDESBB
Note: in the bank transferring SUBJECT must appear the applicant’s name

For more information email us at: coordinator@iaac.net