Educational Program - Master in Advanced Architecture

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Master in Advanced Architecture
Self-sufficient Habitats
Emergent territories, Self-sufficient buildings and Digital Tectonics

75 ECTS (+ 25 ECTS optional)

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia offers a three-term (plus one term optional extension) Master programme in Architecture and Urbanism accredited by the Fundació Politècnica de Catalunya.
Directors Vicente Guallart, Willy Müller and Marta Malé-Alemany, 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 tectonic details.
Over the last three years, the IAAC has received students from more than 25 different countries, including  China, Skopje, United Kingdom, U.S.A, 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 24 hour-a-day 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

Vicente Guallart (Architect)
Willy Muller (Architect)
Marta Malé-Alemany (Architect)
Lucas Cappelli (Architect)
Areti Markopoulou (Architect)
Victor Viña (Programmer)
Michel Rojkind (Architect)
Neil Leach (Architect)
Olaf Gipser (Architect)
Florian Foerster (Civil Engineer)
Tomas Diez (Urbanist)
Luis Fraguada (Architect)
Daniel Ibañez (Architect)
Rodrigo Rubio (Architect)
Shane Salisbury (Architect)
Francisca Aroso (Architect)
Lluís Viu Rebés (Architect)
Jordi Pages Ramon (Architect)
Uriel Fogué (Architect)
Ferran Grau (Architect)
Gerard Passola (Ecologist,Biologist)
Joan Miralles (Industrial Designer)
Valérie Bergeron (Architect)
Aaron Betsky (Architect and Critic)
Izaskun Chinchilla (Architect)
Gonzalo Delacámara (Economist)
José Luis Echeverria (Urban Planner)
Luis Falcón (Architect)
Andrés Jaque (Architect)
Vincent Julian (Biologist)
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)
José Pérez de Lama (Architect)
Andreas Quednau (Architect)
Max San Julian (Architect)
Spyros Stavoravdis (Architect)
Martin Sobota (Architect)
Belinda Tato (Architect)
Andreu Ulied (Engineer)
José Luís Vallego (Architect)
Lia Vilahur (Interior Designer, History of Art)
Bostian Vuga (Architect)

PREVIOUS LECTURERS
Brett Steele, Pepe Ballesteros, Laura Cantarella, Santiago Cirugeda Parejo, Luca Galofaro, Lourdes García Sogo, Adriaan Geuze, Xaveer de Geyter, Toyo Ito, Francisco Jarauta, young Joon Kim, Kamiel Klaasse, Anne Lacaton, Duncan Lewis, Greg Lynn, Winy Maas, Josep Lluís Mateo, Fernando Menis, Enric Ruiz-Geli, Alfredo Payá, Jaime Salazar, Max Sanjulián, Charles Renfro, Amadeu Santacana, Carlos Sant’Ana, Kelly Shannon, 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, Manuel Ailo+ Rosa Rull, Andres Cánovas, Andrés Jaque, Carlos Arroyo, Angel Borrego, Colectivo Zuloark, Ana Salinas, Maria Auxiliadora Galvez, Isabela Wieczorek, Ecosistema Urbano, Claudia Pasquero, Marco Poletto, Bernhard Franken, Sabine Müller, Bostian Vuga, Axel Kilian, Benedetta Tagliabue, Alejandro Gutierrez, Juan Herreros, Winka Dubbeldam, Hanif Kara, Neil Leach, Minsuk Cho, Alfonso Vegara, Behrok Khoshnevis, Stephen Wolfman, Michael Rojkind, Caterina Tiazzoldi, Jaime Lerner, Massimiliano Fuksas, Rajendra Kumar, Ariadna Alvarez Garreta 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 100€, 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 OF STUDENTS ATTENDING ONLY THE MAA
Tuition for the year 2010/2011 is 13,500€ (period of study: October 2010-July 2011). 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 (11.000€) may be paid either in one or two instalments, 60% (6.600€), before 15 September 2010 and 40% (4.400€) before 15 January 2011.

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 AND OPEN
THESIS FABRICATION
The tuition for the Students that will decide to enter both the Master in Advanced Architecture and the Open Thesis Fabrication project is 18,000€ (period of study: October 2010-December 2011). 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 (15.000€) may be paid either in one two instalments, 60% (9.000€), before 15 September 2010 and 40% (6.000€) before 15 January 2011.

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