Event's IaaC

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia and HP are pleased to announce the 3rd Advanced Architecture Contest, on the theme of THE SELF-SUFFICIENT CITY: Envisioning the habitat of the future.
The aim of this architecture competition is to promote on-line discussion and research through which to generate insights and visions, ideas and proposals that help us envisage what the city and the habitat of the 21st century will be like.
The contest is open to architects, planners, designers and artists who want to contribute to progress in making the world more habitable by developing a proposal capable of responding to emerging challenges in areas such as ecology, information technology, socialization and globalization, with a view to enhancing the connected self-sufficiency of our cities.
The prize (Total value: 60.000, 00 EUR) will be distributed at the discretion of the Juries following the bases scheme.
This Architecture Competition Jury, which is composed of architects, directors of some of the world's foremost architecture schools, and mayors of prominent cities around the globe is looking for outstanding proposals for any city in the world, at any scale, and within any timescale.
The Registration is FREE, and the competition entries should be submitted digitally in PDF files via the Internet
http://www.advancedarchitecturecontest.org/

The architect will give a special talk about his projects over the last 10 years, including the logics that make up his working process.
`According to Guallart, geologics are the logics of the Earth. They are mechanism of recognizing the potentials of place to develop projects from the landsacpe`s geography and geometry to build inhabitable structures.`
Tuesday 31st of March.a
Ras Gallery / Bookstore
19:00h http://www.guallartblog.com/

Green roofs, artificial mountains and geological forms; Buildings you walk on or over; networks of ramps and warped surfaces; Buildings that carve into the ground or Landscapes lifted high into the air: all these are commonplace in architecture today. New technologies, new design techniques and a demand for enhanced environmental performance have provoked a re-thinking of architecture’s traditional relationship to the ground. Some of today’ s most innovative buildings no longer occupy a given site but instead, construct the site itself. The conference landform building sets out to examine the many ways in which landscape effects are manifest in architecture today: Not as a cross- disciplinary phenomenon (architects working on the landscape) but as new design techniques, new formal strategies and technical problems with in architecture itself.
Participants
Inaki Abalos - Abalos+sentkiewicz arquitectos, Vincente Guallart - guallart architects, Michael Jacob - université de geneve, Michael Maltzan - michael maltzan architects, Jesse Reiser / Nanako Umemoto - rur architects, Fabian Scheurer - design to Production, Nader Tehrani - office da, Marion Weiss / Michael Manfredi - weiss/manfredi architects, Mirko Zardini - canadian centre for architecture
Moderator and organizer
Stan Allen - dean, Princeton university school of architecture.

Entendemos el prototipo como el resultado negociado de una suma consensuada de posicionamientos básicos. Más que un diseno cerrado, más que la descripción de un objeto, el prototipo definido aquí se presenta como la conjunción de una serie de estrategias propositivas, la materialización de una serie de afirmaciones que pretendemos defender.

El prototipo presentado aquí es el resultante de un proceso de evaluación abierta de distintos prototipos opción, sometido bajo criterios tanto de figuración arquitectónica, como de lógicas constructivas y eficiencias energéticas, en el que han participado activamente todos los agentes que formarán parte de su desarrollo posterior.http://www.fablabhouse.com/

IaaC is pleased to invite you to the exhibition "Collectives and Egoists". Students of the Bauhaus-University (Weimar/Germany) show different works of photography, drawing, video-installation, sculpture and performance."
CASA CLOTILDE (C/Corretger 5, Barcelona), 17.03.09 - 22.03.09
http://www.collectivesandegoists.com/

Vicente Guallart launched his new book GeoLogics: Geography, Information, Architecture.
The presentation and the launch of the book took place at the AA school on Friday, 13th of February

Barcelona Drawing - Exibition and Review
Wednesday, 25 February 2009
IaaC Main Space
12:00-17:00http://aalog.net

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalunya has been registered by the city´s Townhall as one of the Innovative Centers of Barcelona.http://mapa.innova.barcelonactiva.cat/

FreshMadrid is going to start a new journey of proposals and activities on the following weeks. Several lectures and workshops from this collective of young architects from Spain were also hosted in Iaac.

Estudio banana, calle platano 14, Madrid
16th of April
20:00 h http://www.freshmadrid.com/

Fab Academy
What it is?
The Fab Academy will provide instruction and supervise investigation of mechanisms, applications, and implications of digital fabrication.
The Fab Academy is a distributed education system, it will connect via video conference, and Internet, experienced professors with students located in Fab Labs of the world.
From a 30 week program to specialized certificates in digital fabrication: The Fab Academy consists in the addition of certificates in processes about digital fabrication, the result of this addition is the "Fab Academy Diploma". Individual certificates could be taken independently of the entire program.
When?
Applications are open from January 20th to March 30th. The program will have two main cores of 15 weeks: September - December 2009 and February - May 2010. This completes a 600 hours program including:
- Weekly videoconference classes with international experienced faculty
- Personalized instructors locally placed in Labs
- On site tutorials
- Time in equipment operation
Where?
There are ten Fab Labs that will offer the Fab Academy program 2009-2010:
- Barcelona, Spain
- New Delhi, India
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Ohio, United States
- Boston, United States
- Oklahoma, United States
- Cape Town, South Africa
- Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland
- Lyngen, Norway
- Jalalabad, Afghanistan
Tuition and application
Tuition for the year 2009/2010 is 10.000euros.
Applicants should email to info@iaac.net the following documentation:
- Completed application form
- Letter of intent
- Copy of (valid) passport
- Curriculum Vitae
- A non-refundable application fee of 80euros, payable by bank transfer to:
Instituto de Arquitectura Avanzada de Cataluna
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 applicants 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.
The selected candidates must send to the Fab Lab Bcn a scanned proof of a down payment of 2.000euros to confirm participation, before the 25th of March, 2009. The remaining part of the tuition fee (8.000euros) may be paid either in one two installments, 60%, both before 1st September 2009 and 40% before 15 February 2010.

Note: Please revise educational programs section at www.iaac.net and www.fablab.es sites for documentation to be updated soon.
http://www.fablab.es