Event's IaaC

LaN | WORK/SHOP is an intensive, 14-day workshop based in Barcelona, Spain, that will approach the investigation of urban domains through the use of scripting and digital fabrication. Workshop is hosted by IaaC: Institut d'Arquitectura Avançada de Catalunya and directed by LaN | Live Architecture Network.
Professional and student architects, urbanists, designers, artists [and related fields], are invited to Barcelona from the 8th-22nd of August 2008 to engage in a collective investigation of the city through the use of advanced digital tools, and computer numerically controlled fabrication techniques.
Visit LaN | Live Architecture Network to connect to the SUMMER 2008 'SHOP Series.
Space is very limited, please contact BCN@LIVEARCHITECTURE.NET with any questions.

EL IAAC CONTRIBUYE A HACER DE BARCELONA LA CIUDAD DEL CONOCIMIENTO, ATRAYENDO A INVESTIGADORES DE 24 PAÍSES.
El IaaC acoge actualmente el máster más internacional del país, donde se dan cita investigadores y estudiantes de 24 países. Pese a estar en Barcelona, el idioma oficial de la institución es el inglés. Su director, Vicente Guallart, afirma que “es una pequeña ONU en el centro de Barcelona”. Iraquíes, indios y chinos trabajan codo con codo para desarrollar proyectos de investigación y análisis territoriales y de desarrollo urbano.
El Presidente del IAAC, Francesc Fernández apuesta porque Barcelona se convierta en un centro internacional de conocimiento. “Si hace años nuestros investigadores salían al extranjero a estudiar, ahora se trata de que los futuros líderes vengan a estudiar aquí. Esta red internacional de conocimiento que estamos generando impulsará el desarrollo económico de la ciudad a medio plazo. Traer a futuros líderes urbanos de diversos países del mundo fomenta la centralidad económica de Barcelona ya que nos convertimos en un referente. Es lo que han hecho los americanos durante todo el siglo XX. América es América porque Harvard forma a los líderes mundiales.”
Desde el Iaac se lanza el mensaje de que Barcelona tiene la oportunidad de convertirse en un centro de experimentación urbana.
El Martes 20 de Mayo el IaaC ha reunido a consules y representantes de mas de 14 países del mundo, quienes junto con Vicente Guallart, director del IaaC, Francesc Fernandez, Presidente del IaaC, Ramón García Bragado, teniente de alcalde de Vivienda, Urbanismo y Régimen Interior del Ayuntamiento de Barcelona, y los estudiantes del IaaC, presentaron los ultimos proyectos de investigacion que desarrolla el instituto, asi como tambien los proyectos futuros que incluyen diferentes investigaciones en la India y Barcelona.
ASSISTENTS OPEN DOORS
IAAC
IaaC Francesc Fernández President
IaaC Vicente Guallart Director
IaaC Francesc Joan Secretari de l'IaaC
Fundació UPC Josep Mª Martorell Director Àrea Programes de Formació
PAÏSOS
Consolat d'Alemanya Thomas Pfanne Consol General adjunto i Agregat Cultural
Consolat de Canadà Lesley-An Reed Consol i Delegada Comercial
Freddy Arellano Ruiz Consol General
Consolat d'Equador Maria Elena Porras Sra. Consol
Consolat d'Estats Units Elena Pujol Assessora Cultural i Relacions Externes
Consolat de Grècia Nicolas Bazas Consol General
Consolat d'India Abdul Majud Padar Agregat Cultural - Ambaixada Madrid
Consolat d'Itàlia Elio Traina Agregat Cultural, Director Institut Italià de Cultura
Consolat de Mèxic Diego Celerio Cultura
Consolat de Perú Ivan Rodriguez Vicecònsol
Consolat de Polònia Marek Pernal Consol General
Consolat de Tailàndia Jaime Sabaté Consol Honorari
INSTITUCIONS BARCELONA
Ajuntament de Barcelona Ramon Garcia-Bragado Tinent d'Alcalde d'Urbanisme
Ajuntament de Barcelona Margarita Obiols
Casa Àsia Ana Martinez Secretària General Casa Asia
Casa Amèrica Catalunya Ariadna Lluis Universitat i Publicacions, Casa Àsia
UNIVERSITATS
Universitat Pompeu Fabra Andreu Mas Colell catedràtic economia
ESADE Jose García de la Camara Professor
Florida International University Armando Montilla Arquitecte
Florida International University Bea Goller Arquitecte
EMPRESES
Infonomia Pau Roig
Visoren Jaume Carme Gerent
Hangar Pedro Soler Director Tècnic
Figueras Montse Arnau Responsable d’arquitectura
ARQUITECTES
Ariadna Alvarez

Romania Case Study > Self-sufficient Proposals for an emergent country

The Development Studio will be carried out starting with a field trip to Southeastern European country of Romania by the students and tutors research group. The target of this studio is the proposal of urban redevelopments, planning strategies and the proposal of new settlements in either ¨problematic¨ or ¨potential¨ specified areas in the case study of the city of Romania (Bucharest, Constanta).
The specific case studies and principles of the urban redevelopment and the new settlements will be defined during and after the field trip.

Jury
Francesc Fernández (President of IaaC)
Vicente Guallart (Director of IaaC)
Willy Müller (IaaC Development Director)
Ignacio Jiménez de la Iglesia (Economist, Valencia Litoral)
Guillermo Solarte (Philosopher, Bogotá - Colombia)
Francesc Joan (IaaC Gabinet Burgmaster)

On Tuesday 20th of May we are celebrating at IaaC the event of ¨Open Doors¨.
In this event we will be presenting the activities of IaaC for the academic year 2008-09 and four exhibitions of projects developed during the academic year 2007-08.
The presentations will be done with the presence of the consuls of IaaC´s students countries:
Germany, Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, Cyprus, China, Colombia, Ecuador, United States, Greece, India, Irak, Iceland, Italy, Mexico, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Russia, Thailand, Turkey, Venezuela. as representatives of the cultural and academic world of Barcelona.
The event will be presided by Mr. Vicente Guallart, Director of IaaC, Mr. Francesc Fernández, President of IaaC, Mr.Ramón García-Bragado, Deputy Mayor for Housing, Urban Planning and Council Internal affairs, (Ayuntamiento de Barcelona) and the Rector of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, UPC, Mr. Antoni Giró.

Heads of the Society of Tunis South Lake and the Tunis Urbanism Office visited IaaC to follow the research “Emergence on Med South”.

Med Sud is an investigation into the emergence in the South Mediterranean Sea as an entity that has been exploded and developed in different forms from its north and south. The investigation looks the Mediterranean dimension from different perspectives, looking for the local, regional and global relations that discover a territory that seems to be explored and defined enough, but still there are stronger potentials that open new and emergent opportunities for the sustainable development.

This research is part of the IaaC´s International Exchange program, this year together with the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico. The research project is directed by Willy Muller and Fred Guillaud and coordinated by Tomas Diez

Nader Tehrani received a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Bachelor in Architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1985 and 1986 respectively. He continued his studies at the Harvard Graduate School of Design where he received a Masters of Architecture in Urban Design in 1991. Tehrani attended a post-graduate program in History and Theory at the Architectural Association in London. A tenured Associate Professor of Architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tehrani has also taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Rhode Island School of Design, and Georgia Institute of Technology, where he served as the Thomas W. Ventulett III Distinguished Chair in Architectural Design.

The Weekend Architectural Workshops (WAW) are a one-weekend intensive experience in Digital Fabrication technologies. WAWs are a new format to introduce architecture, design, art and multi-disciplined students to fabrication equipment such as the Laser Cutter, CNC Mill and 3D Printer for the production of models, prototypes and 1:1 scale objects and components.

WAWs are organized by the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, and are oriented to schools and institutions of architecture, art, and design from different countries of the world.

WAW > University of Illinois at Chicago. IaaC (11th-14th of April)

IaaC Director: Vicente Guallart, WAW Director: Marta Male, WAW_UC Coordinator: Shane Salisbury, WAW_UC Tutors: Shane Salisbury, Areti Markopoulou, Tomas Diez

IaaC master Program 2008-09 is receiving applicants from 31 countries, including USA, Kenya, Israel, India, China, Turkey, Spain, Argentina and others. Next year master program will maintain the innovative format that allows the student to decide to work on Territorial, Building or Fabrication Scales, being able to choose to follow seminars from different disciplines.The application period has been extended until May 23thhttp://iaac.net/web/en/educationalMasterApply.php

The objective of this field trip, by the students and tutors research group, is an extensive territorial investigation and analysis in order to propose urban and planning strategies for the Southeastern European country of Romania.

Our trip´s aim will be the understanding of two key cities with their surroundings. Bucharest, the capital of Romania and Constanta, a portuary, industrial and turistic node of the country. The trip will be focused on the data and matter collecting, using several register protocols in each information field.

Former IaaC students Monika Wittig, Luis Fraguada, Mariano Arias Diez, and Shane Salisbury have been announced as the winners of the Denver International Airport "Emerging Artists Competition." The project called for a one year long art installation between two roads en route to the Denver Airport.
The [WIND]OW SEAT project is attempts to visualize this complex fluid system that is the air we all inhabit—a ubiquitous condition dynamically affecting all geographies. With this premise, any locale, whether an awe inspiring forest or an unnoticeable highway median can be analyzed and compared through the rendering of its wind activity. Conceptually, [WIND]OW SEAT emerged from analyzing a typically unused space physically sited in a median approximately 7 miles from Denver International Airport. The design takes its departure from the windsock, a relatively simple instrument used in aviation to signal the changes in wind direction and wind speed. [WIND]OW SEAT attempts to take the behavior of a single windsock, and translate it into a field condition where local behaviors can be read globally to articulate the complexities of the wind forces.
Project Credits:
LaN DENVER TEAM: Monika Wittig, Luis E. Fraguada, James Richard Coleman
LaN INTERNATIONAL TEAM: Shane Salisbury, Mariano Arias-Diez
PROJECT CONSULTANT: Richard H. Epstein - AIA
TECHNICAL ADVISORS: Shajay Bhooshan, Axel Kilian, Ph.D., Dipl.–Ing
PROJECT SUPPORT: Gillian Hallock Johnson - Burkett Design, Jon X. Giltner - Giltner & Associates, Dr. Bill Warnock - Boulder-Lhasa Sister Cities Project
MATERIAL SUPPORT: Ron Simonds - Boulder Mountain Repairhttp://www.livearchitecture.net/blog