Event's IaaC

As part of the third term of the Master in Advanced Architecture subject, Romania research will start with the visit of IaaC Research Group toghether with students at the end of March of 2008.
The objective of this research is to set up a logical structure that leads to approach a project starting from multiple layers which interact to create a town or a city. This research is supporting the idea of the multyscalarity, that is trying to test if the urbanity is working with the same logics in different scales.
This research is starting from the idea that everyplace in the world could be analysed with 3 main layers, ENVIROMENTS, NETWORKS and NODES.
External romanian collaborators from the academic and the profesional fields will support the development of the research

El teniente de alcalde de Hacienda y Promoción Económica y Presidente de Barcelona Activa, Jordi William Carnes, junto con Vicente Guallart, Director del Instituto de Arquitectura Avanzada de Catalunya, presentan la guía Ruta de la Innovació a Barcelona, en uno de los puntos de la Ruta de la Innovación, el Fab Lab o centro de fabricación personal del Institut d’Arquitectura Avançada de Catalunya (IAAC). La publicacion pretende mostrar y añadir valor a la innovación que está realizando en la ciudad cada día, liderada entre otros por el Fab Lab Bcn.

Post it looks at different overlapping uses of urban territory, focusing on the viewpoints offered by architecture, town planning and the visual arts. "Post-it Cities" seeks to explore the phenomenon by means of the ephemeral cities that infect the everyday city with uncoded, temporary, anonymous uses, with an implicitly critical approach.
Taipei, Prototype of Urbanity. The Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IaaC) directed by Vicente Guallart in collaboration with The Observer Design Group directed by JM Lin, started in 2006 this research work with the students of the 2005-2006 master of advanced architecture, 10 days at Taipei measuring and reading the city in order to get the primary information for the following workshop at Barcelona; this publication is the result of the entire research. IaaC wants to map cities over the world to have a picture of this moment of the history of urbanism and architecture development that will allow to understand what our cities are, how they are functioning and whose are the possible facts that will lead urbanity on the future.

Exhibition March 13th 2008 - May 25th 2008, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona. C/ Montalegre 5, 08001 Barcelona

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After revising and discussing the projects of the the 2nd Advanced Architecture Contes. The jury members, composed of Yung Ho Chang, Turlif Vilbrandt, Young Joon Kim, Michel Rojkind, Josep Lluís Mateo, J.M. Lin, Julio Gaeta, Greg Lynn, Vicente Guallart, Willy Muller, Lucas Cappelli, Rodrigo Rubio and Daniel Ibañes have arrived at the following verdict:
Firstly however, the jury would like to thank all of the architects and students for their participation who have combined very diverse points of view and cultural realities through their ideas of self-construction in order to foment and develop new constructive systems around the world.
Awarded projects:
1st Prize: F1C243
Ming Tang
Dihua Yang
CHINA
This proposal uses a traditional local material, implementing geometry elements in a pertinent way creating structures able to transform and re-inform themselves . The jury values its landscape integration and the possibility of being constructed as prototype.
2nd Prize: 5923BC
Luis Aguirre Manso
SPAIN
The jury values the hybridisation of light construction systems that rise from the ground, and the functional scheme surrounding the chimney, that follows principles of traditional architecture.
3rd Prize: C2BD4E
Shinya OKUDA
Kung Yick Ho Alvin
Lam Yan Yu Ian
HONG KONG
The jury values the use of advanced technologies in the manipulation of biodegradable materials to create a system that can be assembled as a sustainable construction. http://www.advancedarchitecturecontest.org/results.php

The director of the Department of Architecture, MIT is going to give an open lecture at Iaac.http://www.fcjz.com/eng/main-e.htm

OPENING OF IAAC NEW BUILDING
AND EXHIBITION OF THE SELF-SUFFICIENT HOUSING BOOK

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Lucy Bullivant is an architectural curator, critic and author based in London.
Macro micro presents and critiques some new models of practice emerging from the UK.www.lucybullivant.net

Final Public Review of the Master in Advanced Architecture: TAIPEI PROJECT

The 1st Advanced Architecture Contest book has already been edited and is available in the most important Architecture Book Stores around the world.
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there will be a lecture series in the coming two months every Friday at IaaC