IAAC Event's

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

'we have NO VISION'
architecture for tomorrow

Is a new online magazine created and edited by the Institute of Advanced Architecture in Catalonia and Institute alumni.
The blog is focused on the future vision of architecture and design, related to the ideas of open source or self sufficiency.
http://www.wehavenovision.com/

11th of December the City Council of Sant Cugat and the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia cooperate in search of the zero emissions city .

Promus (Municipal Housing Promotora del Ayuntamiento de Sant Cugat), and Vicente Guallart Acciona (Director of the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia and Guallart Architects) have signed an agreement to study the possible development of the first residential community of Spain with CO2 zero emissions balance.

The estate would include 150 housing units for promoting municipal regims (VPO) under a lease in an area of this town in Catalonia.

The residential community is therefore the first zero-emissions city project, capable of self suppling its energy needs through a combination of savings and energy efficiency and clean energy generation, thus avoiding the impact of CO2 emissions.http://www.construible.es/noticiasDetalle.aspx?id=3887&c=1&idm=5&pat

The theme of ABB2008 is "Ecological City / Building".

The exhibition series of activities is focused on the relationship between city planning and architectural design, studies the policies and ways on how to realize resources reservation and ecological harmony in the construction of Chinese cities and towns, exchanges experiences of domestic and foreign city construction, as well as looks forward to the 21st century's eco-city development.

ABB2008 includes three parts: theme exhibition, youth architects and students works exhibition and forums.http://www.abbeijing.com/2008e/abb2008.html

Facing the established laws and forms of thinking urban space, this seminar will serve as a debate of new ways to understand the city and its relative spaces.http://www.iaac.net/web/imgs/pdf/Learning_from_Sampa.pdf

Sunday 23rd of November was the final day of 11th Architecture Biennale. Hyperhabitat exhibition has been a greate success appreciated by guests.
A record number of visitors for the Architecture Biennale: 129,323 visitors, with a daily average of 1,827 (total of last edition: 127,298).
Exceptional attention from the media: 2,360 accredited journalists (+20% on the preceding edition), 85 television channels from around the world.
A collection of press cuttings includes 910 articles published by periodicals throughout the world (793 in the preceding edition)
The Architecture Biennale has seen a record number of National participations (56) and collateral events (24) 25,000 international guests from the world of architecture

Hyperhabitat. Reprogramming the World is an installation directed by Vicente Guallart and produced for the 11th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, which will be curated by Aaron Betsky under the title Out There: Architecture Beyond Building.
For the development of the project, Guallart Architects, the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, MIT�s Center for Bits and Atoms and Bestiario have created a consortium to address the various aspects of the proposal.
The project engages with the theme of the Biennale by positing the need to reprogramme the structures with which we inhabit the world through the introduction of distributed intelligence in the nodes, networks and environments with which we construct buildings, cities and territories.
The exhibition will be open to public from September 14th until November 23rdhttp://www.hyperhabitat.net

Fab Academy after 3 months has collaborate with students from Barcelona, Norway, Madrid, Amsterdam, USA, distributing education program on Digital Fabricatin, electronics, Interaction and high technology computing systems.

IaaC hosted the launching meeting of the Fab Academy program together with the MIT CBA and different Fab Labs of the world. Fab Academy is a distributed educational program based on the digital and personal fabrication.
Fab Lab Bcn is compromised with this evolving and innovative educational project.
http://fab.cba.mit.edu/academy/about/