Event's IaaC

En 1976 se publicó “Megaestructures: Urban Futures of the Recent Past” de Reyner Banham, un libro fundamental sobre los episodios que marcaron la manera de entender el futuro, la ciudad, la casa, el hombre...
Treinta años de auge, desencanto y decadencia, proyectando energías hacia el futuro en una época que gestiona sus aspiraciones en un presente expandido, en el que las cosas suceden casi simultáneamente, provocando incapacidad de visionar estrategias de supervivencia a largo plazo.
El futuro no existe más que en el pasado, desde Futurama a DisneyWorld.
El sueño se acabó. ¿Ahora qué?
THIS IS TOMORROW
Nota:Plazas limitadas, para reservas ir al siguiente link:http://www.bacfestival.com

Nature, understood in its wide sense, is the territory where every architectural process is developed. It is fundamental to recognize nature’s basic principles, functional logics and to interact with it in a precise way. Develop methodologies that allow us measure and evaluate geographic, social or economic realities, knowing the historic methodologies that had been part of architecture, is another basic step. Different natural elements as: trees, mountains, rivers, waves or clouds, can be analyzed geometrically thanks to fractal geometry development and the digital modelling techniques.
Guest Jury:
- Gerard Passola
- Miquel Adria
- Juan Alfonso Zapata
- Max SanJulian
- Sinya Okuda

¨Lógica Natural¨of Vicente Guallart, director of IaaC, took place in Valencia in :Sala de la muralla del Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno in Valencia. The exhibition was focused in the recent work of Vicente Guallart, which aims to stretch the relationship between architecture and natural systems.

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El estudio de arquitectura de Carles Ferrater & Associats muestra este jueves 17 de enero el trabajo de investigación y experimentación realizado desde 1989.
“La exposición recoge un conjunto de proyectos que configuran una familia de experiencias autónomas que tienen en la geometría el medio de aproximación al paisaje y a la forma urbana”.
En ella se podrán contemplar paneles de gran formato y maquetas de análisis de proyectos a diferentes escalas. Ejemplos de ellos son el Jardí Botànic de Barcelona (1998-1999) y el frente marítimo de Benidorm (2003-2005).

IaaC Alumni Monika Wittig, Manos Zaroukas, and Luis Fraguada were accepted to the Tectonics 2007: Making Meaning Conference taking place in Eindhoven, Netherlands in December 2007. The abstract dealt with topics surrounding the Digital Tectonics course project: Plasti+city.
The conference will include speakers such as Miss Petra Blaisse (Inside Outside), Mr. Wiel Arets (Wiel Arets and Associates),Ken Yeang, Kenneth Frampton, Jesse Reiser, John Thackara, Chris Williams, Rogier van der Heide and Mark Goulthorpe. http://www.tectonics2007.com

Mapping Barcelona_ The first proposed exercise is the study of the historical centre of Barcelona. This urban complex is undergoing deep transforma-tions due to its appropriation by tourism, especially fast consume tourism. In this way, places that were traditionally central spaces for the identity of the city are changing to adapt to the economies that have araised from mass tourism and with the possibility to mode in the low-cost world. Barcelona can witness the densification of pedestrians in the public space, the increase of noise on streets, the eroding process in public space. All of that following re-latively loose rules. Mapping Barcelona_Old Town aims to map this trans-formations by finding the most revealing data of the process.+
Professor: Ferran Grau
Assistants: Nacho López, Toni Morante
Students:
Anastasia Fragkoudi, Andrea Ktsavra, Alesio Carta, Asaduzzaman Rassel, Akriti Sood, Advait Potnis, Agata Kycia, Ben Howard, Bianny Pouieret, Dorota Kabala, Diego Camargo, Eugenio Adame, Francisca Aroso, Gabriel Ochoa, Georgia Vouduri, Giorgios Machairas, Hemant Purohit, Higinio Llames, Ismini Korinidi, Javier Pittaluga, Kihoon Nam, Krzystof Gornicki, Krystian Kwiecinski, Luis Fernando Odiaga, Maria Eftichy, Maria Papaloizou, Mariana Paz, Magda Osinska, Monika Szawiola, Maite Bravo, Nazli Yucel, Pete Booth, Peerapong Sutinanond, Ramón Velázquez, Renu Gupta, Rohan Khurana, Stefania Sini, Uday Goswam, Vagia Pantou, Vasco Portugal, Verena Vogler.
Exhibition Coordinators:
Ferran Grau, Areti Markopoulou
Collaborators:
Shane Salisbury, Leandro Rocha, Tomas Diez

The 3rd Advanced Architecture Contest on the theme of:THE SELF-SUFFICIENT CITY: Envisioning the habitat of the future organized by The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia and HP closed succesfully with a record of participations. The winners of the 3rd Advanced Architecture Contest will have the possibility to attend the Master in Advanced Architecture 2010-2011 as long as acquire the winning prize and advanced material/plotters of the last generation provided by HP.

IaaC and Arquine Magazine direction leaded to select different IaaC projects for the publication at the Arquine edition No 42.
The projects published are the outcome of the Self Sufficient Building Studio leaded by Izaskun Chinchilla during the Academic year 2006-07.
Arquine Magazine is one of the most important latinamerican and international architecture publications nowadays, and is directed by Miquel Adriahttp://www.arquine.com

IAAC Faculty members Marta Malé-Alemany + José Pedro Sousa will present the work of their office ReD in the public lecture series of the Städelschule Architecture Class in Frankfurt, on Thursday February 14th. The lecture series this semester is dedicated to the topic of materiality, geometry and digital design methods.http://www.staedelschule.de/architecture

Vicente Guallart, Iaac's director participate in New York in an event  Citizens Planning and PLanning Council with six internationally-renowed experts from Tokyo, Barcelona, Leipzig, Montreal and San Diego, who will be sharing their unique insight and diverse perspectives on designing and planning compact, shared, and flexible housing for real 21st Century households.