Event's IaaC

IaaC lecture Series Jan 22, 19:30h

Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia
Pujades 102 baixos, Poble Nou, 08005 Barcelona
tel. (+34) 93 320 95 20

Metro Bogatell

Patrick Blanc
Botanist

Patrick Blanc is a botanist, working at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, where he specializes in plants from subtropical forests. since 1982, has studied the many ways plants adapt to extreme situations at the CNRS. He invented the concept of the Vertical Garden, also known as the Living Wall.

The Vertical Garden or le mur vegetal, is an ecological art form which has globally reinvented urban landscapes into fascinating displays of vegetation. Using a system that allows plants to grow without any soil, The Vertical Garden allows for natural living beauty in the otherwise most uninhabitable of places such as the walls of buildings both indoors or out.

He has worked with Jean Nouvel, Andrée Putman, Francis Soler, Edouard François, Jacqueline et Henri Boiffils, Herzog et de Meuron, Marc Newson, Saguez et Partners, and many others. He is the French 1993 Science Society, Botany,  1999 Innovation Contest, Ministère de la Recherche, and Talent d’or 2002 du Sommet du Luxe et de la Création award winner and has recieved numerous of other awards.

Lecture: The Vertical Garden, from Nature to the City 

IaaC lecture Series Jan 14, 19:30h

Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia
Pujades 102 baixos, Poble Nou, 08005 Barcelona
tel. (+34) 93 320 95 20

Metro Bogatell

Prof. Xavier De Kestelier
Associate Partner at Foster+Partners

Xavier De Kestelier was educated in Belgium and the United Kingdom and holds an MSc in Urban Design from The Bartlett School of Architecture. Since 2002, he has been part of the Specialist Modelling Group at Foster+Partners. In this position he has worked on a broad range of projects such as Beijing Airport, Yacht Plus BoatFleet, MASDAR and Spaceport. Besides this he is also responsible for new rapid prototyping and manufacturing developments at Foster+Partners. In 2008 he became Associate Partner at Foster+Partners

His area of research is the application of parametric software to solve complex geometry, the redefinition of the role of architects as a designer within the digital environment, and the application of digital fabrication and rapid manufacturing techniques in architecture. He has been a critic and lecturer at a wide range of universities and conferences:  Smartgeometry, Berlage, Architectural Association, MIT, The Royal Institution, ACADIA, Bridges, .. . Since 2006, he has been a professor at the University of Gent, where he heads the education and research in digital design in architecture. He is also Adjunct Professor and studio master at the Syracuse University in London.

Lecture: The Specialist Modelling Group at Foster+Partners : A case study 

IaaC lecture Series Dec 18, 19:30h

Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia
Pujades 102 baixos, Poble Nou, 08005 Barcelona
tel. (+34) 93 320 95 20

Metro Bogatell

Mark West
Founding Director of C.A.S.T.

Mark West is the Founding Director of the Centre for Architectural Structures and Technology (C.A.S.T.) at the University of Manitoba's Faculty of Architecture  in Winnipeg Manitoba. C.A.S.T. is as a unique laboratory/studio/atelier, focused on the invention of new construction methods and new architectural forms by combining the disciplines of architecture, engineering, sculpture, and drawing. He is an Associate Professor in the University of Manitoba’s Faculty  of Architecture as well as the Faculty of Engineering, and the inventor of numerous fabric-formed concrete techniques for architectural, sculptural, and structural applications. He has worked as an architectural educator for nearly thirty years in Canada and the U.S. His first education was as a builder, followed by a B.Arch. from the Cooper Union in New York, NY, and a post-professional M.Arch. from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. His work has received wide recognition through publications, awards, lectures and exhibitions in The Americas, Asia, and Europe.

Title: Heavy Light - fabric formed concrete architecture.

IaaC lecture Series Dec 02, 19:30h

Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia
Pujades 102 baixos, Poble Nou, 08005 Barcelona
tel. (+34) 93 320 95 20

Metro Bogatell

Philip D. Allsopp

Founder / Principal, Transpolis Global LLC

www.transpolisglobal.com

RIBA, FRSA

Philip D. Allsopp served as President and CEO of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, headquartered at Taliesin West, Arizona from 2006 through June of 2009.  He was responsible for restructuring the Foundation from governance (new bylaws and articles of incorporation) through operations and the development of new relationships with academia, arts and culture organizations, government and business.  One of several collaborations Phil developed during his tenure was with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.  The jointly curated, produced and designed exhibition entitled “Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward”, broke all of the Guggenheim’s previous attendance records during exhibition’s three-month run at the Guggenheim in New York.  The Exhibition travelled to the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao in October where it will be running through February 14th, 2010.

He is co-founder of Transpolis Global, LLC, a hybrid management and design consulting firm devoted to improving urban and rural policy and the habitats under which communities, cultures, commerce, the arts and sciences are able to thrive.   Transpolis Global works with clients as both a catalyst for action as well as an applied research entity through its formal linkages to key universities.  The name Transpolis encompasses two ideas; ‘Trans’ as in Transdisciplinary to cross and converge traditional disciplines operating in relative isolation, and 'Polis' as in city-state, and the notion of citizenship.

Lecture:
"Frank Lloyd Wright:
Lessons for the 21st Century"

The public is invited to attend the IaaCs Master Class in Advanced Architecture final presention of their ArboReal Home (Treehouse) for Design Studio I on Friday, Nov 2nd , 10am

Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia
Pujades 102 baixos, Poble Nou, 08005 Barcelona
tel. (+34) 93 320 95 20

Metro Bogatell

MAA Students will present work to Faculty:

Areti Markopoulou
Luis Fraguada

Advisor:Gerard Passola

Guest:
Colin Ripley
Mauro Costa
Nuria Widmann
Eduardo Cabay
Ioanna Spanou
Marta Malé-Alemany
Stephen Foley
Rodrigo Bacena

IaaC lecture Series_13 Nov 19:30h

Institut d'Arquitectura Avançada de Catalunya
Pujades 102 baixos, Poble Nou, 08005 Barcelona
tel. (+34) 93 320 95 20

Metro Bogatell

Sean Lally

WEATHERS Founder
www.w-e-a-t-h-e-r-s.com

Sean Lally founded the office WEATHERS to embrace the potential overlap between the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture and urban design. Recent projects include proposals for the Academy of Arts in Tallinn Estonia, an extension to the Stockholm City Library and a proposal for the urban redevelopment of Reykjavik Iceland.  Sean’s work has been featured in exhibitions and journals and has lectured at a range of schools including, UPENN, Syracuse, Cornell, OSU, and the Technion. He’s been a visiting instructor at UCLA, and an Assistant Professor at RICE School of Architecture before recently joining UIC’s School of Architecture as an Assistant Professor in 2009.  Sean is most recently a co-editor and contributor to SOFTSPACE, From a Representation of Form to a Simulation of Space, from Routledge 2007 and quest editor and contributor for the AD Journal issue entitled “ENERGIES – New Material Energies” through Wiley Press 2009 .
 
Lecture:
"The Air on Other Planets"

IaaC lecture Series_10 Nov< 19:30h

Institut d'Arquitectura Avançada de Catalunya
Pujades 102 baixos, Poble Nou, 08005 Barcelona
tel. (+34) 93 320 95 20

Metro Bogatell

Ben Van Berkel (Utrecht, 1957)

UNSTUDIO
Co-founder / Director

Ben van Berkel studied architecture at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and at the Architectural Association in London, receiving the AA Diploma with Honours in 1987.

In 1988 he and Caroline Bos set up an architectural practice in Amsterdam. The Van Berkel & Bos Architectuurbureau has realized amongst others projects the Karbouw office building, the Erasmus bridge in Rotterdam, museum Het Valkhof in Nijmegen, the Moebius house and the NMR facilities for the University of Utrecht.

In 1998 Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos established a new firm: UNStudio (United Net). UNStudio presents itself as a network of specialists in architecture, urban development and infrastructure. Current projects are the restructuring of the station area of Arnhem, the mixed-use Raffles City in Hangzhou, a masterplan for Basauri, a dance theatre for St. Petersburg and the design and restructuring of the Harbor Ponte Parodi in Genoa. With UNStudio he realized amongst others the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, a façade and interior renovation for the Galleria Department store in Seoul and a private villa up-state New York.

Ben van Berkel has lectured and taught at many architectural schools around the world. Currently he is Professor Conceptual Design at the Staedelschule in Frankfurt am Main. Central to his teaching is the inclusive approach of architectural works integrating virtual and material organization and engineering constructions.

Attainability

www.unstudio.com

The presentation will take place

November 5th at 20h

RAS Gallery Bookstore
Doctor Dou 10-
08001
Barcelona

¨The Function of Form¨ book presentation.

This book is a graphic manual which describes the formal flexibility and capabilities of structural systems, based on Farshid Moussavi (director of architecture firm FOA) research at the GSD Graduate School of Design at Harvard. Published by Actar

http://www.f-o-a.net/

www.rasbcn.com/newsletters/ras_fof.html

The CLEAR Village Lab is a three-day, immersive event gathering together passionate
professionals from a variety of disciplines to create the masterplan strategy for a real-life
sustainable village.
The intention of this initiative is not to build a ‘perfect place’, but rather to foster a dynamic,
living community which embraces principles, technologies and forms of governance that
allow for a more sustainable future of living and can provide a benchmark for other
communities to follow.
The 2009 Lab is the first in a series which will develop the masterplan through multiple
phases until building is ready to commence. At this first CLEAR Village Lab participants will
be allowed the space to contribute as openly, creatively and emotionally as they wish.

WHEN & WHERE?
Dates: 5-7 November 2009
Location: The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia in Barcelona, C/Pujades
102 baixos, Poble Nou, Barcelona 08005, Spain, Tel: +34 93 3209520
Cost: 550€ per person. This fee is to cover the costs of administration and food for the
three days.
Food & Drink: A mainly vegetarian, ‘raw-style’ buffet will be provided on each day of the
Lab.