Lecture's IaaC

Mike Schlaich, Dr. sc. techn. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, Mike Schlaich studied Civil Engineering at the University of Stuttgart, at the Suisse Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich and he was Assistant at the Institute of Computer Science at the ETH with Prof. Anderheggen. He has worked with FHECOR, in Madrid and he is the managing director at Schlaich Bergermann und Partner. He was also a Lecturer at the University of Stuttgart class \"Bauen mit Seilen\" (building with cables) and Professor for Structural Concrete at the Institute of Structural Engineering at the Technische Universität Berlin.

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Ricardo Bofill leads an international team 40 years experienced which takes on projects of city planning, public and transportation facilities, housing, offices and interior design.

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Rudy Ricciotti was born in 1952 in Algiers. He studied in Marseilles (degree in architecture) and Geneva (engineering degree) before opening his own architectural office in Bandol (Bouches-du-Rhône) in 1980. His early works are characterized by a radical, carefree approach, displaying a variety of forms and full of energy. Since the beginning of 1990s, Ricciotti has been influenced by the Arte Povera and his buildings have become more austere and functional, making use of minimalist and \"low-tech\" solutions. With the opening of the concert hall in Potsdam, and the construction of a footbridge in Seoul (\"Footbridge of Peace\", 2002), Ricciotti received international recognition. He won the National Grand Prize in Architecture in 2005. His current projects include the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations, the Department of Islamic Art in Louvre Museum, the Rivesaltes Memorial, the Palace of Festivals in Venice…

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Juan Herreros is Head Professor and Director of H Teaching Project Unit of Architecture School of Madrid. Besides, he has been teaching in Columbia University of New York, EPFL Lausanne, London Architectural Association, SOA-Princeton and IIT-Chicago. Herreros has given many international conferences, courses and seminars, and research workshops which has been the output of the following publications: “Caducidad, Educación y Energía: Sobre el PTb de Cedric Price”, “Isla Ciudad” and “Palacios de la diversión”. In 1984 he founded with Iñaki Ábalos the Abalos&Herreros studio (www.abalos-herreros.com) dedicated to the profressional practice, and in 1992 the Liga Multimedia Internacional. Together they published in 1987 Le Corbusier: Rascacielos and in 1992 Técnica y Arquitectura en la Ciudad Contemporánea (Tower&Office, 2003). At present he prepares a bilingual critic edition about the texts of Cedric Price and a publication about Energy and Architecture through the new questions in our days about the idea of recycling the figure of the architect and his project techniques.

http://www.abalos-herreros.com

Willy Müller is an architect from Argentina settled down in Barcelona in 1985. In 1998 he founded and directed the Metapolis group together with M.Gausa and V.Guallart. Nominated by the Jury for the Mies van der Rohe Prize for Emerging Architecture for the previously mentioned 2001 work, and 2004 for the Punt Verb project in Mercabarna. Development Director at IaaC, the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, directed Agenta 21 for the Construction Industry, and Lab.Lab, Latinoamerica Laboratory.

http://www.willy-muller.com

Lucy Bullivant is an architectural curator, author and critic. A cultural historian, she has curated events for TATE Modern, ICA, Triennale di Milano, the British Council, Vitras Design Museum, Archis and many other bodies. Her published works 4dsocial: interactive design environments (AD/Wiley 2007) and Anglo Files: UK architecture´s rising generation (Thames & Hudson, 2005)

Neil Leach is Professor of Architectural Theory at the University of Brighton, and has also taught at the Architectural Association, Columbia GSAPP Cornell University, Dessau Institute of Architecture and SCI-Arc. He is the author, editor and translator of 15 books, including Rethinking Architecture, The Anaesthetics of Architecture, Architecture and Revolution, Digital Tectonics and Camouflage, and was co-curator of the Emerging Talents, Emerging Technologies exhibition at the Beijing Biennial 2006.

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Stephen Wolfram was educated at Eton, Oxford, and Caltech, receiving his Ph.D. in theoretical physics in 1979 at the age of 20. His early work in physics and computer science was recognized by a MacArthur award in 1981. In the early 1980s he made a series of now-classic discoveries about systems known as cellular automata, leading to numerous applications in physics, mathematics, computer science, biology, and other fields. In 1986 he founded Wolfram Research, Inc. and began the creation of Mathematica---now the world\'s leading software system for technical computing and symbolic programming (and tool which made A New Kind of Science possible). Over the past decade Wolfram has divided his time between leadership of his company and pursuit of basic science. The results of Wolfram\'s fifteen years of work were presented for the first time in his book, A New Kind of Science (May 2002). An instant bestseller, A New Kind of Science constituted international science news and quickly emerged as one of the most-discussed science books in decades.

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Behrokh Khoshnevis is a professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering and is the Director of the Center for Rapid Automated Fabrication Technologies (CRAFT) and the Director of Manufacturing Engineering Program. He is active in CAD/CAM, robotics, and mechatronics related research and development projects that include the development of three novel Solid Free Form (Rapid Prototyping) processes called Contour Crafting, SIS and MPM, a technology for automated construction of housing structures, development of mechatronics systems for biomedical applications (e.g., restorative dentistry, rehabilitation engineering, and tactile sensing devices), autonomous mobile and modular robots for assembly applications on earth and in space, and automated equipment for oil (petroleum) and gas industries.

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Mass Matrix Studies: Systematic Heterogeneity Mass Studies was founded in 2003 by Minsuk Cho in Seoul, Korea, as a critical investigation of architecture in the context of mass production, intensely over-populated urban conditions, and other emergent cultural niches that define contemporary society. Amid the many frictions defining spatial conditions in the twenty-first century, namely past vs. future, local vs. global, utopia vs. reality, and individual vs. collective, Mass Studies focuses on the operative complexity of these multiple conditions instead of striving for a singular, unified perspective. For each architectural project, which exist across a wide range of scales, Mass Studies explores issues such as spatial systems/matrixes, building materials/techniques, and typological divergences to foster a vision that allows the discovery of new socio/cultural potential.

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