Lecture's IaaC

Ramon Garcia Bragado es Teniente del Alcalde de Vivienda, Urbanismo y Regimen Interior del Ayuntamiento de Barcelona

Gonzalo has developed much of his academic career in the UK (University of Leeds) and has been a researcher and lecturer at the Departemt of Economic Analysis of the University of Alcalá (Madrid, Spain) for the last 11 years. He has also been an associated expert for the United Nations (Economic Comission for Latin America and the Caribbean) where he has worked on the economic analysis of first- and second-generation liquid biofuels for transport in Latin America as well as energy planning policies. As the co-ordinator of the Environmental Economics Group and one of the main researchers in the team, Gonzalo has co-ordinated a number of projects on the analysis of environmental externalities from electricity generation, the economic value of ecosystem services and the benefits of energy efficiency policies and renewable energies. In the UK, Gonzalo worked on the assessment of environmental charges and taxes (for the European Commission) and the introduction of the Climate Change Levy and workplace parking levies (the latter within the context of regeneration and public transport policies). Several years ago, Gonzalo co-ordinated a a study commissioned by the Spanish Ministry of the Environment to develop a strategy on sustainable urban development. His main research interests are on the economic value of environmental quality, energy economics and water economics.

Josep Bohigas is an architect based in Poble Nou 22@, Barcelona In 1991 founded BOPBAA with Francesc Pla and Iñaki Baquero. Their work includes urban design, architecture, ephemeral design, as well as curators of different cultural projects. Title of the lecture: Next door Bopbaa is based two streets from IaaC, and this short distance should mean something. Some of the projects I\'m going to show, are based on a superlocal idea of context, with the conviction that most of the time, the opportunities are just around the corner.

Peter Trummer is an architect and researcher. Since 2004 he is studio professor of the second year research program \"Associative Design\" at the Berlage Institute. He is a Ph.D. candidate at the Berlage Institute on the topic of \"population thinking in architecture\". He was born in Graz, Austria and obtained his university diploma at the Technical University of Graz in 1994. He moved to Amsterdam in 1995, were he finished his postgraduate study at the Berlage Institute in 1997.He was project architect at UN-Studio and was co-founder of Offshore Architects in 2001. Since 2004, he has own practice. He is invited to lecture, teach, publish and as a critic internationally, including at the Berlage Institute and the Academy of Architecture in Rotterdam, the University of Applied art in Vienna, the AA in London, the Rice University in Houston, Ucla and Sci Arc in Los Angeles. The lecture will argue for an associative design practice within our contemporary culture of planning. Such practice is based on the design of difference and Methodological it is based on thinking in populations rather then in types. The application of such practice will be presented on two design research projects, one for a new neighborhood in Madrid, the other for a city in the jiangnan river Delta outside Shanghai\'s.

Nader Tehrani received a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Bachelor in Architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1985 and 1986 respectively. He continued his studies at the Harvard Graduate School of Design where he received a Masters of Architecture in Urban Design in 1991. Tehrani attended a post-graduate program in History and Theory at the Architectural Association in London. A tenured Associate Professor of Architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tehrani has also taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Rhode Island School of Design, and Georgia Institute of Technology, where he served as the Thomas W. Ventulett III Distinguished Chair in Architectural Design.

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Continuing with the Lecture Series 2008, IaaC offers conferences open to the public in its facilities at Poble Nou. Qualified specialists coming from different fields of knowledge share their experiences and projects with the students and public. Thursday 17/04 Peter Trummer (Austria) > Architect and Researcher, Berlage Institute Friday 18/04 Nader Tehrani > Architect , Officeda_Boston Friday 25/04 Joseph Bohigas > Architect , Bopbaa_Barcelona Friday 9/05 Carlos Lamela > Architect , Studio Lamela, Madrid Friday 9/05 Ramon Garcia Bragado Thursday 22/05 Kevin Klinger > Associate Professor of Architecture , BSU_USA Thursday 29/05 Alejandro Echevarri > Architect , Colombia Friday 30/05 Ferda Kolatan >SU11 ,Architecture + Design, New York Thursday 12/06 Josep Lluis Mateo > MAP Architects, Barcelona Friday 13/06 Jose Angel + Martin Lejaraga

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Continuing with the Lecture Series 2008, IaaC offers conferences open to the public in its facilities at Poble Nou. Qualified specialists coming from different fields of knowledge share their experiences and projects with the students and public.

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Jan Edler and Tim Edler as a team work in the contact area between art, communication, architecture and information technologies.

Depending on the project context the studio develops comprehensive communication- and development strategies, concrete planning or specialized technologies.

realities:united is specialized to reveal or reformulate the fundamental project objectives and develops methods, to translate and thereby strengthen these „core objectives” effectively across the boundaries of design disciplines, technologies and habits.

http://www.realu.de

Open lecture at IaaC on Friday 10th of November at 18:30.
Carlos Arroyo and Andrés Jaque, participants of the Fresh Madrid event.

Open double lecture at IaaC on Friday 17th of November at 19:00.
Lectures: 1.Ana Salinas with Mariola Merino, Esther Ceballos and Gilbert Wilk and 2.Colectivo Zuloark, participants of the Fresh Madrid Event

Friday /17November /2006/19:00