Lecture's IaaC

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

Michel Rojkind was born in Mexico City where he studied architecture and urban planning at the Universidad Iberoamericana. After working on his own for several years, he teamed up with Isaac Broid and Miquel Adria to establish Adria+Broid+Rojkind (1998-2002).With the idea of exploring new challenges that address contempo­rary society, to design compelling experiences that go beyond mere functionality, and to connect at a deeper level with the intricacies of each project, he established an independent firm rojkind arquitectos (2002) recognized by Architectural Record in 2005 as one of the best ten “Design Vanguard” firms.
PHILOSOPHY:
By addressing users’ needs directly and seeing them as potential sources of inspiration and strength, rojkind arquitectos seeks new di­rections in architectural practice - evoking common identities through the exploration of uncharted geometries that address questions of space, function, technology, materials, structure, and construction methods related directly to geography, climate, and local urban experiences.
By pursuing all projects that represent a particular design challenge, rojkind arquitectos has been able to develop a wide an ever-growing spectrum of designs initiatives, from the intimacies of small objects to the intricacies of large buildings and master plans.
Recently Michel has been short-listed to participate in several large scale international projects, including Canada, Kuwait, China, Dubai, Singapore and Spain. In addition to being a regular contributor in several architectural and design publications in books, magazines, newspapers and websites from all over the world, Michel Rojkind has served as the editor of the technology section “FWD” in the ar­chitecture journal Arquine International, and has been held several visiting professorships at several universities. He has given lectures and participated in exhibitions in several countries.
Rojkind arquitectos has been selected to participate in several Honors and Awards, including nominations for the Ordos Prize, China (2009, not yet announced), twice for the Marcus Prize, U.S.A. (2009, 2007), and twice for the Iacov Chernikhov Prize, Russia (2008, 2006).
Rojkind arquitectos has been selected to participate in several Honors and Awards, including nominations for the Ordos Prize, China (2009, not yet announced), twice for the Marcus Prize, U.S.A. (2009, 2007), and twice for the Iacov Chernikhov Prize, Russia (2008, 2006).

Risk Contamination

www.rojkindarquitectos.com

Professor Kas Oosterhuis studied architecture at the Delft Technical University. In 1987-1988 he taught as Unit Master at the AA in London and worked / lived one year in the former studio of Theo van Doesburg in Paris together with visual artist Ilona Lénárd. Their design studio is in 2004 renamed into ONL [Oosterhuis_Lénárd]. As from 2007 Kas Oosterhuis is a registered architect in Hungary, executing as General Designer the CET project. From 2000 Oosterhuis is appointed professor digital design methods at the Delft Technical University and is currently leading a staff of 20 researchers at Hyperbody, the knowledge center for Nonstandard and Interactive Architecture at the TU Delft. Kas Oosterhuis is Director of the ProtoSpace Laboratory in the iWEB pavilion, located in front of the Faculty of Architecture. Kas Oosterhuis is member of the Dutch Building Information Council [BIR] and has been a Member of the Board of Museum Witte De With in Rotterdam and of the VCA until 1989. He has been the co-founder of the Attila Foundation, responsible for the groundbreaking Sculpture City event in 1994 and the ParaSite weblounge in 1996. He has lectured worldwide at numerous universities, academies and international conferences since 1990. Kas Oosterhuis has initiated two GSM conferences at the TU in Delft on the subjects multiplayer game design, file to factory design and build methods and open source communication in the evolutionary development of the 3d reference model. In 2008 ONL received the Autodesk BIM Experience Award for the CET Project in Budapest. Further award winning building designs include the Saltwaterpavilion at Neeltje Jans (Gold Award 1997 for innovative recreational projects, Zeeuwse Architectuurprijs 1998, nomination Mies van der Rohe Award 1998), the Garbagetransferstation Elhorst/Vloedbelt in Zenderen (Business Week / Architectural Record Award 1998, OCE-BNA Award for Industrial Architecture 1996, Aluminium Design Award 1997) and the Hessing Cockpit in Acoustic Barrier in Utrecht (National Steel Award 2006, Glass Award 2006, Dutch Design Award for Public Space 2006, nomination Mies van der Rohe Award 2008, nomination Golden Pyramid 2006).

ONLogic

www.oosterhuis.nl

Juan Herreros is a PhD architect, Senior Professor and Head of Teaching Thesis Program at the School of Architecture of Madrid where he was also Construction tutor during the period of 1984-1988. His teaching experience includes numerous lectures, classes and international seminars as well as research workshops (Hannover, Pavía, London, Santiago de Chile, Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Montevideo, Barcelona, Mallorca, Chica­go, Riccione...).

Together with Iñaki Abalos he founded Abalos&Herreros (www.abalos-herreros.com) in 1984. The work of A&H was awarded in several occasions, reviewed by specialized magazines and it was displayed in collective exhibitions such as the ones promoted by the MOMA with the mottos “Light Construction” and “Groundswell” (New York, 1995/ 2005), “New Trends of Architecture” and “Dialogue” (Tokio 2002/ 2005) and individual exhibitions (AA London, IIT Chicago...).

Since 2006, operates under the name Herreros Arquitectos, a structure that develops collaborative projects in Spain, Uruguay, Mexico, Panama and the Netherlands and it has among its clients the Contemporary Art Museum Reina Sofía in Madrid, satellite operator Hispasat, Madrid City Council, the Government of Mexico City, Fair Exhibi­tion Insititute in Madrid, IFEMA, the company Bergé, and so on. His activity has been published in the monography AT 18: “2006, 2007, 2008...”
His built projects deserved the COAM Award in four calls (2001, 1999, 1997, 1991), the award of Urbanism, Architecture and Public Works of the City Council of Madrid on three calls (2004, 2000, 1991), he has been selected up to seven times for the Span­ish Architecture Biennale (nine editions), he was twice finalist for Mies Van der Rohe Award (2005, 2001), five times finalist in FAD awards (2008 with two works, 2005 with two books, 2000) and winner of the Solutia Design Award 2005.
Juan Herreros just received the International Fellowship of the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects).

Between fascinated and sceptical

www.herrerosarquitectos.com/

Julian Vincent is a biologist who spent the early part of his career working on the physiology of insects.  He then became interested in the mechanical properties of the materials from which insects are made, an interest which broadened into experimental work on materials and structures from plants and animals and a variety of foods.  Finally he realised that biological materials are better in many ways than technical materials and has spent the last 15 years working out how to bridge the gaps between biology and engineering.  This has taken him into areas of architecture, design and general methods for solving problems.

 "What goes around, comes around"

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia and HP are pleased to announce the 3rd Advanced Architecture Contest, on the theme of THE SELF-SUFFICIENT CITY: Envisioning the habitat of the future. The aim of this architecture competition is to promote on-line discussion and research through which to generate insights and visions, ideas and proposals that help us envisage what the city and the habitat of the 21st century will be like. The contest is open to architects, planners, designers and artists who want to contribute to progress in making the world more habitable by developing a proposal capable of responding to emerging challenges in areas such as ecology, information technology, socialization and globalization, with a view to enhancing the connected self-sufficiency of our cities. The prize (Total value: 60.000, 00 EUR) will be distributed at the discretion of the Juries following the bases scheme. This Architecture Competition Jury, which is composed of architects, directors of some of the world\'s foremost architecture schools, and mayors of prominent cities around the globe is looking for outstanding proposals for any city in the world, at any scale, and within any timescale. The Registration is FREE, and the competition entries should be submitted digitally in PDF files via the Internet

http://www.advancedarchitecturecontest.org/

Alejandro Gutierrez is an Associate Director at Arup Urban Design. He is currently leading; Low2no, a zero carbon project for a mixed used development in Helsinki; a Sustainable Masterplan for Manifattura Domani, a clean tech cluster development in Trentino, Northern Italy and a ecological masterplan for 40,000 inhabitants in Santiago, Chile. Recently Alejandro has led a range urban development projects globally such as Dongtan Eco City-Shanghai, Wanzhuang Eco City-Beijing, Port Regeneration Strategy-Copenhagen, Waterfront Regeneration of La Spezia–Italy, Peterborough, Integrated Growth Strategy, Chaiten Relocation Strategy - Chile, Wembley Industrial Estates in London, and Urbanya Strategic Plan in Santiago - Chile. He also is an invited lecturer to London School of Economics, Said Business School – Oxford University, UCL Bartlett School of Architecture, Universidad Iberoamericana, Universidad Catolica in Chile, Architectural Association-UK, RIBA. He has also done several interviews for BBC, The Guardian, Le Monde, Wired Magazine, Monocle, regarding sustainable urban development in the context of China and developing countries. Prior to joining Arup he worked in Chile in a range of practices and projects associated with urban development, urban planning and regeneration

19_06_09 “Advancing in basic architecture” JDS / Julien De Smedt Julien De Smedt was born on December 3rd 1975 in Brussels, Belgium to French art enthusiast Jacques Léobold and Belgian artist Claude De Smedt. After attending schools in Brussels (St Luc, La Cambre, Sint Lukas), Paris (Belleville), and Los Angeles (Sci-Arc) he received his diploma from the Bartlett School of Architecture, London, in 2000. During 1997-1998 and 2000-2001, he worked at OMA, Rotterdam. In 2001 he co-founded the office PLOT. Among other awards and recognition titles he received the Henning Larsen Price in 2003 and an Eckersberg medal in 2005. In 2004 the Stavanger Concert Hall was appointed world’s best concert hall at the Venice Biennale and the maritime youth house was nominated for the Mies van der Rohe award and won the AR+D award in London. In 2006 Julien De Smedt founded his current office, JDS, in Copenhagen. In 2007 he won the international competition for the new Holmenkollen Skijump in Oslo, Norway, currently under completion for the world championships 2011. In 2008, JDS opened offices in Brussels and Oslo. In 2009 The Mountain Dwellings project received the price of best residential building at the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona and at MIPIM in Cannes.

http://www.jdsarchitects.com/

05_06_09 “Digital Materiality in Architecture ” Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler are partner in the award-winning Zurich practice Gramazio & Kohler. The office’s projects include the Gantenbein vineyard façade, the Tanzhaus theatre, the Christmas lights for the Bahnhofstrasse in Zurich and the sWISH* Pavilion at the Swiss National Exposition Expo.02. Together they hold the Chair for Architecture and Digital Fabrication DFAB at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Their research focuses on the exploration of highly informed architectural elements and processes and produces design strategies for full-scale automated fabrication with their robotic construction units. Digital materiality evolves through the interplay between digital and material processes in design and construction. Materiality is increasingly being enriched with digital characteristics, which substantially affect architecture’s physis. Image caption: R/O/B Venice Biennale. Swiss pavilion.

http://www.gramaziokohler.com/

29_05_09 “Architecture Beyond Building” Aaron Betsky Aaron Betsky was granted both a Bachelor of Arts (1979) and a Masters of Architecture (1983) degree from Yale University. A prolific writer and editor with a dozen books and articles to his credit, He is a former professor with the School of Architecture and Interior Design (now DAAP) at the University of Cincinnati and continues teaching and lecturing in the United States and abroad. His leadership of major institutions in the world of art and architecture includes serving as the Director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute in Rotterdam from 2001 to 2006 and as the Curator of Architecture and Design of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art from 1995-2001. In 1998 Aaron Betsky served on the architect selection committee for the internationally acclaimed new building of the Contemporary Arts Center. In August 2006 he was appointed Director of the Cincinnati Art Museum. Image caption: 11th International Architecture Exhibition, Out There: Architecture Beyond Building, Photo by we-make-money-not-art.

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