Lecture's IaaC

Where: IAAC,C/ Pujades 102, Poble Nou, Barcelona
Date: Wednesday the 14th of December

Time: 19.30pm- 21.00pm

Title: Escaping Euclid: maths and mathematicians in the design mix.

Jane Burry is an architect and associate professor at RMIT University, Australia. She is a founding member of the Spatial Information architecture Laboratory (SIAL) in the School of architecture and Design. Her research focus is mathematics in contemporary design. Jane is lead author of The New Mathematics of Architecture, T& H, 2010. She is also engaged in research into model flexibility in early design, integration of analysis feedback in early design, design communication for distributed design collaboration, interactive physical and digital architecture. She has over forty publications and has practiced, taught and researched in different schools across Australasia and Europe. http://www.sial.rmit.edu.au/People/jburry.php

Where: IAAC,C/ Pujades 102, Poble Nou, Barcelona
Date: Monday  the 28th of November

Time: 19.30pm- 21.00pm
Title: Senseable Cities

An architect and engineer by training, Carlo Ratti practices in Italy and
teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he directs
the Senseable City Lab. He graduated from the Politecnico di Torino and
the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris, and later earned his
MPhil and PhD at the University of Cambridge, UK. Ratti has co-authored
over 200 publications and holds several patents. His work has been
exhibited worldwide at venues such as the Venice Biennale, the Design
Museum Barcelona, the Science Museum in London, GAFTA in San
Francisco and The Museum of Modern Art in New York. His Digital Water
Pavilion at the 2008 World Expo was hailed by Time Magazine as one of
the Best Inventions of the Year.

In June 2007 the Italian Minister of Culture named Carlo Ratti as a
member of the Italian Design Council - an advisory board to the Italian
Government that includes 25 leaders of design in Italy. He was also
named 2009 Inaugural Innovator in Residence by the Queensland
Government, included in Esquire Magazine’s ‘2008 Best & Brightest’ list
and in Thames&Hudson’s selection of ‘60 innovators’ shaping our creative
future.

In 2010 Blueprint Magazine selected him as one of the ‘25 People
Who Will Change the World of Design’ and Forbes listed him as one of
the ‘Names You Need To Know’ in 2011. He was recently a presenter at
TED 2011 and is serving as a member of the World Economic Forum
Global Agenda Council for Urban Management.

Where: IAAC,C/ Pujades 102, Poble Nou, Barcelona
Date: Thursday the 24th of November

Time: 19.30pm- 21.00pm.
 Title: ¨IDENTITY, The unruly subject of social urban landscapes¨

Lucy Musgrave is a leading practitioner on issues surrounding sustainable communities and urban design. She is the Director of Publica, a London based planning and regeneration consultancy that advise developers, planners and communities on what makes successful and sustainable neighbourhoods and cities. The practice specialise in revealing, understanding and valuing the existing character of places in order to address change as a positive and inclusive process.

Lucy’s particular expertise lies in the integration of social and cultural issues of place, with spatial masterplanning. She has played a key advisory role in policy recommendations, strategic planning and urban design frameworks, and in the advocacy of design quality.

Where: IAAC,C/ Pujades 102, Poble Nou, Barcelona
Date: Tuesday the 22nd of November

Time: 19.30pm- 21.00pm.
 Title: "Influences of biology on architecture"  

Julian Vincent is a biologist.  At the University of Reading he studied the mechanical properties of plants and animals.  He then moved to the University of Bath where he became a Professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering, transferring functions from biology to engineering.  He is Scientific Advisor to Swedish Biomimetics 3000, an independent company, and consults on biological inspiration for architectural design.  Biology suggests both form and function.  Form is attractive but can be expensive.  Function can offer both lower cost and better design.

Where: IAAC,C/ Pujades 102, Poble Nou, Barcelona
Date: Monday the 3rd of November
Time:  20.00pm- 21.30pm

Michael Sorkin

Michael Sorkin is the principal of the Michael Sorkin Studio, a design practice devoted to practical and theoretical projects at all scales with a special interest in the city.  The Studio has recently undertaken large-scale urban projects in China, including a new town for 500,000 near Wuhan and a scheme for reclaiming 30 miles of the Weihe River in Xi’an.  Sorkin is founding President of Terreform, a non-profit dedicated to research and intervention in issues of urban morphology, sustainability, equity, and community.  Terreform’s major project is an on-going alternative master plan for New York City, based on the premise that the city can become completely self-sufficient.  In addition, Sorkin is President of the Institute for Urban Design, an educational and advocacy group, Distinguished Professor of Architecture and the Director of the Graduate Urban Design Program at the City College of New York, and the author or editor of eighteen books on architecture and urbanism.

Where: IAAC,C/ Pujades 102, Poble Nou, Barcelona
Date: Tuesday the 15th of November

Time: 19.30pm- 21.00pm.
 Title: Metabolism of the City - the architecture of flows

Michael Weinstock (Director Research and Development, Director Emergent Technologies and Design)

Michael Weinstock is an Architect. Born in Germany, lived as a child in the Far East and then West Africa, attended an English public school. Ran away to sea at age 17 after reading Conrad. Years at sea in traditional sailing ships, with shipyard and shipbuilding experience. Studied Architecture at the Architectural Association and has taught at the AA School of Architecture since 1989. Founder and Director of the Emergent Technologies and Design, and Director of Research and Development

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Michael Weinstock’s research interest lies in exploring the convergence of Biomimetic Engineering, Architecture, Emergence and Material Sciences and has published widely on these topics since 1989. The potential of the convergence for the materialisation of intelligent materials, structures, and ultimately, the organisation of Cities, provides the motivation and suggests the long-term goal. Acadia Award for Excellence 2008.

Where: IAAC,C/ Pujades 102, Poble Nou, Barcelona
Date: Monday the 7th of November
Time: 19.00pm- 20.30pm.
 

Where: IAAC,C/ Pujades 102, Poble Nou, Barcelona
Date: Monday the 24th of October
Time: 19.30pm- 21.00pm.
Title: ¨Designing Processes¨

The research at DFAB ARCH ETHZ focuses on addaptive digital fabrication techniques used to build non standardized architectural componets.

Michael Knauß is an architect and researcher based in Zurich. He studied Architecture at the ETH Zurich and the University of Stuttgart. Michael is a founding partner of ROK, a design and consulting office located in Zurich providing services for architects and engineers. As a researcher at the Professorship for Architecture and Digital Fabrication at ETH Zurich he headed several teaching and research projects in a national and international context. His research work at ETH focuses on digital design and fabrication strategies and their implementation in the architectural design process.

Where: IAAC,C/ Pujades 102, Poble Nou, Barcelona
Date: Friday the 21st of October
Time:19.30pm- 21.00pm.
Title:¨Urbanization- a developmental perspective on equitable, inclusive and green growth¨

Abha Joshi-Ghani heads the Urban Development and Local Government Practice in the World Bank's Sustainable Development Network. She oversees the World Bank's work on Urban Policy and Strategy and Knowledge and Learning. She is also Head of the Global Urbanization Knowledge Platform, a multi- partner initiative of the World Bank. The Urban Practice provides advisory services to the World Bank’s regional departments and country clients on key urban themes such as Cities and Economic growth, Urban Housing and Land, Urban Planning, City Management and Municipal Finance, Urban Environment, Cities and Climate Change, Urban Poverty and Inclusion, Cultural Heritage and Local Economic Development. She led the World Bank's Urban Strategy in 2009.

Ms. Joshi-Ghani has worked primarily on infrastructure finance and urban development at the World Bank . Her experience in the Bank includes countries in South and East Asia , Africa and the Middle East . She holds an M.Phil from Oxford University, UK.