Lecture's IaaC

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"

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