Lecture's IaaC

MAA Lecture Series

Were: IAAC, C/Pujades 102, Poble Nou, Barcelona
Date: 14/10/2011
Time: 19.30h-21.30h

19.30h:
Institutional Inauguration Ceremony Academic Year 2011-12

Invited Participants :

Antoni Giró, Rector, Politechnic University of Catalunya, UPC
Antoni Vives, Deputy Mayor of Urban Habitat, Barcelona City Hall
Javier Nieto, President, IAAC Board of Trustees

20.00h:
Marta Malé-Alemany, Acting Director IAAC, presents the lecturer Thom Mayne

Inauguration Lecture: ¨Questions (on the continuity of Contradiction)¨

Thom Mayne founded Morphosis as an interdisciplinary and collective practice involved in experimental design and research in 1972.  Mr. Mayne is also co-founder of the Southern California Institute of Architecture and Distinguished Professor at UCLA Architecture and Urban Design.  He was elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2010, appointed to the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities in 2009, and honored with the American Institute of Architects /Los Angeles Gold Medal in 2000.  With Morphosis, Mayne has been the recipient of the 2005 Pritzker Architecture Prize, 26 Progressive Architecture Awards and over 100 American Institute of Architecture Awards. Morphosis works have been published extensively. The firm has been the subject of numerous exhibitions and 25 monographs. 

Where: IAAC,C/ Pujades 102, Poble Nou, Barcelona
Date: Friday the 17th of June
Time: 20.00pm- 21.00pm.
Title: Fernando de Porras-Isla- Creating an artificial landscape. More geography, less architecture

Fernando de Porras-Isla in an architect graduated at the Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura (ETSAM) in Madrid and is a partner of the Porras La Casta Studio. He is co-author of the "Landscaping of the Banks of the River Manzanares Project" in Madrid, covering a surface area of 120 hectares, built between 2006 and 2011. He recently received the Biannual Architecture Prize, awarded by the Association of Architects of Cantabria, for the design of the San Felices de Buelna sports centre (2010). He was director and editor of "Bau" magazine (1994-2003) and of "Arquitectura" magazine (1990-1993). As associate professor, he directed the thesis projects workshop at the Faculty of Architecture in Valladolid (1997-2000). He is co-author of the Metápolis Dictionary of Advanced Architecture. (publisher, Actar 2000)

Where: IAAC,C/ Pujades 102, Poble Nou, Barcelona
Date: Thursday the 12th of May
Time: 12:00 noon
Title: The Blue Economy: Flow-Based Architecture

Dr. Gunter Pauli was born in Antwerp in 1956. He graduated with a degree in economics from Loyola's University in Belgium and obtained his masters in business administration from INSEAD in France. He is an entrepreneur and founder of ZERI Foundation (Zero Emissions Research and Initiatives).

The Blue Economy is an international community of companies, innovators and scientists, providing open source access to develop, implement and share prosperous business models that strive to improve natural ecosystems and the quality of life for all.

Where: IAAC,C/ Pujades 102, Poble Nou, Barcelona
Date: Friday the 18th of March
Time: 20.00pm- 21.30pm
Title: Lecture by Shigeru Ban (Shigeru Ban Architects)

Where: IAAC , C/Pujades 102, Poble Nou
Date: Thursday the 10th of February
Time: 19.30pm-21.00pm
Title:   Lecture by Peter Eisenman ( Eisenman Architects )

Where: IAAC,C/ Pujades 102, Poble Nou, Barcelona
Date: Thursday the 5th of May
Time: 18.00m- 19.30pm
Title: Cradle to Cradle: Beyond Beatifiers

Ignasi Cubiñá is CEO and Co-founder Eco Intelligent Growth (EIG). He has a BS in Biological Sciences and 15 years experience in the food and pharmaceutical industries. Since 2006 he has worked as an advisor on Cradle to Cradle implementation for business development with institutions and private companies at EIG.

Where: IAAC (Auditorium) , C/Pujades 102, Poble Nou
Date: Friday, February 4, 2011
Time: 19.30pm-21.00pm

Nader Tehrani is Professor and Head of Department of Architectural Design, MIT and Principal partner at Office dA, Inc.

Where: IAAC,C/ Pujades 102, Poble Nou, Barcelona
Date: Friday the 29th of April
Time: 19.30pm- 21.00pm
Title: Or Ettlinger

This lecture builds upon the ongoing research emergent from the book of the same title – The Architecture of Virtual Space. It combines two distinct studies which proved to be complementary: a theoretical analysis of the elusive idea of virtual space, and a study of works of pictorial art that are rich in architectural content. This lecture will propose a theoretical model for defining virtual space itself, in a lucid, down-to-earth, and systematic manner. This model will be presented through historical examples of architectural projects that were designed, planned, and intended from their outset to be part of an image, while generating its visible space. Thus, the lecture will link the abstract idea of virtual space to the tangible experience of space that is available through images, whatever their medium may be.

Dr. Or Ettlinger is an Assistant Professor and senior researcher of virtual architecture and media theory at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Ljubljana. His exploration of virtual architecture and virtual space has spanned both formal education and professional experience across the multiple disciplines from which these emerging fields derive. This fifteen-year journey has ranged from architecture to computer science, from product design to digital imaging, from classical drawing to information design, and from art history to media theory.