Lecture's IaaC

Where: Espai 1 SE, DHUB Montcada (Montcada, 12)
Date: Thursday the 4th of November
Time: 7:30-9:30pm

Title: Additive Manufacturing in Design
Speaker: Ward Callens and Janne Kyttannen

Ward Callens' biography
Ward Callens is heading .MGX by Materialise, a business unit of Materialise. With its headquarters in Leuven, Belgium and branches all over the world, the Materialise Group is well known for its activities in the field of rapid industrial and medical prototyping, for over 20 years.

Through its unique .MGX by Materialise business unit for design products, Materialise has opened the market for customized Additive Manufacturing. .MGX products have meanwhile been acquired by several museums and are available through selected retailers and galleries worldwide.
Ward is leading the .MGX team of product developers, marketers, technical specialists and support professionals, based in Belgium and in the USA. Together with his creative direction team, he manages the development and commercialisation of the .MGX by Materialise collection and editions.
Ward has 10 years of management experience in international, highly technological environments. Before joining Materialise in 2008, he worked in the telecommunications sector and was active in several markets across the globe. He holds a master's degree in law from Leuven University and an MBA degree from the Vlerick Management School.

Janne Kyttanen's biography
Janne Kyttanen was born 1974 in Hameenlinna, Finland. He started his industrial design studies at the Escola De Disseny Elisava in Barcelona. He then moved to The Netherlands and graduated from The Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam 2000.

After his graduation he was offered a position as a designer and 3D visualizer at one of the leading industrial design bureaus in The Netherlands, Sinot Design Associates. During his 2 year stay at SDA, he worked with clients in the banking, public transport, aviation, consumer electronics and cosmetics industries. During his studies Janne explored the potential of RP techniques used as manufacturing tools. He introduced a line of Augmented Reality and Rapid Manufactured based products as his thesis for graduation. This project laid the foundation for FOC and Janne registered the company in Helsinki, Finland (2000).

IaaC lecture Series Apr 23, 19:30h
Lecture: "The Future is (Self) Sufficient"

Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia

Pujades 102 baixos, Poble Nou, 08005 Barcelona
tel. (+34) 93 320 95 20

Architect Dr. Joseph Cory

Founder of GEOTECTURA
www.geotectura.com

Specializing in innovative design, and committed to sustainability, Dr. Cory is the founder of GEOTECTURA office that provides creative and practical architectural solutions to social and environmental challenges, using multidisciplinary research methods and open source design.

Dr. Cory received his diploma from Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) and he is currently a senior lecturer and faculty member in the Department of Interior-Building and Environment at Shenkar College of Engineering and Design. Dr. Cory also teaches sustainable architecture at Tel Aviv University and the Technion.

Cory's sustainable projects received worldwide recognition in publications, exhibitions and awards.  Among his many honors: 1^st prize in the Architectural Competition for Tel Aviv University's Porter School of Environmental Studies, 1^st prize in the Drawing Water Challenge Competition held by Arup, 1^st prize in the Project of the Year Award in Israel, Finalist in the Well-Tech Award for Technological Innovation, 2^nd prize in the Um el-Phahem Art Museum Competition, two times Runner-up in the Metropolis Next Generation Award, Finalist in the international Bauhaus Award, and 3^rd prize in the international Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition.

In his lecture, Dr. Cory will describe in detail many of his self sufficient prototypes and dream-like architecture, from solar balloons and dew collectors, through the first LEED Platinum project in Israel, to the future cities that await us around the corner.

IaaC lecture Series Apr 06, 19:30h
Lecture: The Necessity of What is Obviously is Not Necessary

Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia
Pujades 102 baixos, Poble Nou, 08005 Barcelona
tel. (+34) 93 320 95 20

Angel Beccassino
Journalist and Photographer  

A journalist and photographer that works creating arguments and eventual situations as a member of the Center of Possibilities and other think tanks in Latin America. A man with great talent, be it in advertising as well as in poetry, and with the handling of images as well as sounds. Each word he writes has cadence, each image is a poem. Whatever Angel does has a “hook” that captivates anyone.

He also shoots artistic videos as well as publish beautiful profound books. A tireless traveler, he has gone around the world as if it were a trip to a soccer field. Angel was born in Argentina and now lives in Colombia. He always surprises people with his works because of their originality and simplicity. Angel Becassino was born in Buenos Aires in 1948.  He has been the creative director of important publicity agencies in his native country of Argentina and in different Latin-American cities such as Mexico and Bogota.  

In the nineties he worked in public management communication, where he developed successful diffusion strategies for governmental agencies and private enterprises.  As a journalist he worked as a Latin American graphic media correspondent covering the war in Lebanon, armed conflicts in Colombia, and other events in Asia and Europe

He has authored books in photography, urbanism and journalism and was the second place recipient of the Emece Novel Prize (Argentina.  1970).  Within the artistic field he has had gallery installations and performances in New York, Tokyo, Rio of Janeiro, Berlin, among others cities.  
At present he consults in electoral strategies, management marketing and crisis management for the Colombian, Venezuelan, Peruvian and Ecuadorian government.

IaaC lecture Series Mar 26, 19:30h

Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia
Pujades 102 baixos, Poble Nou, 08005 Barcelona
tel. (+34) 93 320 95 20

Sean Hanna

Co-Director of the Bartlett Masters in Adaptive Architecture and Computation

Sean Hanna is an RCUK Academic Fellow in Space and Adaptive Architectures at the Bartlett, UCL, where he co-directs the masters courses in Adaptive Architecture and Computation. His research covers computational methods for dealing with complex systems in design and the built environment, particularly involving computation and machine intelligence, and his publications address the fields of artificial
intelligence, collaborative creativity and the design process, and the optimisation of structures and materials.

Prior to joining UCL he practiced architecture and design, and maintains research links including collaboration with Foster + Partners and Antony Gormley. He is a member of the advisory committee of Space Syntax
Limited and Complex Matters Limited, a member of the editorial boards of AI EDAM and the Journal of Engineering Design, and is currently Investigator at UCL on several research projects on digital design and
fabrication technologies, and the modelling of complex global dynamics and their effect on cities.

Lecture: Architectural Complexity and Thinking Machines

IaaC lecture Series Mar 12, 19:30h

Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia
Pujades 102 baixos, Poble Nou, 08005 Barcelona
tel. (+34) 93 320 95 20

EDUARDO RICO
Director of Groundlab and Co-founder of Relational Urbanism

Eduardo Rico is a Civil Engineer and Ma Landscape Urbanism Graduate currently working in Arup. He is also director of Groundlab and co-funder of Relational Urbanism.  He is currently engaged in strategic advice on infrastructure and transportation for urban master planning in the ILG team in Arup, combining it with teaching in the AA Landscape Urbanism and research in the contemporary design practices feeding infrastructural inputs into architectural urbanism.

ENRIQUETA LLABRES
Director of DNA-Collective and Co-founder of Relational Urbanism

Enriqueta Llabres is an architect graduated at the UPC in 2002.  In 2003 she became part of MAP Architects team whose principal is Prof. Josep Lluis Mateo. During this period she was a team member of important winning competitions for the practice, ending up the architect responsible for the Netherland projects. In 2007 she leaves the office and moves to London co-founding together with Eduardo Rico Relational Urbanism. Currently she combines her research in Relational Urbanism with her own architectural practice, DNA-Collective.  

Lecture: Relational Urbanism

IaaC lecture Series Feb 24, 19:30h

Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia
Pujades 102 baixos, Poble Nou, 08005 Barcelona
tel. (+34) 93 320 95 20

Michael Jakob

Michael Jakob is Professor in Landscape & Art at hepia (Geneva) and Lecturer in Theory and History of Landscape at EPFL and at ISE (Geneva University). He studied at the universities of Tübingen (Germany), Paris, Stanford and Geneva. He has been a guest professor at the Universities of Neuchâtel (Switzerland), St. Gallen (Switzerland), Turin (Italy), Rome (Italy), Grenoble (France), Urbino (Italy), Stanford (USA), Princeton (USA). He has worked with the Centre d’Art Contemporain (Geneva), the Magasin, Centre d’Art Contemporain (Grenoble), the Museum of Grenoble, and the Fotomuseum Winterthur (as the curator of the photographic art show ‘Girola’). He is founder and head of COMPAR(A)ISON, an International Journal of Comparative Literature, and the chief editor of «di monte in monte», a series of books on mountain culture (Edizioni Tarara’, Verbania). He produced several documentary films for TV and has a longstanding experience as a radio journalist. Among his recent publications: Letteratura e paesaggio, Olschki, Firenze 2006 ; Paysage et temps, Infolio, Gollion 2007 ; Le Paysage, Infolio, Gollion 2008 ; Il giardino allo specchio. Percorsi tra pittura, cinema e fotografia, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino 2009 ; Il paesaggio, Il Mulino, Bologna 2009 ; Paesaggio e tempo,  Meltemi, Roma 2009 ; Le jardin et les arts, Infolio, Gollion 2009. 

 Lecture: ¨Faux Mountains and the essence of the symbol¨