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IaaC is pleased to invite you to it´s public Lecture “One Project, Three Designs” given by Bostjan Vuga

Friday, February 19th. 2010
Free Entrance
IaaC Conference Hall, 20:00hrs
Pujades 102, baixos. Poble Nou

Bostjan Vuga
SADAR VUGA ARHITEKTI Founder

Bostjan Vuga graduated at the Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana (1992) and continued post graduate studies at the AA School of Architecture in London (1993-1995).

Since 1998 he lectures at architectural schools, conferences and symposiums in Slovenia and abroad. In 2003 he was a studio tutor at Berlage Institute in Rotterdam. He was a visiting critic at AA School of Architecture, at Bauhaus Kolleg in Dessau, at the IAAC in Barcelona, at the ETH in Zuerich, at the Universitaet fuer Angewandte Kunst Wien and Academy of Visual Arts Vienna. As a visiting editor he took part in two issues of AB architectural bulletin.

He had published numeurous articles on current occurance in architecture and urban planning, presented in national and international professional and broad interested publications.

IaaC is pleased to invite you to it’s public lecture “Approaching Architectures in Sao Paulo – Choosing a Sustainable City Redevelopment Model” given by Carlos Leite
Friday, January 29th. 2010
Free Entrance
IaaC Conference Hall, 19:30hrs
Pujades 102, baixos. Poble Nou

Carlos Leite
Principal of Leite+Brooke Arquitetos Urbanistos
Founder of CIC_SP: City Information Center, Sao Paulo [NGO]

Carlos Leite is an Architect and Urbanist with a Master and PhD in Urban Design from the University of Sao Paulo and a Posdoc from California Polytechnic University where he was a professor. He is a principal at Leite+Brooke Arquitetos Urbanistos in Sao Paulo. He also works as a Sustainable Development and Design consultant with public planning agencies, private developers and NGOs.

He is a professor at the School of Architecture, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Sao Paulo and has been a visiting professor and lecturer at different schools in California, Canada and the Netherlands. His professional focus is to face new challenges abroad through academia and consultancy – from his broad and multidisciplinary achieved knowledge in Brazil and abroad in the last 15 years (more than 40 cities visited).

IaaC is pleased to invite you to it´s public Lecture “The Specialist Modelling Group at Foster+Partners : A case study” by Prof. Xavier De Kestelier

Thursday, January 14th. 2010
Free Entrance
IaaC Conference Hall, 19:30hrs
Pujades 102, baixos. Poble Nou

Prof. Xavier De Kestelier
Associate Partner at Foster+Partners
Xavier De Kestelier was educated in Belgium and the United Kingdom and holds an MSc in Urban Design from The Bartlett School of Architecture. Since 2002, he has been part of the Specialist Modelling Group at Foster+Partners. In this position he has worked on a broad range of projects such as Beijing Airport, Yacht Plus BoatFleet, MASDAR and Spaceport. Besides this he is also responsible for new rapid prototyping and manufacturing developments at Foster+Partners. In 2008 he became Associate Partner at Foster+Partners

His area of research is the application of parametric software to solve complex geometry, the redefinition of the role of architects as a designer within the digital environment, and the application of digital fabrication and rapid manufacturing techniques in architecture. He has been a critic and lecturer at a wide range of universities and conferences:  Smartgeometry, Berlage, Architectural Association, MIT, The Royal Institution, ACADIA, Bridges. Since 2006, he has been a professor at the University of Gent, where he heads the education and research in digital design in architecture. He is also Adjunct Professor and studio master at the Syracuse University in London.

Due to inclement weather in London this Lecture has been CANCELED
It will be rescheduled for another date. Thank you!

IaaC is pleased to invite you to it´s public Lecture “Relational Urbanism:Digital Relations for a Global Metropolis” given by Eduardo Rico and Enriqueta Llabres

Friday, January 8th. 2010
Free Entrance
IaaC Conference Hall, 19:30hrs
Pujades 102, baixos. Poble Nou

EDUARDO RICO BIO
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 BIO
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.

The International Holcim Forum for Sustainable Construction, will take place at Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico City – April 14-17, 2010. The Holcim Forum is a three-day conference including workshops and site visits. It is open to academics and professionals from architecture, civil engineering, urban planning, natural and social sciences, as well as representatives from business, politics, administration and civil society.
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IaaC is pleased to invite you the open lecture of Hanif Kara “Interdisciplinary Curiosity”

Friday, December 4th
19:30 > IaaC Auditorium
C/Pujades 102. Poble Nou
FREE ENTRANCE

Hanif Kara (http://www.akt-uk.com) is a structural engineer and co-founder of Adams Kara Taylor, the design-led structural and civil engineering consultancy based in London. As design director, he has worked on award-winning projects throughout Europe. His projects have included Peckham Library (UK), the National Trust Headquarters in Swindon (UK) and the Phaeno Science Centre in Wolfsburg (Germany). Hanif is a long-standing visiting lecturer at a number of design schools. He is currently appointed as a visiting Professor of Architectural Technology at (KTH), Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan Stockholm, and is the Pierce Anderson visiting critic for Creative Engineering at GSD Harvard. He was selected for the Master Jury for the 2004 cycle of the Aga Khan Awards for Architecture. Professor Kara is the first structural engineer to be appointed a Commissioner at CABE (Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment) where he co-chairs the design review panel and chairs the Inclusive Design Group. He is a fellow of the Institution of Structural Engineers, an honorary fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He has interests in connecting education, design and construction through advanced tools and methods, and recently edited ?Design Engineering?, a book that positions the work of structural engineers into a contemporary paradigm.

Lecture: Interdisciplinary Curiosity

IaaC is pleased to invite you to the open lecture of Ben van Berkel, UNStudio

Tuesday 10th of November
19:30 > IaaC Auditorium
C/Pujades 102. Poble Nou

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.

Lecture:
Attainability

Parametric Design Workshop | New York City | December 2009
This workshop will focus on the conceptual context and technical understanding of parametric design through a carefully constructed 2-day curriculum. Participants will learn to engage the parametric modeling plug-in Grasshopper in a meaningful and productive way that draws upon the collective sensibility present in the group.

Emphasis will be placed on strategies for deploying constraint-based design, associative modeling techniques, and environmental influencers for parametric geometry creation, analysis, and documentation.

Attendance will be capped at 15 to provide each participant maximum one-on-one time with instructors.
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The Barcelona Institute of Architecture (BIArch) is an international institution set up to further interaction between academic research, specialized practice and the cultural dissemination of contemporary architecture. Occupying a space midway between schools of architecture and professional praxis, BIArch is an open laboratory for professionals and researchers that aims to promote new ways of thinking and acting for a technological, energy and economic reality in permanent flux.

Energy exchanges have their own laws and obey their own principles that reach far beyond the results of our actions, and knowledge of them is a great opportunity to improve the capacity for relation with our environment. The objective of the “Energy” seminar is not to solve specific problems inasmuch as to try to represent the broad scenario of which they form part, with the intention of adopting attitudes that set out to address these issues from a similarly global viewpoint.

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Architects all over the world are fascinated by algorithmic architecture which uses computer scripting to generate design solutions. Scripts are made out of series of written commands which can be programmed to solve complex geometric problems. Scripts can also be used to generate new, unexpected outcomes as they have the ability to evaluate, process and build on the given commands. In architecture scripting can be used in a variety of ways for different purposes ranging from automation of simple tasks to the management of entire design processes.
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IaaC is pleased to invite you to the open lecture of Julian Vincent

Thursday 15th of October
19:30 > IaaC Conference Hall
C/Pujades 102. Poble Nou

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.

The Barcelona Institute of Architecture (BIArch) is an international institution set up to further interaction between academic research, specialized practice and the cultural dissemination of contemporary architecture. Occupying a space midway between schools of architecture and professional praxis, BIArch is an open laboratory for professionals and researchers that aims to promote new ways of thinking and acting for a technological, energy and economic reality in permanent flux.

BIArch Open Lecture / TUE 6 OCT
UN RUIDO NARANJA
Smiljan Radic
La Pedrera – Auditorium, Barcelona, 8.00 PM

Smiljan Radic (Santiago de Chile, 1965) graduated from the Architecture School of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in 1989. He won the prize for the best Chilean architect under 35 from the Colegio de Arquitectos de Chile in 2001. He was selected to be part of the Architectural Record’s Design Vanguard 2008, and named Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 2009. Recently, he has taken part in the “Crossing Now” exhibition at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing. His work has been published in such international architectural journals as 2G International Architecture Review, a+u, ARQ, Casabella, Detail, Lotus and Quaderns. In 2007 he was Visiting Professor at the University of Texas, and currently works together with the sculptress Marcela Correa in their studio in Santiago de Chile.

Introduction by Miquel Adria
Miquel Adrià graduated from the Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona. In 1994 he moved to Mexico, where he founded the international journal of architecture Arquine. He is the author of almost 30 books through which he has contributed actively to the dissemination of Mexican and Latin American architecture from a contemporary perspective. He directs the Master’s Platform C+ at the Centro Metropolitano de Arquitectura Sustentable, Mexico City.

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Archiculture, the feature length documentary that examines the role architecture and design plays in our daily lives by following five architecture students during their final thesis semester returns September 2nd to host a round table discussion and trailer premier celebration event at the Center for Architecture.

The roundtable titled, Architectural Education vs. Professional Practice, will focus on how generational recessions have affected design training in the past and how we can evolve the profession under the current economic landscape for a better design future.

The panelists will include:
Ted Landsmark – President of the Boston Architectural College
Bill Morrish - Dean at Parsons the New School of Design’s, School of Constructed Environments
Billie Tsien - Co-Founder of Todd Williams Billie Tsien Architects
Giancarlo Tramontozzi and Dionysios Neofitidis -  two student characters in the film and now young Architectural professionals

The launch of the new Archiculture film trailer will proceed, following the roundtable discussion. The event will include refreshments and an open bar through out the night provided by Brooklyn Brewery, as well a band performance by The Dirty Urchins and music by P.S.1. Warm Up Party sensation, DJ Tim “Love” Lee.

ARCHICULTURE ROUNDTABLE AND TRAILER PREMIER
Date: Wednesday, September 02, 2009
Time: 5:45 PM – 9:00 PM (ET)
Location: Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, NY
Cost: $10 donation. All proceeds will go towards the finishing funds needed to complete this film.
Event Sponsors: Studios GO, Battle Tank Design Studio, MKI Realtors and Brooklyn Brewery

Submission deadline: 5:00 pm, 9 September 2009
To provide a better understanding to prospective exhibitors on the captioned events and criteria of submission, you are cordially invited to a briefing session scheduled for 26 August 2009 (Wed) at 7:00pm at the HKIA premises.

In the interim, please email your questions to info@hkszbiennale.org or tara@hkia.net . The Steering Committee members and Curatorial Team will address your concerns and general enquiries at the briefing session.

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Durign the Manchester International Festival 2009, the solo works of Johann Sebastian Bach are going to be performed in an extraordinary new chamber music hall designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, the chamber has been installed within Manchester Art Gallery. The concert series will run until July 18. Entry is free and the chamber will be open for viewing July 4 – Aug 1 10.00 – 17.00 hours.

“Across a series of nine concerts, three internationally acclaimed musicians will perform Bach’s solo instrumental works in this unique, intimate space. The aim: to create a near-perfect environment for the audience to experience some of the world’s most beautiful chamber music. A union of two true originals, three centuries apart.”

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