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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 “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.

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

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.

IaaC is pleased to invite you to the open lecture of Julien De Smedt.

Friday 19th of June.
19:30h
IaaC Main Hall
C/ Pujades 102, Poble Nou

Julien De Smedt was born on December 3rd 1975 in Brussels, Belgium to French art enthusiast Jacques Léobold and Belgian artist Claude De Smedt. After attending schools in Brussels (St Luc, La Cambre, Sint Lukas), Paris (Belleville), and Los Angeles (Sci-Arc) he received his diploma from the Bartlett School of Architecture, London, in 2000. During 1997-1998 and 2000-2001, he worked at OMA, Rotterdam. In 2001 he co-founded the office PLOT. Among other awards and recognition titles he received the Henning Larsen Price in 2003 and an Eckersberg medal in 2005. In 2004 the Stavanger Concert Hall was appointed world’s best concert hall at the Venice Biennale and the maritime youth house was nominated for the Mies van der Rohe award and won the AR+D award in London.

In 2006 Julien De Smedt founded his current office, JDS, in Copenhagen. In 2007 he won the international competition for the new Holmenkollen Skijump in Oslo, Norway, currently under completion for the world championships 2011.

In 2008, JDS opened offices in Brussels and Oslo.

In 2009 The Mountain Dwellings project received the price of best residential building at the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona and at MIPIM in Cannes.

JDS is the laureate of the dutch Maaskant Prize 2009.

JDS Blog:
http://blog.jdsarchitects.com/

JDS in Arch Tracker:
http://www.archtracker.com/mipim-awards-winners-2009-announced/2009/03/

IaaC is pleased to invite you to the open lecture of Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler.
Friday 5th of June.
19:30h
IaaC Main Hall
C/ Pujades 102, Poble Nou

Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler are partner in the award-winning Zurich practice Gramazio & Kohler. The office’s projects include the Gantenbein vineyard façade, the Tanzhaus theatre, the Christmas lights for the Bahnhofstrasse in Zurich and the sWISH* Pavilion at the Swiss National Exposition Expo.02.

Together they hold the Chair for Architecture and Digital Fabrication DFAB at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Their research focuses on the exploration of highly informed architectural elements and processes and produces design strategies for full-scale automated fabrication with their robotic construction units.

Digital materiality evolves through the interplay between digital and material processes in design and construction. Materiality is increasingly being enriched with digital characteristics, which substantially affect architecture`s physis.

Pulsation in Architecture

IaaC is pleased to invite you to the open lecture of Eric Goldemberg from MONAD Studio.
Monday 25th of May.
19:30h
IaaC Main Hall
C/ Pujades 102, Poble Nou

The architecture of MONAD aims at ‘pulsation’, a fundamental animate capacity of living forms.

Pulsation thrives on hyper-charged, syncopated rhythms and sexual drive. It operates via smooth aggregation of discrete, articulated components and de-aggregation of luscious bodies in friction, unzipping seams and foraging into spatial crevices.

The partners of MONAD Studio – Eric Goldemberg + Veronica Zalcberg – define a practice that takes advantage of cutting-edge 3D computer technology, design techniques and digital fabrication (CAD/CAM) for a range of scales, from urban strategies and landscape infrastructure to architecture, installations and product design.

The conference is part of the workshop´s activities: “Barcelona-Berlin Extramuros Studio 2009″ with the participation of the students of the Architecture School of Florida, International University in Miami, USA. Workshop´s coordinators: Bea Goller, Armando Montilla

IaaC is pleased to invite you to the open lecture of Mauro Costa.
Friday 17th of April.
19:30h
IaaC Main Hall
C/ Pujades 102, Poble Nou
Barcelona, Spain

Mauro Costa

Architect Mauro Costa is a Ph.D. professor, fulfilling his doctoral investigation with outstanding. His research concerns the analysis of functional analogies between biology and architecture with special emphasis in architectural mass customization proposals based in sustainable processes that can be simulated and constructed by CAD/CAM methods.

New theoretical contents in complexity studies, mainly provided by biology and cybernetic fields, allow the use of biological analogies as a valid approach to architectural design and it may offer new tools to organize and optimize models. The beginning of bionic applications in architecture, as well as its contextualization, is presented, giving a special attention to geometric and structural methods inspired by living beings. Scientific and philosophic concepts provided by biology are analyzed and considered in a prospective way. Finally, the attention will be focused in how the complex scientific concepts provided by the observation of biological processes may be connected to architecture professional practice by the creative use of digital technologies.