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Ron Wakkary Lecture

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Ron Wakkary is full professor in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University in Canada where he is the founder of the Everyday Design Studio (eds.siat.sfu.ca). In addition, he is full professor in Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology in the Future Everyday cluster.

Wakkary is interested in design-oriented human-computer interaction (HCI) and the philosophies of technologies through design. Wakkary’s research investigates the changing nature of interaction design and HCI in response to new understandings of human-technology relations.

Ron is currently a member of the Tangible Embedded/Embodied Interaction (TEI) and Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) steering committees. He is also a member of various editorial boards including International Journal of Design (IJD). He was co-Editor-in-Chief of ACM interactions from 2010 to 2016.

IAAC Lecture Series 2019/20

18th of February 2020
Ron Wakkary
Simon Fraser University / TU Eindhoven

Things We Could Design in More-than Human-centred Worlds

@ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium
Free and Open to the Public

Since 2000, IAAC runs an international IAAC Lecture Series in which architects and experts from a variety of different disciplines present their work at IAAC. The lectures are open to the public, consisting of a high-quality cultural activity open to the city of Barcelona. Unless otherwise indicated, all the events of the Series are free with a mandatory Eventbrite registration.

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Winy Maas Lecture

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Everything is Landscape Lecture by Winy Maas at IAAC Lecture Series 2020

Winy Maas and one of the co-founding directors of the globally operating architecture and urban planning firm MVRDV, based in Rotterdam, Netherlands, known for projects such as the Expo 2000, the vision for greater Paris, Grand Paris Plus Petit, and more recently the Market Hall in Rotterdam. He is furthermore professor at and director of The Why Factory, a research institute for the future city, he founded in 2008 at TU Delft.

 

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He is currently Visiting Professor at IIT Chicago, the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium and the University of Hong Kong, and has been at ETH Zurich, Berlage Institute, MIT, Ohio State and Yale University. In addition, he designs stage sets, objects and was a curator of Indesem 2007. He curates exhibitions, lectures throughout the world and takes part in international juries.

In 2013 Winy Maas joined the Economic Development Board of Rotterdam (EDBR). In 2012 he was appointed urban supervisor for the city of Almere and since 2003 he has been supervising the Bjørvika urban development in Oslo. With both MVRDV and The Why Factory he has published a series of research projects.

IAAC Lecture Series 2019/20

10th of February 2020
Winy Maas
MVRDV / The Why Factory / IAAC Faculty

Everything is Landscape

@ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium
Free and Open to the Public

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Fabian Scheurer Lecture

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 IAAC Lecture Series: Fabian Scheurer

Fabian Scheurer is co-founder of Design-to-Production and leads the company’s office in Zurich. After graduating from the Technical University of Munich with a diploma in computer science and architecture, he worked as assistant for the university’s CAAD group, as software developer for CAD-provider Nemetschek, and as new media consultant for Eclat in Zurich.

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From 2002 until 2006 he studied the use of artificial-life methods in architectural construction as a member of Ludger Hovestadt’s CAAD group at the ETH Zurich and managed to transfer the results to a number of collaborative projects between architects, engineers, and fabrication experts. In 2005 he co-founded Design-to-Production as a research group at ETH to explore the connections between digital design and fabrication.

At the end of 2006 Design-to-Production teamed up with architect Arnold Walz and became a commercial consulting practice, since then having implemented digital planning and production chains for projects like the Hungerburg-Funicular in Innsbruck (by Zaha Hadid), the Rolex Learning Center in Lausanne (by SANAA), the Centre Pompidou in Metz, La Seine Musicale in Paris, Swatch in Biel (all three by Shigeru Ban) and many others.

Fabian Scheurer has been teaching Digital Modeling and Fabrication as guest lecturer/tutor at the AA in London, the IAAC in Barcelona, and at HTW Chur and BFH Biel (Switzerland).

 

IAAC Lecture Series 2019/20

4th of February 2020
Fabian Scheurer
Design-to-production / IAAC Faculty

BIM to Fabrication

@ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium
Free and Open to the Public

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Lydia Kallipoliti Lecture

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The Cooper Union, Lydia Kallipoliti lECTURE at IAAC Lecture Series 2020

Lydia Kallipoliti is an architect, engineer and scholar. She holds a Diploma in Architecture and Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece), a SMArchS in design and building technology from M.I.T, as well as a Master of Arts and a PhD from Princeton University.

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Prior to Cooper Union, Kallipoliti was an Assistant Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where she directed the MSArch Program, an Assistant Professor at Syracuse University and an Assistant Professor Adjunct at Columbia University [GSAPP] and at the Cooper Union, where she served as a Senior Associate at the Institute for Sustainable Design, and as the Feltman Chair in Lighting.

Her research focuses on the intersections of architecture, technology and environmental politics and more particularly on recycling material experiments, theories of waste and reuse, as well as closed and self-reliant systems and urban environments.

IAAC Lecture Series 2019/20

10th of January 2020
Lydia Kallipoliti
The Cooper Union

The Architecture of Closed Worlds

@ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium
Free and Open to the Public

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Lacol + Harquitectes Lecture

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Lacol arquitectura cooperativa + Harquitectes at IAAC Lecture Series 2019/20

This year, three special events will aim to give an overview on the Catalan architectural scene, by presenting six local firms with a special focus on three themes: Regeneration, Urbanism and Ecology. Tomorrow 17th December Lacol and Harquitectes with the lecture “Panel Presentation” under de theme Ecology.

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LACOL is a cooperative of architects who work in the neighbourhood of Sants, in Barcelona. They work from architecture toward social transformation, using architecture as a tool to intervene critically in their close environment. They root their activity in a horizontal system of labor, acting alongside society with justice and solidarity in mind. Carles Baiges Camprubí, is an architect (UPC-ETSAB) and master in Urban Sociology (Universiteit van Amsterdam). He is a founding member of the architects cooperative LACOL, where he focuses on cooperative housing and citizen participation and collaborates in projects and research in La Dinamo, a foundation to support cooperative housing.

HARQUITECTES is an architecture studio established in 2000 and based in Barcelona. It is managed by four partner architects: David Lorente Ibáñez, Josep Ricart Ulldemolins, Xavier Ros Majó and Roger Tudó Galí, who count on an ample team of collaborators, such as architects, interior designers and students. All of them licensed between 1998 and 2000 in ETSAV (UPC), where Josep and Roger teach in the Department of Architectural Projects and Technology. Xavier also teaches Projects in the ETSA Barcelona. Their work has received many awards and it has been published in many national and international media. They have also been selected in various exhibitions and invited as teachers and lecturers in Europe and America.

 

IAAC Lecture Series 2019/20

17th of December 2019
Lacol + Harquitectes
Panel Presentation

Ecology

@ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium
Free and Open to the Public

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Bosch Capdeferro + Anna & Eugeni Bach Lecture

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IAAC Lecture Series 2019/20 “Panel Presentation” by Bosch Capdeferro + Anna & Eugeni Bach. This year, three special events will aim to give an overview on the Catalan architectural scene, by presenting six local firms with a special focus on three themes: Regeneration, Urbanism and Ecology.

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In 2003, Ramon Bosch and Bet Capdeferro founded the Bosch Capdeferro studio in the city of Girona. Since then, they have been working on projects of different scales and typologies, mainly focused on the relationship between man and the environment. Their professional activity has been developed in parallel to their teaching role at the Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona – UPC BarcelonaTech, the ETH of Zurich and at the Cornell University of New York, in the fields of theory and research and on the development of design and construction processes.

Anna & Eugeni Bach is a Finnish-Spanish team based in Barcelona working within a broad concept of architecture. Their interests spread across four activities: Professional, through public and private projects; Teaching, as professors at ETSAB UPC, ETSALS URL and EINA UAB, and via lectures and workshops in different European universities; Research, as PhD Candidates at ETSAB university and via projects and installations that deal with the perception of space; and Culture, where they are active in the boards of different associations that promote the values of architecture for society, as well as in curating exhibitions and lecture series.

12th of November 2019
Bosch Capdeferro + Anna & Eugeni Bach
Panel Presentation, Regeneration

@ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium
Free and Open to the Public

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John Hardy Lecture

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IAAC Lecture Series 2019/20 Opening Lecture by John Hardy

John Hardy is renown for having unconventional ideas and making them happen. After graduating from the Ontario College of Art & Design, John set off to travel the world and settled in Bali. In 1975, he started a small jewelry business that grew into an international company. In 2007, John stopped working in the company to dedicate his time on advocating for and building a more sustainable world through education and design.

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As his first major project, he and his wife Cynthia conceived and created the Green School in Bali, Indonesia to deliver pioneering education for the future with a curriculum based on the Three Frame Day by Alan Wagstaff. The school commits to providing internationally recognized academic education that prepares the students with the ability to be competitive and successful in the wider world. The uniqueness of the school lies in the integration of traditional subjects, creative arts and green studies wrapped in rich layers of experiential, environmental, and entrepreneurial learning.

John spoke at TED Global about the Green School and the USGBC awarded the school with the 2012 Greenest School on Earth award.
Today, the school has a student body of approximately 500 from over 40 countries. In addition to the Green School, in 2009, John teamed up with his daughter Elora to create award winning Green Village and Ibuku.

Collaborating on their combined 45 years experience in art and design, long interest in architecture and focus on working with regenerative and adaptable materials, the companies are setting out to establish new design vocabulary, construction techniques and engineering standards for bamboo residences, hotels, public buildings, interiors and furnishings.

Thursday 24th of October 2019
John Hardy
The Green School / John Hardy Jewellery

18.45 – 19.10 – Doors open
19.10 – 19.20 – Welcome speech by Areti Markopoulou
19.20 – 19.30 – Introduction by Tomas Diez
19.30 – 20:30 – Lecture by John Hardy
20:30 – 20:45 – Q&A session
20:45 – 21:30 – Refreshments

@ IAAC Auditorium, C/ de Pujades 102

Aldo Sollazzo Lecture at IAAC

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IAAC Lecture Series 2018/19  Aldo Sollazzo

Aldo Sollazzo is a technologist, with expertise in robotics, manufacturing, and computational design. Master in Architectonic Design in 2007, Master in Advanced Architecture at IAAC in 2012, Fab Academy diploma in 2014 in the Fab Lab Barcelona.

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Since 2011 he is the director of Noumena, a company implementing innovative solutions in the fields of Robotics, 3D printing and Wearable Tech, where he’s leading a multidisciplinary team towards the definition of new design strategies informed by tech-driven applications. He is also the Director of Reshape – digital craft community, a distributed platform promoting cutting-edge ideas merging design and manufacturing.

Since 2015 he is Director of IAAC Global Summer School and faculty at Design by Data master in Paris. He is the director of the IAAC Master in Robotics and Advanced Construction, focused on the emerging design and market opportunities arising from novel robotic and advanced manufacturing systems.

This lecture will be also part of the 3rd Global IAAC Alumni Meeting taking place next May 17th at IAAC and other locations around the city as part of the Barcelona Architecture Week 2019.

IAAC Lecture Series 2018/19

17th of May 2019
Aldo Sollazzo
Noumena / IAAC

Decoded Paths

@ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium
Free and Open to the Public

Benedetta Tagliabue at IAAC Lecture Series

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Benedetta Tagliabue Lecture: Better City, Better Life – EMBT Urban Regeneration

Benedetta Tagliabue studied architecture at the Istituto di Architettura di Venezia (IUAV) and currently acts as director of the international architecture firm Miralles Tagliabue EMBT, founded in 1994 in collaboration with Enric Miralles, based in Barcelona and, since 2010, in Shanghai. Among her most notable projects built are the Edinburgh Parliament, Diagonal Mar Park, the Santa Caterina market in Barcelona, Campus Universitario de Vigo, and the Spanish Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo which was awarded the prestigious RIBA International “Best International Building of 2011” award.

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Current studio projects include the Business School of Fudan University in Shanghai, office towers in Xiamen and Taichung, public spaces of HafenCity in Hamburg Germany, the metro station Clichy-Montfermeil in Paris, France and the metro central station in Naples, Italy, among others. Her studio works in the fields of Architecture, design of public spaces, rehabilitation, interior and industrial design. Her poetic architecture, always attentive to its context, has won international awards in the fields of public space and design.

IAAC Lecture Series 2018/19 4h of December 2018
In Collaboration with the Enric Miralles Foundation

Benedetta Tagliabue- Miralles Tagliabue EMBT

Better City, Better Life – EMBT Urban Regeneration

@ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium
Free and Open to the Public

Shajay Bhooshan at IAAC Lecture Series

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Shajay Bhooshan Lecture: Cumulative, Collaborative, Disruptive – A Social Value Proposition for Digital Fabrication

Shajay Bhooshan is an Senior Associate at Zaha Hadid Architects where he co-founded and heads the research activities of the Computation and Design (CoDe) group. He also works as a studio master at the AA DRL Master’s program in London. He pursues his research in structure and fabrication aware architectural geometry as a PhD Candidate at the Block Research Group, ETH Zurich.

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Previously, he has worked at Populous, London and completed his M.Phil from the university of Bath and M. Arch from the AA School of Architecture, London. His current interests & responsibilities include developing design-research and maintaining computational platforms for the same at Zaha Hadid Architects. He has taught and presented work at various professional conferences, events and institutions across the world including Architectural Association London, ETH Zurich, Poly-technic of Milan, Tongji University Shanghai, SIGGRAPH, Autodesk university etc.

IAAC Lecture Series 2018/19
Master in Robotics and Advanced Construction

27th of November 2018
Shajay Bhooshan
Zaha Hadid Architects / IAAC Faculty

Cumulative, Collaborative, Disruptive – A Social Value Proposition for Digital Fabrication

@ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium
Free and Open to the Public

Daniel Ibañez at IAAC Lecture Series 2018

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Daniel Ibañez, Wood Urbanism: From the Molecular to the Territorial, Lecture.

Daniel Ibañez is a practicing Spanish architect and urbanist based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dani is the co-director of the Master in Advanced Ecological Buildings at IAAC and the co-founder and director of the design firm Margen-Lab. At Harvard University, Ibañez is instructor and Doctor of Design candidate, editor of the New Geographies Journal and researcher at the Urban Theory Lab and the Office for Urbanization. Daniel is editor of book publications including Wood Urbanism: From the Molecular to the Territorial (Actar, 2018), New Geographies 06: Grounding Metabolism (HUP, 2014) and Third Coast Atlas: Prelude to a Plan (Actar, 2017).

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Conceptual diagram on wood transformation in architecture by Daniel Ibañez

Wood holds unique and timely lessons for urbanization, yet it remains inadequately characterized in architecture, landscape architecture, and urbanism. From under-considered thermal properties to emerging manufacturing possibilities, from changing forestry regimes to larger carbon cycle dynamics, Wood Urbanism explores the unique material and scalar properties of wood, presenting it as a critical material for design today.

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IAAC Lecture Series 2017/18

25th of April 2018
Daniel Ibañez
Harvard GSD / IAAC MAEB Co-director

Wood Urbanism: From the Molecular to the Territorial

@ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium
Open to the Public

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