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To mark the closure of the Master in Advanced Architecture 2011-2012, IAAC organized a roundtable of experts and projected Yona Friedman´s interview by Willy Müller and Marta Malé-Alemany at his studio in Paris. After the screening of the interview containing the statements and views of one of the most influential theorists of architecture and urban [...]

Nikos A. Salingaros is a mathematician and polymath known for his work on urban, architectural, complexity and design philosophy and theory. Salingaros has a harsh critical analysis of conventional modern architecture. He began to explore the deep connection between science and architecture and writing papers looking at architectural problems in a scientific way making important [...]

Katrin Bohn in her lecture: ¨WHAT ABOUT URBAN AGRICULTURE? Designing productive urban landscapes for sustainable cities¨, yesterday at IAAC, talked about landscape ¨gestures¨ in the cities, landscape networks and agricultural opportunities given to the citizens of metropolitan cities. A package of ¨know how¨ and ¨try out¨ is offered to the citizens by projects that share [...]

/IAAC GLOBAL SUMMER SCHOOL 2012 Barcelona, 13-25 July Key words: interactive structures, energy optimization, ecology, metabolism, artificial intelligence, open data, digital fabrication, parametric design, DIY tools SMART itSELF is an agenda with research and education goals that combines science and technology with architecture and urban planning. Smart Cities, Smart Citizens, Self-Sufficiency, Self-Fabrication, Self-Organization, Self- Design [...]

Josep Miás during his lecture presented some of the projects that his office has been developing while he explained why drawing is the basic element to measure the potential of each proposal.  Every new sketch must produce a new possibility, to be formalized in a three-dimensional construction, a model. As far as the drawings create [...]

¨We do not force a form, we search for a form¨ said Christine Otto. Christine Otto talked about the importance of the physical model experimentation for the structural security apart from others. Digital models on the other hand do not offer that! Her lecture included information on projects of her father Frei Otto as well as different projects that [...]