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IaaC
. Research Lines
. FAB LAB BCN
. Educational Programmes
. Advanced Architecture Contest
. Publications
. IaaC Community

MAA 2007-2008 // inauguration
MAA 2008-2009 // introductory studio class
FAB LAB BCN // fabrication classes
Venice 2008 // HyperHabitat_ Reprogramming the World
THE INSTITUTE
The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IaaC) is
an international centre for research, education, investigation
and development oriented toward architecture as a disci-
pline that addresses different scales of territorial analysis and
urban development as well as diverse architectural projects,
digital processes and information environments.
Located in Barcelona, one of the international capitals of
Urbanism, the institute directed by Vicente Guallart devel-
ops multidisciplinary programmes that explore international
urban and territorial phenomena, with a special emphasis
on the opportunities that arise from the emergent territories
and on the cultural, economic and social values that archi-
tecture can contribute to society.
IaaC sets out to take R+D to architecture and urbanism and
to create multidisciplinary knowledge networks, and to this
end the institute works in collaboration with a number of
cities and regions, industrial groups and research centres,
including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),
the University of Brighton and the University of Chicago,
developing various research programmes which bring
together experts in different disciplines such as engineer-
ing, sociology, anthropology, architecture and other fields
of investigation.
IaaC has made a name as a centre of international reference
which this year welcomes students and investigators from 24
countries, among which are India, Australia, the USA, Poland,
Argentina and Iraq.
VISION // Architecture from Bits to Geography
The IaaC takes a multiscale approach to the project of the phys-
ical construction of the world, simultaneously engaging issues
on the scales of the territory, the building, and digital fabrica-
tion with the aim of transforming architecture into a discipline
that, rather than build buildings, produces habitats, complete
and complex multiscalar environments that are open to the
development of social living.
With this in view it has created a locus of education, research,
development and diffusion of architectural knowledge, an
environment for international participation encompassing
institutions, professionals and students from five continents
that enables it to address global and local issues from a diverse
and multicultural perspective.
The IaaC works in close cooperation with experts from
a wide range of fields, including engineering, anthro-
pology, sociology, IT, mathematics, biology and ecol-
ogy, as an optimum means of formulating the project in
the physical world in terms of multidisciplinary knowledge and
fostering the emergence of new ways of constructing reality.
Barcelona, one of the great international centres of architec-
ture and urbanism, is thus a hub for a new generation of ideas
and initiatives in the development of architecture and the city,
capable of attracting talent and stimulating innovation in the
construction of the world on the basis of the understanding
afforded by history and experience.
OBJECTIVES
The IaaC’s activities are rooted in specific objectives. To start with, the IaaC Master Programme and further activities seek
to stimulate, promote and develop research in the diverse areas of advanced architecture, increasing the potential of
information-gathering teams working in architecture and in interaction with other disciplines.
In addition, IaaC is active in a consultancy role, working with local authorities and other public and private organizations
on issues related to architecture.
To date the Institute has established a number of scientific and academic collaborative ventures with universities and major
national and international information-gathering centres specializing in architecture and related disciplines (notably infor-
mation technology and sustainable development, among others).
The plan for the future consists in continuing and extending these academic collaborations as well as the establishment
of appropriate collaborative ventures with local, regional and national government bodies and the private sector in terms
of their own core activities.
IaaC’s current reality and objective is to facilitate closer contact between basic and applied research, acting as a centre of
technology transfer when appropriate, and organizing scientific encounters and national and international forums.
Last but not least, IaaC produces exhibitions and publications on a local, national and international level, activities that will
be continued and extended in the future.
Finally, the IaaC seeks to relaunch Barcelona as a centre for the creation of knowledge in architecture, in which after the
city’s Olympic era, generated content and discourses for the 21st century.

Venice Biennale 2008 // HyperHabitat_ Reprogramming the World

 THE BUILDING
The Master takes place in the Poblenou neighbourhood of Bar-
celona, in the recently created district known as 22@, a focus
for companies and institutions oriented toward the knowledge
society. The neighbourhood is close to the historic centre, the
seafront, the Plaça de les Glòries and the Sagrera APT station,
making it the most dynamic enclave in the city.
The IaaC is housed in an old factory building, with 2,000 m2
of space for research, production and dissemination of archi-
tecture, so that the space itself is a declaration of principles,
embodying an experimental and productive approach to archi-
tecture.
The IaaC premises include a Fab Lab, an architecture- and
design-oriented fabrication laboratory which is part of the
global network of Fab Labs set up by The Center for Bits and
Atoms at MIT.
The IaaC is engaged in a variety of research projects as well as
workshops and courses, and special summer workshops, open
to Spanish and international firms and institutions.

IaaC // the building

FACILITIES
// Studios and Seminar Rooms

// Main Working Space

// Lecture Hall (100 seats)

// Library

// Hosting Research room

// Hosting Lounge Room

// Digital Fab Lab 1:

Laser Cutter, Vinyl Cutter, 3D Printer, Small CNC
Milling Machine

// Digital Fab Lab 2:

CNC Milling Machine, Big Scale Laser Cutter

// Video Editing Room

// Live Videoconference System

// Open Kitchen

// Summer Terrace

// Wireless Internet

BCN // @ 22
. Research Lines
Venice Biennale 2008 // HyperHabitat_ Reprogramming the World
SELF-SUFFICIENCY AGENDA
The Self-Sufficiency Agenda establishes the responsibility for
confronting the process of global urbanization from multi-scalar
operations and through prototypes that promote environmental,
economic and social sustainability.

In the early 20th century, the concept of `dwelling´ was defined a

`machine for living´, a reference to a new way of understanding the
construction of inhabitable spaces that characterized the Machine
Age. Today, a century later, we face the challenge of constructing
sustainable or even self-sufficient prototypes; living organisms
that interact and interchange resources with their environment,
and which function as entirely self-sufficient entities, like trees in 1stAAC // the book
a field.

In this way, each action on the territory implies a manipulation

of multiple environmental forces, connected to numerous flows
and networks such as energy, transport, logistics and information,
generating new inhabitable and responsive nodes with the
potential to use and produce resources. Territorial and urban
strategies and building operations must therefore be coordinated
processes that extend architectural knowledge to new forms
of management and planning, in which a multiscalar thinking
also entails an understanding of shifting dynamics, energy and
information transmission and continuous adaptation.

Architecture is always facing the responsibility of responding to

1stAAC // D. Ibanez, R. Rubio, Al. Alvarez
emergent needs, technologies and even changing programmes.
We must ask more of architecture: we, as architects should be
required to design inhabitable organisms that are capable of
developing functions and integrating the processes of the natural
world that formerly took place at a distance, at other points in the
surrounding territory.

The models created for the metropolis of the last century are unable
to accommodate new developments linked to contemporary
urban lifestyles, which are more and more discontinuous in space
and time. The building-over of the global landscape requires us
to project at the same time the full and the empty, the natural 1stAAC // G. Kohler
and the artificial, in such a way as to make economic impetus
compatible with sustainable development.

It is necessary to generate complex knowledge with a multi-

layered reading of realities that traditionally have been thought of
as separate, such as energy manipulation, nature, urban mobility,
dwelling, systems of production and fabrication, the development
of software and information networks, etc. This will allow the
possibility for new prototypes, capable of engaging with complex
and changing environments.

Finally, every new urban or architectural production needs to

update its materiality and reinterpret centuries-old construction
techniques, which are very directly based on the transformation of
locally available materials. It is now time for interaction between
disciplines and technologies with a vision that embraces different
fields of research.

HyperHabitat // 3dimensional diagram

RESEARCH LINE 1 //
EMERGENT TERRITORIES
The IaaC works beyond the conventional scales of territorial
design, town planning, building or fabrication in designing a
multiscale habitat.
As in the design of ecosystems, each level has its own rules
of interaction and relation, and at the same time must com-
ply with certain parameters that pertain to the system as a
whole. The Emergent Territories group works on projects
that range in scale from the territory to the neighbourhood.
The idea of Emergent Territories is related to two issues:
On the one hand, the IaaC is interested in understanding
those countries and cities around the world with emerging
economies and cultures that, by virtue of their regional or
economic position, can contribute value to the planet as a
whole. In recent years we have studied Brazil, Croatia, Tai-
wan, Romania, Colombia and Tunisia, or in the near future
will be studying India and the countries of North Africa, the
Persian Gulf and Sub-Saharan Africa.
The work done in these countries seeks to identify the
particular urban and territorial values of these places in
order to construct more intelligent territories anywhere in
the world, moving on from the Western idea that there is
a single model of city (be it European or American) to work
on the basis of more complex and more open values.
The other issue related to emergent territories has to do with Componenticity, Mauritania
the creation of intelligent territories that function in a multi- Ben Howard
scalar way, in order that the relationship between natures,
networks and nodes can foment the ‘emergence’ of an
urban intelligence.
To this end we are interested in pursuing what we call ‘Hyper-
habitat’ research as a process of developing a general theory
of the multiscalar habitat that can be applied anywhere in
the world and at any scale, as a basis for the construction of
complete complex ecosystems.
This group also focuses on Barcelona as a site for ongoing
urban experimentation, with a view to contributing to the
discussions and reflections in relation to the urban progress
of the city.
Areas of research:
• Emergent Territories
• Hyperhabitat
• Research Trips
• Barcelona-Metapolis Deformed Grids // Informed Loops, Bucharest
Hemant Purohit
RESEARCH LINE 2 //
SELF-SUFFICIENT BUILDINGS
Architecture goes beyond buildings. A building is a concen-
tration of activities in a particular location which should be
responsive to concrete cultural, social, economic and tech-
nological conditions.
In the 21st century, the buildings are more than machines
for dwelling in. They should be living organisms, capable of
interacting with their environment, following the principles
of ecology or biology rather than those of mere construc-
tion.
In effect, a building should be like a tree, which is able to
rooting itself in a particular place, generating its own energy,
interacting with the natural networks around it and creating
complex ecosystems and landscapes together with other
trees.
This being so, the Self-sufficient Buildings group works on
scales that range from the macro-building to the individual
home, developing principles and techniques that serve to
organize the materialization of programmatic nodes of
activity based on natural rules and principles.
As a result, the building goes beyond being a mere inter-
face for the economic activities it houses to being an envi-
ronment that stimulates its inhabitants and functions as an
active part of the ecosystem in which it is inserted.
Buildings also need to respond to specific cultural condi-
tions, and the multicultural global vision that the IaaC rep-
Inhabitance System, Romania
resents allows can be applied, via debate and research, to
Eduardo Mayoral, Vasco Portugal
architecture projects anywhere in the world.
This group devotes special attention to housing and the new
forms of social organization of our time, by way of buildings
with shared spaces, or macro-buildings that incorporate all
the functions of a city.
This group is working to introduce innovative techniques
such as local energy generation, the development of self-
sufficient buildings, the incorporation of hydrogen into the
building and the use of new materials, responding to each
situation with ad-hoc techniques and principles.
Working Groups
• Macro-buildings
• Advanced Materials
• Hydrogen-Habitat
• Biomimesis
• Sharing Buildings
• Intelligent-Infrastructure for Energy Efficiency

Fishnet Tower, Eugenio Adame

RESEARCH LINE 3 //
DIGITAL TECTONICS
With the advent of the information society, architecture is
no longer built but manufactured.
The techniques of digital production have put the architect
back at the centre of the construction process because the
information generated in the design process is literally used
to manufacture the various parts of a building.
Digital technology has thus gone beyond the representa-
tion stage to take its place precisely in the production phase
of architecture.
In the light of this, parametric design makes it possible to
approach the architecture project on everything from the
territorial scale to the urban design of the building, in an
open fashion, integrating algorithms and dynamic formula-
tions in the project-design process itself.
With the development of new software, scripting tech-
niques can now be integrated into architectural design,
transforming the old plastic principles by the insertion of
mathematical logics into the project.
In order to experiment with these project-design processes,
digitally control machines are used to produce scale models
of the designs and prototypes of projects at 1:1 scale.
The IaaC has a workshop for the production of full-scale pro-
totypes equipped with digital fabrication machines, includ-
ing a 320 x 120 cm CNC cutter, a laser machine, a 3D printer
and various other devices for incorporating electronic com-
ponents into models and prototypes.
Thanks to these resources, architects can tackle the design
process on the basis of personal hands-on experience of
every phase of the construction of architecture. Plasticity // Post Graduate Programme in Digital Tectonics, 2007
Working groups:
• Parametric associative design
• Digital fabrication
• Scripting
• Internet-0
• Open Source Design

The Dome // MAA Research Line 3, Digital Tectonics, 2008

 . FAB LAB BCN
FAB LAB BCN // Launching Event, 2007
Fab Labs are the educational outreach component of the Center
for Bits and Atoms (CBA) at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech-
nology. In 2001 the National Science Foundation in Washington,
D.C. funded MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms, an ambitious inter-
disciplinary initiative that is looking beyond the end of the Digital
Revolution to ask how a functional description of a system can be
embodied in, and abstracted from, a physical form.
CBA’s laboratory research on technologies for personal fabrica-
tion is complemented by the field ‘Fab Lab’ programme, which
brings prototyping capabilities to under-served communities
that have been beyond the reach of conventional technology
development and deployment. By making engineering acces-
sible in space (down to microns, through precision machining)
and time (down to microseconds, through RISC microcontrollers),
these facilities have been uncovering what can be thought of as
instrumentation and fabrication divides, and suggesting that
they can be addressed by bringing IT development rather than
just IT to the masses. The engineering capability for design and
fabrication at the scales described above opens up numerous
possibilities for innovative solutions to common problems.
Since local communities themselves foster this innovation,
it can lead to sustainable solutions. High-end technologi-
cal solutions have not as yet addressed the problems faced
on the local level; in the light of this, we believe Fab Labs will pro-
vide a thriving incubator for local micro-businesses.
CBA Fab Labs have been opened in rural India, northern Norway,
Ghana, Boston and Costa Rica. Fab Lab outreach projects are
being explored with a growing group of institutional partners
and countries that includes Panama, Trinidad and South Africa,
FAB LAB BCN // fabrication classes
and the US National Academies, the Indian Department of Sci-
ence and Technology, and the Africa-America Institute.

FAB LAB Network

The Fab Lab programme is part of the MIT’s Center for Bits and
Atoms (CBA) which broadly explores how the content of informa-
tion relates to its physical representation.
The Fab Lab programme has close connections with the technical
outreach activities of a number of partner organizations, focused
on the emerging possibility of enabling ordinary people not just
to learn about science and engineering but actually to design
machines and make measurements that can actually enhance
the quality of their lives.
Fab Lab BCN participates in joint videoconferences with the other
Fab Labs around the world, and its members have attended the
Fab Forums: the Fab Lab world network meetings. FAB LAB BCN // 3d printer
FAB LAB Barcelona
A Fab Lab (Fabrication Laboratory) is a small-scale workshop with
the tools to make almost anything. This includes technology-
enabled products generally perceived as limited to mass produc-
tion.
While Fab Labs cannot compete with mass production and its
associated economies of scale in fabricating widely distributed
products, they have the potential to empower individuals to cre-
ate smart devices for themselves. These devices can be tailored
to local or personal needs in ways that are not practical or eco-
nomical using mass production.
FAB LAB BCN // CNC milling
Fab Lab BCN is a production, investigation and education cen-
tre that uses latest-generation digital machines for the creation
of prototypes and scale models for architecture, construction,
industrial design and other activities that need a direct connec-
tion from computer to machinery to process materials according
to digital instructions.
These technologies also enable material production using para-
metric design and the manufacture of different elements at no
added cost, thus empowering personal fabrication.

FAB LAB Equipment

At present Fab Lab BCN is equiped with:
// a CNC machine for cutting foam, wood or millable materials up
to a 3000x1500x200mm, for the production of complex prototy-
pes and surfaces for interiors and construction. FAB LAB BCN // fabrication classes
// a laser cut machine up to 400W maximum power for cutting
and carving various materials up to 1500x3000mm.
// a laser cut machine up to 100W maximum power for cutting
and carving various materials up to 600x1000 mm.
// a 3D printer machine able to print three-dimensional objects in
colour from a single scan, up to a 210x300x250 mm.
// a 3D scanner
// a Vinyl cutter
// Equipment for the design and the production of electronic and
interactive components.

FAB LAB Central

FAB LAB CENTRAL is an educational centre for young people and
children, run according to the principles of the Fab Lab group of FAB LAB BCN // laser cut
the MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms and participating in the world-
wide network of Fab Labs.

FAB LAB Pro

Fab Lab Pro is one of the main areas of Fab Lab BCN, a place for the
manufacture of prototypes, mock-ups and small productions. It is
open to professionals and companies working in any field related
to design, architecture or construction. The equipment of the Fab
Lab Barcelona make it possible to create mock-ups and proto-
types of different scales using technologies of advanced fabrica-
tion. Moreover, it is offered the possibility of embeding interactive
devices into the objects or the prototypes.
Fab Lab Pro runs with the technological equipment of the Fab Lab
BCN that is always available for professional and investigational
uses.

FAB LAB BCN // producing electronic interactive components

 MAA 2008 - 2009 // Digital Tools and Fabrication Class

MAA
OPEN THESIS Fabrication
FAB ACADEMY
WAW
. Educational Programmes
 EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES
// MASTER IN ADVANCED ARCHITECTURE
Master of 60 Credits ( + 20 credits optional extension )
Emergent Territories, Self-Sufficient buildings and Digital Tectonics

Download the full MAA PDF Presentation brochure from the following link:
http://iaac.net/web/imgs/pdf/educationalprograms/master/brochure.pdf

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia offers a three-term Master’s programme in Architecture and
Urbanism accredited by the Fundació Politècnica de Catalunya.
Directors Vicente Guallart, Willy Müller and Marta Malé-Alemany, together with the teaching staff, are committed to
a long-term prospectus of creating an international research and academic centre in Barcelona, bringing together
international students, tutors and researchers from different fields in order to materialize experimental forms of com-
munication, inhabitation and planning.
The programme is oriented at graduates who wish to commit and develop their design research skills in the context of
new forms of practice within architecture and urbanism, ranging from large-scale environments to tectonic details.
Over the last three years, the IaaC has received students from more than 25 countries, including China, Macedonia,
the UK, the USA, Australia, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Ecuador, Peru, Germany, Iraq,
Thailand, Turkey, India, Poland, Cyprus, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Spain, Guatemala, Bangladesh, Colombia and Korea,
making it an exceptionally international and multicultural place.

MAA // Students Origin


MAA 2007 - 2008 // Introductory Studio Class
MAA 2007 - 2008 // Introductory Studio Class
Territorial Strategies Classes
MAA 2007 - 2008 // Graduation
PROGRAMME
The Master in Advanced Architecture emerges as an innovative
educational format that offers interdisciplinary skills and
understanding through the researching of territorial, architectural
and parametric design operations for the production of Self-
Sufficient Habitats. Proposing a dynamic customised structure, the
institute gives students the opportunity to create single or multi-
scalar studio agendas based on their academic interests within the
programme. In this way the IAAC puts together an experimental
and learning environment for the training of architects with both
theoretical and practical responses to the increasing complexity of
contemporary urban environments, economic forces, information
flows, fast-growing cities and massive energy consumption and
waste production.
With 24 hour-a-day access to the IAAC Studio working space and
its prototypes fabrication lab, students have the opportunity to be
part of the highly international group, including faculty members,
researchers and lectures, in which they are encouraged to develop
collective decision-making processes and materialize their project
ideas.
The aim of the institute is to form graduates who, after the
completion of the programme, will be able to develop their acquired
skills in a diversity of professional environments, engaging projects
that range from large-scale sustainable planning and building
construction to the industrialized fabrication of the architectural
components.
PROGRAMME ORGANIZATION
The Master in Advanced Architecture comprises the following
elements:
1. Introductory Courses IC
2. Research Studios RS
3. Development Studios DS
4. Seminars S
5. General Workshop GW
6. Master Project MP
7. Open Thesis Fabrication TF
8. Lecture Series LS
The programme is organized in three plus one (3+1) phases
Phase 1: Introductory Term (20 credits)
Phase 2: Research and Development Studios (28 credits)
Phase 2: Transversal Workshop (04 credits)
Phase 3: Master Project (08 credits)
Phase 4: Open Thesis Fabrication (20 credits)
The body of the students of this Master Programme will be multi-
disciplinary. The programme is aimed at Professionals and Graduate
Students of any design-related discipline (Architects, Designers,
Interior Designers, Engineers, Software Developers, Urbanists,
Artists, etc.)
For further information you can download the brochure of the
Master in Advanced Architecture in the following link:
http://iaac.net/web/imgs/pdf/educationalprograms/master/
brochure.pdf
 // OPEN THESIS FABRICATION
MAA one term extension_ Phase 4 ( 20 credits)
Phase 4 is OPTIONAL and consists of the Open Thesis
Fabrication project. It is open to both MAA students and
external participants. Phase 4 offers the opportunity not
only to the MAA students of a further research on their final
Master Project, but also to external students or professionals
to expone studies according to their interests.

MAA 2007 - 2008 // Parametric Seminar Final Presentation MAA STUDENTS

After the Master Design Project the MAA students can
extend their studies by making further research on their
final project and by applying the knowledge gained during
the Master in Advanced Architecture. The subject of the
Open Thesis Fabrication project will be open to be decided
by the students, according to their personal interests. MAA
students could proceed to further research of their projects
by constructing prototypes, or by developing research on
material or structural behaviours.

EXTERNAL STUDENTS OR PROFESSIONALS

Open Thesis Fabrication Project is a special project offered
by IAAC in collaboration with the Fundació Politecnica de
Catalunya (FPC). The course is open also to other students
LECTURE SERIES 2008 - 2009 // Neil M. Denari
and professionals who would like to expone a specific
research on a subject of their interest. The participants
selected to enter the programme will have the opportunity
to use all IAAC and FAB LAB BCN infrastructure (www.
fablabbcn.org). Open Thesis Fabrication Project does not
include regular classes, thus gives the opportunity and
freedom to participants to develop their research according
to their individual interests. Nevertheless, during the Course
IAAC provides external advisors and supervisors that will be
meeting with the students occasionally. As a result the IAAC
becomes a space of continuous creativity and research on
advanced architecture.

The course is in English, all sessions , conferences and

MAA 2008 - 2009 // Installation at the Collserola Park meetings with supervisors are in English so there is no
requirement of knowledge of Spanish language.

MAA 2007 - 2008 // Emergent Cities Studio Class


FAB ACADEMY // 1st meeting, BCN 2008
FAB ACADEMY // 1st Term Final Presentation
FAB ACADEMY // meeting in Norway, 2009
FAB ACADEMY // Video Conference between FAB LABs
// FAB ACADEMY
The Fab Academy will provide instruction and supervise investiga-
tion of mechanisms, applications, and implications of digital fabri-
cation.
Like the earlier digitization of communication and computation, the
digitization of fabrication is bringing the programmability of the
digital world to the physical world. The research roadmap is lead-
ing to the development of a universal replicator that will eventually
be able to make almost anything (included itself), by programming
the assembly of functional materials. Field “fab labs” are providing
early access to these capabilities, through prototype tools for per-
sonal fabrication. They are analogous to the historical role of the
minicomputers that came between mainframes and PCs; fab labs,
like minicomputers, have a cost and complexity within reach of a
workgroup, allowing their applications to reflect the interests of
individuals rather than institutions.
The possibility that anyone can make anything anywhere challenges
an assumption of scarcity that has been implicit in the organzation
of advanced technical education and research. Research infrastruc-
ture that was once restricted to elite institutions is now available
in a fab lab. The students and teachers that have studied in these
institutions can now be connected by broadband video wherever
they are. And the content in libraries can be shared through online
repositories of research articles and instructional material. Instead
of traveling to a distant campus, or connecting remote sites for dis-
tance learning from a central hub, a global network of local labs can
itself become a distributed campus. This is the mission of the Fab
Academy.
The Fab Academy emerged from the experience of students who
had exhausted local educational opportunities and came to fab
labs for informal, peer-to-peer, project-based technical education,
mentored by a growing group of faculty from around the world.
To meet this demand, the Fab Academy will initially focus on a
vocational FAB diploma aimed at employment certification, then
a Bologna-style Bachelors degree for specialized study, and finally
post-graduate research leading to more advanced degrees.
The FAB diploma will cover relevant aspects of physical science,
computer science, engineering and design, including materials
selection and characterization, additive and subtractive fabrication
processes, CAD/CAM/CAE, circuit design and assembly, sensors
and actuators, embedded and application programming, network-
ing and algorithms, as well as models for managing businesses
and intellectual property. Study of these areas will be integrated
through a hands-on project focus on producing functional sys-
tems, and be driven by the rate of skills progression rather than a
fixed schedule.
Fab labs began as an outreach project from MIT’s Center for Bits and
Atoms; the FAB diploma is roughly equivalent to passing the rapid-
prototyping course “How To Make (almost) Anything” at MIT. Fab
Academy instructors will initially be drawn from collaborating fac-
ulty at existing educational institutions, however the accreditation
for these degrees will be through the Fab Academy itself. Classes will
be taught via networked video to students in fab labs around the
world, with collaboratively developed online instructional material.
Because there is no international accreditation, the Fab Academy
will undertake applicable local and regional accreditation proce-
dures, however the program content will be shared across these.
The Fab Academy in turn will work with the non-profit Fab Foun-
dation to provide operational capacity to support invention as aid,
and the for-profit Fab Fund to help global capital find local inven-
tors and local inventions find global markets. Together, these orga-
nizations form an ecosystem to enable learning, living, and working
in a world of personal fabrication.
// WAW (Weekend Architectural Workshop)
The Weekend Architectural Workshops (WAW) are a one-week-
end intensive experience in Digital Fabrication technologies.
WAWs are a new format for introducing architecture, design, art
and multi-disciplined students to fabrication equipment such as
the Laser Cutter, CNC Mill and 3D Printer for the production of
models, prototypes and 1:1 scale objects and components.
WAWs are organized by the Institute for Advanced Architecture of
Catalonia, and are oriented toward architecture, art, and design
schools and institutions in different countries around the world.
Interwiew // Marta Malé Alemany, Director of WAW
WAW 2007 // ETSAM Madrid
“…the Weekend Architectural Workshop it’s a new educational
format of IaaC that pretends make intensive weekend courses
about digital manufacture techniques… ”
“… is an open format for all groups, architects, designers, students,
etc, …who want to experiment with digital manufacture
techniques…”
“…this first WAW pretends to be the first of many others, and as
a pilot workshop we choose make some paper air balloons, for
many reasons: it’s a continuous light surface, where the assembly
is a principal part, also for being a not orthogonal surface, with
an important curvature, for being a light structure where was
allowed a certain formal innovation of the conventional air
balloon…”
“…in addition, for being an intensive workshop of two days, we WAW 2007 // ETSAM Madrid
decided choose the laser cut machine as a tool for the production
of prototypes, for its easy and fast handling that allow to cut a
high volume of pieces in a short time…”
“…from this workshop I would like the students could discover
the world of digital manufacture, have taught them new tools for
think architecture and seeing that the IaaC is the place where this
interesting things happened…”

Interwiew // Vicente Guallart, Director of the IaaC.

“…The IaaC is a research and educational centre that wants to
stimulate neurons to impulse the progress of the architecture
and urbanism…”
“…from the IaaC we made research projects, we have a master
in advance architecture, one post degree in digital manufacture,
and also we want to generate knowledge pills able of being WAW 2008 // ETSAS Sevilla
distributed in diverse kind of people..”
“ the WAW´s, the weekends workshops, I believe is an interesting
formula in order to attract people to come to Barcelona, a city
with a large architectonical and urbanism tradition, and employs
their time generating knowledge, generating new manufacture
techniques…”
“… the information society has to be base don the creation of
knowledge nets, groups of research prepared to collaborate with
each other for generate the process. El IaaC wants to work with
multiple disciplines focused in creation, all of them below an
open mind…”
“…we want to translate the digital world to the physic world, in
order to generate hybrids realities…”
“…we don’t want to produce in an intelligent way only, we want
to create intelligent surroundings ”

WAW 2008 // ETSAS Sevilla

 2ndAAC // Ming Tang, Dihua Yang

. Advanced Architecture Contest

 www.advancedarchitecturecontest.org
The aim of advanced architecture is not to produce a dwelling that
is simply the product of economics. On the contrary, advanced
architecture aspires to create the conditions of individual inhabi-
tation, one that meet day-to-day needs, on different scales and at
different times. The project of human inhabitation is resolved in a
local environment, on the scale of the district, the building or the
individual limits of a dwelling. A self-sufficient dwelling is one that
is connected to this local system and knows how to respond to
the social, cultural, technical and economic conditions of its sur-
roundings. It will also be able to administer its place in the global
information network, one comprised of similar organisms, all shar-
ing resources and information, engaged in remote interaction.
In the day-to-day of Western countries, we are astonished to
see how the price of urban housing is rising without an objec-
tive increase in value. We must insist that these dwellings adapt 2ndAAC // participants origin
their specific qualities to their market price. The objective
increase in the value of a space is directly linked to a potential
savings in long-term maintenance and running costs. As such,
we need to call for the design and construction of build-
ings that generate 100% of the energy they consume,
recycle all the water they use (by means of various pro-
cesses) and locally generated waste (which may be capable
of generating new a materiality).
In the 20th century, high-level availability and energy consump-
tion were international paradigms for development; in the 21st-
century, the new paradigm is one of saving and the intelligent use
of available resources at an interconnected local level.
Architecture now faces a new responsibility of having to respond
to these needs. Districts, buildings and dwellings should be able
to incorporate new elements such as sensors, accumulators or
transformers of synergies that would replace insulating skins that
isolate dwellings from the changing climate of their surroundings. 2ndAAC // the book
We must ask more of architecture. We architects should be required
to design inhabitable organisms that are capable of developing
functions and integrating the processes of the natural world that
formerly took place at a distance in other points of a surrounding
territory. Subcontracting energy creation in a distant place seems
to be a thing of the past, like dependency on remote computation
for data processing.
Hence, the challenge is to think about the design of buildings and
dwellings in this new situation and to develop building design
and construction in an integrated fashion, rather than continue
with the current trend of simply superimposing catalogued tech-
nological solutions onto buildings and purely formal consider-
ations. Research into the development of materials requires the
updating of the materiality of buildings and the improvement
of centuries-old construction techniques, which are very closely
based on the transformation of locally available materials. It is
now time for the interaction between disciplines and technolo-
gies with a view toward producing solutions that embrace differ-
ent fields of research. 2ndAAC // Shinya Okuda, Kung Yick Ho Alvin, Lam Yan Yuan
1st ADVANCED ARCHITECTURE CONTEST
Self-Sufficient Housing // Launched in 2005
The 1st Advanced Architecture Contest was organized as a strat-
egy to stimulate research into new ways of understanding the
phenomenon of inhabitation. A whole range of practicing archi-
tects and students took a local approach to their designs, present-
ing very different attitudes and ideas about their understanding
of “self-sufficiency.” This book presents a selection of these pro-
posals and represents the first step in what will be a long-lasting
body of research that seeks to stimulate the development of an
architecture, a way of building and a more intelligent form of
inhabitation.
Architecture does not offer the responses to current environmen-
tal issues that might be expected of it. Instead, the enormous
influence of its historical legacy shapes today’s thinking about
design solutions, thus limiting innovation.In fact, contempo-
rary buildings can be artificial natures. We believe that housing 2ndAAC // Ming Tang, Dihua Yang
—where human inhabitation takes place— should take its cues
from trees: it should bond harmoniously with the surrounding
environment, taking only the indispensable resources (energy,
water, etc) and generating recyclable waste that follows natural
cycles. The main goal of this competition is the development of
self-sufficient dwellings in which the technological elements are
essential components of a new architectural concept and not
simply the product of an attachment to conventional ideas about
houses. Designers are free to choose the location of their build-
ing, so the project can be conceived to accommodate local con-
ditions in any region of the world.
There were two categories: 1stAAC // D. Ibanez, R. Rubio, Al. Alvarez
1. Self-Sufficient Collective Housing
2. Self-Sufficient Single Housing

2nd ADVANCED ARCHITECTURE CONTEST

the SELF-FAB House // Launched in 2007
In the year 2007 the Institute for Advanced Architecture of
Catalonia issued an international summons to architects, students
and designers from around the world to invite proposals for the
construction of self-sufficient dwellings, in which the emphasis
will be on exploring people’s capacity to construct their own
homes, especially through the use of digital technologies.
The first IAAC self-sufficient housing competition received more
than 500 submissions from 108 countries, with projects that
focused above all on environmental and landscaping problems. 1stAAC // G. Kohler
The IAAC is now proposing to carry out an investigation of
projects at the global level with a view to fomenting sustainable
development and, at the leading edge, the self-sufficiency of the
housing that we live in; this research will be addressed in terms of
environmental, economic and social considerations.
On this occasion aims to stimulate specific investigations into
construction techniques and processes that will encourage
individuals all over the world to build houses with the local
available means. We are interested, then, in everything from the
intelligent application of traditional techniques to advanced
digital processes in which digital fabrication entails the use but
also as tools for self production.
The objective is to design, in any part of the world, a single dwelling
or a residential building in which there is specific development of
innovative construction proposals in relation to the use of new
materials, the integration of energy systems in the construction,
the insertion of the architecture in the landscape, or any other
strategy that serves to enhance self-sufficiency.

2ndAAC // L. Aguirre
. Publications
MAA 2005 - 2006 // Research Trip to Taipei, Taiwan
The IAAC has published the works
and exhibitions of the Metapolis
group since 2000, drawing on the
researches, the production and the
knowledge of a range of authors
and contributors.
Publication is in conjunction with
ACTAR publishing house, which has
worldwide distribution.
MEDIA HOUSE PROJECT
The “Media House Project” is conceived as a strategic
alliance, combining the respective potentialities of the MIT
Media Lab and its technological environment, oriented
primarily towards developing enabling technologies, and
of Metapolis and its creative and artistic environment,
oriented towards the design of public and private space.
The goal is to put forward proposals for the development
of a new interaction between the physical world and the
digital world, in order to lay the foundations for a new “art
of dwelling”.
THE METAPOLIS DICTIONARY OF ADVANCED
ARCHITECTURE
The Metapolis Dictionary of Advanced Architecture is an
expanded version of the Spanish edition and seeks, like its
predecessor, to identify a new commitment in architecture
and a new social and cultural panorama. It aims to contribute
to forming a vision that is global ¬-but not necessarily
absolute- ¬ of what is already revealing itself to be a new
architectural action, related to what has come to be known
as advanced culture, present in various disciplines of the
art, thought and technology. The Metapolis Dictionary
of Advanced Architecture addresses an architecture
inscribed in the information society and influenced by
the new technologies, the new economy, concern for the
environment and interest in the individual... The diversity of
the authors and the special contributions should be seen as
an initial decision aimed at promoting the intersecting and
collaboration of visions and proposals along these lines.
SELF-SUFFICIENT HOUSING
1RST ADVANCED ARCHITECTURE CONTEST
Created for students and professionals to inspire changes
in how new buildings are designed and constructed, the
Self-Sufficient competition challenged participants to
design a self-sufficient and ecologically oriented dwelling.
In the early 20th century, the concept of “dwelling” was
defined as a “machine for living”, a reference to a new way
of understanding the construction of inhabitable spaces
that characterized the Machine Age. Today, a century
later, we face the challenge of constructing a sustainable
or self-sufficient dwelling, a living organism that interacts
with its environment, exchanging resources, and which
functions as an entirely independent entity. The Institute
for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) has collected
a selection of entries presented during its 1st Advanced
Architecture Contest: Self-Sufficient Housing.
TAIPEI
PROTOTYPES OF URBANITY
From an entire block to a single food stand, Taipei shows
the different scales of the dynamics of 21st century city. A
multiple layering of mobility constructs a unique grid in its
core.
400x400m superblocks functioning as a solid structure
with a large scale of activities, transportation and buildings
in its periphery, building up a typical orthogonal grid that
becomes a flexible grid inside: small alleys with smaller
uses functioning as a residential neighbourhood just a few
meters far from the metropolitan city. These superblocks are
one of the expressions of what Taipei signifies: dynamics,
flexibility and mobility, large masses changing through time
and allowing multiple activities to take place: night markets,
weekend markets and day markets inhabiting streets and
infrastructures.
In 2006 the IAAC in collaboration with The Observer Design
Group directed by JM Lin, commenced this research work
with the students of the 2005-2006 master in advanced
architecture, spending 10 days in Taipei measuring and
reading the city in order to get the primary information for
the subsequent workshop at Barcelona; this publication is
the result of the entire research process. The IAAC wants
to map cities all over the world to produce a picture of this
moment of the history of urbanism and architecture that
will allow us to understand what our cities are, how they
function and what are the possible developments that will
lead urbanity in the future.
HICAT
HIPERCATALUNYA: TERRITORIS DE RECERCA
HiperCatalunya is a territorial analysis and research
project sponsored by the Government of Catalonia,
directed by Metàpolis and undertaken at the Institute of
Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC). In an advanced
prospecting of today’s territory, HiperCatalunya seeks to
import tomorrow’s potentials, interrogating the territory to
bring out its capacities and latencies. Beyond the traditional
mechanisms of territorial analysis, this group endeavour
attempts to identify and express a multidisciplinary
approach to our environment, encouraging interpretations
open to potential interaction between the existing and the
imaginable, in accordance with an innovative dimension of
contemporary culture tending of foster new spaces for new
ways of life, and also new logics and new aesthetics for new
scenarios of progress. With this purpose in mind, the work
carried out has generated a wide range of research projects
and materials intended to enrich the understanding of
specialists and the general public. HiperCatalunya is a
reflection of, and seeks to stimulate reflection on, the true
territorial dimension of Catalonia, establishing through
theoretical and practical approaches four main realms
of analysis, reflection and proposal, understood both as
operative frameworks and as strategic layers of action,
aimed at anticipating and visualizing possible key questions
in the future development of the territory.
GEOCAT
TERRITORIAL LOOPS
This book sets out to follow the tradition of charting or
map-making as the capturing of visual records of a territory
in transformation, where the force of the urban seems
to presage imminent transformations is its surrounding
environment. The images present in panoramic format a
key moment in the transformation of Barcelona in the early
years of the last century.
ACUPUNTURA URBANA
Jaime Lerner
The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia has
published in Spanish ‘Acupuntura Urbana’ by the Brazilian
Jaime Lerner, in which the author reflects on the problems
of urbanism and the society.
Lerner, president of the Union Internacional de Arquitectos
(UIA), offers an acute and penetrating overview of incidents
and anecdotes from different cities and times.
His work is a warning about society’s capacity to transform
the places in which we live and a reflection on the things
that cause cities to exist and their continued renewal and
improvement, and on the tools needed to treat a city.
In his introduction of the book, Lerner asks “why certain
cities achieve important and positive transformations”, and
replies that “in them a beginning was caused, an awakening
(...) a good acupuncture. True urban acupuncture “.
Jaime Lerner (Curitiba, 1937) is a town planner and architect
and has served three terms as Mayor of his native city. He
has been awarded numerous prizes in Brazil and the rest of
the world, and is doctor honoris causa from the University of
Krakow. He has been president of UIA from 2002.
POLÍTICAS DEL ESPACIO
Jose Miguel G. Cortes
This book seeks to register the debates (motivated by
cultural studies) that question the hegemonic sense of urban
space and the configuration of the city, understood these
as an accumulation of uses, perceptions, symbolic systems,
elements of representation, etc, whose significance shifts
according to time, culture, social groups, sexual relations or
gender behaviour.
The complex relations between buildings and bodies,
structures and genders, surroundings and relations, have
characterized the attempts to undermine the conventions
of traditional architecture in recent decades. Nevertheless,
the contemporary city increasingly establishes attitudes
and modes of performance with which to organize and
structure the control of the body’s desires in two ways: first,
through the creation of “docile spaces” easy to watch and to
control; and second, by seeking to ensure that bodies are
“absent “ or denied, so that pleasure and desires disappear
from public spaces.
THE ALBACETE EFFECT
Jose Miguel Iribas
IAAC has made a territorial study of Albacete as a potential
territorial hub, one of the key cities for achieving a balanced
territorial articulation of the Southern quadrant of Spain, as
well as a determinant in the country’s future. This study was
directed by the sociologist Jose Miguel Iribas in conjunction
with IAAC researchers Rodrigo Rubio, Daniel Ibañez, Yesenia
Conchucos and Juliet Zindrou.
The study takes the form of a territorial analysis that detects
a privileged situation in cities like Zaragoza, Ciudad Real or
Albacete; these generate an intermediate crown between
the centre (Madrid) and the cities of the coast, and have a
very relevant articulating function, as well as diverse key
factors for the balanced urban development of Albacete.
The other part of the study is centred on centred on setting
out basic proposals for Albacete’s growth, ranging from
the new APT station to the new logistics platform and
the Eurocopter technological park, proposals for power
supplying with new technologies based on hydrogenate,
proposals of eco-tourism in Vega de Jucar or new locations
for the development of residential habitats.
. IaaC Community
MAA 2008 - 2009 // Indian Dinner
STUDENTS
Master in Advanced Architecture
2008/09
Nasreen Al Tamimi | UAE, United Arab
Emirates
Jose Manuel Alvarez Martinez | Dominican
Republic
Yick Ho Alvin Kung | Hong Kong
Tatiana Stelina Anagnostara | Greece
Ifigenia Arvaniti | Greece
Kalpit Ashar | India
Asli Aydin | Turkey
Josiah Barnes | U.S.A
Ali Basbous | Lebanon
Shradha Bhandari | India
Iwona Borkowska | Poland
Daria Bychkova | Russia
Gian Matteo Cossu | Italy
Cesar Cruz Cazares | Mexico
Gökçen Demirkır | Turkey
Farsheed Esfandiari | Iran
Anastasia Fotopoulou | Greece
Raquel Gallego Lorenzo | Spain
Michal Grzymala | Poland
Brynhildur Gudlaugsdottir | Iceland
Rodolfo J.Baiz Mendoza | Venezuela
Aikaterini-Foteini Karagianni | Greece
Maciej Kasper Burdalski | Poland
Niovi Ketonis | Germany
Burak Kilic | Turkey
Andrea Kondziela | Germany
Nikoleta Kotsikou | Greece
Maria Koutsari | Greece
Ashish Kulkarni | India
Karolina Kurzak | Poland
Sergio Leone | Italy
Guo Liang | China
Santiago Mañero Navarro | Spain
Javier Martinez | Mexico
Larisa Melnikova | Russia
Enrique Mora | Ecuador
Evangelios Moschonas | Greece
Areti Nikolopoulou | Greece
Sarkawt Noori | Iraq
Mohamed Omer | Sudan
Arnhildur Palmadottir | Iceland
Vinay Patil | India
Johanna Yudelka Peña Peláez | Dominican
Republic
Amleto Picerno Ceraso | Italy
Pier Paolo Presta | Italy
Pablo Rica | Spain
Dinella Rodriguez | Panama
Vladimir Samoukolvic | Croatia
Kanika Singh | India
Radek Stach | Poland
Konstanty Stajniak | Poland
Rodrigo Jose Toledo Santander | Colombia
Panagiota Tsekoura | Greece
Christina Tsompanoglou | Greece
Gawel Tyrala | Poland
Alejandro Vega Beuvrin | Venezouela
Nathaniel Vélez Nieves | Puerto Rico
Abhinav Wakhle | India
Qiu Xiao Jian | China
2007/08
Advait Potnis | India
Agata Kycia | Poland
Akriti Sood | India
Alessio Carta | Italy
Alexander Harris | U.S.A
Ana Francisca M.Aroso P. Oliveira | Portu-
gal
Andrea Katsavra | Cyprus
Annie Goya | India
Asaduzzaman Rassel | Bangladesh
MAA 2006-2007 // ReNou Workshop
Ben Howard | Australia
Bianny Jasmin Pouriet Galarza | Dominican
Republic
Diego Camargo | U.S.A
Dorota Kabala | Poland
Eduardo Mayoral | Spain
Erik Thorson | U.S.A
Eugenio Adame | México
Fragkoudi Anastasia | Greece
Gabriel Ochoa | Colombia
Gabriele Pieri | Italy
Georgia Voudouri | Greece
Hemant Purohit | India
Higinio J. Llames G. | Dominican Republic
Ismini Koronidi | Greece
Javier E. Perez Pittaluga | Dominican
Republic MAA 2006-2007 // Working Space
Javier Olmeda Raya | Puerto Rico
Jordi Roses | Spain
Ki Hoon Nam | Korea
Krystian Kwiecinski | Poland
Krzysztof Gornicki | Poland
Luis Fernando Odiaga | Perú
Machairas Georgios | Greece
Magda Osinska | Poland
Maite Bravo | Canada
Marcelo de la Riva | Mexico
Maria Eftychi | Cyprus
Mariana Paz Castellanos | Mexico
Michal Piasecki | Poland
Monica Szawiola | Poland
Nazli Ilgit Yucel | Turkey
Papaloizou, Maria | Cyprus
Peerapong Suntinanond | Thailand MAA 2006-2007 // Studio Class
Peter Booth | Australia
Rafael Gutierrez | Mexico
Ramon Velazquez | Argentina
Renu Gupta | India
Rodrigo Langarica Avila | Mexico
Rohan Khurana | India
Stefania Sini | Italy
Uday Goswam | India
Vagia Pantou | Greece
Vasco Portugal | Portugal
Verena Vogler | Germany
Vikrant Sharma | India
Vlachopoulou Evangelia | Greece
Weiss Juergen Michael | Germany
MAA 2008-2009 // Visiting BCN
2006/07
Gabriella Castellanos | Dominican Republic
Salvador Cristobal Bernal Martin del
Campo | Mexico
Massiel Santos de la Cruz | Dominican
Republic
Natalia Enid Miranda Morales | Dominican
Republic
Fani Natou | Greece
Frosso Charalambous | Cyprus
Chrysokona Mavrou | Greece
Panagiota Piperidou | Greece
Walee Phiriyaphongsak | Thailand
Theodora Christoforidou | Greece
Auz Giselle | Dominican Republic
Chiara Farinea | Italy
Guillermo Iván | Mexico
Carmen Ferrando Ortells | Spain
Daniel Ibañez Moreno | Spain
Berardo Matalucci | Italy
Abel Patacho | Portugal
Lilieth Apancio | Panama
Fotis Vasilakis | Greece
Honghao Zhao | China
Karlo Alejandro De Soto Molina | Mexico
Anna Szloser | Polonia
Fabiano Spano | Italy
Enrico Crobu | Italy
Alfonso Pezzi | Italy
Vasileios Ntovros | Greece
Diego Camargo | U.S.A
Luz Escobar Michel | Dominican Republica
Asaduzzaman Rassel | Bangladesh
Rodrigo Rubio Cuadrado | Spain
Ki Hoon Nam | Korea
Shane Salisbury | USA
Gozde Kucukoglu | Turkey
Monica Wittig | USA
Enrique Ramirez | Mexico
Luis Fraguada | Puerto Rico
Daniela Frogheri | Italia
Francisco Villeda Arreola | Mexico
Fernando Menenses Carlos | Mexico
Mariano Arias Diez | Mexico
Chrsitine Bleicher | Germany
Gaetan Kholer | France
Sarah Collado | Bcn
Emmanouil Zaroukos | Greece
2005/06
Aranda Morales, Gabriel | Mexico
Cankar, Ana | Slovenia
Coleman, Elena | USA
Conchucos Andrés, Yesenia | Peru
Kouveli, Angeliki | Greece
Kunst, Ana | Croatia
Markopoulou, Areti | Greece
Rionda Ruiz, Santiago | Mexico
Sordo Sobrino, María Dolores | Mexico
Yang, Kyung-Mo | Korea
Zindrou, Juliet Loulia | Greece
2004/05
Arias Diez, Mariano | Mexico
Bajlo, Jasna | Croacia
Bucio Ramos, Áurea Martha | Mexico
Cordero Tovar, Roman Jesus | Mexico
Dressler, Claudia | Germany
Garza Villarreal, Ana Cecilia | Mexico
Kefalogiannis, Nektarios | Greece
Kunst, Ana | Croatia
Modugno, Loredana Domenica | Italy
Peracic, Dinko | Croacia
Peter, Jenni | Switzerland
Potvin, Mónica | Canada MAA 2007-2008 // Research Trip @ RO
Rodríguez Perdomo, Alejandra Maria |
Colombia
Schwarzpaul, Wilm | Germany
Silje, Roman | Croacia
Stern, Spela | Slovenia
Villeda Arreola, Francisco | Mexico
2003/04
Valdez, Carlos | Mexico
Valdez , Juan pablo | Mexico
Gandara Cifuentes, Juan Fernando | Gua-
temala
Karrasch, Susanne | Germany
Miller, Matthew | USA
Padron Hernandez, Alejandro Rafael | Ven-
ezuela
Saucedo Nuñez, Alicia | Mexico MAA 2007-2008 // SMAQ Workshop
Serulle Gomez, Ernesto Amin | Dominican
Republic
Wissam Khalil, Khairallah | India
2002/03
Atzori, Marco | Italy
Contreras Visconti, Jeylhic Mercedes | Ven-
ezuela
Echavarria Martinez, Maria Del Pilar |
Colombia
Giannakidis, Asterios- Orfeas | Greece
Kemper, Chris Robert | Germany
Magallanes Gutierrez, Melissa | Mexico
Maluf, Victoria | Argentina
Flores, Margarita | Mexico
Velasquez, Marco Antonio | Mexico
Lucas Cappelli | Argentina MAA 2007-2008 // Greek Dinner
MAA 2008-2009 // Final Presentation
FACULTY
Vicente Guallart
Willy Müller
Marta Malé-Alemany
Izaskun Chinchilla
Aaron Betsky
Lucas Cappelli
Jose Pedro Sousa
Robert Brufau
Andreu Ulied
Uriel Fogue
Neil Leach
Artur Serra
Vincent Julian
Olaf Gipser
Martin Sobota
Lluis Viu Rebés
Andrés Jaque
Gonzalo Delacamara
Ferran Grau
Michel Rojkind
Bostian Vuga
Florian Foerster
Sabine Müller
Andreas Quednau
Max Sanjulian
Victor Viña
Gerard Passola
Jordi Pages i Ramon
Jorge Aleix
Daniel Ibáñez
Rodrigo Rubio
Shane Salisbury
Luis Fraguada
Areti Markopoulou
Francisca Aroso
Nacho López
Toni Moranto
Orfeas Giannakidis
Moises Morato
Spyros Stavoravdis
Joan Miralles

PREVIOUS LECTURERS
Brett Steele, Pepe Ballesteros, Laura Cantarella, Santiago Cirugeda
Parejo, Luca Galofaro, Lourdes García Sogo, Adriaan Geuze, Xaveer
de Geyter, Toyo Ito, Francisco Jarauta, young Joon Kim, Kamiel
Klaasse, Anne Lacaton, Duncan Lewis, Greg Lynn, Winy Maas,
Josep Lluís Mateo, Fernando Menis, Enric Ruiz-Geli, Alfredo Payá,
Jaime Salazar, Max Sanjulián, Charles Renfro, Amadeu Santacana,
Carlos Sant’Ana, Kelly Shannon, Alejandro Zaera-Polo, José María
Torres Nadal, Ben van Berkel, Mark Wigley,. yung Ho Chang, ILSA &
Andreas Ruby, Jacub Szczesny, Jou Min Lin, Lucy Bullivant, Momoyo
Kaijima, Manuel Ailo+ Rosa Rull, Andres Cánovas, Andrés Jaque,
Carlos Arroyo, Angel Borrego, Colectivo Zuloark, Ana Salinas, Maria
Auxiliadora Galvez, Isabela Wieczorek, Ecosistema Urbano, Claudia
Pasquero, Marco Poletto, Bernhard Franken, Sabine Müller, Bostian
Vuga, Axel Kilian, Benedetta Tagliabue, Alejandro Gutierrez, Juan
Herreros, Winka Dubbeldam, Hanif Kara, Neil Leach, Minsuk Cho,
Alfonso Vegara, Behrok Khoshnevis, Stephen Wolfman, Michael
Rojkind, Caterina Tiazzoldi, Jaime Lerner, Massimiliano Fuksas,
Rajendra Kumar, Ariadna Alvarez Garreta and many others.

SPECIALISTS
François Ascher (sociologist), Alfons Cornella (economist), Alberto
Cortina (lawyer), Manuel Delgado (anthropologist), José Miguel
García Cortés (curator), Neil Gershenfeld (physicist), José M. Iribas
(sociologist), Xavier Mayor (biologist), Salvador Rueda (urban
ecologist), Ramon Prat (publisher/graphic designer), Ramon
Sangüesa (computer scientist), Artur Serra (anthropologist), Andreu
Ulied (engineer), John Urry (sociologist).
IAAC TEAM
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