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IAAC - INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED ARCHITECTURE OF CATALONIA
Master
in Advanced Architecture
Self-sufficient habitats
Emergent territories
Self-sufficient buildings
Digital Tectonics
Directed
by
Vicente Guallart, Willy Muller, Marta Malé-Alemany
IaaC-Research/Education/Development Centre
The
Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IaaC) directed by Vicente
Guallart is an
international centre of research, education, and development of
architecture on a multi-scalar level ranging from bits to geography.
The three-term Master in Advanced Architecture accredited by the
Fundació Politècnica de Catalunya approaches the physical
construction of the world by simultaneously engaging issues on the scales
of the territory, the building, and digital fabrication.
Directors of the Master Program Vicente Guallart, Willy Müller, and
Marta Malé-Alemany, together with the rest of the teaching staff,
are committed to a long-term prospectus of creating an academic and explorative
centre in Barcelona which brings together students, tutors, and researchers
from different fields of knowledge in order to materialize experimental
forms of communication, dwelling, and planning.
IaaC-Vision
Architecture from Bits to Geography
IaaC takes a multiscale approach to the project of the physical construction
of the world, simultaneously engaging issues on the scales of the territory,
the building, and digital fabrication 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.
IaaC works in close cooperation with experts from a wide range of fields,
including engineering, anthropology, sociology, IT, mathematics, biology
and ecology, 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 architecture 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.
Applications
for MAA 2008-09 are still open.
For more information contact coordinator@iaac.net
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