IAAC Lecture Series – Nader Tehrani

Date: May 9th, 2022
Time: 18.00h CET (Barcelona Time) , 12.00h EST (Boston Time)

Title: The Woodpecker’s Delight
Event: Master in Mass Timber Design (MMTD) Scholarship

Location: Online Zoom

Lecture Abstract:

In a world increasingly challenged by global warming, it is clear that the construction industry is a major contributor to unsustainable carbon emissions. The identification of naturally renewable resources is a critical factor in determining a sustainable supply chain for the industry, and yet that cannot guarantee the role of architecture in the equation. This lecture will focus on the role of wood, adopted in its hybrid formats to contribute to the cultural and ecological equation in balance.

Free registration: https://iaac.net/iaac-lecture-series-nader-tehrani/

This lecture is part of the preparation for the global online competition “Design for Biocities.” 

Location: ZOOM

Title: Politics and poetics of water in the Anthropocene: Cape Town's "Day Zero" drought

Description:

Nick Shepherd is a researcher and writer based at Aarhus University in Denmark, and at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. He has been a visiting professor at Brown University, Colgate University and the University of Basel, and a Mandela Fellow at Harvard University

Registration: https://iaac.net/iaac-lecture-series-nick-shepherd/

Urbanista con un máster y un doctorado en la Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo de la Universidad de São Paulo (USP), y un postdoctorado en la Universidad Politécnica de California, donde también fue profesor visitante. Profesor de la Universidad Presbiteriana Mackenzie. Profesor colaborador del Máster en Ciudades Inteligentes y Sostenibles de Uninove. Investigador invitado en el Instituto de Estudios Avanzados de la USP. Director de Stuchi & Leite Projetos e Consultoria Urbana. Ex director de Urbanismo del Ayuntamiento de São Paulo. Es autor del libro "Ciudades sostenibles, ciudades inteligentes" (2012).


More info: https://iaac.net/redes-palabras-cruzadas-en-iberoamerica-sesion-13/

Neil Leach is a Professor at FIU, Tongji University and EGS. He has also taught at other leading institutions, including the AA, IaaC, DIA, Columbia GSAPP, Cornell, Harvard GSD and SCI-Arc. He is also the co-founder of DigitalFUTURES, an academician in the Academy of Europe, and the recipient of two NASA fellowships for research into 3D print technologies for the Moon and Mars. He has published over 40 books on architectural theory and digital design including: Rethinking Architecture (Routledge, 1997), The Anaesthetics of Architecture (MIT, 1999), Designing for a Digital World (Wiley, 2002), Digital Tectonics (Wiley, 2004), Camouflage (MIT, 2006), Digital Cities (Wiley, 2009), Machinic Processes (CABP, 2010), Space Architecture (Wiley, 2014), Robotic Futures (TongjiUP, 2015), Swarm Intelligence (TongjiUP, 2017), Computational Design (TongjiUP, 2017), Digital Fabrication (TongjiUP, 2017), 3D Printed Body Architecture (Wiley, 2017), Architecture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Bloomsbury, 2021) and Machine Hallucinations: Architecture and AI (Wiley, 2022).

Registration: https://iaac.net/iaac-lecture-series-neil-leach/

The Afrikan Ecological Architecture Symposium is aimed at providing a platform for young architects and designers from the continent to showcase their work and also for more seasoned professionals to come together in the hopes of tackling pertinent issues affecting Africa’s design and build sector. The topics to be covered are: integrating nature and culture with design, new age materiality, re-thinking design education on the continent, the role of digital design and fabrication in the future of the continent, public space, and Afro-Futurism.

The event will be held online on May 27th, 2022 and include a keynote lecture by Stella Mutegi and Kabage Karanja of Cave Bureau, in addition to roundtable discussions featuring names such as Christian Benimana (Senior Principal and Managing Director of MASS Design Group) and industrial and furniture designer, Jomo Tariku.

IAAC is glad to announce that the event, organized by IAAC Valldaura Labs in collaboration with the African Design Centre, will be moderated by students coming from 3DPA, MAEBB, and MAA educational programmes.

Registration: https://iaac.net/afrikan-ecological-architecture-symposium/