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2023/24 first MIAD’s masterClass taught by Tiantian Xu (DnA), under the title WORKING IN RURAL, will take place this Tuesday, November 21, 2023 at 7:00 p.m. in the classroom Graus, at Sant Josep building and by streaming at Zoom ID: 934 8676 8026.

DnA Projects is spearheading a movement that rekindles rural self-confidence and shifts provincial attitudes towards outsiders, offering a warm embrace through innovative architectural endeavors. This initiative recognizes the profound historical significance of the countryside as the cradle of human civilization and underscores its pivotal role in addressing contemporary challenges. By reshaping the rural landscape, DnA Projects paves the way for inclusive and open-minded communities that are ready to face the pressing issues of our time. 

Xu Tiantian is a highly accomplished architect and urban designer with a remarkable career that spans across the globe. She holds a Harvard education and has gained professional experience in some of the most renowned architectural offices worldwide, including the prestigious OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture). With her exceptional background and expertise, she founded DnA (Design and Architecture) – a groundbreaking firm that has spearheaded a revolution to preserve and rejuvenate China's oldest villages.

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New MasterClass taught by Lluís Ortega, under the title THE INVISIBLE MUSE, will take place this Thursday, June 8th, 2023 at 7:00 p.m. in the Q14 classroom, at Sant Josep building and by streaming at Zoom ID: 934 6211 7908.

The burst of the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) brings to the forefront the need to rethink how to recycle and expand the architectural intelligence and energy embedded in it. In the rapid introduction of AI in architecture design, we run the risk of canceling organizational potentials if we just look at optimizing processes. When architects look for the invisible muse, a world of generative mediation arises. This talk will present the case of MALEAD, a research project that compares machine learning models and data sets for designing social housing layouts.

Lluís Ortega is PHD Architect by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), MA in Philosophy by the Universitat de Barcelona and obtained his Master of Science (AAD) degree from Columbia University. At present, he is Distinguished Research Professor Beatriz Galindo at UPC and Associate Professor at IIT in Chicago (on leave). Previously taught at Universidad Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires, UIC (Chicago), Universidad de Alicante, Harvard University and at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna. He co-founded F451 in 2000 and Sio2Arch. Since 2019 he is the co-director, with Julia Capomaggi of

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Next Monday May the 8th, Jonathan Foote will give us a masterClass about the Post-Extractive Architecture: Repair and Territory, at the ETSALS, 17:00h CEST, Q1 Classroom & ZOOM ID 934 6211 7908

Currently, the architectural discipline has very few tools for considering what happens to the landscapes affected by our extractive practices. Post-industrial landscape repair has been a topic among landscape architects and ecologists for decades, but by the time these professions arrive, the crime has already been committed. Therefore, how can architecture reduce its impact on extractive landscapes through the design decisions we make? To explore this question, we introduce two contrasting cases of extractive landscapes in natural stone. The first is in Larvik, Norway, where one of the world’s most technologically advanced quarries extracts large quantities of larvikite, most of which is exported for further processing. The second case is on the island of Mallorca, Spain, where a largely artisanal quarrying process, in place for centuries, still produces the characteristic marès stone, famous among Danish architects for Jørn Utzon’s use of it at Can Lis and Can Feliz.

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Jonathan Foote, Ph.D, is an architect and Associate Professor at Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark. His teaching, editorial work and research focuses on the relation between architectural drawings and materials, as well as the relation between architectural history and workshop-based knowledge. He has published on the drawings and workshop practices of Michelangelo Buonarroti, Francesco Borromini, and Sigurd Lewerentz.
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Eduardo Prieto will do the next MIAD’s masterClass on Comfort History: Architecture, Environment and Culture, on Wednesday, April 12, 2023 at 7:00 p.m. in the Q14 classroom, at Sant Josep building LaSalle Campus Barcelona and by streaming (Zoom ID: 934 6211 7908).

The lecture will examine the origins of the concept in the 18th-century and will give an account of its evolution throughout the recent history of Western culture through a story in which architecture will merge with technique, art and literature to present comfort in the light of other concurrent and no less important contemporary concepts: energy, hygiene, habitat and atmosphere.

Eduardo Prieto is a Doctor of Architecture, a Graduate in Philosophy. He teaches History of Architecture at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, where he is also the director of the international course ‘Architecture and Environment’. He is the author of more than sixty articles and chapters of indexed books, and several reference books, including Historia medioambiental de la arquitectura (Environmental History of Architecture) (Cátedra, 2019, 2022).

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This Wednesday 25th, at 7 p.m. CET, will do a lecture at the MIAD program of ETSALS about Design Activism: Tents, Containers, and Holes in the Ground. It’s based on her research about the UN peace missions, which operate today inside hundreds of cities across the world. Planned and engineered with the logic of security regimes, using single-purpose infrastructure, and dependent on extractive global supply chains, these ‘Islands of Blue’ generate a massive carbon footprint, profoundly impact local livelihoods, and leave mostly waste after decommissioning.

Malkit Shoshan is a researcher, author, and designer. She is the founding director of the Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory (FAST), an Amsterdam- and New York-based think-tank that develops projects at the intersection of architecture, urban planning, and human rights. She is the Area Head of the Master in Design Studies in Art, Design, and the Public Domain (ADPD) at Harvard Graduate School of Design.

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Great final delivery of the workshop at the tectonic logic, where the students made out a small house of wood for the La Salle Bonanova campus caretaker and her/his familiy. Congratulations for the professors Francisco Cifuentes () and David Tapias (.architectures).

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Tectonic Logic MIAD's MasterClass, next Monday, Nov 21st, at 4 pm (CET) will be taught by

Title: POSITIVE ARCHITECTURE. How building should contribute rather than consume.

Josep Bunyesc, architect and European doctor from the UPC and EPFLausanne with housing in mountain areas and energy efficiency. National Award for Architecture and Public Space of the Generalitat de Catalunya 2012. Guest lecturer at EPFL ENAC on several occasions and guest lecturer UPC ETSAB subject of construction with wood. Author of the book Arquitectura positiva published by AxA.

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The next MIAD's MasterClass this Wednesday, Oct 26th, at 7 pm (CET) will be taught by Mario Carpo during the Digital Logics.

Mario Carpo, Reyner Banham Professor of Architectural History and Theory, the Bartlett, University College London; Professor of Architectural Theory, Die Angewandte (University of Applied Arts), Vienna.

Title: Design and Automation at the End of Modernity.
We have long known that digital mass-customization is cheaper, faster, smarter, and more environmentally sustainable than the mechanical mass-production of standardized items of mass-consumption; we have long known that the electronic transmission of information is cheaper, faster, smarter, and more environmentally sustainable than the mechanical transportation of people and goods. 

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The first MIAD's MasterClass next Monday, April 25th, at 7 pm (CET) will be taught by during the Environmental Logics.

Pedro Gadanho is an architect, curator, and writer.
A 2020 Loeb Fellow from Harvard University, he was a curator of contemporary architecture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Between 2015 and 2019, he was also the founding Director of MAAT, the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, in Lisbon.
Gadanho holds an MA in art and architecture, and is a PhD in architecture and mass media. He wrote Arquitetura em Público, a recipient of the
FAD Prize for Thought and Criticism in 2012.
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The Miad students built a beautiful 1:1 timber model as part of the Tectonic Logics workshop lead by Francisco Cifuentes from and David Tàpias from .architectures . Thanks to .cat for the material!
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During the Tectonics Logics students and tutors worked as a group, where each individual’s experience, interest and talent was enhanced to help the team achieve its common objectives. The group worked and reflect upon a wide range of architectural techniques, from digital modelling to hand sketching, and from dialogues through quick mock-ups to ultra-rigorous narrative via video essays and wriden stories.
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Tectonics Logics professor: Francisco Cifuentes from and David Tapias from .architectures
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The fourth lecture of the MIAD’s masterClass cycle was teached by Beth Capdeferro and Ramon Bosch .capdeferro.arquitectura during the Tectonics Logics.
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bosch.capdeferro is an architecture studio based in Girona founded by Ramon Bosch and Bet Capdeferro. They conceive the project as a concave and inclusive experience, capable of harmoniously integrating through an open process all diverse agents and facts that configure it. In 2011 they received the Emerging Architect Special Mention of the European Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award.

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