Spring 2017 Seminar visit_Economists Hq and Firemen Museum by R+B arqts.

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Spring 2017 Midterm presentations

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Spring 2017 Seminar Visit_Cricursa

As a part of our seminar visits , our spring 2017 students have  visited Headquarters of CRICURSA, a leading international producer of curved glass and special laminated architectural glass.

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BAC Spring 2017 design studio lecture series_NICOLAS VAUCHER

BAC Spring 2017 lecture series

NICOLAS VAUCHER

Burckhardt+Partner SA

Thursday March 23 at 12:45

BAC, Bruc 59, local

Open to the Public

Born in Geneva, 1965, Nicolas Vaucher studied architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) where he graduated in 1991. He gained professional experience abroad in Auckland (NZ), New York (Eisenman architects) and in Paris (François Roche).

In 1993, he co-founded BMW architects, winner of the Distinction of Romande architecture 2006 and recognized for the quality of its projects and competition entries.

He became a visiting professor at HEPIA school of architecture in 2007. As an active member of several professional associations, he defends and promotes architectural quality, for both our urban and social environments, convinced that a beautiful city is a city that promotes better living.

Since 2008, he is the Design director for Burckhardt+partner in Suisse romande (French-speaking cantons of Switzerland). He actively develops a common cultural knowledge for urban context and architecture in collaboration with his project teams.

Committee member of the Swiss Architects Federation (FAS) and member of the Swiss Society of Engineers and Architects (SIA) and the Architectural Commission of Geneva (Commission d’architecture de Genève)

Spring 2017 Madrid and Toledo

Some postcards from out travel to Madrid and Toledo with groups from Texas A&M, Clemson and Roger Williams Universities students.

 

Past Monday, one of the visits  was at Arquitectura Viva headquarters. Luis Fernández-Galiano, director of one of the most prestigious European architecture magazine received us and shared with our students secrets of their magazine.
We wish to see our students professional works published here in the near future.

Many thanks Luis Fernández-Galiano, Cuca Flores and all Arquitectura Viva team for this wonderful visit and everyone else and who has received us in their studios, centers and who made part of this trip!

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BAC Spring 2017 design studio lecture series_ALEXANDAR IVANCIC

BAC Spring 2017 lecture series

ALEXANDAR IVANCIC

Energy as a Design Driver in  Urban Design

Thursday, January 26th at 12:45

BAC, Bruc 59, local

Open to the Public

Aleksandar (Alex) Ivancic

Alex is a mechanical engineer and holds a PhD in Thermal Science. His main professional interest is positioned within energy systems and its environmental impacts, with a particular focus on buildings and urban scale. He is equally committed to teaching, researching, and practicing.

He is currently Senior Consultant at Aiguasol Engineering (Barcelona, Spain). He also serves as a member of the International Keio Institute for Architecture and Urbanism at Keio University (Tokyo). Alex is elected member of the Scientific Society of Serbia. He is member of the editorial team of urbanNext.net

Alex has published more than sixty papers relating to energy systems, urban infrastructures, renewable energies, energy planning and computational fluid dynamics. He also published the book titled EnergyScapes (2010 Gustavo Gili).

Spring 2017 welcome week

We have welcomed students from Texas A&M, Clemson and Roger Williams Universities for another wonderful semester in Barcelona.

Many thanks again to Elton Abbott and Kate Schwennsen for coming to Barcelona to start with us this Spring 2017!