The Barcelona Institute of Architecture (BIArch) is currently receiving applications to the second edition of the MBIArch post-professional degree program, with classes beginning in September.

With a master’s degree awarded together with the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, the MBIArch is supported by an outstanding international faculty with the 2011-2012 academic year set to include design seminars and studios with Pier Vittorio Aureli, Philippe Rahm, Cecilia Puga, Iñaki Ábalos, Philip Ursprung and Yoshiharu Tsukamoto among others.

Students from five different continents took part in the 2010-2011 inaugural MBIArch program, with some notable aspects including lectures with Enrique Walker and Riken Yamamoto, and architectural design studios led by David Adjaye, Stan Allen and Ábalos.

Through both the MBIArch curriculum and the Institute’s ongoing Open Lectures & Events BIArch aims to provide its students with a platform to develop the skills needed in exploring the analytical and operative capacities of projects to allow for a richer, more stable professional perspective.

Requiring one year of full-time study and offered entirely in English, the MBIArch consists of 60 ECTS credits and is open to candidates holding a professional degree in architecture.

BIArch will be accepting applications to next year’s program until July 15^th.

For details on the application process and requirements visit www.biarch.eu or contact admissions at admissions@biarch.eu

Green roofs, artificial mountains and geological forms; buildings you can walk on or over; networks of ramps and warped surfaces; buildings that carve into the ground or landscapes lifted high into the air: all these are commonplace in architecture today. New technologies, new design techniques and a demand for enhanced environmental performance have provoked a re-consideration of architecture’s traditional relationship to the ground. Some of today’s most innovative buildings no longer occupy a given site but instead, construct the site itself.

The book Landform Building sets out to examine the many manifestations of landscape and ecology in contemporary architectural practice: not as a cross-disciplinary phenomenon (architects working in the landscape) but as a study of the new design techniques, formal strategies, and technical problems that are emerging in the discipline.

Stan Allen will present his new book Landform Building along with the participation of Iñaki Ábalos, Michael Jakob, Josep Lluís Mateo, and Lars Müller, on Saturday April 30th at 12:30 pm in the Auditorium of La Pedrera. The event, organized by the Barcelona Institute of Architecture – BIArch, offers a unique opportunity for participants to analyze and discuss the relationship between landscape and architecture.

Admittance is free, but seating capacity is limited. Please RSVP through our website or our Facebook Page. For more information contact info@biarch.eu.

“BIArch is a place for the production and dissemination of architectural knowledge, anchored in a specific place and culture but open to the exterior.” Josep Lluís Mateo, President of the BIArch Board of Directors, Chair of Architecture and Design at ETH Zurich and Principal of Mateo Arquitectura

The Barcelona Institute of Architecture (BIArch) is an international institution set up to further the interaction between academic research, specialized practice and the dissemination of contemporary architecture. BIArch seeks to promote new ways of considering and practicing architecture within the context of rapidly changing technological, environmental, and economic conditions.

The Institute is currently receiving applications to the second edition of the MBIArch Master in Architecture. The post-professional degree program consists of an innovative curriculum covering Architectural Design, Urban & Territorial Studies, Energy & Building Technologies, Digital Media, as well as History, Theory, & Criticism. Supported by an outstanding international faculty, the course combines lectures, seminars, studio work, and on-site workshops in aiming to bridge the gap between professional training, critical analysis and design-based research.

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A couple of days ago we featured the first BIArch Open Lecture by Yung Ho Chang. The second of the BIArch Open Lectures of the Spring 2010 cycle was delivered on June 11th by Stan Allen, principal of Stan Allen Architect and Dean of the Princeton University School of Architecture (SOA). The lecture was titled “From Object to Field (and back).” Stan Allen will be part of the faculty for the first edition of the Institute’s MBIArch Master’s Degree in Architecture program.

Introduction was conducted by Madrid-based architect Arturo Franco, editor of Arquitectura COAM Magazine. You can see the introduction video after the break. read more »

Yung Ho Chang, founder of Atelier FCJZ, China’s first private architectural practice and head of the Architecture department at the MIT, delivers the first BIArch Open Lecture of the Spring 2010 cycle: “China, Carb, City, China”.

The introduction of this lecture was given by Albert Ferré, director of Actar. You can see the video of the introduction after the break. read more »

The Barcelona Institute of Architecture (BIArch) is an international institution set up to further interaction between academic research, specialized practice and the dissemination of contemporary architecture. The academic core of the Barcelona Institute of Architecture as a postgraduate institute is its MBIArch Post-Professional Master’s Degree program, currently open for applications for the 2010-2011 term.

The Open Lectures series is part of their public program, which included Yoshiharu Tsukamoto from the Japanese firm Atelier Bow-Wow. Atelier Bow-Wow has conducted an extensive research on japanese micro architecture, presented on their books Pet Architecture and Made in Tokyo

This is also seen on their works, such as their own House & Atelier (video here).

After the break, the second part of his lecture “Architectural Behaviorology”.
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The Barcelona Institute of Architecture (BIArch) is an international institution set up to further interaction between academic research, specialized practice and the cultural dissemination of contemporary architecture. Occupying a space midway between schools of architecture and professional praxis, BIArch is an open laboratory for professionals and researchers that aims to promote new ways of thinking and acting for a technological, energy and economic reality in permanent flux.

Their next seminar is “Energy”, and it will be held next October 30-31, at BIArch (La Pedrera, Passeig de Gracia 92, Barcelona, Spain). All sessions will be in English. Access is free but limited. Registration is is required for attendance at info@biarch.eu. The seminar is directed by Agustí Obiol.