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The IAAC: Innovative 3D Printing with Architecture
The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) is a training center in Barcelona dedicated to developing sustainable architectural projects, innovating, and using the best of new technologies, including 3D printed houses. Their mission is to imagine the future of&hel
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The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) is a training center in Barcelona dedicated to developing sustainable architectural projects, innovating, and using the best of new technologies, including 3D printed houses.
Their mission is to imagine the future of our society, and start building it now. We spoke to Areti Markopoulou, Academic Director of the Institute, about 3D printing’s importance in architecture.
3DN: How was the IAAC started and how did its relation with the new technologies begin?
The IAAC was founded as a result of the emergence of new digital technologies and information. This is in order to prepare future change makers, professionals capable of creating and creating processes, and spaces more synchronized with the environment, more interactive with its users and more influential in social and economic challenges. All this without forgetting to use new technologies to shape new ideas in the field of design and construction.
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