WHAT IS IAAC?
The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) is a centre for research, education, production and outreach, with the mission of envisioning the future habitat of our society and building it in the present.
IAAC follows the digital revolution at all scales (from bits to geography, from micro-controllers to cities, from materials to the territory) to expand the boundaries of architecture and design and meet the challenges faced by humanity. IAAC is an experimental and experiential centre where one learns by doing, through a test methodology that promotes real solutions.
IAAC is an open, independent and radical non-profit foundation, with 20 years of activity; inspired by the values of Barcelona, the capital of architecture and design, where urbanism was invented and where a local high quality and innovation-oriented research is connected to an international network of excellence in technology, architecture and society fields.
WHY STUDY AT IAAC?
- You will share this life-changing experience with a community of extraordinary students and staff from more than 70 different countries.
- You will master the latest tools and technologies learning with the best academics, researchers and professionals in their sectors.
- A 70% of IAAC Alumni find a job after just 6 months of completing our Master programmes, and 90% within one year.
- You will discover Barcelona, one of the best cities in the world and the one who is setting the trends in design, architecture and urban sciences.
- You will become part of a consolidated a network of people – Alumni, Researchers and Faculty – who will be your family, your business partners, and will shape the future hand in hand with you.
- You will have access to one of the most equipped laboratories of digital fabrication in the EU, the Fab Lab Barcelona, and you will learn how to work with digital fabrication in an academic environment with the highest ratio of students per machine (5 to 1).