The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) opens the doors to a new edition of the Global Summer School (GSS), novel onsite and online programme creating a common platform for students all over the world with IAAC network of experts and renowned lecturers in the main educational experience of summer 2024.
For more than 14 years, IAAC faculties and students have been working side by side both physically and digitally, with the aim of fostering knowledge sharing and expertise exchange with a global learning academy for architects, engineers, designers and innovators.
This summer, IAAC proposes a modular workshops model for the GSS, aiming to enhance hands-on experience at IAAC Barcelona while maintaining its digital routes within an agile online format. GSS24 comprises 4 workshops focussing on the latest digital tools and softwares toward the exploration of Bamboo architecture & fabrication, computational & environmental design, digital data & urban analytics and artificial intelligence for architecture.
Over the years, GSS programmes has represented a celebration of forward-looking education, inviting participants to define a new paradigm of Advanced Architecture at different scales. GSS learning objectives promote the investigation of new design solutions, architectures and tools, empowering participants in becoming change makers in such an evolving world and society.
Thanks to its dynamic format, GSS participants can trace their own learning journey, by joining a two-week workshop at IAAC or by selecting a single or more online modules taking place in the month of July 2024. GSS courses are led by IAAC faculties and Alumni, looking forward to bringing participants into immersive workflows, individual projects investigation and development. During the month of July, GSS students will have exclusive access to the Global Lectures, weekly online gatherings featuring experts from the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry, relevant to each workshop topic.
This summer, join the IAAC GSS program, choose one or more workshops to become part of the GSS community!