Alumni
Alumni Network
Over more than 20 years, IAAC has received and been home to over 1500 students from more than 100 countries, including China, the UK, the USA, Australia, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Ecuador, Peru, Germany, Iran, Thailand, Russia, Turkey, India, Poland, Cyprus, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Spain, Guatemala, Bangladesh, Colombia, Korea and more, making it an exceptionally international and multicultural place.
IAAC Alumni community is an active and dynamic network of visionary professionals distributed around the world, promoting principles and applications of Advanced Architecture and collaborating with IAAC in multiple academic and international research operations.
IAAC Alumni Meeting
IAAC is proud to finally announce its 4th Global Alumni Meeting that will take place in Barcelona Friday, 28th of April 2023. Submit your proposal before midnight of January 21st, 2023.
In the last 18 years, the IAAC has opened its doors to more than 1,000 students from more than 70 countries. Some of the most…
IAAC is proud to finally announce its 3rd Global Alumni Meeting! For this very special occasion, we would like to extend an invitation to all…
IAAC Alumni News
IAAC Alumni have been awarded by Lenzing with the “Young Scientist Award” for their Fabricademy final research projects.
IAAC Alumnus Firas Safieddine won the third place in the AI Artathon held by Global AI Summit with the project “Spatial AI Ecologies”.
IAAC is proud to present ‘Nacre’: the Pulpo Collective’s installation for the Vivid Sydney Festival. Nacre takes inspiration from the many shell middens found during…
IAAC is glad to announce that the Master in Advanced Architecture project Water-Driven Breathing Skin, by students Montakan Manosong, Irene Ayala Castro, Chieh Chang and Zina Alkani,…
Last October 21st at the Volkstheater of Vienna, IAAC Alumni Chenthur Raaghav Naagendran was invited to deliver his TEDxVienna talk about “Responsive Intelligence”, exploring the ideas…
Students who successfully graduated from a IAAC Master Programme in the past will have an automatic discount on the tuition fees to enrol in another Master Programme…
Needlab is a non-profit architectural research organization started by IAAC alumni Sameera Chukkapalli, who has been collaborating with the FAB City project to explore how…
IAAC is proud to announce that the award of Middle East Architect of the Year 2017, was given to its Alumni Farshad Mehdizadeh, founder of Farshad…
Last September the Oslo Innovation Week invited the Biocentric Design Group, founded by IAAC Alumni Thora Arnardottir, Noor El-Gewely and Jessica Dias, to present at…
No. 5 is the address for the upcoming mixed use destination in Beirut. The project is the brainchild of a collaboration of two of IAAC’s…
IAAC Alumni Stories
Meet Stuart Maggs, IAAC Alumni - Master in Advanced Architecture graduate, currently Master in Robotics and Advanced Construction Faculty at IAAC. Stuart is an architect…
Meet Kammil Carranza - an Interactive Media Designer from Cali, Colombia, with a Master degree from the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia. Kammil has…
Arian Hakimi is an Iranian architect, researcher and educator. Studying his B.arch at University of Tehran with his thesis focus on “Lost Arts of Persia”.…
The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia is pleased to highlight alumni success stories! The research developed by our alumnus Monish Siripurapu on biomimicry cooling…
Natalie Alima is a researcher with a multidisciplinary approach to architecture that fuses biology, robotics and parametric design. She has a passion for controlling, manipulating and…
After a few weeks of autumn and the start of the new academic year, we release a new Alumni Story! In this case, the story of…
Alexandre Dubor is an architect and researcher combining new technologies in an attempt to improve how we build and live in our cities. He holds…
Utsav Mathur is a former student from India, graduated from the Master in Advanced Architecture (Class of 2016). He describes his experience at IAAC as…
We start July with a new Alumni Story. Maite Bravo, from Chile, who is a former student at the Master in Advanced Architecture (Class of 2008) and…
Peter Geelmuyden Magnus and Antonio Atripaldi are former students at the Master in Advanced Architecture (MAA). Both alumni highlight their experience at IAAC as an…
IAAC Alumna Maria Cynthia Funk (Master in Advanced Architecture, class of 2015) explains the impact her experience at IAAC had in her career by learning…
Ali Basbous is a Lebanese architect living between Barcelona and Beirut who graduated at IAAC from Master in Advanced Architecture (2009). After his experience at the IAAC he…
Aldo Sollazzo is a Master in Advanced Architecture (class 2012-2013) & Fab Academy graduate. Aldo is founder of Noumena, a firm embracing data-driven design, investigating between the…
IAAC Alumna Ece Tankal (Class 2013-2014), Co-founder of the Experience Design studio Hyphen-Labs explains the impact her experience at IAAC had in her professional life by…
Stories about extraordinary people engaged in important endeavors across the world Each of our IAAC alumni has a story to tell, and we will be gathering them…
Carlos Bausá: Environmental Design Analyst at Foster + Partners "Here in Foster and Partners, I am doing things that I could only dream about as…
IAAC Alumni Ilaria la Manna’s Bombix Bricks project looks at silk as a valid construction and structural material to be used within architecture. The overall goal…
Alejandra is an IAAC alumni of the Master in Advanced Architecture of the academic year 2012/13 who majored with a focus on the Research Line RSII Self-Sufficient Buildings…
Arian is an IAAC alumni from the MAA02 2010-12 program. He is currently working as an architect at Zaha Hadid office in London and he is one of the team members working…
Congrats to Carmen, Ece and Jin, who partnered-up to form the creative collective Hyphen-Labs. Carmen studied at IaaC in 2013-14 in the RS4 Advanced Interaction research line developing Hexis. Ece worked in RS3 Digital Matter (2013/14) with a…
Nasr is an IAAC alumni from the MAA01 2012-13 program, where he completed the project under the title Hygro Pavilion along with other team members. He is currently…