IAAC’s Master in City & Technology (1 or 2-year program) is a unique program oriented towards redefining the analysis, planning, and design of twenty-first-century cities and beyond. The program offers expertise in the design of digitally enhanced, ecological and human-centered urban environments by intersecting the disciplines of urbanism and data science. Taking place in Barcelona, the capital of urbanism, the Master in City & Technology is training the professionals that city administrations, governments, industries, and communities need, to transform the urban environment in the era of big data.
Urban Reading Studio: Digital Cartographies. Mapping urban complexity in the Anthropocene explores how data-driven tools can reveal the complex dynamics of contemporary urban environments. The course challenges traditional models of urban analysis by integrating computational design, critical cartography, and ecological thinking. Through hands-on work in Rhinoceros and Grasshopper, students learn to create data-rich visualizations and design interventions that reinterpret cities as evolving, multi-layered systems shaped by both human and technological forces.
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The Computational Evolution of CAD and BIM (1750–2025) Ultimately, the diagram presents visualization as an evolving infrastructure of thought. What began as an act of representation has become a computational process: an interface where information, material, and intelligence continuously negotiate the making of space. The Tool The tool we propose represents the next evolutionary step … Read more
