Category Archives: Lecture Series

Tuesday 13th of May: MAURIZIO CARTA // RE-imagining Urbanism in the Age of Metamorphosis

By admin | Published: May 9, 2014

Reimagining Urbanism Treatment

Tuesday 13th of May 2014

Maurizio Carta
Lecture: RE-imagining Urbanism in the Age of Metamorphosis

@ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium
Open to the Public

MAURIZIO CARTA
Maurizio Carta is an architect and full professor of urbanism and regional planning at the Department of Architecture of the University of Palermo. He’s the head of the MSc in Urban and Regional planning (University of Palermo). He has been member of Italian Society of Urban Planners Steering Committee (2000-03). He is senior expert in strategic planning, urban design and local development and he was the author of several urban, landscape and strategic plans in Italy. He is the responsible of the “Smart Planning Lab” for improving the smartness of cities and communities. He was Visiting Scholar at Columbia University of New York (1998) and he was visiting professor or keynote speaker in several universities and institutions. He is author of several publications, among the most recent: Next City: culture city (Roma, Meltemi, 2004), Creative City (List, Barcelona,2007), Governare l’evoluzione (Milano, Franco Angeli, 2009) Re-think, Re-load, Re-cycle: Mediterranean Urban Metamorphosis (Le Carré Bleu, 2013), Reimagining Urbanism (ListLab, Barcelona, 2014).

image credits: Reimagining Urbanism Treatment: we need a new education of vision for a new ecology of mind (processing of a scene from “A Clockwork Orange”)

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Thursday 8th of May: ALFREDO BRILLEMBOURG // Radical Urbanism: A Search for a New Architecture

By admin | Published: May 2, 2014

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Thursday 8th of May 2014

Alfredo Brillembourg
Lecture: Radical Urbanism: A search for a new architecture

@ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium
Open to the Public

ALFREDO BRILLEMBOURG
Alfredo Brillembourg was born in New York in 1961. He received his Bachelor of Art and Architecture in 1984 and his Master of Science in Architectural Design in 1986 from Columbia University. In 1992, he received a second architecture degree from the Central University of Venezuela and began his independent practice in architecture. In 1993 he founded Urban-Think Tank (U-TT) in Caracas, Venezuela. Since 1994 he has been a member of the Venezuelan Architects and Engineers Association and has been a guest professor at the University Jose Maria Vargas, the University Simon Bolivar and the Central University of Venezuela. Starting in 2007, Brillembourg has been a guest professor at the Graduate School of Architecture and Planning, Columbia University, where he co-founded the Sustainable Living Urban Model Laboratory (S.L.U.M. Lab) with Hubert Klumpner. Along with Hubert Klumpner, Brillembourg holds the chair for Architecture and Urban Design at the Swiss Institute of Technology (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule, ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland. As co-principle of U-TT, Brillembourg has received the 2010 Ralph Erskine Award, the 2011 Holcim Gold Award for Latin America, 2012 Venice Biennale of Architecture Golden Lion and the 2012 Holcim Global Silver Award for innovative contributions to ecological and social design practices.

image credits: Urban-Think Tank Project: “Grotao Community Centre”

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Martes 29 de abril: ciudades PHILIPPE RAHM // Termodinámica

By admin | Published: April 25, 2014

RESTAURANT 2

Tuesday 29th of April 2014

Philippe Rahm
Lecture: Thermodynamics cities

@ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium
Open to the Public

PHILIPPE RAHM
Philippe Rahm is architect, principal in the office of Philippe Rahm architectes, based in Paris, France. His work, which extends the field of architecture from the physiological to the meteorological, has received an international audience in the context of sustainability. In 2002, he was chosen to represent Switzerland at the 8th Architecture Biennale in Venice, and was one of the 25 Manifesto’s Architects of Aaron Betsky’s 2008 Architectural Venice Biennale. He is nominee in 2009 for the Ordos Prize in China and in 2010 and 2008 for the International Chernikov Prize in Moscow where he was ranked in the top ten. He has participated in a number of exhibitions worldwide (Archilab, Orléans, France 2000; SF-MoMA 2001; CCA Kitakyushu 2004; Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2003-2006 and 2007; Manifesta 7, 2008; Louisiana museum, Denmark, 2009; Guggenheim Museum, New-York 2010). In 2007, he had a personal exhibition at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal. Mr. Rahm was a resident at the Villa Medici in Rome (2000). He was Headmaster at the AA School in London in 2005-2006, Visiting professor at the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture in Switzerland in 2004 and 2005, at the ETH Lausanne in 2006 and 2007, at the School of Architecture of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts of Copenhagen in 2009-2010, in Oslo at the AHO in 2010-2011.

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Viernes 25 de abril: EVA FRANCH – Anger, imposibilidades y objetos

By admin | Published: April 22, 2014

Storefront Facade 01 - Ground Plan

 

 

Friday 25th of April 2014
Eva Franch
Lecture: Anger, Impossibilities and Objects

@ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium
Open to the Public

EVA FRANCH
Franch is an architect and founder in 2003 of OOAA (office of architectural affairs). Since 2010, Franch is the Executive Director and Chief Curator of Storefront for Art and Architecture. She studied at TU Delft and earned an M. Arch from ETSAB-UPC, and an M. Arch. II from Princeton University. She has lectured internationally on art, architecture and the importance of alternative practices in the construction and understanding of public life. Franch has taught at State University of New York Buffalo and at Rice University where she directed the Masters Thesis studio. At Storefront, her most recent projects include the launch of a new publication Series in partnership with Lars Müller, exhibitions such as No Shame: Storefront for Sale and POP: Protocols, Obsessions, Positions, the launch of the Storefront International Series and projects such as WorldWide Storefront, commissioning major design projects such as the Speechbuster, and developing projects like the Competition of Competitions. Most recently Franch, together with a curatorial and design team, has been selected by the State Department of the United States to represent the U.S. Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale.

Image credits: Past Futures, Present, Futures, 2012. Storefront for Art and Architecture. Photo by Naho Kubota

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Martes 22 de abril: Benjamin Barber –
Si Alcaldes gobernó el mundo: City, Metro Región y Provincia – ¿Cuál es el nivel adecuado de Gobernanza Urbana?

By admin | Published: April 17, 2014

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Jueves 27 de marzo: FRANCIS SOLER – El Arte de la Oposición

By admin | Published: March 20, 2014

Les-Frigos-L.Vasconiblog

Thursday 27th of March 2014
Francis Soler
Lecture: The Art of the Opposition.

@ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium
Open to the Public

FRANCIS SOLER
Francis Soler set up his private practice in 1985. Its activities are extremely varied: from facilities to housing and from studies to urban development. The office takes part in major competitions for public projects both in France and abroad and in consultations by invitation. As much attention is given to small but remarkable buildings, such as public housing in Rue Emile Durkheim (Paris/Delivery in 1997), and in Clichy (delivery in 2001), layouts, and facilities, as to high prestige works, such as grandstand for 14 July celebrations (under François Mitterrand mandates), International conference centre (aborted project), Ministry of Culture (delivery in 2005), OCO / “Coeur d’Orly”, big urban airport project and Philharmonics of Paris (competitions).
In 2009, he participated in the elaboration of Vasconi report, ordered by Minister of Ecology Jean-Louis Borloo about environmental challenge and the discussion about placing architecture under supervision of this ministry and not Ministry of Culture.
His big project of Research and Development Centre for EDF (French Electricity) is actually under construction (delivery is scheduled in 2015). His private housing project for VINCI, in Zac Cardinet (Paris) is also under construction (delivery by 2015). The construction of his big public housing projects, in Porte d’Auteuil (Paris) with Anne Demians, Rudy Ricciotti and Finn Geipel architects is scheduled to begin in mid-2014. Executive studies for the construction of the huge bridge over the Arno River Florence, (Italy) are almost achieved and approved, construction being scheduled by the end of 2014.
The aim is to give them all an important role in the city, to make them into art works. Whatever the project is, Francis Soler’s priorities are to propose pertinent responses to the complex problems of old and new cities, and to give real pleasure to users and residents by offering them architecture that is an art of usage.

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Conferencia a cargo De sisternas MARIA – Ciudad de Todos los Días

By admin | Published: March 13, 2014

Last Tuesday we had the pleasure of hosting the Winter Lecture Series 2014 with Maria Sisternas, as well as some important guests attending the lecture such as Mr Antoni Vives – Deputy Mayor for the Urban Habitat of the Barcelona City Council - and Mr. Vicente Guallart – Chief Architect of the Barcelona City Council.

During her lecture Ms. Sisternas discussed City planning through the Case Study of one particular project: the area of Glories, here in Barcelona. In this sense, the management of these processes, and how they can pass from rigid designs, as in the past, to a more flexible situation, in the hope of satisfying the contemporary urban phenomenon’s needs, from social, economic and environmental points of view. Ms Sisternas presented the project through 10 paradigms of change.

1_ The city as an incremental process: how can the city manage and participate actively during the construction site time lapse, through the generation of positive dynamics, as well as continuous activity? In large scale urban transformations, the areas involved tend to loose economic activity and density, generating a high risk, particularly in the case of Glories where the City’s aim is to create a new centrality. How can the complexity involved, on all fronts and in all phases, in these processes guarantee positive outcomes, particularly in the public realm? More simply, why is it that some public spaces work and others don’t? Read More »

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