Global Summer school 2014 // The Next City

FINAL PRESENTATIONS // BARCELONA

Tuesday, 22nd of July 2014 // 16h00 – 18h00, IaaC Auditorium

Global Summer School Director:

Luis E. Fraguada

Faculty:

Spyros Stravodavdis

Guillem Camprodon

Luis E. Fraguada

Ignacio de Juan Creix

Carlo Santi

International Jury:

Manuel Gausa

Areti Markopoulou

Mosè Ricci

Maurizio Carta

Marc Viader

Ali Basbous

Silvia Brandi

Mathilde Marengo

Jonathan Minchin

Logistics:

Luciana Asinari

Mathilde Marengo

Ana Marti Serichol

Jorge Ramirez

Logistics:

Alexandre Dubor

Anna Popova

Rodrigo Aguirre

Assistants:

Giombambattista Areddia

Ziwar Al Nouri

Sinem Samanci

Natalie Alima

Hristo Kovachev

Rodion Eremeev

Rasha Sukkarieh

Robert McKaye

Ece Tankal

Irina Shaklova

Special Thanks:

Vicente Guallart – Chief Architect of the City of Barcelona

Jaume Barnada – Deputy Chief Architect of the City of Barcelona

Andrés de Mesa Gisbert -. Sagrada Familia

Jeronimo Buxareu – Sagrada Familia

Lina Monaco

Participants:

Anna Abduraimova

Dana AlRajeh

Rawan Alsaffar

Karine Battu

Cecilia Bertozzi

Clara Campo Cid

Josiane Crampe

Dhaval Darjee

Karin Hedlund

Emmanuelle Lamarre Dorais

Bo Liu

Vjeran Lokošek

Borislava Lyubenova

Aigerim Mangibayeva

Vivek Muralidhar

Irene Rueda

Danilo Spiga

Emiliano Tavieres Mecoli

Hayden White

Self Sufficient Buildings

Saturday, 21st of June 2014 // 10h00 – 18h00, IaaC Auditorium

Tutors:

Enric Ruiz Geli

Mireia Luzárraga

Assistants:

Maria Kupstova

Dori Sadan

International Jury Board:

Jaume Coll, ETSAB

Gonzalo Delacámara, IMDEA Agua

José María Torres Nadal, Arquitecturas Torres Nadal

Javier Peña, Xpiral – IAAC Faculty

Luigi Ceccaroni, 1000001 Labs

Rodrigo Rubio, Margen Lab – IAAC Faculty

Silvia Brandi, IAAC Academic Coordinator

Photos by: Francesc Piñol Ortigues & Mathilde Marengo

Tutors:

Willy Müller

Pablo Ros

Assistant:

Jordi Vivaldi

In Collaboration with:

Hernan Diaz Alonso, SCI-Arc – Los Angeles

International Jury Board:

Marc Montlleó, Barcelona Regional

Josep Bohigas, bopbaa

Vicente Guallart, City of Barcelona Chief Architect

Maroun Daccache, Lebanese American University

Gonzalo Delacámara, IMDEA Agua

Juan Carlos Sanchez Tappan, UIA Ciudad de México

Maite Bravo, IAAC Faculty

Students:

Richard Aoun

Christoffer Ryan Chua

Shweta Das

Renata De Castro Lotto

José Roberto Díaz Braga

Giacomo Fiorani

Wen Shan Foo

Karl Francalanza

Luca Gamberini

Trinidad A. Gómez Machuca

Archana Kabada Ramesh

Aditya Kabadi

Boney Keriwala

Pablo Marcet

Robert McKaye

Niel Parekh

Juhi Pravin Patel

Asif Rahman

Jojua Ranjit Pio John

Sahil Sharma

Chirana Sumendap

Atessa Zandi Mofrad

Emergent Territories // Radical Region

Friday, 20th of June 2014 // 15h00 – 19h00, IaaC Auditorium

Tutors:

Willy Müller

Pablo Ros

Assistant:

Jordi Vivaldi

In Collaboration with:

Hernan Diaz Alonso, SCI-Arc – Los Angeles

International Jury Board:

Marc Montlleó, Barcelona Regional

Josep Bohigas, bopbaa

Vicente Guallart, City of Barcelona Chief Architect

Maroun Daccache, Lebanese American University

Gonzalo Delacámara, IMDEA Agua

Juan Carlos Sanchez Tappan, UIA Ciudad de México

Maite Bravo, IAAC Faculty

Friday 23rd of May 2014

John Palmesino
Lecture: Fathoms

@ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium
Open to the Public

JOHN PALMESINO
John Palmesino is an architect and urbanist. He has established Territorial Agency together with Ann-Sofi Rönnskog. Territorial Agency is an independent organisation that innovatively promotes and works for sustainable territorial transformations. Territorial Agency works to strengthen the capacity of local and international communities in comprehensive spatial transformation management. Territorial Agency’s projects channel available spatial resources towards the development of their full potential. Territorial Agency’s work builds on wide stake-holder networks. It combines analysis, projects, advocacy and action. Territorial Agency’s projects include the Athropocene Observatory with Armin Linke and Anselm Franke, and a series of researches on European transformation processes. He is the director of AA Territories Think Tank and a Unit Master at the Architectural Association in London, he teaches at Goldsmiths, University of London.

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”)

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”

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.

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