Eva 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.

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

IAAC is proud to announce the Spring Lecture Series 2014:

22nd April 2014

BENJAMIN BARBER

Political theorist

Author of “If Mayors Ruled the World” – New York

25th April 2014

EVA FRANCH

Architect

Director of Storefront for Art

and Architecture – New York

29th April 2014

PHILIPPE RAHM

Architect

Principal in Philippe Rahm architects – Paris

8th MAY 2014

ALFREDO BRILLEMBOURG

Architect

Principal in Urban-Think Tank

Professor at ETH – Zürich

13th May 2014

MAURIZIO CARTA

Architect and Urbanist

Professor at the Università degli Studi – Palermo

15th May 2014

ECOSISTEMA URBANO

Group of Architects

and Urban Designers – Madrid

22nd May 2014

EUROPEAN ARTS, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY NETWORK

Tangibility and Sense of Presence through Physical Interaction – Visual and Sound Performances

of Haptic Interfaces, Super Collider and Max MSP

29th May 2014

JOHN PALMESINO

Architect and Urbanist

Principal in Territorial Agency – London

26th June 2014

WINY MAAS

Architect and Urbanist

Principal in MVRDV – Rotterdam

Events supported by Moritz, Barcelona