The Emergent Territories Studio will continue this collaboration with Sciarc during the development of the projects in Term 3 of the Master Program.

Here is a link to the videos of the conference.

Part 1 :

Part 2:

Part 3: Q+A (Starts at 17:22)

Part 4: Q+A (final part in audio only)

Questions DiazAlonso

Willy Müller is currently the Director of Barcelona Regional. He graduated as an architect (1984) in Argentina and pursued doctoral studies at ETSAB-UPB (1986/88). He is a co-funder of the Institute of Advanced Architecture in Catalunya (IAAC) in 2000, becoming its Development Manager in 2004. He established his own office in Barcelona WMA, Willy Müller Architects in 1996, a recognized architectural firm achieving several international awards in competitions as well as with built projects, featuring his work in numerous exhibitions. He is the co-author of several books, including Sociópolis, Media House Project, the Metapolis Dictionary of Advanced Architecture, and the Self-sufficient Housing. “Müller himself is a professional of proposals, not only for buildings, but also as concepts.He has been a strong voice for putting the architecture in the center of the debate. He has worked to promote a joint of creativity to discuss all the extension that the architecture can be inserted nowadays. His intentions are clearly to go beyond the physical world and explore also the possibilities of interaction with the social area, the new technologies and with nature.”(Jaime Lerer,President of International Union of Architects).

HERNAN DIAZ ALONSO

Hernan Diaz Alonso is principal and founder of the Los Angeles-based design practice Xefirotarch. Before becoming the Graduate Programs Chair at SCI-Arc he has served for the past several years as Distinguish Professor of Architecture and the Graduate Thesis Coordinator at SCI-Arc. Previously, he has taught as a design studio professor at Columbia University GSAPP and he is the head studio professor in the “Excessive” post-graduate program at the Universitat fur angewandte Kunst in Wien. He was recently honored by Yale University with the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professorship of Architectural Design for fall 2010. He lectured at major institutions around the world, notably at the Venice Architecture Biennale, London Architecture Biennale, Archilab. His architecture designs have received numerous awards and his work has been widely published, including the “Excessive” monograph and an upcoming monograph by Thames and Hudson. In 2005, Diaz Alonso was the winner of PS1 MoMa’s Young Architects Program (YAP) competition. His work has since been the subject of solo shows at the San Francisco MoMa in 2006, the Art Institute of Chicago and the MAK Centre, Wien in 2007.

PETER TRUMMER

Peter Trummer is an architect and researcher based in Amsterdam. He currently is Professor and Head of the Institute for Urban Design & Spatial Planning at the University of Innsbruck. He was Head of the Associative Design Research Program at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam. He received his Master Degree at the Technical University in Graz by Günther Domenig and finished his Postgraduate Study and the Berlage Institute in Amsterdam in 1997. He is a former Architect at UN Studio before establishing his own practice in 2001. He writes his PHD on “population thinking in architecture”. He was Guest Professor at Sci-Arc Southern California Institute of Architecture, at the Technical University in Munich and hold the Roland Rainer Chair at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He lectures, teaches and is invited as a critic at the Berlage Institute, the AA in London, the University for Applied Art in Vienna, IAAC in Barcelona, SCI-Arc in Los Angeles and at Rice University in Houston. Recently he has published Essays in AD, Arch +, Hunch, Volume and Manifold.

MAITE BRAVO

Maite Bravo obtained the degree of architect with honors at the University of Chile; a Master of Advanced Architecture at IAAC; and a Master in ‘Theory and Practice of Architectural Design’ at UPC. She is currently a PHD ‘European Doctor’ candidate at UPC (Architectural Design Department), focusing on new design methodologies and concepts emerging from Parametric Digital Design and its immersion into architectural praxis. Her teaching experience includes the University of Chile, BCIT in Canada, and IAAC since 2008 (Design Intro Studio, Theory Concepts, Emergent Territories & Self Sufficient Buildings, ). She was a lecturer at the First Parametric Design Seminar at HTWK Leipzig, the 2011 Festival of Architecture of Canada, ETH Zurich, METU Ankara, the Seminar Breathing Prototypes (Rumania), and several universities in Chile. She has over 10 years of experience practicing as an associate architect with GBL architects in Canada,  afterwards establishing her own firm.

Special thanks for his contributions to the development of the studio to José Carlos López Cervantes.

The following guests were invited as jury:

+ Final Review Term 3:

Reiner Zettl // University of Applied Arts Vienna

Neil Leach // University of Southern California

Mario Corea // Mario Corea Arquitectura

Peter Trummer // University of Innsbruck

Tom Kovak // RMIT Melbourne

Areti Markopoulou // MAA Director – IAAC

Miquel Roig // Ajuntament de Santa Coloma de Gramenet

Antonio Alcarcón // Gerent Consorci del Besòs

Joaquim Calfí // Consorci del Besòs

Jordi Mas Herrero // Regidor de Territori de Santa Coloma de Gramenet

+ Final Review Term 2:

Antonio San Martin // aSZ arquitectes

Josep Bohigas // architect BOPBAA

Enric Massip // Emba_estudi Massip-Bosch Arquitectes,

Javier Planas // Director eme3

+ Other reviews:

Maria Buhigas // Barcelona Regional

Judith Leclerc // Coll Leclerc Arquitectos SLP

Jorge Godoy // GUN Architects

Cristian Suau // Ecofab Architects

Students will identify and explore diverse scales, from urban formations to the definition of singularities such as buildings, units, or components, that may create new conditions of urbanity for the 21st century. Therefore, students will work at the urban, building, and component scale, to finally develop physical prototypes of components.

+  What constitutes a radical region?

+  Which design strategies will redefine cities as hybrid terrains embracing the whole built environment, merging traditional boundaries existing between the disciplines of architecture, urbanism, landscape and infrastructure?

+  Can site specific environments be formulated through associative design strategies to increase the relevance of architecture at a urban scale?

+  Could dislocated territories be repositioned as hybrid terrains offering unexpected relationships and fields of experimentation?

RESEARCH AREA

Within the regional area of Barcelona, the Besos River represents one of the main rivers crossing the entire city and the regional area of Catalunya.

Once a productive ecosystem on the outskirts of Barcelona, the intense rate of urbanization in the Regional Area has occupied vast areas and the Besos River is under extreme pressure in terms of pollution, mobility, programatic fragmentation, and ecology. This condition is exacerbating nowadays, to the point of the river currently appears segregating the territory.

The Besos River underwent an “environmental recovery” in recent years and will be conglomerating 4 Municipalities, making this area an excellent testing ground for the study of new ideas, models and radical transformations.