Next Tuesday May 24th (09:00-14:00) we will hold the final review of the studio course at Master’s level Typological Hybrizidations at the Department of Architecture, Aalto University, Miestentie 3, seminar room 220. The course is a collaboration between Group X at Aalto University and Madrid-based architectural office estudio Herreros….
Block|Buster finalist at FAD Awards 2016
5 May, 2016
Block|Buster finalist at FAD Awards 2016 Thought and Critique
AVS 2016 award for 134 social housing in Alcorcón (Madrid)
30 April, 2016
The built work 134 social housing in the plot M 20.1.2 of Alcorcón (Madrid), designed by the architect Antonio Rodríguez and promoted by the Social Housing Agency of the Region of Madrid -former Housing Institute of Madrid (IVIMA)- has been awarded with the first prize in the AVS 2016…
Final review Regrowth_Tallinn studio course
29 April, 2016
Today I will participate in the review session of the design studio ARK E4504 on Housing and Urbanism at the Aalto University Department of Architecture, with the topic Regrowth_Tallinn and organized by Frances Hsu. The session will be held from 14.00 at Paja premises on Otaniemi campus. Situated at…
ATLAS by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos
25 April, 2016
Next Wednesday April 27th I will introduce Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano from Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, Alvar Aalto Medal 2015, at the Department of Architecture at Aalto University, who will be lecturing with the title “ATLAS” at 18:00 in the old building of the Department designed by Alvar Aalto…
MAS in Collective Housing UPM / ETH at ETSAM
20 April, 2016
It is now ten years since I took part in the first edition (2006) of the recommendable Master of Advanced Studies in Collective Housing MCH at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, where I had the double opportunity to meet and work closely with many of the architects -students and professors-…
Double research award for HipoTesis at Spanish Biennial
11 April, 2016
HipoTesis platform, the collaborative publishing project created in 2009 with Francisco G. Triviño and Katerina Psegiannaki, has been awarded twice in the XIII Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urban Planning (BEAU), within the I Call for Research Projects in Architecture and Urban Planning “Alternatives”, both awards in the category…
Labs for Learners results exhibited in Milan
10 April, 2016
In the context of the Human Cities partners meeting, to be held in Milan on April 13th-15th, the exhibition “Human Cities_ Challenging the City Scale/Milano” will be showed, where Group X at Aalto University is taking part showing the projects “School as a Service” and “Exit School of Architecture”….
Hipo 4 Exceptional Exceptions Call for papers
10 April, 2016
HipoTesis Numbered Issues is searching for collaborations for Hipo 4 in the form of texts between 3500 and 5000 words. Exceptional Exceptions The Spanish dictionary defines exception as the deviation from the rule or general condition of the other things of its same kind. Considering this definition we can…
Looping Forward by estudio Herreros
12 January, 2016
Next Thursday January 14th I will introduce Juan Herreros and Jens Richter from estudio Herreros at the Department of Architecture at Aalto University, who will be lecturing with the title “Looping Forward” at 18:00 in the old building of the Department designed by Alvar Aalto (Otakaari 1, hall A1).
