MAS in Collective Housing UPM / ETH at ETSAM

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

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

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

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

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).

Typological Hybridizations studio course with estudio Herreros

Next Spring semester 2016 I will take part as a coordinator and teacher in the studio course “Typological Hybridizations”, organized at the Department of Architecture of Aalto University as a collaboration between Group X and Juan Herreros & Jens Richter from estudio Herreros. More information here.

HipoTesis Platform in AV Proyectos 071

The architectural magazine AV Proyectos, included in Arquitectura Viva‘s group, features HipoTesis Platform within its last issue AV Proyectos 071, publishing the general data of the research platform and in more detail our Alphabetical Issue Hipo P Block|Buster, done in collaboration with José Manuel López Ujaque. More information here….

Hipo 3 Chronotopic Practices just published

The third issue Hipo 3 Chronotopic Practices from HipoTesis Numbered Issues has just been published, with contributions from Irma Arribas & Octavi Rofes, Anthi Kosma, María José Martínez, Jaime Llorente, José Antonio Ruiz, Serafina Amoroso and Eider Holgado. Michel de Certeau has meticulously described some actions or conventional practices…

Public Library and Socio-Cultural Centre in Jávea

Photographs by David Frutos The photographer of architecture David Frutos has published in his professional website a full report of the Municipal Public Library and Socio-Cultural Centre “Aduanas del Mar” in Jávea (Alicante). The project, promoted by the City of Jávea and the Office for Infrastructures and Transports of…

Final review in Landscape Architecture and Research

Tomorrow I will participate in the final review of the course Landscape Architecture and Research at Master’s level at the Department of Architecture, lead by Associate Professor Juanjo Galán and focused on giving tools to students to prepare a research plan to become a doctoral tesis. It will be…