Final review Regrowth_Tallinn studio course

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

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

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…