COAM correspondent in Finland

The Governing Board of the Official Chamber of Architects of Madrid (COAM) has just selected the registered architects to be responsible of delegations in different countries. I have been appointed as COAM correspondent in Finland. Aiming the construction of a network for supporting architects who are working abroad or…

HipoTesis at Unface Book from Vibok Works v.2

HipoTesis has participated in the artistic project Unface Book. Evolutive book collaboratively written in a Facebook album, just published by Vibok Works from Paula Álvarez. Unface Book project has just been shortlisted to take part in the 2nd Istanbul Design Biennial. Unface Book is an experimental publishing project aimed…

HipoTesis again in the MPAA at ETSAM

Today Wednesday January 14th at 4.30 pm my partners at HipoTesis Francisco G. Triviño and Katerina Psegiannaki will present again the platform at School of Architecture in Madrid (ETSAM) from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), this time in the context of LAB4 in the Master in Advanced Architectural Design…

Hipo 2 Numbered Issue just published

The second issue Hipo 2 from HipoTesis Numbered Issues has just been published, with contributions from Pedro Bustamante, Beatriz Amann, Nicolás Maruri & Antonio Miranda, Enrique Nieto, Irma Arribas, and Atxu Amann & Gonzalo Pardo. How are civil and institutional disobedience, social and political rebellion and conceptual and productive…

HipoTesis at Unface Book from Vibok Works

HipoTesis has participated in the artistic project Unface Book. Evolutive book collaboratively written in a Facebook album, just published by Vibok Works from Paula Álvarez. Unface Book project has just been shortlisted to take part in the 2nd Istanbul Design Biennial. Unface Book is an experimental publishing project aimed…

parenthesis “Our First Work” | exhibition in Madrid

The work 42 Social Housing in Barajas Expansion (Madrid), done with Marta Barrera and Alfredo Diez, has been shortlisted to take part in the exhibition parenthesis “Our First Work”, the first exhibition of a series on Madrid architectural practices which will run until spring time in LASEDE COAM in…

Aalto University | School of Arts, Design and Architecture

Aalto University is born in January 2010 as the result of the merger of three historical universities located in Helsinki (Finland): the Helsinki University of Technology (Teknillinen korkeakoulu, 1849), the University of Art and Design Helsinki (Taideteollinen korkeakoulu, 1871), and the Helsinki School of Economics (Kauppakorkeakoulu, 1911). Aalto University…

Defence of doctoral thesis at ETSAM (revisited)

Last September 24th the final defence of my doctoral thesis was held at the School of Architecture of Madrid at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (ETSAM, UPM). The title of the doctoral thesis is Normalizing Utopia. A Project of Systematization of Regulations on Social Housing, it is part of the…

XI International Madrid Architecture Week

Next Tuesday October 7th I will participate in the International Workshop within the XI International Madrid Architecture Week, invited by the International Department of the Professional Association of Architects of Madrid (COAM) to talk about my research experience in Switzerland. My turn will be on the table on professional…

Hipo 3 Chronotopic Practices Call for papers

HipoTesis Numbered Issues is searching for collaborations for Hipo 3 in the form of texts between 3500 and 5000 words defining sceneries for actions involving a trajectory of spatial-temporary places, architectural sequence shots describing spatial tactics developed from one or various scales and certain rhythms. Michel de Certeau has…