Defence of doctoral thesis at ETSAM

Next Wednesday September 24th at 11.30h, the final defence of my doctoral thesis will be 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…

42 social housing in Barajas online

Three years after the completion of the work of the 42 Social Housing in Barajas Expansion (Madrid), we collect the most important platforms about architecture, specialized blogs or think tank websites that have reviewed it online (click on the image or text to go to the website): IMAGENSUBLIMINAL ARCHITECTURAL…

critic|all International Conference at ETSAM

Next June 12th, 13th and 14th the I International Conference on Architectural Design & Criticism critic|all will be held at the School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM), in which I will take part with the publication in the conference proceedings of an article titled “Round Trip from Cell to…

Municipal Civic Centre in Boecillo on Nex Valladolid

The digital magazine of contemporary culture Nex Valladolid reviews this week the Municipal Civic Centre in Boecillo, through its collaborator Pedro Iván Ramos, architect, photographer and blogger, at the time photographer of the building. A global perspective on a local territory. Nex Valladolid is a digital magazine of contemporary…

Pre-defence of doctoral thesis at ETSAM

The third draft of my doctoral thesis is ready for pre-defence. Next Thursday May 8th, the pre-defence of my doctoral thesis will be held at the Department of Architectural Design in the School of Architecture of Madrid at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (ETSAM, UPM). The pre-defence will consist of…

HipoTesis at ETH Zurich

Next Tuesday April 8th HipoTesis will be presented at Department of Architecture of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ), within Brown Bag Lunch presentations at ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE (Centre for Research on Architecture, Society & the Built Environment).

Brown Bag Lunch presentation at ETH Wohnforum

On Tuesday April 15th I will give a lecture in the context of the “Brown Bag Lunch” presentations at ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE. The title of the lecture is “Systems of collectivization: Tesis vs HipoTesis” and it will be held in HIL E 71 of Hönggerberg campus at ETH Zurich.

134 social housing in Alcorcón at Imagen Subliminal

The built work of 134 social housing at Ensanche Sur de Alcorcón (Madrid) has been published at Imagen Subliminal, the website specialized in architectural photography from the architect and photographer Miguel de Guzmán. The author of the project is the architect Antonio Rodríguez, and it resulted from the first…

4th Edition arquia/próxima 2012-2013

As well as in the last three editions, this year I participate in the 4th Edition of arquia/próxima program 2012-2013 with several projects consisting of built works, competitions, an article and the research platform HipoTesis. You can see the complete gallery of projects here. arquia/próxima is the cultural program…

HipoTesis Call for Blocks!

In November 1982 version 1.0 of AutoCAD was launched, and only two months later, included in update 1.4, the famous ‘blocks’ were introduced aimed at repeating a figure in a project or in various, contributing to its comprehension in scale and program. Thirty years later, all of us (as…