The 13th Spanish Architecture and Urbanism Biennial (BEAU) will be exhibited at the Oscar Niemeyer International Cultural Centre in Avilés (Asturias) from July 15th to August 13th, 2017. The Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism is an initiative of the Ministry of Development in collaboration with the Higher Council of…
This week I will participate in the event Human Cities / Ljubljana “Public Spaces for Local Life” on behalf of Aalto University-Helsinki team and together with my colleagues at Group X, in order to explore the shared values in diversified urban communities as a foundation for participatory provision of…
The 13th Spanish Architecture and Urbanism Biennial (BEAU) will be exhibited in the Barcelona Building Construmat Fair 2017 from May 23th to 26th (Gran Via, Barcelona). The Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism is an initiative of the Ministry of Development in collaboration with the Higher Council of Spanish Architects’…
HipoTesis Numbered Issues is searching for collaborations for its fifth issue Hipo 5 in the form of texts between 4000 and 5000 words. Futurable Presents, Presentable Futures In his book Future Past, Reinhart Koselleck develops the so-called “history of concepts”, which invents a new time that attempts to understand…
The fourth issue Hipo 4 Exceptional Exceptions from HipoTesis Numbered Issues is already published, with contributions from Ana Medina, Giacomo Pala, Igor Kuvač, Dolores Martínez, Mara Sánchez and Marta Rabazo. The Spanish dictionary defines exception as the deviation from the rule or general condition of the other things of…
The project School as a Service (SaaS) where I contribute, developed conceptually by Group X at Aalto University Department of Architecture in collaboration with the City of Espoo, has been awarded with the Quality Innovation Award 2016 in the category of Education. More information about the prize here.
The studio course on Housing Design and Diversifying Forms of Living titled Superimposed Verticality will be presented tomorrow Wednesday 11th at 14:15 in Paja building in Otaniemi. The course is organized by Group X in collaboration with the Housing Design chair (Prof. Hannu Huttunen) at Aalto University Department of…
The book Colección JIDA. Texts on Architecture, Teaching and Innovation 3 has just been published by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Iniciativa Digital Politècnica) and Grup per a la Innovació i la Logística Docent en l’Arquitectura (GILDA). It includes one of my papers titled “X-ing Disciplines from Architecture. The…
The Arquia/Próxima 2016 catalogue has just been published, including the works Aalto Festival 2015 – Final Works and Revista HipoTesis: Block|Buster where I have participated. They both have been shortlisted for their publication in the catalogue of the present edition in the competition for young architects Arquia/Próxima 2014-2015. You…
The 13th Spanish Architecture and Urbanism Biennial (BEAU) will be exhibited for the first time in the United States in Cooper Union’s Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery. The exhibition, entitled Alternativas/Alternatives, features 22 jury selected projects completed between January 1, 2013 through December 31, 2015 by contemporary Spanish architects….
