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….
The V Forum arquia/próxima 2016 “Imperfect Future” will take place in the Auditorium of the University of Málaga (Spain) next October 19-21, 2016. The works Aalto Festival 2015 – Final Works and Revista HipoTesis: Block|Buster have been shortlisted for the catalogue in the present edition of the competition for…
“Laine on Aalto. An Experimental School on a University Campus” is my last contribution to the Human Cities stories. The experimental school “Laine” opened on Aalto University’s Otaniemi campus, and its ideation from the School as a Service (SaaS) concept, is one of the experimentation events proposed by the…
Next Thursday September 22th I will be lecturing in the PGP Post Graduate Programme in Kiinko Real Estate Education, with a lecture titled “Buildings as Service Platforms”. The lecture will be held in the Messukeskus Expo and Convention Centre in Helsinki, and it will include the explanation of the…
Tomorrow Tuesday September 20th I will present the SaaS concept in the new school Laine on Otaniemi campus, the first actual implementation of the concept as a collaboration between the City of Espoo and Aalto University. My presentation, titled “School as a Service. Learning as Service Innovation”, is targeted…
The exhibition Alternativas/Alternatives shows at the Palacio de Carlos V of Alhambra in Granada the selection of works shortlisted by the 13th Spanish Architecture and Urbanism Biennial (BEAU) in the categories of architectural projects and works, research and dissemination, and master’s theses by architecture students. The jury of the…
