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…
Block|Buster, FAD Award Thought and Critique 2016 (ex aequo)
The works Aalto Festival 2015 – Final Works and HipoTesis Magazine: Block|Buster have been shortlisted for the catalogue in the present edition of the competition for young architects arquia/próxima 2014-2015, promoted every other year by Fundación Arquia: Aalto Festival 2015 – Final Works HipoTesis Magazine: Block|Buster 128 works by…
Block|Buster finalist at FAD Awards 2016 Thought and Critique
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-…
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…
