As you may have gathered from the photos we’ve recently posted on our Facebook page, our students have been hard at work for the past few weeks preparing their proposals for the Rio Post-Floods workshop led by Nathaniel Corum of Architecture for Humanity. Set within a larger government housing project for 61 families in Vale [...]
Don’t miss this excellent interview by Eric Ho of Architecture Commons with Rahul Mehrotra on the topics of $300 house project (which we previously covered here), low-cost housing in India, and practicing in the bottom of pyramid context for designers. Mehrotra is a practicing architect, urban designer and Professor of Urban Design at Harvard Graduate [...]
Currently into his second week, head of educational outreach for Architecture for Humanity Nathaniel Corum is at the ESARQ-UIC leading a special 3-week workshop with our students that aims to develop a series of proposals for a real-life project currently taking shape in Brazil, sponsored by Nike Gamechangers and led by Architecture for Humanity. The [...]
Just before the holiday, our students took part in a workshop led by Japanese architects experts in disaster reconstruction. Professors Norio Maki of Kyoto University’s Research Centre for Disaster Reduction Systems, Masahiro Sawada of Nagaoka Institute of Design’s Department of Architecture and Environmental Design, and Ikuo Kobayashi of Kobe Yamate University shared their expertise gathered [...]
Rebuilding Japan Conference 12 Dec 2011, COAC, Barcelona. From left to right: Ikuo Kobayashi, Masahiro Sawada, Toni Casamor (COAC), Giovanna Carnevali (masters director), Moriko Kira, and Norio Maki Following our open conference Rebuilding Japan: Lessons in architectural response held in December, Spain’s leading newspaper El País covered the event in this article, laying out the [...]
Take a look at this interview with the director of our masters program, Giovanna Carnevali, in which she talks about the workshop she recently led with our students in a unique partnership with UN-HABITAT and the city council of Barcelona. The workshop, which we featured last week, focuses on the urban regeneration of Torre Baró, [...]
Earlier this month, the masters program held a three-week workshop directed by Giovanna Carnevali in collaboration with UN-HABITAT Training and Capacity Building Branch, Barcelona Department of Urban Planning, and the metropolitan agency Barcelona Regional. The main topic of the workshop was Urban Regeneration, and worldwide examples and procedures were thoroughly reviewed and applied in the [...]
Giovanna Carnevalli (second from right) at the Learning Cities Roundtable hosted by UN-HABITAT This October, the master’s program director Giovanna Carnevali participated in the Learning Cities Roundtable, a discussion organized in collaboration with UN-HABITAT and the Spanish Secretariat of State for Housing and Urban Affairs, Ministry of Public Works, the final report of which was [...]
Gracias a El Punt Avui por la entrevista a nuestro profesor invitado Norio Maki, que partició en nuestra conferencia abierta la semana pasada en el COAC, Rebuilding Japan: Lessons in architectural response, sobre el impacto que han tenido los últimos tres grandes terremotos de Japón sobre la profesión del arquitecto y su papel en la [...]
Willy Müller, newly appointed director of the municipal agency in charge of Barcelona’s urban development and infrastructures, recently came to our masters program at ESARQ-UIC to talk to our students about the new strategy that he, along with chief architect Vicente Guallart and Antoni Vives have planned for the city during the next four years. [...]
