January 24th, 2012 | by admin | published in Blog, NewsBites
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 [...]
January 11th, 2012 | by admin | published in Blog, NewsBites
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 [...]
January 10th, 2012 | by admin | published in Blog, NewsBites
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 [...]
December 27th, 2011 | by admin | published in Blog, NewsBites
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 [...]
December 19th, 2011 | by admin | published in Blog, NewsBites
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 [...]
November 7th, 2011 | by admin | published in Blog, NewsBites
Last week our masters program welcomed architect Paul Cabrera, technical referent for construction and relief of MSF Spain (Medecins Sans Fronteres). We’ll be posting a video interview with Paul later this week, but in the meantime we wanted to share this Small Constructions Manual which he edited in collaboration with last year’s students Maarten De [...]
October 4th, 2011 | by admin | published in Blog, Featured, NewsBites
The Curry Stone Foundation has awarded this year’s $100,000 prize to Taiwanese architect Hsieh Ying-Chun, who for over a decade has worked in rural areas affected by natural disaster. Hsieh works throughout Asia after catastrophes like the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, the 1999 Nantou earthquake, and the 2009 Morakot typhoon in Taiwan training villagers to build [...]
October 4th, 2011 | by admin | published in Blog, NewsBites
The nonprofit housing organization Habitat for Humanity International has just released its “Shelter Report 2012 – Build Hope: Housing Cities after a Disaster,” which highlights the urgent need for safer urban housing conditions to improve resilience and recovery after disasters. “Natural disasters are a fact of life. In recent years, earthquakes have shaken Japan, China, [...]
September 30th, 2011 | by admin | published in Blog, NewsBites
The World Architecture Festival that takes place in Barcelona every fall has announced today that the major themes for this year’s edition will focus on “making a difference” and “responding to disaster.” It comes as no surprise, as the effects of poverty and natural catastrophes become more frequent and so does the architect’s role in [...]
September 27th, 2011 | by admin | published in Blog, NewsBites
The September issue of Architect Magazine has devoted its pages to the practice of emergency architecture through a series of articles, interviews and infographics that highlights different approaches to disaster reconstruction and sheds light on both their potential strengths and weaknesses. Here is a brief overview and link to each of the articles included in [...]
