Making off Jose Mourinho at Pitch´s house

Arquitectura Ibérica: REENCONTROS 2012. Souto de Mora y Francisco Mangado

Architectural Association Interprofessional studio working at Nave 16 Matadero-Madrid

Final stage FAD Awards2012!!! Hangar 16 old slaughter house in Madrid

Spring Symmetries at Pitch´s house

Pich´s house in Oris Magazine

Friday 27th at 18:00 invited at Final Reviews at Master Collective Housing with Hrvoje Niric and Nerea Calvillo

Friday 27th at 13:00 invited at Final Reviews at C.E.U. university with Santiago de Molina´s students

Real Madrid likes Pitch's house. This time is Guti

Jose Mourinho picks out Pitch´s House as his perfect house

Students from KTH Stockholm followed professor Jesus Aizpeitia at Nave 16 Matadero-Madrid

Lecture at APFC Juan Herreros: "Competitions 2000-12"

Interview at Europaconcorsi

Intervista

Quando hai capito di voler diventare architetto?

Da piccolo i miei genitori mi regalarono un gioco, erano pezzi di legno da assemblare con cui mi divertivo molto. Da allora ho sempre detto che volevo fare l'architetto. La verità è che non lo pensavo troppo.

Chi è stato il tuo maestro?

Tanti... non potrei segnalarne uno solo. Tutti i professori di progettazione dell'università sono stati meravigliosi: Alberto Campo, Lopez-Peláez, Tuñon e Mansilla, Mariano Bayón...

Nave 16 old slaughter house in Exhibition 35+. Construyendo Democracia

Lecture at La Salle ARQ Barcelona. 13-3 at 11:00

Hauser Ceremony Awards 2012

Yesterday, at 18:00 in the afternoon at the 23º floor of the Emporio Tower, in Hamburg took place the ceremony of the Hauser Awards 2012. More than 120 houses builded with a lower budget than 1500 euros/m2 attended to the competition and only 4 were nominated to get a prize.
After presenting the third and second prize, the house 1+1=1 was announce to be the winner.
This prize is awarded with 7000 euros and a full image front cover of the Hauser magazine in the especial issue dedicated to the awards.
In the presence of the jury and the members of Hauser magazine it was presented a book with a selection of the houses builded with less than 1500 euros/m2.

HAUSER AWARD 2012

Good architecture does not have to be expensive. To prove this, the renowned HOMES AWARD in 2012 is "Building Price-conscious" with the motto. The editorial HOUSES studied in collaboration with the Information Centre and the Association of Private builders concrete eV (VPB) architects who perform well on a budget Great. Advertised is a prize of 15,000 €. In addition, the VPB any private owner of an excellent house pays a premium of 1,000 €. The Federation of German Architects (BDA) also supports the HOMES AWARD.
"We are looking for exemplary solutions that show how to use cost-conscious concepts and creative ideas are not only remarkably effective but also very individual, aesthetically, and can build outstanding functional quality - to save not on the wrong end, or even compromising the

comfort of need, "says homes chief Wolfgang Nagel. Awards will be single-family homes that meet these criteria perfectly and do not exceed their pure construction costs, based on the square meters living area, 1,500 €. The results of the competition published HOUSES in March 2012. In addition, the German publishing house (DVA), the best projects in a book to be released at the same time.

Participation is open to architects from all over Europe. Each participant may send a maximum of two projects in the race. Closing date for entries is 23 May 2011. The date of postmark. The decision is final.
Detailed information about the competition and entry forms are available online at www.haeuser.de / awards.

Lecture next 12th March at 18:30 at the Barcelona School of Architecture

First Prize Hauser Award 2012!!!

Yesterday, at 18:00 in the afternoon at the 23º floor of the Emporio Tower, in Hamburg took place the ceremony of the Hauser Awards 2012. More than 120 houses builded with a lower budget than 1500 euros/m2 attended to the competition and only 4 were nominated to get a prize.
After presenting the third and second prize, the house 1+1=1 was announce to be the winner.
This prize is awarded with 7000 euros and a full image front cover of the Hauser magazine in the especial issue dedicated to the awards.
In the presence of the jury and the members of Hauser magazine it was presented a book with a selection of the houses builded with less than 1500 euros/m2.

HAUSER AWARD 2012

Good architecture does not have to be expensive. To prove this, the renowned HOMES AWARD in 2012 is "Building Price-conscious" with the motto. The editorial HOUSES studied in collaboration with the Information Centre and the Association of Private builders concrete eV (VPB) architects who perform well on a budget Great. Advertised is a prize of 15,000 €. In addition, the VPB any private owner of an excellent house pays a premium of 1,000 €. The Federation of German Architects (BDA) also supports the HOMES AWARD.
"We are looking for exemplary solutions that show how to use cost-conscious concepts and creative ideas are not only remarkably effective but also very individual, aesthetically, and can build outstanding functional quality - to save not on the wrong end, or even compromising the

comfort of need, "says homes chief Wolfgang Nagel. Awards will be single-family homes that meet these criteria perfectly and do not exceed their pure construction costs, based on the square meters living area, 1,500 €. The results of the competition published HOUSES in March 2012. In addition, the German publishing house (DVA), the best projects in a book to be released at the same time.

Participation is open to architects from all over Europe. Each participant may send a maximum of two projects in the race. Closing date for entries is 23 May 2011. The date of postmark. The decision is final.
Detailed information about the competition and entry forms are available online at www.haeuser.de / awards.

Nave 16 Matadero-Madrid in Arquitectura Viva magazine

The last issue of Arquitectura Viva is dedicated to the different architecture interventions in old industrial buildings of this traditional complex in the city of Madrid.
Readers House, Cineteca and Nave 16 are among this contemporary interventions with a special dedication in the relation between the old and the new.
Nave 16 is currently exhibiting "el ranchito", a great work of some of the best architecture collectives groups that are proposing new solutions to contemporary issues.

Jury de proyectos en la universidad Francisco de Vitoria

Es envidiable el buen ambiente que se respira en esta universidad. 

La energía con la que sus jóvenes y brillantes profesores está contagiando el trabajo de los alumnos ha resultado muy evidente en el jury celebrado esta mañana.

Enhorabuena a todos, alumnos y profes.

Luis Fernandez-Galiano y Justo Isasi visitan con sus profesores y alumnos de la ETSAM la casa del lector y la nave 16

Aproximadamente 200 alumnos de proyectos de la ETSAM han visitado esta mañana el complejo Matadero Madrid. 

Las visitas se han concentrado en la casa del lector y en la nave 16. 

Un comentario generalizado ha sido como es muy de lamentar que esta nave no esté aprovechando el máximo su potencial. El hecho de que muchos de los mecanismos de movilidad de puertas y contraventanas se hayan anulado impide disfrutar de una mayor versatilidad y aprovechamiento del espacio.

Magnífico trabajo de algunos de los colectivos que han intervenido con piezas en su interior y que han entendido perfectamente el espacio.

Conferencia en el Seminario -Taller "Proyectar la memoria"

Con este I Seminario-taller se inicia un programa de debates en torno a los criterios de intervención sobre el patrimonio cultural iberoamericano en su realidad contemporánea. Se estructura en dos bloques complementarios entre sí, un cuerpo teórico mediante un módulo de seminario y un desarrollo práctico materializado en un módulo del taller.
El conjunto se articula a su vez en torno a tres bloques temáticos y sobre tres casos prácticos de estudio y proyecto. Programa la presencia de ponentes expertos, profesores y profesionales, en cada uno de los primeros para la exposición teórica que también participarán como asesores en el taller. Este se coordinará además con el apoyo de varios colaboradores para asegurar la excelencia de su desarrollo y el alcance de sus objetivos específicos.
El taller dará comienzo una semana antes facilitándose a los alumnos para ello, on-line, una información básica. La fase presencial servirá para debatir los casos propuestos y profundizar en grupo en su estudio, así como en los parámetros relacionados con su gestión como bienes culturales. Se planteará, posteriormente, la posibilidad de proseguir su desarrollo tras un proceso de selección una vez finalizada esta fase, mediante un nuevo trabajo on-line.
Los contenidos se enmarcan en torno a los problemas definidos del proyecto Patrimonio Histórico Cultural Iberoamericano (PHI).

Launched Symmetries Architecture Workshop in Rome 2012

SYMMETRIES is a platform led by Iñaqui Carnicero, Jacobo García-Germán and José María Sánchez and a set of initiatives devoted to think about the dialogue between past and present in the urban structures of cities with a Roman origin. SYMMETRIES draws links between places, institutions and universities from Spain and the rest of Europe with the common argument of architectural education. The result of this initiative is holding Workshops + Congresses with architects and architecture students.

SYMMETRIES can be framed within the growing interest and concern for the heritage aspects of architecture and the city, particularly in the context of the crisis of the prevailing urban models that has become so evident in the Spanish context of the last two decades making a reconsideration of old urban fabrics something relevant as an area of reflection with renewed interest.

www.symmetries.es 
 

Conferencia en Facoltá di Architettura Universita Cagliari. Cerdeña

Patxi Mangado escribe en "el mundo" sobre el estudio

Juan Herreros, Juan Carlos Sancho, Iñaki Ábalos, Tuñón y Mansilla, Vicente Guallart, Francisco Mangado, Andrés Perea y Jesús Aparicio. Ocho arquitectos veteranos revelan ocho de los nombres de la nueva generación que firmará la arquitectura del mañana.

Inaki Carnicero, entre la oportunidad y la sorpresa

Por Francisco Mangado

Honorable Mention Europan 11!!!. San Bartolomé

De entre más de 250 propuestas presentadas (para los proyectos a desarrollar en España), tan sólo 19 equipos han logrado alcanzar el reconocimiento final. Esto demuestra que la nueva generación de arquitectos de este país viene pisando fuerte. Y no sólo tenemos ganadores y mencionados en las categorías nacionales, no… también algún que otro equipo compuesto por jóvenes arquitectos españoles se ha alzado con algún premio en las categorías de los otros países europeos participantes. A continuación, y sin más demora, os dejamos la lista de ganadores oficiales del Europan 11:ESPAÑA  

Artículo de David Cohn en Architectural Record

In the house that Iñaqui Carnicero has built for himself in Madrid’s rolling northern suburbs, the architect declares allegiance to a classic Modernist discipline, following a Madrid tradition that leads back to one of his influential teachers, Alberto Campo Baeza, and to Alejandro de la Sota and other pioneers of a renewed Spanish Modernism in the 1950s. Carnicero’s design reinterprets Corbusian prototypes—the strip window, the crisp rectangular volume raised on pilotis, the double-height interior living space overlooked by balconies and a sculptural stair (made of aluminum and crafted by artist Eduardo Cajal). But he also addresses contemporary concerns, including principles such as thermal inertia and passive airflow.

ar+d Awards for emerging Architecture.

Winners announced
The winning and commended entries were announced last night at the AR Awards for Emerging Architecture held at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in London.

We are now pleased to announce the winning and commended entries

The evening was hosted by Catherine Slessor, Editor of The Architectural Review, marking the launch of the Emerging Architecture exhibition at the RIBA, which will be running until the end of February in Florence Hall.
The architectural elite spent the evening networking and celebrating their success at the civilised awards ceremony and reception. See pictures from the night.
https://www.emapawards.com/emap/frontend/reg/tOtherPage.csp?pageID=338900&eventID=181&eventID=181

El estudio premiado con el Design Vanguard 2011 !!!

A fault line runs through the architectural profession separating academics from practitioners, thinkers from doers, those who imagine from those who build. Straddling this line, and connecting the realms on either side, are emerging architects who both teach and practice. It's a difficult balancing act to pull off, but it often spurs an exciting form of creativity shaped by tension and risk-taking. Many of the architects in this year's Design Vanguard epitomize this kind of back-and-forth career, combining academic research with the nuts and bolts of delivering real buildings to real clients. From Berkeley to Barcelona,  and Glasgow to Winnipeg, partners in many of this year's firms have established a fluid relationship between intellectual exploration and making projects happen. In doing so, they enrich both spheres of work. Firms shown here are bridging other types of divides,  too, crossing national boundaries, for example, and connecting eras by tapping the spirit  of traditional buildings in works of modern design. —Clifford A. Pearson

http://archrecord.construction.com/features/designvanguard/2011.asp

Conferencia en el Master de Restauración de la E.T.S.A.M.

El próximo miércoles día 16 a las 9:30 Iñaqui Carnicero impartirá una conferencia en el Master de Restauración Ar quitectónica de la Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid. 

El ciclo organizado por Rafael Guridi tendrá como invitados además a Arturo Franco quién explicara la nave de Intermediae y Jose María Churtichaga y Cayeta de la Cuadra-Salcedo la nueva cineteca.

José Mourinho en la casa Pitch

El entrenador del Real Madrid José Mourinho elige la casa Pitch para rodar su último spot publicitario. Una empresa constructora turca es la responsable de haber contratado al entrenador del Real Madrid. El anuncio recoge como transcurre un día normal en la vida del entrenador en su propia casa.

Arquitectura Viva publica la nave 16 de Matadero Madrid

Un nuevo espacio multifuncional ocupa la nave 16 del antiguo Matadero de Madrid, transformada por ICA Arquitectura para albergar exposiciones, conferencias, pasarelas o conciertos. Mediante un sistema de puertas pivotantes de acero situadas en dos niveles se consiguen situaciones variables que van desde una sala central independiente hasta un espacio totalmente abierto donde todas las zonas están conectadas. El proyecto resultó ganador de un concurso organizado por el Ayuntamiento de Madrid en 2007.

http://www.arquitecturaviva.com/Cms/Items/ItemDetail.aspx?ID=3046 

Nave 16 en Arquitectura Viva.

http://www.arquitecturaviva.com/Cms/Items/ItemDetail.aspx?ID=3046

Workshop di Progettazione Internazionale. Universita Roma Tre

ROMA 3.0 _ Workshop di Progettazione Internazionale
Da svariati anni il turismo è ormai considerato fra i principali generatori di ricchezza di un paese. Dal 2000 ad oggi le statistiche registrano un incremento costante di quelli che il UNWTO (World Tourism Barometer) definisce arrivi
internazionali. Nel 2009, gli arrivi internazionali sono stati 880 Milioni con un incremento degli arrivi del 11,5 % da
economie avanzate e del 58,3% da economie emergenti. Di questi, il 52% ha coinvolto l'Europa. Ma il fenomeno non è
privo di controindicazioni. La letteratura è ormai completissima sui temi della musealizzazione dei centri storici, sulla "touristification", sul turismo high e low cost; rimane però da individuare, se possibile, il giusto equilibrio tra sfruttamento del fenomeno e tutela del patrimonio inteso come patrimonio storico, economico e sociale.
Al centro del fenomeno, musei e monumenti fanno i conti con il numero sempre crescente di visitatori e per mantenersi giovani non disdegnano un lifting di quando in quando: plastic fantastic! Fra gli interventi chirurgici degli ultimi 20 anni il Louvre con la sua Piramide del 1989 è sicuramente il più importante: primo perché con i suoi 8,5 milioni di visitatori è l'edificio più visitato del mondo; secondo perché è stato un intervento all'avanguardia sui tempi (fra l'altro all'epoca criticatissimo): oggi è impensabile immaginare il Louvre senza la sua pyramide e tutti gli altri grandi musei del mondo si sono adattati alle sue regole: il British con la copertura di Foster, il Prado con l'ampliamento di Moneo ecc.

 

Presentación a la prensa "Architectureweek 2011" de Praga

Preparations of festival of architecture and urbanism Architecture Week Prague 2011 are in full swing, the festival will take place in October 10-23, 2011 all over Prague. The main theme of this year’s festival  is Universal City, Architecture and Urbanism of Visegrad 4 project and Arch Cities exhibition. Both these projects are realized in cooperation with Prague Castle Authority in the Royal Summer Palace of Queen Anne (Belveder) at the Prague Castle.

Architecture and Urbanism of Visegrad 4 (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary) consists of four individual exhibitions (VISEGRAD 4 CAPITALS EXHIBITION 2011, VISEGRAD 4 URBAN PLANNING 2011, VISEGRAD 4 ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITION 2011, VISEGRAD 4 YOUNG ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITION 2011), lectures and presentations. The central part will be located in Royal Summer Palace of Queen Anne, the student part will take place in National Technical Library.

Arch Cities will present architecture of world metropolises through models, photos and multimedia programs. The visitors will thus have an opportunity to see aims and directions of contemporary architecture from all over the world in one place and to compare and evaluate it.

Día de inauguración en el Instituto Cervantes de Praga

Fechas

Del 06/10/2011 al 27/10/2011

Inauguración

06/10/2011

(18:00 h)

Horario de visita

Lunes - Viernes 10:00 - 18:00, Sábado 10:00 - 14:00

Lugar

Instituto Cervantes
Na Rybnícku 536/6
120 00 Praha 2 Praga
(REPÚBLICA CHECA)

Nave 16 del Matadero Madrid y Proyecto VIVA 320 viviendas en Navalcarnero expuestas en el COAM

Entrevista en Radio-Praga

http://www.radio.cz/es/rubrica/notas/la-fotografia-es-el-cuaderno-de-notas-de-los-arquitectos

El estudio invitado en la Architectureweek de Praga 2011 representando a España.

This year the organizers are preparing special Arch Cities – Universal City Project within Architecture Week Prague 2011 which will present architecture of world metropolises through models, photos and multimedia programs and will be
located at the Prague Castle in the Royal Summer Palace of Queen Anne (Belveder), together with Architecture and Urbanism of Visegrad 4 exhibition. The visitors will thus have an opportunity to see aims and directions of contemporary
architecture from all over the world in one place and to compare and evaluate it. Each of the participating countries will have its space for model of architectonic project characteristic for the given country and a screen for image presentation
showing typical architecture of the country. Expositions will have unified character and graphic design. The expositions will be approved by the Prague Castle Administration. At the end of the exposition documentary films about architecture of the participating countries will be screened. The exhibition will be presented in festival catalogue Architecture Week 2011.

Exposicion en el Instituo Cervantes de Praga: "Fotografías cruzadas"

La exposición se plantea como un recorrido a través algunas fotografías del pasado, que durante estos años han servido como germen conceptual de muchas de las ideas utilizadas en el presente.
La fotografía entendida como un instrumento de análisis de lo cotidiano, de aquello que habitualmente pasa desapercibido ante nuestros ojos. Una colección de lugares, espacios y objetos
pertenecientes a un cuaderno de viaje sin dibujos, que nos muestra la inteligencia que se esconde en lo cotidiano.
La práctica profesional del presente debe recuperar la naturalidad y el ingenio de algunas de estas soluciones que nos hablan de arquitecturas transformables, reversibles, que reconsideran lo público y lo privado, y así lo entiende este joven arquitecto en sus obras.

El estudio de Iñaqui Carnicero premiado con el Architectural Record Design Vanguard 2011

El estudio de Iñaqui Carnicero ha sido premiado como uno de los 10 estudios emergentes del año a nivel mundial por la Architectural Record/Design Vanguard de Nueva York. Es un premio que otorga la revista norteamericana profesional Architectural Record de la editorial McGraw-Hill, con una tirada de 90.000 ejemplares. Cada año dedican el número de diciembre a un portfolio de estudios de todo el mundo, en una sección llamada "Design Vanguard". Ya ha salido la revista

Mesa redonda final del workshop: "Symmetries" en Split

La mesa redonda final del workshop Symmetries, celebrado en Split la semana del 4 al 8 de Julio dió fin a una magnifica experiencia de acercameinto entre los alumnos de la universidad de Split y los de la Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid. en la imagen Hrvoje Njiric,  Jacobo Garcia-German, Neno Kezic, José María Sanchez, Taddei, Emil Sverko, Sasa Begovic, Luis Moreno-Mansilla, Emilio Tuñón e Iñaqui Carnicero

La AA en la nave 16 Matadero Madrid. La versatilidad del espacio empieza a dar sus frutos

La nave 16 del Matadero Madrid, diseñada pòr los arquitectos Iñaqui Carnicero, I. Vila y A. Virseda inicia una serie de actividades interdisciplinares que pretenden hacerse participes de este nuevo espacio polivalente.
AA Inter­pro­fes­sio­nal de la Archi­tec­tu­ral Asso­cia­tion de Lon­dres se pre­senta como un estu­dio que desa­rro­lla ejer­ci­cios de trans­ver­sa­li­dad galo­pante entre todo lo que pueda ser artís­ti­ca­mente agi­ta­ble. Las gran­des dis­ci­pli­nas into­ca­bles que cada gre­mio ha inten­tado –poco afor­tu­na­da­mente– her­me­ti­zar y con­ver­tir en raquí­ti­cos bún­ke­res de pro­duc­ción híper-limitada, se menean en la AA a otro com­pás y sin bus­car en abso­luto las siete dife­ren­cias entre el cho­rizo y la velo­ci­dad. Todo lo con­tra­rio, la bipo­la­ri­dad que surge entre los ele­men­tos más –a priori– con­tra­dic­to­rios, se expone en un dan­ce­floor que lo pone todo en duda y dónde se gene­ran fric­cio­nes casi por defecto. Arte, arqui­tec­tura, diseño y per­for­mance encuen­tran frá­gi­les pun­tos de equi­li­brio que AA Inter­pro­fes­sio­nal  explo­tan hasta cons­truir sim­po­sios de la interdisciplinaridad.

Entrevista en el Mundo: "Ya está bien de lamentarnos de lo mal que nos van las cosas"

VIDEO 

Iñaqui Carnicero (Madrid, 1973) cree en lo colectivo y en la flexibilidad como palancas de acción claves en el ámbito de la Arquitectura. Lo piensa y lo pone en práctica. "Los propietarios de esta casa iban a comprase dos viviendas de 60 metros en el centro de Madrid. Pero, por el mismo dinero, optaron esta parcela en Torrelodones y construir dos casas de 120 metros cada una", asegura.

Defensor de la cultura del alquiler, plantea que las grandes casas que no se venden deberían destinarse a familias menos pudientes que compartieran gastos y espacios comunes. "Se ha demostrado que este afán que tenemos, histórico, por coseguir una vivienda en propiedad ha pasado a la mejor vida".

Hay que cambiar de mentalidad y "asumir modelos europeos donde la vivienda se disfruta en alquiler", y eso tiene muchas ventajas. Más ahora cuando los más jóvenes se ven obligados a dejar este país y a busarse la vida en otros lugares del mundo.

"Es posible que las cosas no cambien y que los que tenemos que cambiar somo nosotros"

Llegadas/Partidas” — Campus Internacional Ultzama 2011 [Pamplona]

Direc­tor

José Manuel Pozo

Arqui­tec­tos seniors

Anne Laca­ton (Paris)

Wil­fred Wang (Austin-Texas)

Camilo Rebelo (Oporto)

Mar­celo Villa­fañe y Gerardo Caba­llero (Rosario)

Juan Miguel Otxo­to­rena (Pamplona)

Eduardo Pes­quera (Madrid)

Tadej Gla­zar (Eslovenia)

8 jóve­nes arqui­tec­tos españoles

José María Sán­chez (Madrid)

Rubén Alco­lea y Jorge Tárrago (Pamplona)

Javier Larraz (Pamplona)

Jacobo García-Germán (Madrid)

Enri­que Krahe (Madrid/Delft)

Josep Ferrando Bra­mona (Madrid)

Iñaki Car­ni­cero (Madrid)

José Juan Barba (Madrid)

La casa 1+1=1 publicada en la revista: "En blanco". Catedra blanca de Valencia

La catedra Blanca de Valencia publica la revista "En Blanco" donde selecciona una serie de viviendas realizas en hormigón armado y donde se encuentra entre otras la casa 1+1=1.

Las viviendas que se incluyen en el número son:

Vivienda Unifamiliar en Los Peñascales, Torrelodones, Madrid, España; Iñaqui Carnicero.
 Bloques Normales; Raúl Castellanos Gómez, Débora Domingo Calabuig. 
Casa en el Jardín del Sol, Taraconte, Tenerife, España; Corona y P. Amaral Arquitectos. 
Casa JD, Mar Azul, Partido de Villa Gesell, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina; BAK Arquitectos. 
Casa Paraty, Paraty, Río de Janeiro, Brasil; Studio MK27 - Marcio Kogan. 
Casa en Camino a Farellones, Santiago, Chile; Max Núñez B. y Bernardo Valdés E. 
Casa en Frontenex, Ginebra, Suiza; Charles Pictet Architecte FAS SIA. 
Casa en Estoril, Lisboa, Portugal; Jorge Mealha. 
Casa en Lumino, Suiza; Davide Macullo + Marco Strozzi. 
House O, Chiba, Japón; Sou Fujimoto. 
Atelier Katharina Grosse, Berlín, Alemania; Augustinundfrankarchitekten. 
Maison du Béton en Zwickau, Cainsdorf, Alemania; atelier st.
Vivienda Unifamiliar en Motril, Granada, España; Gijón Arquitectura.

Workshop de verano en el antiguo Palacio de Spalato, Split (Croacia)

SYMMETRIES: Conceptual reconsideration of the past and its projection into the future has been a dominant theme throughout the history of architecture. This could be considered to be especially relevant today as a counter-force upon the on-going fascination with the avang-garde in many architectural schools and also given the current cultural and economic crisis which encourages a critical revision of inherited methods and protocols. In this context, the idea of “symmetries” emerges as a powerful concept for revisiting old urban tissues, particularly those which rather than encapsulating the past have opted for a creative and dialectic relationship with it, as occurs very eloquently in the city of Split. The emergence of a new city inside old Diocletian’s Palace conserving its original structure for a different use may give way to tracing and documenting the different symmetries (or a-symmetries, or equivalences, or opposites...) between now and then as a platform of possibilities for the future of Split. Student will therefore explore these latent symmetries with a variety of architectural, artistic and observational tools.
This workshop is a joint-venture between Madrid’s Architecture School (ETSAM) and Split’s Architecture School (GAF).