nuevosnuevos launches in Madrid on Saturday, June 23, through nuevosENCUENTROS, an initiative addressing the central theme of "making the public public" throughout 2018. During the event, experts from various disciplines related to creation, thought, research, and communication will engage in open dialogue with the public regarding current urban issues, establishing an open and horizontal relationship that allows for the sharing of experiences and reflections.
Reinier de Graaf joined OMA in 1996. He is responsible for construction and masterplanning projects in Europe, Russia, and the Middle East, including Holland Green in London (completed in 2016), the new Timmerhuis in Rotterdam (completed in 2015), the G-Star Headquarters in Amsterdam (completed in 2014), De Rotterdam (completed in 2013), and the Norra Tornen residential towers in Stockholm.
MINI Hub, MINI's space for innovation and urban culture in Madrid, resumes its programming in 2018 by addressing the theme of creativity applied to architecture and urbanism. The session will be led by members of the Pez Estudio team, a creative cell of architects formed in 2006 that has not only held exhibitions, lectures, and workshops at artistic and educational institutions throughout Spain, but also across Europe, North America, and Latin America.
The KÖMMERLING Challenge is KÖMMERLING’s major initiative to contribute to a shift in the construction model, accommodating high-energy-efficiency projects with a viable construction budget by integrating the most efficient and innovative construction techniques. The starting point for this challenge was the unique ‘Edificio Zero KÖMMERLING Architecture Competition,’ held in 2017, which serves as the basis for the brand’s new offices in Spain. The vision of the KÖMMERLING Challenge is built on several pillars: the training of architects; the use of new methodologies that consider not only construction solutions but also processes and workflows; and placing special emphasis on project certification and its various phases.
Bartlebooth launches its seventh experiment, Beyond the Human. This collective publication explores discourses and practices that shift the human from the center of spatial production and understand its position within a global system traversed by multiple tentacles. A reality inhabited by bacteria, animals, waste, bit chains, logistical orders, fungi, cyborgs, territories, ecosystems, and air... A new, multiple body that must be interrogated to understand spatial realities and unveil architectural possibilities that go beyond the human.
This exhibition showcases the results of the 2018 Richard H. Driehaus Architecture Competition and the Richard H. Driehaus Building Arts Awards. It will be open to the public from June 14 to July 26 at the Arquería de Nuevos Ministerios exhibition hall (Paseo de la Castellana, 67 - 28046 Madrid).
On June 13, we have an important date with #URBACT at Medialab-Prado in Madrid: 'InfodayES 2018: Learning to Plan Holistically.' This is a free event, welcoming professionals and cities interested in learning how to improve urban life through sustainable urban development and citizen participation.
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Coinciding with the opening of the 15th Architecture Week, an exhibition is being presented to commemorate the centenary of the birth of architect Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza, a fundamental figure in Spanish architecture, and particularly in Madrid.
Artist and social architect Santiago Cirugeda will build a house suspended in mid-air inside Nave 11, developing its full artistic potential by inviting creators—Llorenç Barber and Montserrat Palacios, Ignacio Marín Bocanegra, Vértebro, and Los Bárbaros—as well as spectators, to live in and experience it. Once its time at Naves Matadero concludes, the house will be rebuilt by members of the Network of Feminist Women for Gender Equity in Development; the Amalgama Association, a group of Latin American women fighting against gender-based violence; and the Dinamia Cooperative and Trabe Foundation, both of which specialize in integration processes.
The 4th Smart Cities Congress promotes the exchange of knowledge and experiences regarding Smart Cities in Spain, using technology and innovation as the foundational tools for their development. To this end, it addresses the main topics related to the Smart City in a transversal, multidisciplinary, and multisectoral manner, showcasing initiatives currently being developed in the country.
The Nearly Zero Energy Buildings Congress (EECN) is the premier professional forum for addressing the current state of high-efficiency buildings and their implications for the building, construction, architecture, and related services sectors in our country.
The Congress addresses key aspects affecting Nearly Zero Energy Buildings in Spain from a comprehensive and multidisciplinary perspective. A wide range of topics will be covered, including technical and regulatory issues, as well as business opportunities, considering solutions for both new construction and renovation projects.
It covers the current state and future of the sector through various formats, such as paper presentations, NZEB project exhibitions, roundtables, and keynote speeches. The thematic areas established for the 5th Nearly Zero Energy Buildings Congress are:
In conjunction with the 15th Madrid Architecture Week, the Norman Foster Foundation presents Architecture on Screen, a film series curated by the foundation for Sala Equis in the Spanish capital.
Since the early 20th century, both architecture and film have found ways to express new ideas and develop avant-garde languages. Avant-garde movements, such as Futurism, established a close link between art, film, and architecture. As seen in the drawings of Sant'Elia, they convey the concept of the industrial city, moving trains, and buildings inspired by hydroelectric power plants, using the machine as a metaphor.
El Inventario de Abestudio is launching its graphic experimentation workshops with The Shadow Laboratory. Over three sessions, participants will explore the capacity of shadows to generate images that can detach from their source objects, take on their own identity, and design a new reality. They will construct and compose shadows, capturing an infinite array of possible configurations derived from the object and light beams on a flat plane.
On January 31, the book Opera Chillana Digesta, recently published by Editorial Fisuras, will be presented at Casa de América in Madrid.
Opera Chillana Digesta is a large-format portfolio written and illustrated by Juan Borchers in early 1964. It is one of the most valuable Borchers manuscripts preserved in the Original Archives of the Faculty of Architecture at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. In this manuscript, Borchers aims to synthesize the intellectual background of the project for the Cooperativa Eléctrica de Chillán building, which was nearing completion at the time. It is written in simple language—at least in comparison to other texts by Borchers—and is accompanied by beautiful drawings. Beyond presenting the architectural concept behind the project, Borchers provides insights into how this concept is embodied in the work. Among the many topics covered, the Borcherian idea of "act" and a theory of form embodied in his concept of "bastones" (staffs), conceived as differences between magnitudes, stand out.
On Saturday, November 24, at 12:00 PM, we will inaugurate the exhibition Mercat Sant Antoni, objeto, obra, atmósfera [Mercat Sant Antoni: Object, Work, Atmosphere] by photographer Asier Rua. Join us for a vermouth as we premiere the video of the project carried out in Barcelona.
The MAS in Collective Housing is celebrating an anniversary, and we are pleased to share our excitement at reaching 10 editions. With 256 students from 38 countries and 70 international workshops behind us, we are confident that we are on the right track, and we have now opened the application period for the next edition.
n'UNDO proposes approaching architecture and urbanism from a different perspective, understanding that it is possible to build more and better through reduction, restraint, and reasoned declination. The theoretical framework developed aims to improve the urban and environmental landscape through a shift in professional and personal perspective, creating meeting places for those who feel engaged, while stimulating reflection, criticism, debate, and collective action.
ATTENTION! Registration is now open for the Weird Space workshops + exhibition. This series explores the city through the performativity of the urban dinner-action. We are presenting three diverse and exciting workshops: Lesboanimitas, with nucbeade; Confluencia intergaláctica de subjetividades colectivas ociosas (C.I.S.C.O.), with Pablo Durango; and Sobremesa, with Cecilia Cameo + David Macho.