The Umbra Light Festival Vitoria-Gasteiz will illuminate iconic spaces within the city's historic center—known as the Medieval Almond—and the Ensanche district of the Alavese capital on February 21, 22, and 23, from 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM. The event aims to establish the city and the surrounding territory as a premier tourist, cultural, and technological destination.
The cultural association “Barajas BIC,” with the support of the Barajas Municipal Board, is organizing a lecture series featuring municipal technical teams from various city councils in the Madrid region. “Main Squares, Meeting Places”—with presentations focused on urban regeneration and the revitalization of historic Madrid spaces from the 16th to 18th centuries—will take place on Thursdays throughout March and April (6:00 PM) at the “Gloria Fuertes” Cultural Center (179 Logroño Ave.).
Curated by Tiago do Vale Arquitectos and the Galician firm Santos-Mera Arquitectos, the fifth edition of Mesturas, the Galicia-Portugal International Architecture Meetings, will take place between October 10 and 24, 2019, in the cities of Pontevedra, Ourense, and Vigo.
An essential event for anyone interested in sustainable timber construction. This congress is aimed at professionals and features a series of lectures by internationally renowned speakers, alongside an exhibition of the sector's leading companies.
Curated by Tiago do Vale Arquitectos and the Galician firm Santos-Mera Arquitectos, the fifth edition of Mesturas, International Architecture Meetings Galicia-Portugal, will take place from October 10 to 24, 2018, in the cities of Pontevedra, Ourense, and Vigo.
This workshop will be led by ZAP&BUJ, winners of the eighth edition of the 2017 Samsung EGO Innovation Project, finalists for Vogue Who´s on Next 2018 and 2019, and recipients of awards at the Ibero-American Design Biennial (BID18), among other recognitions.
The 20th edition of the International Conference on Heritage Intervention, titled "In Continuous Transformation," will take place in Logroño from November 21 to 23. The event is organized by the La Rioja Architects' Association, with support from the Government of La Rioja and the Logroño City Council. Speakers will include Jan de Vylder, Carlos Quintáns, Antonio Ruiz Barbarín, Ignacio García Pedrosa, Juan Domingo Santos, Nuno Valentim, Isabel Concheiro, Núria Oliveras, and Xavier Monteys, among others.
"Formentera was unique. The sea, and a little rock in the sea, and I was on this little-known rock because there was nothing there. [...] Being warm in winter when it is cold, being cool in summer when it is hot, and conserving water—that is all that is necessary to live. The wind, the sun, and the rain were what I needed, nothing more," summarized Henri Quillé in 2016, from Paris, after a career dedicated to building some 30 houses on Formentera, the smallest of the Balearic Islands.
On Tuesday, March 26, 2019, at 7:00 PM, Argument01: Sampling Contexts—published by DPA Prints and Ediciones Asimétricas—will be presented at Roca Gallery Madrid. The event will feature the series' curators and editors, invited participants (PYO, Taller de Casquería, and Gonzalo del Val), Enrique Encabo, and DJ Juanito Jones.
The third edition of the short film series on contemporary architectural trends, co-sponsored by Roca and Technal, will feature architects Ricardo Flores and Eva Prats of Flores & Prats Arquitectes.
For the eighth consecutive year, the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture is hosting an exhibition of final degree projects at the restored Ca l'Alier factory in the Poblenou district. Titled "22@_What? How to achieve balance in Northern Poblenou, Barcelona," the exhibition reexamines the 22@ Plan, launched by the Barcelona City Council in 2000 to repurpose the neighborhood's former industrial zones. The plan aimed to create a compact city model where businesses, universities, research centers, and technology transfer hubs could coexist with housing, public facilities, and green spaces. Twenty years later, UIC Barcelona students have taken up the challenge, presenting new programmatic and architectural proposals for Northern Poblenou—a territory they believe is in need of new solutions and patterns.
3rd Edition of the 'Arquitectura en corto' Series: Inside or Outside?
On Tuesday, November 19, the COAC (Architects' Association of Catalonia) will host a public event to mark the launch of the book La Casa de Ozu by architect Marta Peris. In addition to the author, the event will feature philosopher and art critic Menene Gras Balaguer (Director of Culture and Exhibitions at Casa Asia) and architects Josep Ferrando and Antonio de Moragas.
Open House is an architecture and city festival that takes place one weekend a year in more than 40 cities around the world. For two days, the doors of dozens of public buildings, workspaces, residences, and artist and architect studios that are not usually accessible to the public are opened. It is a free event for the public that promotes knowledge of the city and recognition of the value of urban space. In Madrid, it is a project by the non-profit association Culture Care.
The forms of industrial construction (across all sectors, from dams, warehouses, and silos to workshops and mills), in their pursuit of economic and spatial efficiency, served as compelling formal references for architects at the dawn of the modern movement, as noted by Banham; they often inspired the design of ordinary urban buildings.
Organized by SOM and the Fundación Arquitectura COAM, this exhibition explores the work of SOM’s structural engineering team, its integration with architectural design, and the ideas behind some of the world’s most significant projects.
