Professor Bet Alabern leads a university course on Accessibility
We are proud to announce that a course directed by one of our faculty and LAU member Bet Alabern, together with Carles Llop, has been chosen by the International University Consortium Menéndez Pelayo de Barcelona for its 2012 Fall program. The course, an Acces_sos initiative, is titled Accessibility amplified: Solutions for the management of public … Read more
Profesores Ignasi López y Pau Faus exponen sus trabajos
Tenemos el placer de anunciar dos exposiciones inauguradas el pasado viernes 10 de febrero en las cuales participan dos de nuestros profesores colaboradores, Ignasi López, fotógrafo y editor especializado en el territorio urbano, y Pau Faus, arquitecto y artista visual. La primera en el Museu de Granollers que se titula “Passant pàgina: El llibre com … Read more
Networked Society short film: Thinking Cities
Check out Ericsson’s latest Networked Society short film, which deals with one of the biggest societal trends today: urbanization. Thinking Cities explores the challenges and opportunities of urbanization in the Networked Society. Some of the world’s leading city-thinkers are interviewed for the film, including Geoffrey West, physicist and professor at Santa Fe Institute; Mathieu Lefevre … Read more
Friday Faves! 5 Things to Watch and Read
Blame the Architect – A series of lectures with an amusing tone yet a very serious subject matter: Are architects and urban planners to blame for urban violence? Professor Wouter Vanstiphout talks about the inextricable relationship between design and politics, thus design as politics. Organized by the chair of Design as Politics at the Delft … Read more
History as a Guide for Adaptive Reuse
In a recent article, Atlantic Cities transports us to the town of Split, Croatia to point out the importance of looking back at history when reshaping our cities for the future. In an age of urban redevelopment, retrofitting neighborhoods and landmarks sacrificed for the sake of mixed-use complexes, sometimes we forget that what was already there … Read more
LAU Member Antonio Lista Reports on the African Urban Corridor Project
In a team led by Italian architect Giulia Marabini from Venice, we are currently developing a UN-HABITAT project in the Gulf of Guinea, the Ibadan-Lagos-Cotonou-Lomé Accra Great Urban Corridor. In recent years, UN-HABITAT has focused it work on African urban corridors, which they consider to be the best economic engine for current conditions, given that … Read more
Friday Faves! 5 Things to Watch and Read
Our Friday Faves series went on a short break after the new year, but we’ve brought them back! Here are this week’s 5 things to watch and read: What we’re doing is nothing new: Lewis Knight on landscape urbanism – Urban and Landscape Designer in charge of the Planning and Urban Design Practice Area for … Read more
Vicente Guallart presents his strategic plan for Barcelona at ESARQ
Coinciding with one of our faculty members’ critical reflexion on Vicente Guallart’s views on the “death of urbanism”, the chief architect of Barcelona came to our campus last week to share his 10 Strategic Projects for Barcelona. Enunciating points such as “urbanism is no longer an isolated practice”, “we must add value to the constructed … Read more
Our Urban Design and Territorial Planning Lab publishes LAU2
We are excited to announce the release of the second installment to our urbanism lab’s research publications, LAU 2: Regenerating Intermediate Landscapes, a collection written and edited by members of the Urban Design and Territorial Planning Lab (LAU) of the ESARQ-UIC that addresses the general reasoning behind the Regeneration of Intermediate Landscapes, and hopes to … Read more
Is Urbanism Over? A Controversial Debate
In a place like Barcelona where the practice of urbanism has left such an indelible mark on the city and become a renowned model in and of itself, announcing the death of urbanism is almost akin to blasphemy. What does Vicente Guallart, director of the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia and newly appointed director … Read more
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