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
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
Vicente Guallart Appointed Director of Urbanism of Barcelona
In a recent trip to Columbia University in New York, the new mayor of Barcelona, Xavier Trias, promoted his mission to “Regenerate” Barcelona to an audience of architecture students. Regenerating; coincidentally it’s a term that our program uses to describe its approach to the practice of urbanism across intermediate landscapes, but how does the mayor … Read more
