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What have we been doing?

2012-13 academic year

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Presentation 04

Vertical Workshop 08

Foros ESARQ 14

Cooperation 18

Accessibility 24

Sustainability 28

Ceramic Chair 32

Projects 36

Urban Planning 48

ESARQ Open House 52

News 56

Welcome aboard

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Presentation

We are contacting you so we can send you some news about the activities that took place during the 2012-2013 academic year in the School of Architecture in the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya! We are also including various articles and interviews which we think could be of interest to you.

Vicenç Sarrablo, director of ESARQ-UIC 2006-2013

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Who we are?

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Presentation

Since its foundation in 1997, ESARQ-UIC, the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura of the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, has been developing its own DNA, identity and distinctive model. By ESARQ-UIC’s DNA, we mean those subjects which form part of the school’s core module, subjects which define and reaffirm the spirit and philosophy of the school based on three pillars: individual attention, innovation and contact with the industry, and commitment; in short, innovation at the service of people.Amongst these subjects, workshops and courses we highlight the compulsory subjects of cooperation, accessibility and sustainability, this last subject instigated by the CEIM Chair; the Vertical Workshop, which consists of a week-long workshop at the beginning of the course where all the students work together on a project intended to benefit the community; and, lastly, the Foros ESARQ, a series of conferences that offer students the chance to gain first-hand knowledge of the different methods and philosophies in every facet of the field of architecture.

Who we are?

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The vertical workshop

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Vertical Workshop

Currently, the ESARQ Vertical Workshop consists of a workshop lasting approximately one week which is held during the first week of the course as a dynamic start after the summer break, in which all of the students, from years one to five, are mixed up into different teams, each one led by two renowned teachers, to compete in an architectural exercise aimed at benefiting the community.

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VERTICAL WORKSHOP VIDEOS

Vertical Workshop Presentation

Vertical Workshop Awards

Vertical Workshop

The 2012 Vertical Workshop was entitled “Lugares del agua: Fuentes de Horta-Guinardó” (Water-filled places: The Horta-Guinardó Fountains). Similarly to past editions this time ESARQ aimed for an architecture project involving social participation, which this year was the result of collaboration with the Horta-Guinardó district within Barcelona City Council. On this occasion the aim was to recover the interest in the city and urban environment demonstrated in previous workshops, incorporating work on specific elements and their ability to influence the whole. Today’s situation of change and reflection requires solutions from the architect when facing the new challenges found in city projects. Based on this premise, the Horta−Guinardó district provided us with the opportunity to work on a project for the rehabilitation of already existing national heritage property. Therefore the proposal was to undertake work on five fountains located in various areas within the district.

The aim was to recover this national heritage property, to add value to them as elements which are representative of the district. Furthermore the idea was for these fountains to be identified as a nerve centre within the area thereby ensuring that their importance as meeting points for citizens could be reclaimed.

THE VERTICAL WORKSHOP HAS ALWAYS BEEN AN IMPORTANT EVENT REPRESENTING THE VERY ESSENCE OF THE SCHOOL WHICH, OVER THE YEARS, HAS REAFFIRMED AND EXTENDED ITS SCOPE FOR INNOVATION.

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Vertical Workshop

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Vertical Workshop

THE PROJECTS CARRIED OUT BY THE STUDENTS OF THE VERTICAL WORKSHOP 2012 WERE SHOWN AT THE HORTA-GUINARDÓ DISTRICT OFFICE DURING OCTOBER

Francina Vila, the Horta-Guinardó district councillor, officially opened an exhibition of projects to remodel the district’s fountains that were undertaken by students participating in the 2012 Vertical Workshop at the ESARQ School of Architecture.

The session, which was the result of a collaboration between the district, the ESARQ School of Architecture and the Aigües de Barcelona water company, started with a presentation about the district’s fountains titled “Fountains: Recreation and Architecture in the History of the Horta-Guinardó District”. It was presided over by district councillor Francina Vila and was attended by ESARQ director Vicenç Sarrablo.

Francina Vila was also responsible for giving the audience a historical overview of the district’s relationship with water. At the same time, some professors and a group of students from the ESARQ had the opportunity to describe their projects to the authorities and residents at the meeting.

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Foros ESARQ

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Foros ESARQ

The subject entitled Foros ESARQ forms part of the academic programme of the school. It is a subject dedicated to debate and reflection on contemporary architectural reality.

The series of conferences in the 2012-2013 academic year entitled Atmosferas aimed to reveal how looking at things through different eyes affects the way we work and operate in the world.

With collaboration from:

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Foros ESARQ

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PAU PEDRAGOSA, architect and doctor of philosophy. He is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Architectural Composition at the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB). He specializes in phenomenology, hermeneutics, aesthetics and the theory of architecture. Pedragosa is a founding member of the Phenomenological Studies Group at the Institute for Catalan Studies (IEC) and a member of the Spanish Phenomenology Society (SEFE) and the Organization of Phenomenological Organizations (OPO). He participates in the research project the Topology of the Contemporary Urban Context, which is sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.

FLORES & PRATS Its founding members, Eva Prats and Ricardo Flores, are project professors at the Barcelona School of Architecture of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya(ETSAB). In the past, they formed part of the management team at Wallpaper* magazine, they were invited to conduct workshops at various universities in the United States, Europe, Argentina and Australia, and they received several prestigious prizes, including the 2009 Grand Award for the Best Work in Architecture from the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

ARTURO FRANCO, completed his architecture degree at the Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM), after which he began to combine architecture criticism, teaching, research and professional practice with the same level of enthusiasm. He has been the architecture critic for the ABC newspaper for 10 years and the editor of the magazine of the Official Association of Architects of Madrid since 2008. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Architectural Composition at the ETSAM and a visiting professor of projects at the Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca. He was acknowledged to be one of the most influential young Spanish architects by the El País newspaper, the Caja de Arquitectos Foundation, the Spanish Ministry of Development and the magazines Architectural Digest and 2G.

ADAM KHAN, currently gives classes at the Royal College of Art School of Architecture in London, winner of two RIBA medals (royal institute of british architects) in 2010 and 2011. He is a member of the Design Review Panel and has taught at Kingston University, London Metropolitan University and Brighton University

BARAO-HUTTER, atelier is an architecture and design workshop located in Zurich. Since 2010, Barão and Hutter have worked together in a space that was previously a butcher’s shop and is now a multidisciplinary group studio. They currently share the space with photographers.

6A, TOM EMERSON studied architecture at the University of Bath, the Royal College of Art and Cambridge University, where he later taught. He has also given classes at the Architectural Association and, in 2010, at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, and has published articles on architecture, literature and art. He has also won a number of different awards, such as the 2010 RIBA medal for his work on the East London art gallery Raven Row and the 2011 New London Architecture Award for the highly acclaimed South London Gallery

ANNE HOLTROP, graduated cum laude in Architecture from the Academy of Architecture of Amsterdam in 2005. He opened his own practice in the same year and was awarded several grants from the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture (Fonds BKVB). He was also awarded the Charlotte Köhler Prize for Architecture from the Prince Bernhard Cultural Foundation.He was an artist-in-residence in Tokyo in 2009, in Seoul in 2011 and in Copenhagen in 2012. He is the Course Director of the Master’s Degree Programme in Immediate Spaces at the Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam and is the editor of OASE, an independent architectural journal. His work includes projects for temporary and permanent buildings and he occasionally collaborates with the artists Krijn de Koning and Bas Princen.

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ESARQCooperationprojects

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Cooperation

ESARQ supports projects that are committed to society in response to the philosophy in the School. The area of Cooperation should be highlighted here, since it is compulsory within the Degree in Architecture curriculum. Cooperation 1 and 2 are taught in fourth year.

The Master of International Cooperation Sustainable Emergency Architecture forms part of the Erasmus Mundus European Cooperation Program a joint European Masters degree program offered by the following universities: Technische Universität Darmstadt, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Université Pierre-Mendès-France Grenoble and the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya in Barcelona.

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INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION STUDENTS PRESENT HOUSING MODELS TO VICENTE FERRER FOUNDATION

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Cooperation

THE PROJECT FOR A TRAINING CENTRE IN BURKINA FASO WAS EXHIBITED AT THE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON BARTLETT SCHOOL DURING THE LONDON FESTIVAL OF ARCHITECTURETraining Centre in Burkina Faso Model. Cooperation Area

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Cooperation

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Students in the UIC Master’s Programme in International Cooperation: Sustainable Emergency Architecture at the ESARQ School of Architecture gave a presentation at the Zona Nord library in the Nou Barris district of Barcelona for residents of Ciutat Meridiana on Thursday, 20 December 2012. The students were divided into five groups and maintained contact with residents to draw up a complete physical and social analysis of the neighbourhood. Based on this research, each team developed intervention tools and proposals for the regeneration and reinterpretation of this troubled community.

A total of five projects were presented whose common objective was to adapt the neighbourhood’s existing urban and architectural barriers in order to improve its physical character and address socioeconomic challenges.

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ESARQAccessibility

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Accessibility

Another of the compulsory subjects in the Architecture Programme which is in line with the ESARQ philosophy is Accessibility. The pioneering initiative is the first of its kind in Spain and is run by the architect Enrique Rovira-Beleta, the course professor and an accessibility specialist. The online postgraduate degree in Accessibility and Design for All is the first formal academic initiative to examine accessibility from a global, cross-disciplinary perspective.

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Accessibility

Students on their first day of class. Subject: Accessibility

“ STUDENTS IDENTIFY THE CAPABILITIES OF DISABLED PEOPLE AND THEY UNDERSTAND THAT ACCESSIBILITY IS NOT JUST ABOUT THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, BUT IS BENEFICIAL TO ALL CITIZENS”.

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DANIEL RIVEROLA AND CLARA VALVERDE FINALISTS OF THE SCHINDLER SPAIN ARCHITECTURE AWARD

Two ESARQ School of Architecture alumni have been selected as finalists in the fifth edition of the Schindler Spain Architecture Award for their work on their final degree project «Unwind». The project is a proposal for a spa centre in the Diagonal Verda. With regard to accessibility, the project of Riverola and Valverde proposes access to the building via a large ramp that would also span the Roman ruins and connect the car park with the building on the same level. The different levels would be connected by ramps, staircases and an elevating platform.

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CEIMSustainability

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CEIM. Sustainability

Another of the compulsory subjects in the Architecture Programme which is in line with the ESARQ philosophy is Sustainability. This subject brings together a commitment to the environment and creating links between the university and companies, since it puts students in contact with sustainable companies from various construction sectors. The area of Sustainability is provided with support from the Chair for Industrialised Construction and the Environment, the CEIM.

In that sense, ESARQ-UIC houses the CEIM with the aim of providing: Transferability, via representation from each of the agents from the construction sector. The transfer of knowledge, through the interaction of companies with the university as well as interaction between different companies.

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CEIM. Sustainability

“CEIM AWARDS FOR THE BEST PROJECTS BY STUDENTS IN THE SUSTAINABILITY SUBJECT”.

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CEIM. Sustainability

This academic year, projects focused on energy rehabilitation in the Gamma and Delta buildings on the UIC Barcelona Campus.

The proposal outstanding for its potential and simplicity. The project’s outstanding features were the walkways and the integration of exterior and interior space, in addition to the building’s enhanced bioclimatic performance. An interesting space was also created on the ground floor. The proposal manages to achieve a reduction in costs as well as enhanced quality in the building’s interior”.

BIG NONIA 1 PROJECT, SUBMITTED BY STUDENTS MANUEL QUIÑONES, NACHO VALLHONRAT AND MIGUEL PUJOL, WAS THE WINNING PROJECT

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ASCERCeramicsChair in ESARQ

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Ceramics Chair

The ASCER Ceramics Chair in ESARQ promotes the Ceramics Chair subject, which is optional. It involves setting up meetings between Architecture students and ceramic material manufacturers and creating links between the two. The subject is divided up into trade fairs organised by manufacturers, visits to factories and construction sites, architectural conferences and workshop-correction sessions. The aim is to carry out a research project involving the student handing in a project on a ceramic material which is innovative and can be applied to the field of architecture. At the end of each academic year, a jury of four prestigious architects and a representative of ASCER will award three prizes to the best projects from that year. At the same time students are

also encouraged to present their projects for the INDISTILE de CEVISAMA (Fira de València) international competition. ESARQ has managed to be represented among the prize-winners of this competition every year.

The Ceramics Chair, apart from being involved in teaching, also disseminates the work carried out in the specialised press for this sector as well as in its own publications.

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Ceramics Chair

Final jury for the Ceramics Chair subject.

CERAMIC STUDIES DEPARTMENT WINS CEVISAMA COMPETITION FOR NINTH CONSECUTIVE YEAR

Student Sergi Cabanas won first prize with «Arpi», a piece that was also recognized in the final of the Ceramic Studies Department sponsored by ASCER. “a traditional piece that adapts to new tastes and functions in current architectural practice”

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Ceramics Chair

MATERIALES CERÁMICOS VIII

Authors: Vicente Sarrablo, Jordi Roviras and Cristina García CastelaoEditors: Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura ESARQ (UIC) Cátedra Cerámica Barcelona (Ceramic Tile Department) Vicente Sarrablo Jordi Roviras Cristina García CastelaoYear: November 2012Published in: BarcelonaDesign and layout: BisdixitISBN: 978-84-616-1576-6

This publication provides an overview of the work completed during the 2011-12 academic year by the Barcelona Tile Ceramics Department at ESARQ-UIC, sponsored by ASCER. The students have provided answers to the question: how can ceramics help to create more sustainable architecture? We will find designs focused on taking advantage of the sun and water, and on saving energy, both in the construction of buildings and the manufacture of materials.

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Projects

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During the 2012-2013 academic year, three student project exhibitions were held in three prestigious institutions in Barcelona, in order to provide visibility for the school’s projects.

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Projects

The exhibition is part of the FAD Incubator series and showcases the work of a group of architectural students on an initiatory journey to three mythical and universal cities.During the event, students and professors exchanged knowledge and experiences. Travelling to places of the past has been a constant for artists and architects throughout history. Just as the humanists of the Renaissance travelled to the classical world in search of inspiration for their creations as an exercise in learning from great works, the students doing Projects 5 at the UIC ESARQ School of Architecture, accompanied and guided by their professors (Carlos Pita, Carlos Quintáns, Elena Rocchi y Juan Domingo Santos),

took a trip to measure, register and interpret the extraordinary architectural works found in the Alhambra in Granada, Villa Adriana in Rome and the Cathedral in Santiago de Compostela.Using field books, drawings and sketches, the students collected elements of interest to take back to the course workshop in order to create their own projects. The proposals that came out of this academic activity, curated by the architects Diane Gray and Joan Vitòria, make up the content of an evocative exhibition on display in the FAD’s Crypt exhibition space during February.

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ESARQ INAUGURATES «GRANADA, ROME, SANTIAGO: AN UNFINISHED JOURNEY» AT FAD

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The work of the following students is on display: Magda Barceló, Marc Casanova, Albert Guerra, Fran Hernández, Joan Sans, Glòria Saus y Maria Pilar Sánchez.Professors: Ricardo Flores y Eva PratsLecturers: Eugenia Troncoso, Oriol Valls y Guillén Augé

«Portable Memories» includes material produced during the year in the project workshop.

Each student gathered material and stored it in a large container whose shape and size correspond to the project inside. They are not simply boxes, but trunks for storing thoughts and all the knowledge collected and learned during the fifth academic year of the Architecture programme that should not be forgotten.

These trunks contain documents with very different sources and formats: maps, drawings, collages, sketches, scale models, texts, reference books and more. When they are opened and activated by each author, the narrative is accompanied by the sequence in which the different documents appear, as a kind of scenic aid to represent what is happening.

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VINÇON HOLDS EXHIBITION OF ESARQ FINAL PROJECTS

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From Thursday, 25 July to Friday, 2 August 2013, the Disseny Hub Barcelona design centre is hosting an exhibition of more than 30 final projects by undergraduate students from the ESARQ School of Architecture and the University of Virginia. The projects propose the creation of a second Avinguda Diagonal traversing the city, linking Parc del Camí Comtal in La Sagrera to Parc de la Ciutadella in the city centre.The students proposed to open up an east-west route across the city, dubbed the “Green Diagonal”, which would utilise both existing spaces and those that are being planned, such as Camí del Comtal and Ciutadella parks and the planned park at Plaça de les Glòries. The idea is to create a “green axis” linking the Collserola Mountains to the sea.

The concept of a “Green Diagonal” arose from the brainstorming sessions carried out by the Alday Jover team in relation to the bidding process for Parc del Camí Comtal, which is to be analysed during the academic year. The project submitted by the team envisioned the park as part of a future “green axis” that would bisect the city, linking the sea to the mountains and acting as a counterweight to the city’s other civic axis, Avinguda Diagonal. This would connect the two large, green spaces that demarcate the city of Barcelona: its beaches and the mountains of Parc de Collserola.

Professors: Eva Damià, Jordi Badia, Marta García-Orte and Miquel Lacasta.

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The students in the Sagrera workshop have come up with fifteen projects, led by the architect and ESARQ lecturer Jordi Badia. These aim to redefine the design of the planned park and improve connections, and to ensure the necessary business through nineteen buildings such as a gardening school, a market and even recently discovered Roman ruins.

The exhibition also includes thirteen projects focusing on the Ciutadella Park in Barcelona, coordinated by another lecturer and architect Dr.Miquel Lacasta. The main objective of these is to open access from the park to the sea and, at the same time, provide a horizontal connection between the Eixample district and the eastern side of the park.

ESARQ UNDERGRADUATES’ FINAL PROJECTS PROPOSE A SECOND AVINGUDA DIAGONAL

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The exhibition “Diagonal Verda. BCN” was held with collaboration from various companies:

Hewlett-Packard, Estrella Damm, Garcia Faura Arquitectura, Alsina, Belnox, Flexbrick, Propamsa-Betec, La Plataforma de la Construcción, Technal, Quality Clima, Kelonik, Ajuntament de Barcelona, Disseny Hub Barcelona

THE DISSENY HUB BARCELONA DESIGN CENTRE HOSTED AN EXHIBITION OF THE FINAL PROJECTS BY UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS FROM THE ESARQ

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DIAGONAL VERDA. BCN

Authors: Jordi Madia, Miquel Lacasta, Jaime Batlle, Eva Damiá, Marta García-OrteEditor: Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura ESARQ (UIC)Design and layout: Albert Romagosa, Albert GarrigóEditorial: Vibok worksYear: July 2013, BarcelonaISBN: 978-84-941464-1-1

This publication covers ESARQ-UIC’s work during the 2012-13 academic year in the project workshops for final year students, led by Jordi Badia and Miquel Lacasta, and analyses how the concept of “Diagonal Verda” is changing the rules of the game in a place which does not yet exist, with greater emphasis on the role played by architecture in the construction of the city.

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Urban planning

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Urban Planning

Through Oscar Carracedo, urban planning lecturer at the school, ESARQ-UIC organised the international workshop “After#Sandy”, which was held this summer at the Pratt School of Architecture in New York, and with which the National University of Singapore (NUS) was also involved.

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THE STUDENTS FROM THE ESARQ SHARED THE WORKSHOP WITH STUDENTS FROM NEW YORK AND SINGAPORE

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ESARQ Open House

Over the course of the academic year, ESARQ-UIC organises various open days when the work students have done during the semester is exhibited. This allows the public to find out about the work done in the school and about its teaching method.

Additionally, on the last Friday in May ESARQ holds Alumni Day, which includes a special celebration for those who graduated ten years ago.

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SANDRA BESTRATEN

Bestraten Receives AJAC Award

Sandra Bestraten, the Co-director of the Master’s Degree Programme in International Cooperation: Sustainable Emergency Architecture, together with her associate Emilio Hormías, were recognized by the Association of Young Architects of Catalonia (AJAC) for their work «Toca Terra» (Touch Earth).

“Toca Terra” is the result of more than 15 years of research on the use of earth as a building material. The research paper appeared in the July 2011 issue of the Spanish architecture journal Informes de la Construcción published by the Spanish National Research Council’s Instituto Eduardo Torroja. The issue featured a monograph on earth as a building material coordinated by Bestraten and Hormías. The AJAC Award was granted in the category of architecture research and dissemination (blogs, journals, dissemination initiatives, documentation, etc.), specifically for bringing architecture to a wider audience

JORDI BADIA

Jordi Badia Exhibits His Work at Two Galleries in Europe Specializing in Architecture

The ESARQ professor and founder of the BAAS Arquitectura studio was invited to exhibit his work at the Dessa Gallery in Slovenia, which specializes in the architecture of Ljubljana, and at the Centre Méridional de l’Architecture et de la Ville (CMAV) in Toulouse.

After participating in Project Studio in May 2012, which was organized by the University of Architecture Ljubljana Ple?nik, and publishing the compilation book from the Shaping the City workshop, Jordi Badia inaugurated “Architecture and City” in Ljubljana on Monday, 3 June 2013. The exhibition is an overview of his career through eleven projects involving public and private buildings that construct the city based on respect for the context and the end user.

Furthermore, the exhibition “Persistent Emptiness” was inaugurated on Thursday, 20 June 2013, in Toulouse.

DAVID BAENA

Baena Presents Book Dedicated to BCQ Architects

On Thursday, 22 November 2012, David Baena, the Head of the Technical Area and a professor of construction in the ESARQ School of Architecture, presented the book dedicated to the work of the architecture studio BCQ Arquitectes, of which he is a co-founder.

The book presentation took place at the BCQ office. During the ceremony there was a roundtable discussion was held on the topic “How to Grow in Times of Crisis” and led by Pere Riera (from the architecture studio RGA Arquitectes), Joan Pla (the Director of Servihabitat) and Anatxu Zabalbeascoa (a journalist and art historian)

The book deals with the projects carried out by BCQ in recent years. As explained by journalist Anatxu Zabalbeascoa in the prologue, “The associates of BCQ (David Baena, Toni Casamor, Maria Taltavull and Manel Peribáñez) create architecture with a wide range of registers, typologies, formal solutions and materials.

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Dr. GUILLEM CARABÍ

Guillem Carabí Presents Book on Modernist Architect Jujol

On Tuesday, 6 February 2013, at CaixaForum Tarragona, ESARQ professor Guillem Carabí presented the book “Josep M. Jujol, la iglesia primera de Vistabella. Una mirada contemporánea” (Josep M. Jujol: The First Church in Vistabella: A Contemporary Look). A number of different UIC professors contributed to the book, which was published by Carabí.

The study uses one of the most emblematic and little-known buildings of Modernist (Art Nouveau) architect Josep M. Jujol to present a new way of exploring and understanding the philosophy behind Jujol’s architectural works.

Besides Carabí’s contribution to the monograph, other writers also collaborated, including Antonio Salcedo Miliani, Roger Miralles, Marià Sordé and Concepció Peig, a professor in the UIC Faculty of Humanities. The photos are by Joan Farré Roig and the drawings by ESARQ professor Manuel Arenas. The book also contains unpublished high-resolution material from the Jujol archive.

MARIO COREA

Exhibition Looks at Career of ESARQ Professor Mario Corea

On Wednesday, 13 March 2013, the exhibition «The Notebook of Beginnings: Mario Corea» was inaugurated by Mario Corea, an architect and professor at the ESARQ School of Architecture, and Frederic Cabré, the president of the Girona branch of the Architecture Institute of Catalonia (COAC). The exhibition, curated by Diane Gray, can be seen in the La Cova hall at the COAC headquarters in Girona until 26 May 2013.

“The Notebook of Beginnings: Mario Corea” features 20 of Corea’s works and projects influenced by five important figures in the architect’s education and career: Frank Lloyd Wright, a major influence during his studies; Josep Lluís Sert, whose studio he worked in upon arriving in the United States; Louis Kahn, whom he met in a workshop at Harvard; Fumihiko Maki, who was his professor at Harvard; and Mies van der Rohe, whose architecture he discovered through the restored Barcelona Pavilion.

ALBERTO ESTÉVEZ

Four Architecture Professors Present Research on Art Nouveau Four professors from the ESARQ School of Architecture, Alberto T. Estévez, Judith Urbano, Guillem Carabí and Leonor Toro, presented a paper with the title «1896: Devil Iconography in Architecture» at the coupDefouet International Congress.

The congress took place in Barcelona from Wednesday to Saturday, 26-29 June 2013, within the framework of the 10th anniversary of the launch of the Art Nouveau European Route magazine, coupDefouet. The central theme of the congress was Art Nouveau cities and the relationship between cosmopolitanism and local tradition.The paper presented by ESARQ professors Alberto T. Estévez, Judith Urbano, Guillem Carabí and Leonor Toro was titled “1896: Devil Iconography in Architecture” and dealt with the unprecedented discovery in a 1896 Barcelona building of a complete and systematic iconographic programme on the devil, evil, the seven deadly sins, etc, a subject rarely seen in architecture. The presentation also described similarities between the discovery and the paintings of the artist Franz Stuck

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Dr. MIQUEL LACASTA

Lacasta Wins Competition to Build Montpellier-Saint-Roch Car Park

Dr. Miquel Lacasta, a professor who teaches the final degree project at the UIC-ESARQ School of Architecture, has won a competition to build the Montpellier-Saint-Roch car park in France along with partners Marc Chalamanch and Carmen Santana of the architects’ practice Archikubik

The purpose of the building is to house a car park that will serve the high-speed railway station in the city of Montpellier. It will consist of a commercial space on the ground floor and nine further floors. The car park will feature a unique 150-metre façade, which will be clad with ceramic fabric.

HÉCTOR JALA

Héctor Jala Wins 33rd Ricardo Magdalena Trophy for Architecture

Héctor Jala, a professor at the UIC-ESARQ School of Architecture, has won the 33rd Ricardo Magdalena Trophy for Architecture awarded annually by the Institución Fernando el Católico of the Provincial Council of Zaragoza.

The prize was awarded for his work to renovate the Museum of Ethnology in Nonaspe, a municipality located in the Province of Zaragoza. In the judging process, the project stood out for the way it incorporated the renovated building in a complex urban setting, as well as the rooms of the new museum, which “restore the fragmentation of the site and provide links between tradition and contemporary architecture”.

Dr. CARMEN MENDOZA

Mendoza analyses socio-spatial patterns in urban planning at a conference in Milan

Dr Carmen Mendoza, Co-Director of the Master’s Degree in Cooperation and lecturer in the field of urban planning at ESARQ-UIC, gave a speech entitled “Socio-spatial Patterns: The Backbone of Informal Settlement Regeneration” at the international conference “Cities to be Tamed?”, which took place between 15 and 17 November at the Politecnico di Milano, in Milan.

The design of the informal city in comparison to the formal design of the city, stereotypes and sustainable realities, and the power of planning before land is taken over through planning are the three themes around which the content of the conference is based.

In her speech, Dr Mendoza analysed the socio-spatial patterns which become the “backbone” of the regeneration of informal urban settlements.

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Dr. VICENÇ SARRABLO

Sarrablo Presents Use of Ceramic Sheets on Colombian Façades

Dr. Vicenç Sarrablo, the director of the UIC ESARQ School of Architecture, gave a presentation titled “The Revolution in Building Façades: Goodbye, Brick Laying; Welcome, Ceramic Sheets” at TECNOCONSTRUCCIÓN 2012: International Meeting of Innovation and Advanced Technology, which took place from Wednesday to Saturday, 14-17 November 2012, in Colombia

In his presentation, Sarrablo discussed some of the results of the research he carries out in the UIC ASCER Ceramic Studies Departmen

Dr. JUDITH URBANO

Dr. Judith Urbano Presents Book on August Font i Carreras

On Thursday, 20 June 2013, Dr. Judith Urbano, the Assistant Director of the ESARQ School of Architecture, presented her book Eclecticismo y Arquitectura. August Font i Carreras (1845-1924) at the Diocesan Museum of Barcelona.

The book’s presentation was organized by the Diocesan Museum of Barcelona and the ESARQ School of Architecture, and took place in the Diocesan Museum of Barcelona. Also attending was Dr. Mireia Freixa, the head of the History of Art Department at the Universitat de Barcelona (UB) and the director of the UB’s Research Group on the History of Contemporary Art and Design (GRACMON), of which Dr. Urbano is also a member.

In her speech, the author pointed out that this is the first book written about the architect. As she explained, the book includes an analysis of eclecticism and historicism, two artistic movements of the 19th century that have long been undervalued and rejected.

Dr. PERE VALL

Pere Vall Collaborates on Ombudsman Report on Urban Planning in Catalonia

On Monday, 13 May 2013, Catalan Ombudsman Rafael Ribó presented a report on the complex problem facing local governments all over Catalonia, where there are over 50,000 hectares of land that cannot be registered due to legal and financial issues. Ribó presented the report together with Dr. Pere Vall, a professor in the ESARQ School of Architecture; Josep Maria Corominas, the mayor of Olot; Jordi San José, the mayor of Sant Feliu de Llobregat; and Francesc Vendrell, the Director of the Ombudsman Office Overseeing Land and Purchases

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ESTEVE SOLÀ

ESARQ Architecture Student Presents Barcelona Architecture in San Francisco

«From Barcelona: Contemporary Architecture Series» is the title of the two-lecture cycle given by architects Esteve Solà and Núria Casquero, alumni of the ESARQ School of Architecture and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), respectively. The lecture series will be held at the San Francisco Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIASF) on the subject of the last fifteen years of architecture in Spain, particularly Barcelona.

The aim is to provide insight into contemporary architecture in Barcelona and the main architects involved. The architects will use the two one-and-half-hour sessions to “provide information in Northern California about the architecture being created in our city”, according to Solà.Solà and Casquero will focus on Barcelona to study the relationship between the public and private buildings designed in the last fifteen years from a social and urban perspective.

The conference cycle has been well received and is supported by the Cultural Office of the Spanish Consulate, the Barcelona Sister City Committee, the UPC and the UIC.

PEPE GASCÓN

Former ESARQ Student Pepe Gascón Wins 2012 Europe 40 Under 40 Award

The former ESARQ student’s architecture studio was one of only two Spanish firms to receive the award.

Pepe Gascón has received the 2012 Europe 40 Under 40 Award, which is organized by the European Centre for Architecture, Art Design and Urban Studies and is presented annually to 40 European architects under the age of 40. The objective of the award is to identify and promote the next generation of European talent in the areas of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning and industrial design

Gascón completed his Architecture degree at the ESARQ School of Architecture in 2002. A year later, he founded Pepe Gascón Architecture, a multidisciplinary architectural consultancy with a young, innovative team who carry out architecture, urban planning and interior design projects. His works have been published and shown in various specialist journals and exhibitions, and have received both national and international awards and recognition

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MAGDA BARCELÓ - JOAN SANZ

For the second time in a row, ESARQ students have been awarded prizes at the V Final Degree Project Exhibition within the Bienal Española de Arquitectura y Urbanismo.In this twelfth Bienal, the student Magda Barceló won an award for her project on the Carmen Amaya Dance School, in Poblenou in Barcelona, which she completed as a student of the workshop run by Ricardo Flores and Eva Prats during the 2011-2012 academic year. A second project, by Joan Sanz, was selected at this year’s Bienal: he also worked on a project on the Carmen Amaya Dance School within the same workshop.

At the V Final Degree Project Exhibition within the XII Bienal Española de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, a total of twenty projects won awards and five were noted as outstanding, including Magda Barceló’s project.

It is not the first time that ESARQ students have won an award at the Final Degree Project Exhibition. At the XI Bienal, María Amat, who finished her studies in the 2009-2010 academic year, won first prize with her project on the Botanic and Gardening Centre at Montjuïc, Barcelona, also completed in the workshop run by Ricardo Flores and Eva Prats.

ESARQ FINAL DEGREE PROJECTS (TFG), AWARDED AT THE BIENAL ESPAÑOLA DE ARQUITECTURA Y URBANISMO

The director of ESARQ, Vicente Sarrablo, has stated that “awards like this constitute a true recognition of the hard work carried out in the school, which improves the academic standard of our students’ TFGs”. “ESARQ Final Degree Projects”, added Sarrablo, “are very demanding projects, which require a great deal of implication and teamwork between the different areas involved in the project, so this kind of recognition for our students has a double value for us: we are very proud of our students, and it makes it clear that we are going in the right direction”.