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19-12-2014

lecture AHMEDABAD, INDIA

The Gujarat Institute of Civil Engineers and Architects
Ahmedabad
Gujarat
India

lecture at the OPENING OF THE XII BEAU. SPANISH ARCHITECTURE AND TOWN PLANNING BIENNAL / LIVE ARCHITECTURE

Since the year of its establishment, the Spanish Architecture and Town Planning Biennial – Bienal Española de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, formerly the Spanish Architecture Biennial – has been incorporating into its overall programme a number of specifically architecture-related activities organised by the various collaborating institutions and a travelling exhibition which each year features the works that are shortlisted and win awards in each of the categories on account of their qualities.

The theme of the 2013 biennial was ‘Inflexión/Turning Point’, and the award-winning and shortlisted projects focused on rehabilitation, a town planning based on change, and an architecture that is environmentally friendly and not costly to maintain.

As a result of this call and of the selected works, the Ministry of Development, with the collaboration of AC/E, is organising and producing the Live Architecture exhibition designed by the young architects’ studio Taller de Casquería.

Live Architecture shows the award-winning architecture from a close and dynamic approach. The centrepiece of the exhibition is a major video installation that conveys not only the value of the prize-winning projects but also how they are used and experienced and how they behave over time, in daylight and with night illumination. Its design allows it to be shown simultaneously in several cities and in different formats.

The exhibition project was presented at the 12th Spanish Architecture and Town Planning Biennial (BEAUXII). Its aim is to make known the award-winning architecture in use, by showing the different stages of activity and how spaces are understood through their users. The focal point of the exhibition space is a black box with a large screen that displays all the information. All the buildings selected by the biennial are shown, evidencing their relations and unique features. Cross-cutting readings are made as equivalent or contrasting situations appear and are related on the screen. Management software was specially developed for this purpose to coordinate the different live entries in relation to the pool of recorded videos. A red light bulb would light up when live connections were made.

Organiced by:

-ACCIÓN CULTURAL ESPAÑOLA (AC/E)

-MINISTERIO DE FOMENTO

collaborators:

-ACCION CULTURAL ESPAÑOLA

-CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE ARQUITECTOS DE ESPAÑA

-UNIÓN DE AGRUPACIONES DE ARQUITECTOS (UAAU)

-FUNDACION ARQUIA

- See more at: http://www.accioncultural.es/en/xii_beau_spanish_architecture_and_town_planning_biennial__live#sthash.Vrp1yILM.dpuf

05-12-2014

jury Final Reviews BUFFALO UNIVERSITY, NY, USA

04-12-2014

jury Final Reviews DANIELS; UNIVESITY OF TORONTO; CANADA

06-10-2014

lecture CARNEGIE MELLON, PITTSBURGH, USA

08-05-2014

critic jury SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK, USA

26-04-2014

critic SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, NY, USA

24-03-2014

lecture HARVARD UNIVERSITY, USA

25-02-2014

GEHRY CHAIR lecture, TORONTO, CANADA

Architect Josemaría de Churtichaga is the 2013-2014 Frank Gehry International Visiting Chair in Architectural Design at the Daniels Faculty.

Josemaría is currently the Associate Dean at IE School of Architecture and Design in Madrid, Spain where he has also held the position of Director for Undergraduate Architecture Studies. He is also the former Director for the Design Thinking Launch Program at IMBA Master at IE Business School (ES).

Prior to joining IE University, he was a Design Studio Professor at ETSAM Madrid from 2003 to 2008. He has lectured at prestigious academic and professional institutions in the US, UK, Switzerland, Germany, Norway, India, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Argentina, Mexico and Cuba.

In 1995, Josemaría de Churtichaga and Cayetana de la Quadra-Salcedo founded the firm, CHURTICHAGA + QUADRA-SALCEDO architecture. Since its inception, the office has designed and built several buildings, focusing mainly on public buildings, cultural facilities and infrastructure obtained as the result of national and international competitions. The work of the office is focused on the intimate relation between tangible and intangible aspects, trying to understand architecture as a sensorial interface, as an atmosphere between the person and the environment.

From its foundation, ch+qs has designed city council chambers, sports pavilions and facilities, libraries, cultural centers, cinema complexes, infrastructure, kiosks, refuges, collective houses, private homes, twons in the Sahara for petrol companies, furniture, books, typographies and so on. The office rejects the notion of specialization and instead promotes interdisciplinary ventures and collaboration.

Many of ch+qs’ buildings and projects have received awards and have been widely published in national and international publications such as Architectural Record, New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Detail, Mark, Frame, etc. Awards include the Mies van der Rohe Prize (selected), and first prizes from the following: Great Indoors Award 2013, LAMP Prize 2013, COAM Prize 2013, Archdaily Building of the Year 2012, FAD Prize 2012, COAM prize 2012, Public Space European Award 2012 (finalist), ENOR International Young Architects Prize 2007, ENOR Prize 2005, CAM Madrid Regional Government Prize 2003, Bigmat Prize, INC. Magazine NY Prize World Coolest Office (2nd) 2011, Public Space European Award 2012 (finalist).

13-12-2013

lecture AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF SHARJAH, UAE

12-12-2013

lecture ETSAM, MADRID, SPAIN

22-11-2013

lecture PORTO, PORTUGAL

21-11-2013

lecture XII BIENAL ESPAÑOLA DE ARQUITECTURA Y URBANISMO