Primera sessió de l'Ecumenòpolis 2017: Debat Videològic
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© Col·legi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya (COAC)
El proper 20 de gener tindrà lloc la primera sessió del 2017 de l'Ecumenòpolis, el cicle de cinema i ciutat del COAC, que enguany adopta un nou format.
Ampliem el camp de visió amb sessions més variades i diferents punts de vista. Cada una de les sessions estarà co-comissariada per un convidat o convidada. Tots seran arquitectes, amb una relació directa i estreta amb el món audiovisual i la imatge en moviment. De la performance multimèdia a la producció de peces inèdites, passant per la presentació de projectes de ciutat o formatius, les sessions seran variades i singulars, convertint l'Ecumenòpolis en un veritable espai de reflexió audiovisual al voltant de l'urbanisme i l'arquitectura
La primera sessió serà un Debat Videològic de presentació de la programació, amb la participació presencial d'Andreu Meixide, Marta Peris i Daniele Porretta i la participació virtual de la resta de convidats.
Vegeu el programa del cicle.
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Ampliem el camp de visió amb sessions més variades i diferents punts de vista. Cada una de les sessions estarà co-comissariada per un convidat o convidada. Tots seran arquitectes, amb una relació directa i estreta amb el món audiovisual i la imatge en moviment. De la performance multimèdia a la producció de peces inèdites, passant per la presentació de projectes de ciutat o formatius, les sessions seran variades i singulars, convertint l'Ecumenòpolis en un veritable espai de reflexió audiovisual al voltant de l'urbanisme i l'arquitectura
La primera sessió serà un Debat Videològic de presentació de la programació, amb la participació presencial d'Andreu Meixide, Marta Peris i Daniele Porretta i la participació virtual de la resta de convidats.
Vegeu el programa del cicle.
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Inauguración de la exposición "Las Curtidurías de Josep Trilla"
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© Ma Carme Castany
El próximo jueves 12 de enero tendrá lugar en la Delegación de Osona el acto de inauguración de la exposición LAS CURTIDURÍAS DE JOSEP TRILLA – EL PAISAJISMO URBANO DE UN PLENAIRISTA.
Además, el 19 de enero tendrá lugar la conferencia CURTIDURÍAS: PASADO Y FUTURO, a cargo de Elisenda Foradada, arquitecta municipal, y Montserrat Rocafiguera, arqueóloga.
Josep Trilla
Hablar de Josep Trilla Subirana (Campdevánol, 1950) es hablar de décadas de paisajismo de Osona y de activismo cultural. La exposición que acoge la sala del COAC-Osona quiere dejar constancia del interés de este artista por las curtidurías como sujeto pictórico y como símbolo.
Josep Trilla llega a esta expresión de paisajismo urbano desde el plenairismo y desde el conocimiento del territorio. De sus pinceles, a pie de caballete, ha terminado surgiendo esta serie.
La elección del tema no ha sido casual. Para Josep Trilla el paisaje es patrimonio. Y esta noción, aplicada al paisajismo urbano, lo ha llevado a pintar las curtidurías dañadas.
Las ha pintado con aprecio, tal como son. Con el mismo aprecio por el territorio que lo ha guiado a lo largo de su trayectoria. El presente de las curtidurías es el que se expone en la sala de exposiciones del COAC-Osona. El futuro, en cambio, es incierto.
Habrá que tener perspectiva, saber encuadrar diferentes puntos de vista y, con un punto de imaginación, dar vida al conjunto como lo haría el pincel de un plenairista, para dar forma y contenido a este futuro.
Gerard Vovelle, licenciado en Historia del Arte
Además, el 19 de enero tendrá lugar la conferencia CURTIDURÍAS: PASADO Y FUTURO, a cargo de Elisenda Foradada, arquitecta municipal, y Montserrat Rocafiguera, arqueóloga.
Josep Trilla
Hablar de Josep Trilla Subirana (Campdevánol, 1950) es hablar de décadas de paisajismo de Osona y de activismo cultural. La exposición que acoge la sala del COAC-Osona quiere dejar constancia del interés de este artista por las curtidurías como sujeto pictórico y como símbolo.
Josep Trilla llega a esta expresión de paisajismo urbano desde el plenairismo y desde el conocimiento del territorio. De sus pinceles, a pie de caballete, ha terminado surgiendo esta serie.
La elección del tema no ha sido casual. Para Josep Trilla el paisaje es patrimonio. Y esta noción, aplicada al paisajismo urbano, lo ha llevado a pintar las curtidurías dañadas.
Las ha pintado con aprecio, tal como son. Con el mismo aprecio por el territorio que lo ha guiado a lo largo de su trayectoria. El presente de las curtidurías es el que se expone en la sala de exposiciones del COAC-Osona. El futuro, en cambio, es incierto.
Habrá que tener perspectiva, saber encuadrar diferentes puntos de vista y, con un punto de imaginación, dar vida al conjunto como lo haría el pincel de un plenairista, para dar forma y contenido a este futuro.
Gerard Vovelle, licenciado en Historia del Arte
The European Award for Intervention in Architectural Heritage AADIPA opens its third edition
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© Premi Europeu d'Intervenció en el Patrimoni Arquitectònic AADIPA
Once again, the Association of Architects for the Defence and Intervention in Architectural Heritage (AADIPA) and the Architects' Association of Catalonia (COAC) have announced the opening of registration for the 3rd edition of the European Award for Intervention in Architectural Heritage AADIPA.
The call, which aims to distinguish good heritage practice and contribute to its dissemination, opens in December 2016 and will remain open until April 28th, 2017. The award is aimed at interdisciplinary experts involved in the heritage value chain -architects, historians, archaeologists...- with completed works, conducted or published in the European geographical area during the period from 2010 and 2016. Projects can be submitted to any of the 4 categories which comprise the award:
Category A: Intervention in built heritage
Category B: Outdoor spaces
Category C: Planning
Category D: Dissemination
With 200 works from 26 countries registered in the previous edition of the award, this new call persists in its goal of increasing participation and opening new territories. The quest for internationalization is reflected with the international jury appointed for each category and the decision to integrate the official awards ceremony at the International Biennial of Intervention in Architectural Heritage, which will be held in June 2017 in Barcelona.
The Award for Architectural Heritage Intervention AADIPA arises from the belief that heritage, as a vehicle for social integration and an economic vitalizing resource for the community, deserves to be appreciated and encouraged. In the current context, in which architectural heritage is considered not only to be a fundamental instrument of knowledge but also a first rate socio-economic resource for the sustainable development of territory, the disclosure, distinction and recognition of works and quality projects contributing to the preservation of the collective memory is imperative.
For further information, click here.
The call, which aims to distinguish good heritage practice and contribute to its dissemination, opens in December 2016 and will remain open until April 28th, 2017. The award is aimed at interdisciplinary experts involved in the heritage value chain -architects, historians, archaeologists...- with completed works, conducted or published in the European geographical area during the period from 2010 and 2016. Projects can be submitted to any of the 4 categories which comprise the award:
Category A: Intervention in built heritage
Category B: Outdoor spaces
Category C: Planning
Category D: Dissemination
With 200 works from 26 countries registered in the previous edition of the award, this new call persists in its goal of increasing participation and opening new territories. The quest for internationalization is reflected with the international jury appointed for each category and the decision to integrate the official awards ceremony at the International Biennial of Intervention in Architectural Heritage, which will be held in June 2017 in Barcelona.
The Award for Architectural Heritage Intervention AADIPA arises from the belief that heritage, as a vehicle for social integration and an economic vitalizing resource for the community, deserves to be appreciated and encouraged. In the current context, in which architectural heritage is considered not only to be a fundamental instrument of knowledge but also a first rate socio-economic resource for the sustainable development of territory, the disclosure, distinction and recognition of works and quality projects contributing to the preservation of the collective memory is imperative.
For further information, click here.
22/12/2016
Eva Franch: "New perspectives are needed because there are new ways of understanding the world"
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© Col·legi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya (COAC)
Transgressive. Even “uncomfortable”, the Dean of COCA, Lluís Comerón, went on to say about Eva Franch’s conference. Architect and curator, Franch is Chief Curator and Executive Director of the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York. Based in said city, her professional practiced is characterised by relating experimental art forms, design and architecture.
The conference she made on 25th November at COAC’s conference hall - within the Architecture Congress - was the first one she pronounced in her native tongue: Catalan. This is a fact that exposes her global recognition. Franch started her speech explaining Storefront’s values, a small gallery which “generates debates which cannot take place in other venues, an experimental place, committed to issues like housing and precariousness, which poses questions nobody asks”. It also poses queries such as: how are cities to be built, now the world has nothing to do with the one a few years ago. “Before, a city was divided amongst areas to live, areas to work and areas of leisure. Now we must build a different type of city. We can live, work and have fun without having to get out of bed”. To Franch, the architect holds the responsibility and the privilege to articulate such responses, but “we often do not know what the questions are”.
This is why she and her team are creating projects such as 'Competition of competitions', a contest where architects themselves must be able to write up the bases of a competition to build the city people need and, therefore, select “that which is urgent”. The project awarded in said competition was, she said, the only one that, besides presenting what needed to be done, also posed what needed to be knocked down. Architects also work by substraction”.
“New perspectives are needed, because there are new ways of understanding the world”, which is why Franch advocates for building cities based on a new model. “Even neighbourhoods are old bureaucratic structures”, she said. “We now share more than ever: pictures, houses, cars… as a result of technological innovations”. This must influence architecture. In order to do that, Franch defends Storefront’s spirit: provocation. And she quoted her university professor Xavier Rubert de Ventós: “only what surprises us makes us think”.
Career
Versatile, creative and natural born researcher, Franch has curated international projects and received numerous awards and scholarships. Her work has been internationally exhibited at FAD of Barcelona, the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Vitra Design Museum or the Shenzen Architecture Biennale, amongst other. Winner of the Suzanne Kolarik Underwood prize or the FAD prize for emerging architects, her strong academic and professional performance has been acknowledged with numerous awards such as the Howard Crosby Butler Travelling Fellowship (2006) or La Caixa (2005-2007). After graduating in Princeton, Franch lectured at SUNY Buffalo, New York, as a Peter Reyner Banham Fellow (2007-08) and at Rice University of Architecture, Houston (2008-2010) as Master Thesis Director. The work of Eva Franch has been exhibited at the Center of Architecture of New York, the Korea Institute of Registered Architects in Daegu, FAD Barcelona, NAI Rotterdam, the Shenzen Architecture Biennale, or the Venice Architecture Biennale. She has been a member of Schloss Solitude Academy in Houston, Texas (2009-2011), and has taught seminars and courses such as Ecologies of Excess, Atmospheres of utopia, Performing Representations, Utopia as Doubt, On Banality-On Metaphor, CityThemeCity or Syn-City: a political sensorium.
The conference she made on 25th November at COAC’s conference hall - within the Architecture Congress - was the first one she pronounced in her native tongue: Catalan. This is a fact that exposes her global recognition. Franch started her speech explaining Storefront’s values, a small gallery which “generates debates which cannot take place in other venues, an experimental place, committed to issues like housing and precariousness, which poses questions nobody asks”. It also poses queries such as: how are cities to be built, now the world has nothing to do with the one a few years ago. “Before, a city was divided amongst areas to live, areas to work and areas of leisure. Now we must build a different type of city. We can live, work and have fun without having to get out of bed”. To Franch, the architect holds the responsibility and the privilege to articulate such responses, but “we often do not know what the questions are”.
This is why she and her team are creating projects such as 'Competition of competitions', a contest where architects themselves must be able to write up the bases of a competition to build the city people need and, therefore, select “that which is urgent”. The project awarded in said competition was, she said, the only one that, besides presenting what needed to be done, also posed what needed to be knocked down. Architects also work by substraction”.
“New perspectives are needed, because there are new ways of understanding the world”, which is why Franch advocates for building cities based on a new model. “Even neighbourhoods are old bureaucratic structures”, she said. “We now share more than ever: pictures, houses, cars… as a result of technological innovations”. This must influence architecture. In order to do that, Franch defends Storefront’s spirit: provocation. And she quoted her university professor Xavier Rubert de Ventós: “only what surprises us makes us think”.
Career
Versatile, creative and natural born researcher, Franch has curated international projects and received numerous awards and scholarships. Her work has been internationally exhibited at FAD of Barcelona, the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Vitra Design Museum or the Shenzen Architecture Biennale, amongst other. Winner of the Suzanne Kolarik Underwood prize or the FAD prize for emerging architects, her strong academic and professional performance has been acknowledged with numerous awards such as the Howard Crosby Butler Travelling Fellowship (2006) or La Caixa (2005-2007). After graduating in Princeton, Franch lectured at SUNY Buffalo, New York, as a Peter Reyner Banham Fellow (2007-08) and at Rice University of Architecture, Houston (2008-2010) as Master Thesis Director. The work of Eva Franch has been exhibited at the Center of Architecture of New York, the Korea Institute of Registered Architects in Daegu, FAD Barcelona, NAI Rotterdam, the Shenzen Architecture Biennale, or the Venice Architecture Biennale. She has been a member of Schloss Solitude Academy in Houston, Texas (2009-2011), and has taught seminars and courses such as Ecologies of Excess, Atmospheres of utopia, Performing Representations, Utopia as Doubt, On Banality-On Metaphor, CityThemeCity or Syn-City: a political sensorium.
10/01/2017