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IAAC Lecture Series – Michael Green

Posted on May 28, 2024 by cm

”The Natural Revolution: How Mass Timber is transforming our world” lecture by Michael Green

Next Thursday, 30th of May, 2024 at 18.00h (CEST) Michael Green the founder and Co-Principal of Michael Green Architecture (MGA), is an award-winning architect, speaker, and author known for using design to create meaningful, sustainable built environments that benefit both people and planet. A leader in wood and bio-based construction and innovation, he has completed some of the most significant timber buildings in the world, and has been recognized with over fifty international awards for design excellence.

Lecturing internationally on mass timber and new building technology, Michael’s TED talks “The Natural Building Blocks of Sustainable Architecture” in 2023 and “Why We Should Build Wooden Skyscrapers” in 2012 have almost 3 million views and been translated into 31 languages. He serves as a government policy advisor on mass timber design and is the co-author of the first and second editions of ‘The Case for Tall Wood Buildings’ and ‘Tall Wood Buildings: Design, Construction and Performance.

The Natural Revolution: How Mass Timber is transforming our world
As a leader in wood construction, award-winning studio Michael Green Architecture (MGA) has traveled the world lecturing on sustainable design and materials, led research and education initiatives in climate, environment, disaster and global shelter needs, and designed some of the most significant timber projects on the planet.
In this engaging discussion, Michael Green, Kelly Alvarez Doran, and Maria Mora from MGA will show built and unbuilt examples of how Mass Timber is changing the skylines of cities around the world and how this material plays a major role in decarbonizing our environment and creating safe, affordable, practical, and transformative urban environments.

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) is delighted to present him in the framework of the Closing Events of the Academic Year 2023-24.

Programme

18:00 Lecture by Michael Green The Natural Revolution: How Mass Timber is transforming our world
18:30 Roundtable with Michael Green, Kelly Alvarez Doran and Maria Mora from MGA, moderated by Daniel Ibañez IAAC Director
19:00 Refreshments

Location: In-house at IAAC Main hall, C/ Pujades 102 & Zoom

Great reviews

Posted on May 23, 2024May 23, 2024 by cm

Today, we share some great reviews that we have receive in TripAdvisor all with the highest score! For us is a privilege to know that our customers are so satisfied and enjoy with our work.

Thank you for a super city tour

Our 4 person group toured the city streets with a landscape architect Daniela for four hours. She told and showed us how the city has developed from 1859 to today. It was a fascinating way to get to know the city and it’s history. The one thing that we always will remember from the tour is the courage of the Barcelona city, architects and landscape architects to implement even the more unusual plans. In addition, this four-hour session increased the understanding of how much urban planners and landscape architects need to know and to take into account when making plans.

From left to right our leading architects Pia, Tomas and Daniela

Written 14 May 2024

Learned so much; Pia was wonderful

Our guide Pia was funny, passionate and clearly knew her stuff. My engineering grandson and son-in-law would have loved it but as non-architects we did too. Perfect combination of the technical and non-technical, engineering, architecture and history. Best architecture tour I have ever had and headphones were a plus. No matter where you stood you could hear Pia’s commentary . Couldn’t recommend more highly.

Written 11 May 2024

10/10 recommend this tour

This tour set a VERY high bar for walking tours. Tomás started our tour with historical maps and images on the history of Barcelona, Cerdas and Gaudi which gave context to the rest of the tour. We experienced Gaudí through the eyes of an architect while walking the streets of Barcelona. It was like a dream come true. 10/10 recommend.

Written May 2024

With more enthusiasm than ever we are ready to continue spreading the architecture, history and culture of our wonderful city.
Thank you all for your excellent reviews!!!

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Setmanes d’Arquitectura 2024

Posted on May 12, 2024 by cm

Del 14 de maig al 28 de juny arriben les Setmanes d’Arquitectura amb una àmplia programació destinada a reforçar el vincle entre arquitectura i ciutadania.

Des de la seva primera edició el 2017, les Setmanes d’Arquitectura de Barcelona s’han consolidat com una iniciativa oberta a la participació de totes les entitats dedicades a la divulgació de l’arquitectura a la ciutat, a més de representar diverses disciplines socials, culturals i artístiques.

Aquesta edició destaca pel seu enfocament inclusiu i divers, oferint una varietat d’activitats que van des de conferències i exposicions fins a visites guiades i tallers per a tota la família. El programa està dissenyat per fer que els participants experimentin i aprenguin sobre l’arquitectura de manera interactiva i estimulant.

AVUI VOLEM COMPARTIR ALGUNES DE LES ACTIVITATS DINS LA PROGRAMACIÓ DE LES SETMANES D’ARQUITECTURA

PRIMERA SETMANA

Les Setmanes d’Arquitectura de Barcelona 2024 arrencaran amb el seu vessant més internacional el 14 de maig amb l’EUmiesAwards Day al Palau Victòria Eugènia de Montjuïc, una jornada dedicada a la millor arquitectura europea amb conferències dels estudis finalistes i guanyadors, taules rodones i la cerimònia de lliurament dels Premis d’Arquitectura Contemporània de la Unió Europea – Premis Mies van der Rohe – al Pavelló Mies van der Rohe. L’exposició que recull les maquetes, fotografies i vídeos de les 40 obres destacades pel jurat es podrà visitar gratuïtament de dilluns a diumenge, entre el 15 de maig i el 16 de juny.

SEGONA SETMANA

El 21 de maig -camí del Congrés Mundial d’Arquitectura- es llançarà el Concurs internacional per a estudiants d’arquitectura UIA2026, que convocarà a les escoles de tot el món a anticipar en els seus tallers els debats que es donaran el juliol de 2026 a Barcelona, quan la ciutat aculli el Congrés Mundial d’Arquitectura.

TERCERA SETMANA

Camí de la Capitalitat Mundial de l’Arquitectura 2026, el 30 de maig tindrà lloc l’acte de llançament del Concurs Internacional d’Idees per a joves arquitectes per la transformació de deu parets mitgeres, una a cada districte de Barcelona, que esdevindran part del llegat que la Capitalitat deixarà a la ciutat.

QUARTA SETMANA

Gràcies a les visites a ‘Espais Ocults’ organitzades per 48 h Open House Barcelona al llarg de totes les Setmanes es podrà entrar als racons més amagats dels edificis del Parc de la Ciutadella – aquesta setmana en concret, l’Arc de Triomf i el Museu Martorell.

CINQUENA SETMANA

L’11 de juny destaca la gran nit dels Premis FAD d’Arquitectura i Interiorisme, que organitza ARQUIN-FAD.

Construcció de miradors al camí de carenadel parc de La Muntanyeta de Sant Boi de Llobregat.

SISENA SETMANA

Les jornades ‘L’escalabilitat de la rehabilitació d’habitatges’ organitzades per Barcelona Regional, BIT Hàbitat i l’Ajuntament de Barcelona permetran aprofundir en les estratègies, conceptes sistemes que han de permetre impulsar la rehabilitació a gran escala, i no només energètica, del parc edificat de la ciutat – amb una mirada especial als polígons residencials aixecats als barris fa més de 50 anys.

SETENA SETMANA

El 26 de juny ARQUIN-FAD organitza la Conferència del president del jurat Internacional dels Premis FAD d’Arquitectura i interiorisme 2024 amb Jordi Badia a l’auditori DHUB. I el 27 de juny arriba la Nit de la Construcció organitzada pel Col·legi d’Arquitectura Tècnica de Barcelona.

Per tancar, fins el darrer dia de les Setmanes 28 de juny es podrà visitar als jardins del Palau Robert un ‘artefacte’ que ens proposa l’Agrupació de Joves Arquitectes de Catalunya per reflexionar sobre les transformacions necessàries que haurem d’afrontar des de l’arquitectura en el futur immediat.

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Barcelona Architecture Weeks 2024

Posted on May 7, 2024 by cm

From May 14 to June 28 Exhibitions, competitions, awards, discussions, guided tours, celebrations and much more for everybody in all city districts to hold the Barcelona Architecture Weeks 2024

Barcelona will be holding its Architecture Weeks 2024 from 14 May to 28 June, offering seven weeks of wide-ranging events designed to strengthen the link between architecture and the general public. In its architecture, Barcelona has an urban heritage of indisputable value, and the Weeks will help to reinforce the feeling among city residents that this heritage is theirs. At the same time, we want it to be a celebration and a meeting space for all audiences where together we will learn about, experience and celebrate our city’s architecture and heritage.

Organised by Barcelona City Council and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, the Architecture Weeks have five strategic partners, namely, the Architects’ Association of Catalonia, the FAD/Arquinfad, 48H Open House Barcelona, Construmat and the Technical Architects’ Association of Barcelona, as well as some 15 academic partners: all the Catalan schools of architecture, urban planning, landscape architecture and spatial design.

Since the first edition in 2017, Barcelona’s Architecture Weeks have been open to all organisations devoted to the promotion of architecture in the city, as well as a representation of different cultural, social and artistic disciplines. This year, 74 entities and 12 universities have responded to the open call, and together we will offer more than 183 activities aimed at audiences of all kinds, to reflect on and share how the built city has adapted to today’s challenges – the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals – with a view to Barcelona becoming the World Capital of Architecture in 2026.

2024 EU Mies awards winners

Posted on April 29, 2024April 29, 2024 by cm

Last week, at an event held in CIVA, Brussels, Mr.Georg Häusler, director for Culture, Creativity and Sport of the European Commission, together with Mr. Fréderic Druot, president of the 2024 jury, announced the Winners of the 2024 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture / Mies van der Rohe Awards.

Study Pavilion on the campus of the Technical University of Braunschweig
Gustav Düsing and Büro Hacke, Berlin
2024 ARCHITECTURE WINNER

Gabriel García Márquez Library, Barcelona
SUMA Arquitectura, Madrid
2024 EMERGING ARCHITECTURE WINNER

Iliana Ivanova, Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, said: “Architecture is a fundamental part not just of our European culture, but also of sustainable development and people’s well-being. The winners of the 2024 EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award demonstrate this very clearly. Their works reflect the principles of the New European Bauhaus, bringing the green transition into people’s everyday lives and living spaces. My heartfelt congratulations to the architects and collaborators behind these endeavours!”

The Study Pavilion in Braunschweig is rewarded for its ability to challenge the constraints and imagery of sustainability, creating a welcoming and playful environment for study, collaboration and community gathering through an uncompromising and carefully detailed structure. It has taken a clear architectural idea, scrutinized it and pushed it to the limit; more than being a building, it could be understood as a versatile system, merging technological inventions with a flexible and reusable principle. The authors, Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke, founded their studios in 2015 and won the competition to build the study centre in 2015. They are the youngest winners of the EUmies Awards Architecture Prize.

The Library in Barcelona acts at the scale of the city, contributing to the transformation of the neighbourhoodby opening up as a new exterior and interior public space. This wooden structure unfolds as a rich sequence of monumental and domestic spaces that welcome neighbours and citizens, providing them with comfortable atmospheres for learning, teamwork, and community engagement. With meticulous attention to detail, the authors have thoroughly examined and pushed the library programme to its fullest potential. The authors, Elena Orte and Guillermo Sevillano founded their studio SUMA Arquitectura in 2005 and won the competition to build the library in 2015.

IAAC Lecture Series – Aaron Betsky

Posted on April 21, 2024 by cm

”Don’t Build, Rebuild: The Case for Imaginative Reuse in Architecture” by Aaron Betsky at IAAC Lecture Series Tuesday 23th April

Aaron Betsky was born in Missoula, Montana but moved to The Netherlands where he received his grade and high school education. He was granted both a Bachelor of Arts (1979) and a Masters of Architecture (1983) degree from Yale University. Mr. Betsky’s leadership of major institutions in the world of art and architecture includes serving as the Director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute in Rotterdam from 2001 to 2006, the Curator of Architecture and Design of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art from 1995-2001 and the Artistic Director of the 11th International Architecture Biennale Venice, Italy, in September 2008. He was Dean at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture and President of the School of Architecture at Taliesin until 2020 and Director of the School of Architecture and Design Virginia Tech until 2024. A prolific writer and editor with a dozen books and hundreds of articles to his credit, Mr. Betsky is a also a lecturer and visiting critic who teaches around the world.

Don’t Build, Rebuild: The Case for Imaginative Reuse in Architecture

As climate change has escalated into a crisis, the reuse of existing structures is the only way to even begin to preserve our wood, sand, silicon, and iron, let alone stop belching carbon monoxide into the air. Our housing crisis means that we need usable buildings now more than ever, but architect and critic Aaron Betsky shows that new construction—often seeking to maximize profits rather than resources, often soulless in its feel—is not the answer. Whenever possible, it is better to repair, recycle, renovate, and reuse—not only from an environmental perspective, but culturally and artistically as well.

Architectural reuse is as old as civilization itself. In the streets of Europe, you can find fragments from the Roman Empire. More recently, marginalized communities from New York to Detroit—queer people looking for places to gather or cruise, punks looking to make loud music, artists and displaced people looking for space to work and live—have taken over industrial spaces created then abandoned by capitalism, forging a unique style in the process. Their methods—from urban mining to dumpster diving—now inform architects transforming old structures today.

IAAC Lecture Series – Aaron Betsky

Date: Tuesday, 23rd of April, 2024, 19.00h (CEST)

Location: IAAC ATELIER – First Floor (C. de Pujades, 59, 08005 Barcelona) & Zoom

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Barcelona & Gothic to Modern

Posted on April 17, 2024 by cm

Barcelona & Gothic to Modern, see Barcelona through the eyes of Enric Miralles

Join us as we explore the ideas and mindset of Enric Miralles, a genius in our lifetime. With Benedetta Tagliabue, he designed one of the most brilliant works of architecture in this city: the refurbishing of Santa Caterina Market.

With the aim of truly enjoying Enric Miralles’s work, we propose a journey of initiation that will attempt to be loyal to the architect’s words: “The architecture that interests me is capable of avoiding demagoguery and cannot hide the complex reality it comes from.”

This architecture tour walks through history, politics, the cultural imagination and the architecture of Barcelona’s Gothic and La Ribera Quarters.

We begin the journey in Roman Barcelona, then travel to the Carolingian era, the post-Franco era, Olympic Barcelona and, finally, the era that created el forat de la vergonya (the hole of shame). The walk ends in the market, where we will do some fieldwork to check Miralles’ methods, along with some of the processes that formed part of his modus operandi.

More Info:

* With every BARCELONA & GOTHIC TO MODERN booking you win a 10% discount voucher to be use in any other Walk!*

– MEETING POINT at the base of the ramp between the two Roman Towers to the right of the Cathedral. Link to Google Maps
– We offer Regular Tours every Thursday starting at 10:30 am. Booking in advance is required to attend to these Walks.
– The walk is for a small group of travelers. However, if you prefer a 100% private tour, please book it through BOOK NOW!.
– Maximum 20 people per Group tour.
– Kids under 12 can come along for free.
– The entire walk is wheelchair accessible.
– Languages: English (Spanish and Catalan are available in Private tour).
– Whatever happens, the walk will not be canceled, even if it’s raining or snowing! The weather in Barcelona is usually very nice, but we recommend you bring along suitable protective gear in case we have some inclement weather during the walk.

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REDES Palabras Cruzadas en Iberoamérica

Posted on April 9, 2024 by cm

SESION 28 REDES Palabras Cruzadas en Iberoamérica: Urban Mining: Repensar los materiales para la construcción circular

REDES Palabras cruzadas en Iberoamérica, es una iniciativa para generar diálogos online entre referentes del entorno iberoamericano de la arquitectura, diseño, urbanismo, sostenibilidad y otros temas cruciales para la sociedad actual.

¡El miércoles 10 de abril únete a la Sesión 28 de Redes, en esta ocasión el título de la sesión será: Urban Mining: Repensar los materiales para la construcción circular con una conferencia de Areti Markopoulou, y un diálogo entre ella y Carlos Cefis.

Invitada: Areti Markopoulou

Areti Markopoulou es una arquitecta, investigadora y tecnóloga urbana griega que trabaja en la intersección entre la arquitectura y las tecnologías digitales. Es Directora Académica del IAAC de Barcelona, donde también dirige el AAG (Grupo de Arquitectura Avanzada), un grupo de investigación multidisciplinar que explora cómo el diseño y la ciencia pueden influir positivamente y transformar el presente y el futuro de nuestros espacios construidos, nuestra forma de vivir y de interactuar. Su investigación y práctica se centran en redefinir la arquitectura de las ciudades a través de un espectro ecológico y tecnológico que combina el diseño con biotecnologías, nuevos materiales, fabricación digital y big data.
Areti es cofundadora de la galería de arte y tecnología StudioP52 y coeditora de Urban Next, una red mundial centrada en el replanteamiento de la arquitectura a través del entorno urbano contemporáneo. Es coordinadora de varios proyectos europeos financiados por la investigación sobre temas como la regeneración urbana, el diseño y la construcción circulares y los modelos educativos multidisciplinares en la era digital.
Areti es la fundadora y actualmente preside el Simposio Internacional Responsive Cities en Barcelona, mientras que ha sido comisaria jefe de exposiciones internacionales como Future Arena y On Site Robotics (Building Barcelona Construmat 2017-19), Print Matter (In3dustry 2016), HyperCity (Shenzhen Bi-city Biennale, 2015) y MyVeryOwnCity (Banco Mundial, BR Barcelona, 2011). Su obra se ha presentado en exposiciones de todo el mundo y, junto con Lydia Kallipoliti, ha sido nombrada comisaria jefe de la Bienal de Arquitectura de Tallin 2022.

Moderador: Carlos Cefis
En sus 20 años de experiencia como arquitecto y urbanista se ha dedicado a un objetivo muy claro: la financiación y gestión de proyectos. Ha trabajado en la iniciativa privada ejecutando conjuntos residenciales en larga escala y, como gestor en una importante banca publica brasileña, ha gestionando recursos para la elaboración políticas públicas, planes urbanos y construcción de vivienda social. Entre sus resultados se destacan la financiación de proyectos emblemáticos como la revitalización de favelas, rehabilitación de centros urbanos e implementación de infraestructuras y equipamientos públicos. Actualmente Carlos se dedica al desarrollo de la financiación alternativa a través del crowdfunding, tanto para el sector inmobiliario como para proyectos de cuño social.
Directores de Redes: Willy Müller y Ariadna Cantís.

Fecha: Miércoles, 10 de abril

Horarios:

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Sesión online y abierta al público.

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2024 Easter holiday images

Posted on April 4, 2024April 4, 2024 by cm

Today we want to share some images from our 2024 Easter holiday tours!

At Barcelona Architecture Walks, we are deeply passionate about sharing the rich tapestry of Barcelona’s history and architectural marvels with the visitors who choose us. As we guide visitors through the winding streets and hidden alleys of our vibrant city, our aim is not just to show them the sights but to reveal the stories etched in stone and mortar, unfolding the narrative of Barcelona’s evolution over centuries.

Our tours cover a variety of themes, each carefully tailored to highlight different facets of Barcelona’s architectural heritage. From the medieval charm of the Gothic Quarter to the Modernisme masterpieces of Antoni Gaudí, or the contemporary Santa Caterina Market from Enric Miralles, our walks are immersive journeys through time. Participants gain more than just a visual appreciation of stunning facades; they receive insights into the artistic, cultural, and social currents that have shaped them.

All the guides of Barcelona Architecture Walks are practicing architects, most of whom are professors of architecture, as well as architecture critics. This variety of top professionals provides a wide spectrum of knowledge on a huge range of topics that only Barcelona Architecture Walks can provide. We walk with our own critical and contemporary perspectives and a wry smile on our faces because… we love architecture!

We are very proud because many travellers have been walking with us on these 2024 Easter holidays and have enjoyed Barcelona through our Walking tours…And this Spring we have all our tours ready to help you discover our city from a new perspective.

Each route is driven by a set of themes and concepts that decode the city whilst stimulating new ways of thinking about and seeing Barcelona. Come and walk with us and live a fantastic experience!!!

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2024 Spring tours program

Posted on March 27, 2024 by cm

2024 Spring has arrived and we are full of energy because this is one of the best moment to walk with us. In Spring Barcelona becomes a charming city, the streets and its people, the sky, the light, the colors, the smells…. everything in spring makes Barcelona an irresistible city.

Don’t miss this moment and come to enjoy, with our Spring tours, the best time to stroll around our beautiful city.

With more enthusiasm than ever we are ready to continue spreading the architecture, history and culture of a wonderful city, among all those who are eager to fall in love, as we are, with the city of Barcelona.

Here you have our Spring tours program.

BARCELONA & THE FUTURE CITY walk through the smart-city looking for our Future and discover with us the new Superblock at Poblenou. This is an urban walking reflection on the main aims of urbanism and how they have been applied.

BARCELONA & URBANISM Travel with us to the origins of modern Barcelona! This is a trip to the origins of the guidelines laid out by Ildefons Cerdà on the plain of Barcelona.

BARCELONA & GAUDI A perfect start for your Barcelona stay! A great morning discovering the genius of Gaudí and Barcelona architecture.

BARCELONA & THE SEA Discover the history of Barcelona through its architecture! The intense conversation between Barcelona and the Mediterranean Sea has been always about how the quest for order.

BARCELONA & GOTHIC TO MODERN see Barcelona through the eyes of Enric Miralles. With the aim of truly enjoying Enric Miralles’s work.

In addition we have other 5 special tours:

BCN & SAGRADA FAMILIA. On this special four-hour tour, you will enjoy two of the most emblematic and most visited monuments in Barcelona led by an official tour guide that specializes in “Modernismo”.

BAW & RCR a full day coach excursion to see the most emblematic works of the RCR studio, awarded with the Pritzker of Architecture 2017.

BCN & LANDSCAPE coach tour of the largest urban parks in Barcelona.

BCN & MODERNISME 4-5 h expedition, during this tour we will see all the structures of the BARCELONA & GAUDI plus the area of the 1888 exhibition.

BCN & BARCELONA 1929 a tour discovering the projects that were made for the transformation of Barcelona on the occasion of the Universal Exhibition of 1929.

For these 5 special tours contact us here.

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BAW at TravelMag magazine

Posted on March 19, 2024March 19, 2024 by cm

Today we want to share some special news with you, the blog TravelMag has published an article that puts BARCELONA ARCHITECTURE WALKS among the Best Guided Gaudi Tours in Barcelona. TravelMag is a dedicated travel and resource blog with the aim of helping travelers and readers on their journey around the world; which makes us extremely happy to be included in their ranking of tours of Barcelona.

Under the title “The Best Gaudi Tours in Barcelona” they explain that when you’re in Barcelona, it’s never long before you stumble upon a piece of unmistakable architecture created by the great Antoni Gaudi.

Here is what they say:

Most prolific during the late 19th and early 20th century, the famous practitioner of Catalan modernist architecture had a uniquely recognisable style – a style that can be seen in buildings and landmarks dotted across the city. Such is his legacy that a number of tour companies in Barcelona offer guided excursions dedicated exclusively to discovering Gaudi’s vast body of work. We’ve picked out five of the best below.

Discover Gaudi Architectural Guided Tour

While some Gaudi tours skirt around the edges of the technical mastery behind his work, this immersive 3-hour walking tour really gets under the skin of the subject to provide deep insights into his creative genius – as well as Barcelona’s broader architectural landscape. Hosted by only practicing architects, most of whom are also architectural professors and critics, tours start in the morning and take in some of the city’s most prominent examples of the Modernisme period, including the three main residential buildings designed by Gaudi: Casa Calvet, Casa Batlló, and Casa Milà. At the tour’s conclusion, guests receive a bespoke guide full of tips on the city’s architectural gems as well as the best spots for a well-earned, post-sightseeing drink. From €45 per person.

We are very proud about this collaboration thank you so much TRAVELMAG!!!

Here the full article

Baw women team 2024

Posted on March 7, 2024 by cm

Today we celebrate the International Women’s day with our BAW’s Women team 2024. At BAW we have an amazing women team. Every one have something special to tell us, and we are very happy to share it with you! Here you have our women team of passionate Architects!

From left to right Carme Popescu, Daniela Sanchez, Pia Wortham, Elodie Grammont, Jele Prokopljevic, Cristina Santamaria and Mavi Hita our BAW’s Women team 2024.

Carmen Popescu, born in Bucharest. Architecture Studies between Bucharest and Barcelona 1992-2003.

As a BAW walk leader, I try to transmit my experience of Barcelona, both as a practicing architect and as a passionate resident. Our walks allow us to explore the city, exchange ideas and share impressions about its timeless unique features. The routes are attractive and surprising, and I try to make everybody have a good time, while discovering some of Barcelona’s treasures.

Daniela Sánchez Sáez, born in Santiago de Chile. Architecture studies by Universidad de Chile and Master in Landscape by Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB-UPC).

Barcelona is a city recognized worldwide for its urban planning, public space and landscape projects. I am interested in explaining how the city has raised various strategies over the years, emphasizing the different perspectives on it and its urban transformations, starting from the landscape vision. And showing how the projects are design and built to develop a more sustainable city.

Pia Wortham, born in Mexico City, Mexico. She studied at Tufts University Civil Engineering and Fine arts Museum School of Boston Massachusetts.

History is multidisciplinary, and if we choose to look at history this way the whole accumulation of our human experience is more interesting. My classes have a healthy combination of technology and historical fact that I combine in order to relate the past to our present architectural practice and technology. This dual focus allows me to adapt the content of my tours based on the background and interests of the group. Architecture is a strange hybrid of many disciplines that literally makes up our built environment, I try to convey the intricacies and complexities of cities in general and Barcelona in particular to enhance a sense of curiosity in the world around us.

Elodie Gammont, born in Dax, France. Arquitect by Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB-UPC).

She is the half part of our adventure Barcelona Architecture Walks. BAW and MIEL Arquitectos Co-founder beside Miguel Angel Borràs. She develop some differents aspects like documentation and images task and take care of accounts, and of course she walks with all our tours as well. Specially when we need speak French!

Jelena Prokopljevic born in Belgrade. Architect degree from the Belgrade University 1998.

Architecture is always the expression of an epoch: of its society, politics and ideologies, culture, economy and technological development. When a client formulates a project commission, the package contains a set of dreams, a desired image that is to be projected through the built work defining its artistic attractiveness, high technology, ecological awareness, material austerity or exuberance. I like to transmit all this complexit

Cristina Santamaria Nogueira she is from Barcelona. Architect by Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB-UPC).

It is a pleasure to guide along my home city! A perfect combination of being outside, enjoying such beautiful surroundings while getting to know interesting people, showing them around, opening our minds to each other and letting each walk flow by itself. The great team of guides built at BAW makes our work collaborative an very rewarding!

y of architecture and its general context both to my students and to my fellow-walkers.

Mavi Hita born in Granada, Spain. Arquitect by Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB-UPC).

She is our Community Manager from May 2016. She have been working at different architecture studios like ADD Bailo-Rull or Carme Pinós studio in Barcelona. She is always looking for news, pictures and content to interest our walkers.

We are so glad of all them, we have a wonderful Women’s team!

IAAC Lecture Series – Anupama Kundoo

Posted on February 27, 2024February 27, 2024 by cm

Anupama Kundoo graduated from University of Mumbai in 1989 and received her PhD degree from TU Berlin in 2008. Her research-oriented practice started in 1990 in Auroville has generated people centric architecture based on spatial and material research for low environmental impact while being socio-economically beneficial. Her body of works was recently exhibited as a solo show ‘Taking Time’ at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark.

She has taught Architecture and Urban Management at various international universities strengthening her expertise in rapid urbanization and climate change related development issues including at Yale University and Columbia University. She is currently Professor at Potsdam School of Architecture, Germany and the Head of Urban Design, Auroville in India. She received the RIBA Charles Jencks award for her contribution to architectural theory, the 2021 Auguste Perret Prize for architectural technology, the 2021 Building Sense Now global award of the German Sustainable Building Council DGNB, and the Global Award for Sustainable architecture under UNESCO patronage in 2022. Her studios are based in Berlin in Germany, and Pondicherry in India. Kundoo’s rigorous research and experimentation in new materiality for architecture is the result of questioning basic assumptions, construction habits that humanity has adopted during the long process of industrialization. Rather than focussing on shortage, she sought abundance through investing in human resources and human resourcefulness, such as ingenuity, time, skills, care and sense of community.

Rethinking Material Resources Alongside Human Resourcefulness

Our built environment is the physical stage on which all human stories are lived out. This physical stage is the historical and ongoing manifestation of human imagination operating within real (or, imaginary!) constraints. Anupama Kundoo advances the idea that architectural imagination must transcend design and enter the realms of materials science and economics where some of the bigger questions reside. She will discuss the thrust of her inquiries which have been to find practical ways to fulfill the universal human aspiration for refuge, purpose, and social engagement through extensive material research and experimentation. She will discuss ‘Human Time as a Resource’ in the quest for new materiality and critically examine the way the time value of money has nudged us towards code-based design and the industrialized production of building components and, sometimes, even entire buildings themselves. She will discuss materiality and consumption of finite natural resources alongside their impact on human wellbeing and human resourcefulness.

IAAC Lecture Series – Anupama Kundoo

Date: Thursday, 29th of February, 2024
Time: 19.30h (CET)

Location: IAAC ATELIER – First Floor (C. de Pujades, 59, 08005 Barcelona) & Zoom

Finalists for the EU Mies Awards 2024

Posted on February 26, 2024 by cm

The European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe just revealed the 7 finalists for the EU Mies Awards 2024, European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Awards. There are 5 finalists in the Architecture category and 2 in the Emerging category. In March, the jury will visit these architectural works and will decide on the winning projects that will be announced on April 25th at the CIVA in Brussels.

Selected by the jury comprising 7 members: Frédéric Druot, Martin Braathen, Pippo Ciorra, Tinatin Gurgenidze, Adriana Krnáčová, Sala Makumbundu, and Hrvoje Njiric, from a list of 362 nominees, the “7 finalist works promote local policy references and can become global European models since all of them create inclusive and high-quality living environments.”

The official statement adds that “most of them transformed and improved the conditions of rather small communities in places that had undergone different processes of neglect: former industrial areas and rural towns. The works in larger cities are implemented in peripheral areas, building strong associations with the neighborhoods.”

The EUmies Awards Day, which includes the award ceremony, will take place on May 14, 2024, at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona and the Palau Victòria Eugènia, in the context of the Barcelona Architecture Weeks. Find out more here and read on to discover the finalists’ projects.

The 5 finalist works in Architecture are:

Plato Contemporary Art Gallery in Ostrava (Moravia-Silesia, Czech Republic) by KWK Promes (Katowice, Poland)

Study Pavilion of the Campus of the Technical University of Braunschweig (Lower Saxony, Germany) by Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke (Berlin, Germany)

Reggio College in Madrid (Community of Madrid, Spain) by ANDRES JAQUE / OFFICE FOR POLITICAL INNOVATION (Madrid, Spain)

Renaissance of the Saint-François Convent in Sainte-Lucie-de-Tallano / Santa Lucía de Tallà (Corsica, France) by Amelia Tavella Architectes (Aix en Provence, France)

Häge in Lund (Skåne County, Sweden) by Brendeland & Kristoffersen Architects (Oslo, Norway)

Häge in Lund (Skåne County, Sweden) by Brendeland & Kristoffersen Architects (Oslo, Norway). Image Courtesy of Brendeland & Kristoffersen architects; Price & Myers (civil and structural engineering)

The 2 finalist works in the Emerging category are:

Gabriel García Márquez Library in Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain) by SUMA arquitectura (Madrid, Spain)

Piódão Plaza and Tourist Office (Central Portugal, Portugal) by Branco del Rio (Coimbra, Portugal)

Mark Burry IAAC Lectures Series

Posted on February 19, 2024 by cm

Tuesday, 20th of February, 2024 at IAAC Lecture Series – Mark Burry

Mark Burry is a registered architect and the Founding Director for Swinburne University of Technology’s Smart Cities Research Institute (SCRI). His role is to lead the development of a whole-of-university research approach to ‘urban futures’, helping ensure that our future cities anticipate and meet the needs of all – smart citizens participating in the development of smart cities.

Mark Burry is a practising architect who has published internationally on two main themes: putting theory into practice with regard to procuring ‘challenging’ architecture, and the life, work and theories of the architect Antoni Gaudí. He has been Senior Architect to the Sagrada Família Basilica Foundation since 1979, pioneering distant collaboration with his colleagues based on-site in Barcelona concluding in late 2016.

Recent publications include an edited 4-volume 1,600-page collection of papers setting out the grounds for Digital Architecture as a critical concept, including a 9,000-word introduction to the set with accompanying introductions to each volume (Routledge – Taylor & Francis, March 2020), and an edition of AD titled ‘Urban Futures – Designing the Digitalised City’ (Wiley, May-June, 2020)

After Gaudí: how might AI have helped us learn from Gaudí’s surviving model fragments for his Sagrada Família Basilica design?

Mark Burry’s talk will outline his experience in helping unpack the mysteries of Gaudí’s final design models for the Sagrada Famíilia Basilica. He will describe Gaudí’s struggles realising his projects more as sculptural undertakings than architecture, and how he shifted dimensions to bring an invisible rationality to his modus operandi. Burry will first examine Gaudí’s analogue design process, and then critically examine the role of design computation for a deep dive into Gaudí’s creative world in both the digital and post digital eras. This will lead to some general observations on the power of creativity, and both some limits as well as opportunities for AI to influence future architectural design seen through the lens of Gaudí’s extraordinary endeavour.