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María Langarita Lecture at Foros 2017

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Foros 2017: Lecture by María Langarita entitled “Resistencias blandengues”

On Monday 24 April, at 7 p.m., the ESARQ – School of Architecture at UIC Barcelona will host a lecture by María Langarita, from Langarita Navarro Arquitectos, as part of the Foros 2017 lecture series The Agency of Architecture. Under the title “Resistencias blandengues” [Soft Resistance], Langarita will put forward the notion of categorising architecture on the basis of material consistency.

María Langarita will talk about description as creation. “Bust and pelt”, asserts the architect, “is a way of arranging the content of the physical part of the world. The bust represents the hard side of architecture: inorganic and inert, it erodes slowly and is expensive to alter. The pelt is organic and soft; it rots and decomposes easily. The annals of culture have focused their attention on and spoken and written about the bust. Techniques associated with the pelt, on the other hand, remain scattered among a host of registers that are of secondary value to the architect.”

“Resistencias blandengues” is, explains Langarita, “a willingness to record and apply the wisdom of the pelt in the city.”

María Langarita graduated with a degree in Architecture from the University of Navarre and is now a lecturer in Architectural Projects at ETSA Madrid. Together with Victor Navarro, she founded the Madrid-based practice Langarita-Navarro in 2005. Their work has been recognised with Special Mention at the 2013 Mies van der Rohe Awards, as well as with an award at the 12th Spanish Architecture and Urbanism Biennial, the 2012 FAD Award, the 2012 AR+D Award for Emerging Architects and the 2013 COAM award. Additional career accolades include the 2014 Young Architect of the Year Award and the 2013 AD Nuevos Valores Award. Their work has appeared in various publications and was featured in the monographic magazine 2G. Their work has also been selected to be exhibited in a number of different places and events, including the 2014 and 2008 Venice Biennale.

 

Foros 2017 Markus Bader

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Lecture by Markus Bader at Foros 2017: The Agency of Architecture

Next Monday 20 March, the UIC Barcelona ESARQ-School of Architecture will host the third lecture in Foros 2017 “The Agency of Architecture”. The conference, which is open to the general public and scheduled to take place at 7 p.m. in the Aula Magna on the University’s Barcelona Campus, will be given by Markus Bader, member and co-founder of Raumlabor, an architectural collective renowned for its cross-cutting work which incorporates architecture, urban planning, art and urban interventions, such as the transformation and revitalisation of the Tempelhof Airport as a public space in Berlin.

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Under the title “Co-Producing Some Spaces”, the guest speaker will reflect on how we all, through our private and collective actions, generate space, and how the synchronisation of these activities in one single space creates a city. According to Bader, “architecture is a tool in the search for the city of tomorrow, and as architects we are activists, because we operate within the city.” By analysing Raumlabor’s work, projects which explore the limits of architecture and are deeply rooted in the local context, Markus Bader will invite attendees to change their opinion of the city and reformulate contemporary concepts such as “participation”, “collaboration” and “site-specific”.

Markus Bader combines his work as an architect with education, and not just in academia as Professor of Projects at the University of the Arts in Berlin, but also at the Urban School Ruhr, an open university developed by Raumlabor in cooperation with Urbane Künste Ruhr, a learning platform and pedagogical experiment that investigates participative and artistic practices in urban space. With projects such as the Göteborg Sauna, Bader has been nominated for the Kasper Salin Prize, the 2015 National Swedish Architecture Award.

 

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