BAC

BARCELONA

ARCHITECTURE

CENTER

Is an organization directed by Xavier Costa and Miguel Roldán, which offers academic stays in Barcelona to foreign architecture schools with the support of the Fundació Politècnica de Catalunya. The FPC is a foundation in charge of the development of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya´s graduate and postgraduate programs. The BAC was created as a meeting point to share academic and research experiences from all over the world. At this moment it has been successfully received in many American institutions, which prove that our courses provide the right mechanism to exchange different ideas from both sides of the Atlantic.We are building a network between international universities to develop architectural research projects in common. This network has to include new partners every year from other continents, as we are specially interested in focusing on local and global points of view. We are also interested in designing the future of a professional environment in global context, creating mechanisms to share tasks and to work at distance through digital systems in a worldwide team.

SPRING 08 PROFESSORS

FPC-TEXAS AM UNIVERSITY

Juan Carlos Sánchez Tappan (Studio)
Suzanne Strum (Seminar I)
Katrin golda-Pongratz (Seminar II)
Jordi Llacer, Irma Arribas, Ivan Blasi (Study Travel)

FPC-CLEMSON UNIVERSITY

Juan Carlos Sánchez Tappan (Studio)
Katrin Golda-Pongratz (Arch 412)
Douglas Hecker (Arch 414; Study Travel)

FPC-UNIVERSIDAD DE MONTERREY

Kris Scheerlinck, Koen Meersman, Christine Tossens (Proyectos)
Katrin Golda-Pongratz (Historia)
Albert Pla (Construcción)
Hubertus Poppinghaus (Sostenibilidad)
Anna Baldrich (Estructuras)
Jordi Llacer, Irma Arribas, Iván Blasi (Viaje de Estudios)

FPC-TEXAS SAN ANTONIO UNIVERSITY

Kris Scheerlinck, Koen Meersman, Christine Tossens (Studio)
Candid Rogers (Seminar I, Seminar II, Study Travel)

SPRING 08

Programa ESTRUCTURAS

Prof. Anna Baldrich

Objetivo general:
El comportamiento de los sistemas estructurales a partir de la geometría que los define, los esfuerzos a que están sometidos y los materiales y sus procesos constructivos. Elementos estructurales arquitectónicos y principios de análisis estructural. Análisis de ejemplos construidos, materiales y comportamiento estructural así como de modelos físicos.
Objetivo General de la Materia:
Introducir al alumno al estudio del comportamiento de los sistemas estructurales a partir de la geometría que los define, los esfuerzos a que están sometidos y los materiales y sus procesos constructivos. Revisión de los principios de análisis estructural, repaso de sistemas tipo “viga” (diagramas de elementos mecánicos) e introducción del concepto “pórtico plano”. Presentación de un software para resolver problemas de análisis estructural, enfatizando sus ventajas y los riesgos que se presentan al utilizarlo. Presentación de una serie de ejemplos de estructuras reales y detección del sistema estructural que las define y los materiales con que se construyeron.

SESIÓN 1
Estructuras (Sesión de 8 de febrero de 2008)
Introducción y antecedentes históricos.
Campo de actuación.
Exigencias estructurales.
Proceso de cálculo.
Modelización de la estructura.
Elementos de una estructura.
Tipos de estructuras.

SESIÓN 2 y 3
Isotatismo y Esfuerzos (Sesiones de 15 y 22 de febrero de 2008)
Resolución de problemas isostáticos.
Diagramas de esfuerzos en vigas y pórticos isostáticos.
SESIÓN 4.
Cargas. (Sesión de 7 de marzo de 2008)
Tipos de cargas, ajustadas al Código Técnico de la Edificación.
Cargas permanentes.
Sobrecarga de uso.
Viento.
Nieve.
Sismo.

SESIÓN 5.
Estructuras hiperestáticas (sesión de 14 de marzo de 2008)
Teoremas de Mohr.
Resolución de vigas continuas.

SESIÓN 6.
Materiales (sesión de 28 de marzo de 2008)
Geometría de masas.
Acero, Hormigón.
Características mecánicas y diagramas tensión-deformación.

SESIÓN 7.
Esfuerzo Axial (sesión de 4 de abril de 2008)
Resolución de problemas de axial puro.
Cerchas.
Pilares.

SESIÓN 8.
Esfuerzo Cortante (sesión de 11 de abril de 2007)
Resolución de problemas de cortante.
Cálculo de uniones.
Vigas metálicas.
Vigas de hormigón.

SESIÓN 9
Esfuerzo Momento flector (sesión de 18 de abril de 2008)
Resolución de problemas de flexión simple y flexión compuesta.
Vigas metálicas.
Vigas de hormigón.

SESIÓN 10.
Programas de análisis (sesión de 25 de abril de 2008)
Presentación de programas de análisis matricial en el plano y en el espacio.
Presentación de programa de cálculo completo. Análisis y dimensionado.

SESIÓN 11.
Examen (sesión de 28 de abril de 2008)

CV Anna Baldrich Aragó

TITULACIÓ UNIVERSITARIA
Diplomada en Arquitectura Tècnica, per la E.U.A.T.B. de la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya ( 1997 )
Nº Col·legiada: 09026

FORMACIÓ
Estudis universitaris d’Arquitectura Tècnica, a l’EUPB de Barcelona finalitzats a l’any 1997.
Títol d’ Arquitecta Tècnica en execució d’obres obtingut al desembre de 1998.
Realització d’un curs de MULTIMEDIA: MS-DOS, Autocad v.13 en 2D i 3D Studio, de 400 hores, al centre BP SYSTEMS, a l’any 1996.

Realització d’un mòdul de DIBUIX PER ORDINADOR, amb l’obtenció del títol: COMPUTER DRAUGHTING (110) per la Universitat de Cambridge, a l’any 1996.

Realització d’un curs bàsic d’INTERNET al Col·legi d’Arquitectes de Barcelona, a l’any 1998.

Realització de cursos de FORMACIÓ al Col.legi d’Aparelladors i Arquitectes Tècnics de Barcelona, de diferents temes: Control de Qualitat del Formigó segons l’EHE, l’Estudi Bàsic de Seguretat i Salut, entre d’altres.

EXPERIENCIA PROFESSIONAL
Contracte a temps parcial des de juny del 2006 a l’ ESCOLA SUPERIOR DE DISSENY ELISAVA, amb el càrrec de Coordinadora d’Estudis d’Arquitectura Tècnica.
Professora, en el mateix centre, per donar classe de l’assignatura de Resistència de materials, dins els estudis d’Arquitectura Tècnica, durant els cursos acadèmics 2005-06 i 2006-07.

Contracte a temps parcial amb l’UPC durant els cursos 1999-00, 2000-01, 2001-02, 2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-05 i 2005-06 com a professora associada per impartir classes d’Estructures I i d’Estructures II a l’Escola d’Arquitectura Tècnica de Barcelona. Tanmateix tutelant treballs finals de carrera a diversos alumnes (entre d’altres treballs: un projecte de reforma i canvi d’ús d’una masia a restaurant, un projecte executiu d’un edifici de habitatges, una direcció d’obra de l’Hotel Hesperia a l’Hospitalet...).

Des del 2003, col.laboracions externes amb el despatx de l’Arquitecte TONET SUNYER VIVES, realitzant direccions d’obra (Reforma i ampliació de la Masia Pedra-Alba a Barcelona, Promoció de 81 vivendes a Sant Cugat) i treballs d’amidaments i pressupostos de diversos projectes.

Durant el periode 2001-2004 contractada per l’empresa CONSULTORS TÈCNICS D’ENGINYERIA I ARQUITECTURA, S.L. (CEA), realitzant treballs de:

- Direcció d’obres d’urbanitzacions de diferents carrers a Lliçà d’Amunt.
- Pla de treball del projecte de remodelació de la Rambla de Figueres i seguiment econòmic de la mateixa obra.
-Control d’amidaments i pressupostos de diferents projectes amb el programa TCQ.
-Treballs de delineació amb programa Autocad v. 2003 per al projecte d’urbanització de l’àrea d’actuació 16 de Rubí i dels carrers Sala Ambrós i Països Catalans a Lliçà d’Amunt.
-Coordinació en les tasques de redacció (plànols i pressupost) dels projectes bàsics i executius de dues residències geriàtriques, una al municipi de Teià i l’altra a Vilanova del Camí.

Col·laboracions professionals en el despatx de l’Arquitecte TONET SUNYER VIVES, durant els anys 2000-2001.
Realitzant entre d’altres, treballs de:

-Direcció d’obra de l’ampliació d’un habitatge unifamiliar aïllat al Pla del Penedès. (Casa Marc Martí)
-Realització d’amidaments i pressupostos dels projectes del despatx amb el programa Arquímedes, de Cype Enginyers (Casa Rodés, Casa Puignou, Casa a Andorra, Casa a Pedralbes, Oficines Gallina Blanca, Oficines Marc Martí)
-Control dels pressupostos tant al despatx com a l’obra.
-Redacció d’Estudis de Seguretat i Salut i Programes de Control de Qualitat.
-Delineació amb Autocad v. 2000.

Col·laboracions professionals amb l’Arquitecte Tècnic ALFRED ROSSELL CLÚA, durant l’any 1999, en la realització d’amidaments, pressupostos, estudi de Seguretat i Salut i programa de control de qualitat, per a l’execució d’un habitatge unifamiliar a Castelldefels. I la direcció de la mateixa obra durant l’any 2000, a mitges amb el mateix Arquitecte Tècnic.

Col·laboracions professionals al despatx dels arquitectes ALARCON & MATOSAS, ARQUITECTES ASSOCIATS, durant l’any 1999 i amb contracte de pràctiques (conveni EUPB- empresa) durant els anys 1997 i 1998.
Realitzant, entre d’altres, treballs de:

- Delineació amb Autocad v. 14 (2D i 3D).
- Control d’amidaments tant al despatx com a l’obra.
- Control d’execució d’un edifici escolar a Barcelona.
- Direcció d’obres d’un paviment exterior a l’empresa Technal Iberica, a Parets del Vallés.
- Control d’execució d’un edifici escolar a Badalona.
- Relació amb industrials, instal·ladors, constructors...
- Execució de maquetes.

Treballs gràfics de delineació per a l’empresa PREPERSA, referents al peritatge del sinistre d’una fàbrica, durant l’any 1997.

Il·lustracions per al llibre de 1er Cicle d’ESO, de l’EDITORIAL BAULA, a l’any 1997.

RELACIÓ D’OBRES I PROJECTES
81 VIVENDES A SANT CUGAT
(2005-2007)

Arquitecte: TONET SUNYER
Treballs: DIRECCIÓ D’OBRA I COL.LABORACIÓ EN LA REDACCIÓ DEL PROJECTE.

REFORMA I AMPLIACIÓ DE LA MASIA PEDRA-ALBA A BARCELONA (2004-2006)

Arquitecte: TONET SUNYER
Treballs: DIRECCIÓ D’OBRA I COL.LABORACIÓ EN LA REDACCIÓ DEL PROJECTE.

VIVENDA UNIFAMILIAR AÏLLADA AL CARRER VISTABELLA A BARCELONA (2004-2005)

Arquitecte: TONET SUNYER
Treballs: SEGUIMENT ECONÒMIC I COL.LABORACIÓ EN LA REDACCIÓ DEL PROJECTE.

21 VIVENDES UNIFAMILIARS A NIULA DE LA CERDANYA
(2004-2005)

Arquitecte: TONET SUNYER
Treballs: COL.LABORACIÓ EN LA REDACCIÓ DEL PROJECTE.

PROJECTE DE REHABILITACIÓ DE LA FAÇANA D’UNA CASA A PG. MARAGALL 406 DE BARCELONA
(2005)
Treballs: DIRECCIÓ D’OBRA I REDACCIÓ DEL PROJECTE

PROJECTE DE REHABILITACIÓ DE FAÇANES I PATIS INTERIORS D’UN EDIFICI DE VIVENDES A LA RONDA GUINARDÓ 54 DE BARCELONA
(2004-2006)
Treballs: DIRECCIÓ D’OBRA I REDACCIÓ DEL PROJECTE

135 VIVENDES A VERA (ALMERIA)
(2004)

Arquitecte: TONET SUNYER
Treballs: COL.LABORACIÓ EN LA REDACCIÓ DEL PROJECTE.

URBANITZACIÓ DEL VIAL D’ACCÈS A L’IES DE LLIÇÀ D’AMUNT
(2003)

Arquitecte: LLUÍS CALVET
Treballs: DIRECCIÓ D’OBRA I COL.LABORACIÓ EN LA REDACCIÓ DEL PROJECTE.

REFORMA D’UNA VIVENDA AL CARRER ARIBAU 302 DE BARCELONA (2003)

Arquitecta: MÒNICA CATANIA
Treballs: DIRECCIÓ D’OBRA

REFORMA D’UNA VIVENDA UNIFAMILIAR ENTRE MITGERES A ALTAFULLA (2003)
Treballs: DIRECCIÓ D’OBRA I REDACCIÓ DEL PROJECTE

VIVENDA UNIFAMILIAR AÏLLADA A LA FLORESTA (ST. CUGAT)
(2002)

Arquitectes: XAVI GRÀCIA I IMANOL MONTERO
Treballs: DIRECCIÓ D’OBRA

REFORMA D’UNA VIVENDA AL CARRER CÓRCEGA 407 DE BARCELONA (2002)
Treballs: REDACCIÓ DEL PROJECTE

REFORMA I AMPLIACIÓ D’UNA VIVENDA UNIFAMILIAR AÏLLADA AL PLA DEL PENEDÈS –CASA MARC MARTÍ-
(2001)
Arquitecte: TONET SUNYER
Treballs: DIRECCIÓ D’OBRA I COL.LABORACIÓ EN LA REDACCIÓ DEL PROJECTE.

VIVENDA UNIFAMILIAR AÏLLADA A BARCELONA -CASA RODÉS-
(2001)
Arquitecte: TONET SUNYER
Treballs: DIRECCIÓ D’OBRA I COL.LABORACIÓ EN LA REDACCIÓ DEL PROJECTE.

VIVENDA UNIFAMILIAR AÏLLADA A CASTELLDEFELS
(2000)
Arquitecte: JORDI MUNTANYÈS
Treballs: DIRECCIÓ D’OBRA I COL.LABORACIÓ EN LA REDACCIÓ DEL PROJECTE.

URBANITZACIÓ ESPAI EXTERIOR OFICINES TECHNAL A PARETS DEL VALLÈS (1999)
Arquitectes: ALARCÓN I MATOSAS, ARQ. ASSOCIATS
Treballs: DIRECCIÓ D’OBRA I COL.LABORACIÓ EN LA REDACCIÓ DEL PROJECTE.

EDIFICI ESCOLAR A BADALONA
(1997-98)
Arquitectes: ALARCÓN I MATOSAS, ARQ. ASSOCIATS
Treballs: SEGUIMENT D’OBRA PER AL TFC I COL.LABORACIÓ EN LA REDACCIÓ DEL PROJECTE.

C.V. Kris W. B. Scheerlinck

Academic qualifications
2000 to date : Doctorate Program in Urbanism
Polytechnical University of Catalonia, ETSAB [Barcelona/Spain]
Advanced Studies Diploma obtained and currently preparing thesis [title: Multiple Sequences and Territorial Thickness]
Thesis Director Prof. Architect Manuel de Solà-Morales
1998-2000 : Masters Program “Metropolis, Postgraduate Program in Architecture and Urban Culture”
Polytechnical University of Catalonia, ETSAB [Barcelona/Spain]
degree: high distinction
1995-1997 : Postgraduate Program Urban Planning
University of Gent, RUG [Gent/Belgium]
1993-1995 : M.A. in Architecture
Higher Institute for Science and Art, Department of Architecture and Urbanism, Campus Sint-Lucas [Gent/Belgium]
degree: distinction
1990-1993 : B.A. in Architecture
Higher Institute for Science and Art, Department of Architecture and Urbanism, Campus Sint-Lucas [Gent/Belgium]
degree: distinction

Professional experience / free-lance collaborations
1998 to date : Studio Aubergine: Architecture, Interior Design, Concept design and Production of exhibitions and ephemeral installations in
Gent/Belgium, Milan/Italy, Tel Aviv/Israel, San Sebastian/Spain, Madrid/Spain, Hong Kong/Hong Kong and Barcelona/Spain at own
design practice with interior designer Koen Meersman [Barcelona/Spain]. Client list:
-BASEdesign, grapic designers based in Brussels, Barcelona, Madrid, Paris and New York: design interior
-Elio Fiorucci, Italian fashion designer, design catwalk, showroom and VIP lounge
-Index Book, Spanish publisher, design stand
-Pedro García, Spanish shoe designer, design interior flagship store Madrid, design stands, design packaging & display, design set catalogues
-San Miguel, Spanish beer producer, design stand
-ADG-FAD, Spanish platform for graphic design, design exhibition, design event Premios Laus, Forum 2004
-Col.legi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya, design exhibition European Bienal for Landscape in Barcelona
-MODAFAD, Spanish platform for emergent fashion designers, design catwalks, showrooms, events
-Shelter, international and itinerant platform for design and architecture, design exhibition
2004 to date : Territorial Research on Isolated Low Dense Residential Units
in the provinces of Barcelona, Girona, Lleida and Tarragona [Spain]
Clients: Generalitat de Catalunya, Deputy Council of the Province of Barcelona
In collaboration with Architect Joan Barba [Barcelona/Spain] and Geographer Montse Mercadè [Barcelona/Spain]
2001-2004 : Urban design projects at Studio Carlos Carnicer and Joan Barba [Barcelona/Spain]
-Montigalà park [Badalona/Spain]: urban park, public space
-Santa Juliana [Logroño/Spain]: housing project and public space; 1st prize competition
-Plaza Indautxu and G. de la Revilla [Bilbao/Spain]: public space, 2nd prize international competition
-Montornès Nord [Montornès del Vallès/Spain]: urban rehabilitation project and design public space
1998-2001 : Urban design projects at Studio Manuel de Solà-Morales [Barcelona/Spain]
-Waterfront [Porto, Matosinhos/Portugal]: masterplan, urban design: public space, public facilities and infrastructure
-22@-program Poble Nou [Barcelona/Spain]: urban planning, study of urban proposal
-Rehabilitation project for existing waterfront Moll de la Fusta [Barcelona/Spain]: masterplan and urban design
1996-1998 : Urban projects [Gent , Kortrijk /Belgium] at Studio Philip Deceuninck [Aalter/Belgium]
1995 : Urban housing project [Rotterdam/Netherlands] at Studio Martine De Maeseneer [Meise/Belgium]
international teaching experience, conferences, correspondent
2000 to date : Associated Professor
Higher Technical Architecture School La Salle, University Ramon Llull, Architecture Course [Barcelona/Spain]
Co-ordinator and lecturer studio urban design and lecturer theoretical courses on urban design
2006 : Lecturer and Critic in Graduate Research Week-end and Workshops
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, RMIT [Melbourne/Australia]
Key-note speaker and critic in final presentations of student projects urban design and landscape design
Introduction conference by Prof. Architect Leon van Schaik
2002-2003. Associated Professor
Polytechnical University of Catalonia, ETSAB, Architecture Course [Barcelona/Spain]
Lecturer studio urban design
1999-2002 : “Shelter”
International workshops with students of Architecture, History of Art and Industrial Design in
-National University of Cordoba, Faculty of Architecture, Urbanism and Design [Cordoba/Argentina ]
-Slovak University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture [Bratislava/Slovak Republic]
-Technical University Federico Santa Maria, Department of Architecture [Valparaiso/Chile]
-Higher Institute for Science and Art, Department of Architecture and Urbanism, Campus Sint-Lucas [Gent/Belgium]
1998-1999 :“Densiteit Density Densité Densidad 989900”
International workshops in Gent and Barcelona with students of
-Higher Institute for Science and Art, Department of Architecture and Urbanism, Campus Sint-Lucas [Gent/Belgium]
-Polytechnical University of Catalonia, ETSAB [Barcelona/Spain]
1998-1999 : Guest lecturer
Higher Institute for Science and Art, Department of Architecture and Urbanism, Campus Sint-Lucas [Gent/Belgium]
Lecturer and critic final presentations and workshops
1999 : Guest lecturer
International Seminar “Inside Density”, organised by Network for Theory and Architecture Criticism
1999-2004 : Correspondent for the VRT on cultural issues and current affairs, Flemish Radio and Television [Belgium]
publications
Scheerlinck, Kris; Barba, Joan; Mercadè, Montse (2006) “Les Urbanitzacions a la Província de Barcelona”, Deputy Council
of the Province of Barcelona, October 2006
Scheerlinck, Kris (2004) “Published Spaces”, in “Urbanismo”, nº16, Magazine of Portuguese Urban Planners, Lisbon
Scheerlinck, Kris (2003) “Multiple Reading”, in “Transversal”, Girona, April 2003
Scheerlinck, Kris (2001) “Projectes per al port urbà de Badalona”, publication of results workshop “Proyectos Urbanos”, E.T.S.A. LA
SALLE, Barcelona (E), 2001, editors Amador Ferrer y Kris Scheerlinck

Knowledge of languages
Dutch (native language)
Spanish (fluent)
English (fluent)
French (fluent)
Catalan (basic)

CV Albert Plà i Gisbert

ESTUDIOS
1968-1975 ETSAB Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona.
Titulación: ARQUITECTO SUPERIOR
Especialidad: EDIFICACIÓN
Graduado : MAYO - 1965

COLEGIOS PROFESIONALES E INSTITUCIONES A LOS QUE PERTENECE
- Miembro de la Junta Técnica del Museo de Historia de la ciudad de Sant Feliu de Guíxols (Girona), desde el 29 de Enero de 2004.
- COAC. Colegio de Arquitectos de Catalunya, colegiado número 6972/8, desde 22 de Mayo de 1975.
- AEPFC. AGRUPACIÓN DE ARQUITECTOS EXPERTOS PERICIALES Y FORENSES DE CATALUNYA. COAC.
- AADIPA. AGRUPACION DE ARQUITECTOS PARA DEFENSA E INTERVENCION DEL PATRIMONIO ARQUITECTONICO. COAC.
- COAM. Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid, colegiado número 3998.
- ICOMOS. Miembro del Consejo Internacional de Monumentos y Sitios.

EXPERIENCIA DOCENTE
-Cursos 2005 – 2006
- Profesor en el Master de Post-Grado en Derecho de la Edificación y la Construcción “Idec”. Universidad Pompeu Fabra.
- Profesor de Arquitectura Técnica de la Escuela Elisava. Centro adscrito a la Universidad Pompeu Fabra donde imparte la asignatura de
“Restauración de Arquitectura Monumental”, en Tercer Curso.

“FUNDACIO ESCOLA ELISAVA”. Centro adscrito a la UNIVERSIDAD POMPEU FABRA (UPF).
- Cursos 2006 – 2007
Profesor al Master de Postgrado en Derecho de la Edificación y la Construcción, “Idec”. Universidad Pompeu Fabra.
Profesor de Arquitectura Técnica de la Escuela Elisava, Centro Adscrito a la Universidad Pompeu Fabra donde imparte la asignatura “Restauración de la Arquitectura Monumental”, en Tercer curso.
- Cursos 2005 – 2006
Profesor al Master de Postgrado en Derecho de la Edificación y la Construcción, “Idec”. Universidad Pompeu Fabra.
Profesor de Arquitectura Técnica de la Escuela Elisava, Centro Adscrito a la Universidad Pompeu Fabra donde imparte la asignatura “Restauración de la Arquitectura Monumental”, en Tercer curso.
- Cursos 2003 – 2004 / 2004-2005.
Director del Curso de Postgrado, de 300h. “Postgrado en Intervención y Restauración del Patrimonio Arquitectónico”
Profesor de "Técnicas de Rehabilitación y Mantenimiento”, en segundo curso de Arquitectura Técnica.

- Cursos de 1999-2000 a 2004-2005
Jefe de Estudios de Arquitectura técnica.
Miembro del Tribunal del Proyecto de Final de Carrera
Profesor de "Técnicas de Rehabilitación y Mantenimiento”, en segundo curso de Arquitectura Técnica en Elisava, con homologación de la Universidad Pompeu Fabra en Barcelona.
Profesor de "Restauración Monumental”, asignatura optativa del 3er. Curso de Arquitectura Técnica en Elisava.

EXPERIENCIA PROFESIONAL
TRABAJOS EN EDIFICIOS EMBLEMÁTICOS Y PATRIMONIO ARQUITECTÒNICO
2007
- DIRECCIÓN DE OBRAS DE 1 FASE A) Implantación ascensor MONESTIR-ESGLESIA DE SANT FELIU DE GUIXOLS. Girona.
- DIAGNOSIS SOBRE EL ESTADO ACUAL DE L’ABSID DEL PALAU DE L’ABAD EN EL MONASTERIO DE SANT FELIU DE GUÍXOLS. GIRONA

2006
- PROYECTO BÀSICO Y EJECUTIVO Y DIRECCIÓN de obras de rehabilitación de edificio plurifamiliar C/ Marlet . Barcelona.
- PROYECTO BÀSICO de obras de rehabilitación del edificio C/ Carreteria 50 de Málaga.
- PROYECTO BÀSICO de obras de rehabilitación del edificio C/ Carreteria 52 de Málaga.
- PROYECTO BÀSICO de obras de rehabilitación de las fachadas del edificio C/ Portaferrissa, 1 “PALAU MOJA”

2005
- PROYECTO BASICO Y EJECUTIVO Y DIRECCIÓN de Obras de rehabilitación edificio plurifamiliar C/ Freneria, 5 Barcelona

2004
- DICTAMEN SOBRE PATOLOGÍAS EXISTENTES, EVALUACIÓN DE DAÑOS Y REPARACIÓN DE LA CASA PLANELLS, Av. Diagonal, 332 de Barcelona. Dictamen en colaboración con Mercè Hortalà, Arquitecta.
- PROYECTO BÁSICO Y EJECUTIVO Y DIRECCIÓN DE OBRAS DE ADECUACIÓN DE EDIFICIO A LOCALES COMERCIALES, VIVIENDAS Y APARCAMIENTO. C/Somera. Màlaga. Trabajo en colaboración con Dª Olivia González, Arquitecta.
- ESTUDIO DEL ENTORNO DE PROTECCIÓN DE LA IGLESIA DE STA. EULÀLIA D’ENCAMP, PARROQUIA D’ENCAMP. Gobierno de Andorra. Ministerio de Cultura. Área de Inventario y Conservación.
- ESTUDIO DEL ENTORNO DE PROTECCIÓN DEL PUENTE DE LA MARGINEDA. PARRÒQUIA DE ANDORRA LA VELLA. Gobierno de Andorra. Ministerio de Cultura. Área de Inventario y Conservación.
- ESTUDIO DEL ENTORNO DE PROTECCIÓN DE LA IGLESIA DE ST. MIQUEL D’ENGOLASTERS. PARROQUIA D’ESCALDES-ENGORDANY. Gobierno de Andorra. Ministerio de Cultura. Área de Inventario y Conservación.
- ESTUDIO DEL ENTORNO DE PROTECCIÓN DE LA IGLESIA DE ST. CRISTÒFOL D’ANYÓS. PARROQUIA DE LA MASSANA. Gobierno de Andorra. Ministerio de Cultura. Área de Inventario y Conservación.
- ESTUDIO DEL ENTORNO DE PROTECCIÓN DE LA IGLESIA DE ST. PERE DEL TARTER. PARROQUIA DE CANILLO. Gobierno de Andorra. Ministerio de Cultura. Área de Inventario y Conservación.
- ESTUDIO DEL ENTORNO DE PROTECCIÓN DE LA IGLESIA DE ST. ESTEVE DE BEIXISSARRI. PARROQUIA DE SANT JULIÀ DE LÒRIA. Gobierno de Andorra. Ministerio de Cultura. Área de Inventario y Conservación.

TODOS LOS ESTUDIOS DETALLADOS ANTERIORMENTE ESTAN REALIZADOS POR UN EQUIPO TÉCNICO, GANADOR DEL CONCURSO. FORMADO POR ARQUITECTOS-URBANISTAS-HISTORIADORES.

2003
- PROYECTO BÁSICO Y EJECUTIVO DE INTERVENCIÓN EN EL CONJUNTO DEL MONASTERIO-IGLESIA DE SANT FELIU DE GUIXOLS. Girona. Ayuntamiento de Sant Feliu de Guixols. Trabajo en colaboración con equipo técnico profesional.
- PROYECTO Y DIRECCIÓN DE OBRAS DE REHABILITACIÓN DE UNA MASIA "CAN GINESTAR". Sant Just Desvern. Barcelona.
- PROYECTO BÁSICO Y EJECUTIVO DE REHABILITACIÓN DEL "BARRI GAUDÍ" DE REUS. AYUNTAMIENTO DE REUS.
- PLAN PARCIAL DE INTERVENCIÓN EN EL CONJUNTO DEL MONASTERIO-IGLESIA DE SANT FELIU DE GUIXOLS. Girona. Ayuntamiento de Sant Feliu de Guíxols.

2002
- DIAGNOSIS DE REPARACIÓN. “BARRI FORTUNY” de Reus. Ayuntamiento de Reus.
- DIAGNOSIS DE REPARACIÓN “BARRI GAUDÍ” de Reus. Ayuntamiento de Reus. Tarragona.
- DIAGNOSIS DE REPARACIÓN DEL EDIFICIO “MAS GUINARDÓ” . Ayuntamiento de Barcelona. Distrito de Horta-Guinardó.
- PROYECTO Y DIRECCIÓN DE OBRAS DE REHABILITACIÓN DE FACHADA DE EDIFICIO. C/ Angel Baixeras 7 de Barcelona.

2001
- PROYECTO Y DIRECCIÓN DE OBRAS DE EDIFICACIÓN DE UN HOTEL DE 5* ESTRELLAS. Málaga.
- PROYECTO Y DIRECCIÓN DE OBRAS DE EDIFICACIÓN DE UN HOTEL DE 4* ESTRELLAS. Málaga.

2000
- DIRECCIÓN DE OBRAS DE REHABILITACIÓN DE FACHADA DE EDIFICIO. C/ Fontanella 6-8. Ciutat Vella. Barcelona. GENERALITAT DE CATALUNYA.

1999
- PROYECTO BÁSICO Y EJECUTIVO DE REHABILITACIÓN DE FACHADA DE EDIFICIO. C/ Fontanella 6-8 de Barcelona. GENERALITAT DE CATALUNYA.

1998
- CONTROL DE PROYECTO Y DIRECCIÓN DE OBRAS DE REPARACIÓN Y REHABILITACIÓ FACHADA, CUBIERTA Y ESTRUCTURA DEL CONJUNTO EDIFICATORIO DE EDIFICIO. C/ Roger de Llúria-Mallorca. Barcelona. COL·LEGI D’ADVOCATS DE BARCELONA.
- PROYECTO DE REHABILITACIÓN Y ESTUDIO DE VIABILIDAD DEL "CASAL DE LA PREVISIÓ", EDIFICIO INICIAL DEL ARQUITECTO ENRIC SAGNIER 1920. INMOBILIARIA COLONIAL.
- DIRECCIÓN DE OBRAS DE REHABILITACIÓN DE ESPACIOS COMUNES DE EDIFICIO. C/ Amadeu Vives 3 de Barcelona.
- PROYECTO DE REHABILITACIÓN DE FACHADA Y CUBIERTA DE EDIFICIO. Plaza Antonio López 5 de Barcelona. INMOBILIARIA COLONIAL.
- PROYECTO Y DIRECCIÓN DE OBRAS DE REHABILITACIÓN DE FACHADA DE EDIFICIO. Paseo de Gràcia 96 de Barcelona. EDIFICIO VINÇON.
- PROYECTO Y DIRECCIÓN DE OBRAS DE REHABILITACIÓN DE LA FACHADA DEL EDIFICIO "CASA DE LES PUNXES" Av. Diagonal de Barcelona. Proyecto y Dirección de obras en colaboración con el arquitecto FRANCESC XAVIER ASARTA FERRAZ.
- PROYECTO DE REHABILITACIÓN Y USOS DE LAS ZONAS COMUNES DE EDIFICIO "CASA DE LES PUNXES". Av. Diagonal de Barcelona.

CV Irma Arribas Pérez

2005 collaboration works with LaInvisible, Barcelona
2005 personal works with pocaarquitectura, Barcelona
2004 collaboration works with Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners, A Coruña
2003_2004 collaboration works with Escalas en la Ciudad, Burgos
2003 collaboration works with Claus an Kaan, Rotterdam
2002 short-listed in San Olav’s Chapel competition, Covarrubias, Burgos
2002 graduated by ETSAV (Valladolid)
2002 Séneca’s grant for Final Project togheter with Carme Pinós, Barcelona
2001 collaboration works with Josep M. Miró arquitecte, Barcelona
2000 collaboration works with J.L. Antón, Valladolid
2000_2002 collaboration works with J. Arribas, Burgos
1999 grant for collaboration with Landscape department in ETSAV, Valladolid
1999 collaboration works with Darío Álvarez & Josefina Lopez & Miguel A. de la
Iglesia for Soria’s Masterplan design
1998 grant for collaboration with Projects Department in ETSAV, Valladolid, and
Asociación Artecampos for the recuperation of the rural environment in
Medina de Rioseco
1996 starts architecture studies in ETSAV, Valladolid
1978 year of birth

CV Ivan Blasi Mezquita

2005 personal works with 100to Arquitectura, Barcelona
2005_2002 collaboration works with XNF Arquitectes: Zona deportiva del Papiol,
Barcelona; Cripta FAD, Barcelona; Bar Zar One, Jaén
2002_2005 collaborator teacher in Càtedra Mies van der Rohe worskshop, Barraca
Barcelona and Naumón Venecia-Barcelona
2002_2005 guided tours in Mies van der Rohe Pavillion and city tours in Barcelona
2002 short-listed in FAD prizes in ephemeral architecture category with the
exhibition Mies; Some recovered images
2002 graduated by the ETSAB, Barcelona
2001_1999 collaboration works with RPSR Arquitectes, Barcelona
1999_1998 Sócrates grant for studies in Bouwkunde Delft in the Netherlands
1998_1997 collaboration works with RPSR Arquitectes, Barcelona
1994 starts architecture studies in ETSAB (Barcelona)
1976 year of birth

CV Jordi Llàcer Macau

2005 personal works with pocaarquitectura, Barcelona
2004_2002 collaboration works with Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners, in London, en Eden
Project phase 4, and site office for Fundación Caixa Galicia new building, A
Coruña.
2002 short-listed in San Olav’s Chapel competition, Covarrubias, Burgos
2002 short-listed in FAD prizes in ephemeral architecture category with the
exhibition Mies; Some recovered images
2002 graduated by the ETSAB, Barcelona
2001_1999 collaboration works with Josep M. Miró i Eduard Esteller arquitectes,
Barcelona
1999 workshop with M. Heikkinen, Copenhagen
1999_1998 Sócrates grant for the Kunstakademie Arkitectskole of Copenhagen,
Denmark
1998_1997 collaboration with Rovira-Beleta & Villarejo, Barcelona
1994 starts architecture studies in ETSAB (Barcelona)
1976 year of birth

CV Katrin Golda-Pongratz

Architect with a diploma degree from the Technical University of Munich/ Germany (1997) and a PhD in architecture and urban planning from the University of Karlsruhe/ Germany (2006).

As an architect, she has been collaborating at the studio of Rudi Then Bergh in Munich/ Germany (1993/1994) and at the studio of Enric Miralles EMBT in Barcelona/ Spain (1995).

She has been a teaching assistant and lecturer at the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería in Lima/ Peru (1999/2000) and at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf/ Germany (2002-2006) and a visiting professor at the ESARQ and ETSAB in Barcelona/ Spain (2006/2007).

Currently, she is a lecturer on “Latin American urban developments” and “Urbanization and housing in a global context” within the Master Study Program Urban Agglomerations at the University of Applied Sciences in Frankfurt/ Germany. In 2008 she will be a thesis tutor within the Masters and Graduate Program in Architecture and Urban Culture Metropolis at the CCCB in Barcelona/ Spain. Within the Barcelona Architecture Program at the UPC she teaches the seminar “The contemporary city”.

Her research focuses on urbanization processes and migration, Latin American urbanism, self-organization in metropolitan agglomerations and informal urbanism, urban renewal strategies, structural changes of urban societies and urban perception.

She is a member of the directory board of the Association for Scientific Research on Planning and Building in Developing Countries (TRIALOG), of the German Working Society on the Research in Latin America (ADLAF) and of the Deutscher Werkbund (dwb).

She has exhibited photographic work in Peru and Germany: Lima, mundos de una metrópoli (Lima 2002); Lima, Lebenswelten einer Metropole (Augsburg 2001, Frankfurt 2003).

Among her publications on architecture, urban development in Latin American countries, urbanism and urban transformations, and publications of photographic work are the following:
-The Barriadas of Lima – utopian city of self organisation? In: AD (Architectural Design) Vol 74 N° 4 (The challenge of suburbia). London 2004, pp. 38-45.
-Envases – Gefässe. In: Arte iberoamericano contemporáneo. Emoción y concepto. Troncoso, María Elena/ Lescano Grosso, Ricardo C. (eds.). Córdoba (Argentine) 2005. pp. 133/ 141.
- Fragmentierende Expansion. Die lateinamerikanische Metropole Lima zwischen kolonialer Tradition und peripherer Modernität. In: Raumwandel. Werkundzeit 1/ 2 2005. Frankfurt 2005, pp. 34-43.
-La transformación de estructura y significado del centro de Lima. Tres aproximaciones. In: Ur[b]es N° 3, Revista de Ciudad, Urbanismo y Paisaje. Ludeña Urquizo, Wiley (Ed.), Lima 2006, pp. 111-134.
-Retracing a relation: Barcelona’s role as urban model for Ibero American metropolis. Lima as a case study. In: Trialog N° 93. Darmstadt 2007, pp. 4-11.
-Struktur- und Bedeutungswandel des Zentrums von Lima. Städtebauliche Ideen und Raumentwicklung im Expansionsprozess 1940 – 2002. Frankfurt/ London 2008.

CV Suzanne Strum

EDUCATION
1999-2001 Doctoral Candidate
Department of Composition of the School of Architecture.
ETSAB Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

1999 Master of Metropolis.
Postgraduate Program in Architecture and Urban Culture
Co-organized by the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

1984 Master of Architecture
Columbia University, New York

Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

1979 Bachelor of Arts
Rutgers University, New Jersey
Majors in Art History and Studio Art

SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
1995-1998 Scholarship to Metropolis.
Postgraduate Program in Architecture and Urban Culture
Co-organized by the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Columbia University, New York
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

1984 William Kinne Travelling Scholarship:
Research in Berlin

1981 National Endowment of the Arts Award for Design Excellence
Professor: Steven Holl

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
TEACHING AND PROGRAM COORDINATION
1999-2001 Metropolis.
International Postgraduate Program in Architecture and Urban

Culture. Co-organized by the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de

Barcelona and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya:
Coordinator of the seminar In Situ
Thesis Studio Tutor since Spring 2000

2000-2001 The Institute for Social and International Studies ISIS
Study abroad program accredited by Portland State University
Barcelona : Landscapes of the Public Realm
Architecture Studio Program: Program Coordinator and
Professor of Studio Design

1993-2000 Professor of : Architecture and the City, Urban Planning
Modern Spanish Art and Architecture

2001 Trinity College of Hartford, Conn. Global Site in Barcelona
Coordinator in conjunction with the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and

Winchester School of Art
Professor of Core Course: Global Local

2001 Texas A&M Architecture School in Barcelona

Seminar: Themes in Contemporary European Architecture

OCCASIONAL COLLABORATER AND LECTURER
2000-2001 Fundació Universitat Politècnca de Catalunya
Guest lectures Clemson University Architecture Program in Barcelona

1998-1999 International Space ESARQ UIC
School of Architecture. Univeristat Internacional de Catalunya
Lectures and orientations for undergraduate students from

Tulane University and graduate students from the University of Calgary

1995 School of Architecture. University of North London
Erasmus Program (Inter European Exchange)
Lecture on Urbanism in Barcelona to students from different universities

1994 Cambridge University Architecture School
Design Studio in Barcelona. Lectures and orientation
Directors: Gavin Hogben and Hugh Cullum

1995 Present and Futures: Debates in Barcelona
Co organized by the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona and

the Col.legi d´Arquitectes de Catalunya
Collaborator in the organization of the 3 day seminar

1985-1999 Design Jury critic: Columbia University School of Architecture, Parsons

School of Design, Pratt Institute, Cambridge University


EXHIBITIONS OF ARCHITECTURE
INVESTIGATION
2001 Fundació Mies van der Rohe Barcelona
Preliminary Research for an exhibition about the Barcelona Pavilion and its
reconstruction

COORDINATOR AND CURATORIAL ASSISTANT
1996-1998 Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona MACBA
Fabrications
9 Feb – 20 April, 1998
Curator: Xavier Costa
Collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art, Wexner Center for the Arts, and San Francisco MOMA

Installation in the plaza in front of the museum by four teams of European architects: Vicente Guallart, Barcelona; Abalos & Herreros, Madrid; Riegler Riewe, Austria; MVRDV, Holland
Nuevos Paisatges, Neuvos Territorios
9 July – 1 September, 1997
Curator and Designer: Eduard Bru

Josep Lluis Sert: Arquitecte a New York.
Abril – 1 September 1997
Curators: Xavier Costa and Guido Hartray
Designer: Jose Maria Torres Nadal

Situacionistes: Art, Politica, Urbanism
9 November 1996-31 January, 1997
Curators: Libero Andreotti and Xavier Costa
Design: Enric Miralles, Benedetta Tagliabue, Elias Torres

1995-1996 Centre de Cultura Contemporani de Barcelona CCCB
UIA Barcelona 96
Congress organized by the Col.legi d´Arquitectes de Catalunya

Present and Futures. Architecture in Cities
July – October 1996
Curators Ignasi de Sola Morales, Xavier Costa,
Albert Garcia Espuche
Design: Dani Freixes and Pep Angli

PUBLICATIONS
AUTHOR
2001 Barcelona: A Guide to Contemporary Architecture Ellipsis

COORDINATION/ CO-EDITOR
2000-2001 Metropolis 1992-2000 Texts by Saskia Sassen, Joan Ockman, Alessandra Ponte, Alex Wall, Antoni Muntadas, Ignasi de Sola Morales, Peter Eisenman, Ben van Berkel, Abalos & Herreros, etc.

COORDINATION OF EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
1996-1998 Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona MACBA
Fabrications MACBA 1998
Editor: Xavier Costa. In collaboration with the MOMA; NY, the Wexner Center for the Arts, and San Francisco MOMA. With articles by Terence Riley, Mark Robbins, Aaron Betsky

Nuevos Paisatges, Nuevos Territorios . MACBA 1997
With articles by Eduard Bru, Albert Ferré, Jochem Schneider

Josep Lluis Sert: Arquitecte a New York. MACBA 1997
With articles by Xavier Costa, Guido Hartray, Joan Ockman, Eric Mumford, J.M. Rovira

Situacionistes: Art, Politica, Urbanism MACBA1997
Editors: Libero Andreotti and Xavier Costa
With articles by Giorgio Agamben, Libero Andreotti, Thomas McDonough, Jean-Clarence Lambert, Thomas Y. Levin

Teoria de la Deriva i altres textos Situationistes MACBA 1996
Editor: Libero Andreotti and Xavier Costa
Texts by Guy Debord, Asger Jorn, Constant

1995-1996 Centre de Cultura Contemporani de Barcelona CCCB
Present and Futures. Architecture in Cities ACTAR 1996
Editors: Ignasi de Sola Morales, Xavier Costa. With articles by Ignasi de Solà-Morales, Georges Teyssot, Bernard Tschumi, Leo van Schaik, Michael Sorkin, Akira Suzuki, Mario Gandelsonas

TRANSLATIONS
2000 2G Monographs on architecture published by Gustavo Gili GG
Postwar Italian Architecture and Foreign Office Architects

The Gran Liceu Opera House
Published by Ediciónes UPC

CONSULTANT
1988-1989 Architecture Review Magazine February 1989
American Authenticity Guest editor: Gavin Hogben
Projects by Steven Holl, Diller & Scofidio, Jesse Reiser, Neal Denari, Ben Nicholson, Holt Hinshaw Pfau and Jones, Williams & Tsien

ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICE
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1996-2001 Studio Demos

Loft for a Collector
Project for a penthouse in Barcelona
Published in Wallpaper Magazine, July 2000,
Sunday Magazine: El Pais newspaper January 1999
Casa Viva Magazine, February 1999

1989-1992 International Competitions in Collaboration with Alejandro Rios

University of Cypress,
Samarkand Culture and Science Center
Community Center in Petrer, Alicante Awarded second prize
Hotel and master plan Galicia,
Museum of the Indies, Seville

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
1988-1992 Taller de Arquitectura, Ricardo Bofill, Barcelona
Senior Architect

Diagonal Mar Urbanization and Master Plan, Barcelona
Centre International D´Affaires. Montpeleir, France
La Parnasse. Copra et Sorim, Montpelier, France
Le Cassiopee. Bordeaux, France Housing projects
Teatre Nacional de Catalunya. Barcelona
Institut Mediterranea de Barcelona

1987-1988 Ehrenkrantz Group and Eckstut, New York
Senior Architect and Urban Designer

Newport, New Jersey Master plan and technical coordination

1981-1987 Michael Graves, Architect, Princeton, NJ
Architect

Disney Corporation Headquarters Building, Burbank, California
Sotheby´s Auction House Renovation and Apartment Building, NY
Shisedo Health Club. Tokyo, Japon
Grand Reef Mater Plan. Galveston, Texas
Humana Corporation Office Building and Corporate Offices.
LouisvIlle, Kentucky
Clos Pegase Winery and Private Home. Napa Valley, California
The Newark Museum Master Renovation Plan. Newark NJ
Museum of Art and Archaeology, Emory University. Atlanta
Public Library. San Juan Capistrano, California
Portland Public Office Building. Portland, Oregon
Liberty State Park Enviornmental Education Center. Jersey City, NJ

C.V. Juan Carlos Sánchez Tappan

Teaches at the Center for International Studies in Architecture, and since Jan 2001
has been structuring and coordinating the collaboration and exchange programs between UIA School of architecture and the UPC/FPC. Awarded with a scholarship from CONACYT México (1998), he is currently pursuing doctoral research at the U.P.C. about the influence of mediation, multilinear incubation, and transport interfacing on architectural and urban design.

He attained his professional architectural training at Universidad Iberoamericana (1990-1994) in México City, where he graduated with special mention on his thesis work: “Development of an Urban Sub-center and Market Project in Aguascalientes”.
Received in Jan 2000, the Master in Architecture and Urbanism from the Architectural Association in London; after completing the Graduate Design DRL Master program, engaged with the investigation and design of large scale urban interiors, multi-programmed spaces, and new “corporate fields”: highly fluid, interactive office spaces.

Teaching experience includes: Iberoamericana University, UIA (1995-1998), as design studio and Urbanism professor; subjects: “Housing and Surroundings, Introduction to Urbanism & Digital Tools.
At ETSAB, UPC in Barcelona, as an invited teacher within the intercampus program ALE’97 collaborating within the department of Architectural Projects. Subject: “Interventions in the Built Environment”. And more recently U. Internacional, ESARQ, teaching a vertical studio part of a design competition related with Bernard Cache Objectile.

Recent publications include “INFRA-NETS.ORG” in New Blood, Architectural Design Magazine 2001; co-author of “Transport systems, Environmental and Social Sciences and their Project” as the first prize essay in the World Road Association Competition; “Mediating Incubators” in the AA Projects Review.
Other works: the AA DRL Summer 1999 INSTALLATION and exhibition of the first year of design proposals for alternative forms of architectural and urban working spaces, London.

In parallel with the academic field, he has worked for well-recognized offices in México, London and Barcelona; and as member of a young group of architects, has invested part of his time on design competitions and writings.

C.V. Hubertus Pöppinghaus

ESTUDIOS UNIVERSITARIOS, FORMACIÓN y DOCENCIA
Bachillerato (Maturität) en Zürich, Suiza
Estudios de Historia del Arte en New Academy for Art Studies y en Sotheby´s, Londres
Inicio de estudios de Arquitectura en la ETH, Escuela Técnica Superior de Zürich, Suiza
Asistencia al seminario “Concepción de la iluminación interior con luz artificial”
de la Universidad Politécnica de Berlín
Continuación de estudios de Arquitectura en la Escuela Técnica Superior de Barcelona (ETSAB)
Asistencia al seminario “Construcciones Textiles” de la Universidad de Stuttgart
Realización del Proyecto Final de Carrera (calificación notable, 8) en el Instituto de Estructuras Ligeras (IL) de la Universidad de Stuttgart con el tema „Vivienda Experimental“

Título de Arquitecto por la ETSAB en la especialidad de Edificación / Instalaciones
Asistencia al curso ”Encargado de obras” organizado por el Colegio de Arquitectos de Catalunya (COAC)
Asistencia a las Jornadas de Edificios de Alta Calidad Medioambiental (FORUM ECOMED) y a la Jornada Técnica de Integración de Componentes Solares en Edificios (COAC)
Asistencia al curso “Life” de la unión europea : formación de técnicos en medioambiente-edificación

Curso de aplicación del programa informático EASY de diseño, cálculo y patronaje para estructuras atirantadas y arquitectura textil, organizado por
la empresa alemana de software Technet en Stuttgart
Asistencia al 4º congreso “Textile Roofs ‘99” organizado por la Universidad Politécnica de Berlín y la empresa de software Technet
Asistencia al 40º congreso de IASS (International Association for spatial structures) en Madrid
Durante el curso 1999/2000 Profesor en la Escola Superior d' Arquitectura de la Universitat Internacional de Catalunya en la asignatura "Las nuevas estratégias energéticas y las energias renovables en la arquitecura"
Conferencia en Milán sobre las recientes transformaciones de Ciutat Vella dentro del proyecto EUROPOLIS („Planning instruments and prodedures for land use management: cooperation for a common training in view of land recovery and urban requalification“)
Profesor asociado de la facultad de arquitectura e ingeniería de la Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck en la catédra del Profesor. Dr. Rainer Graefe del departamento de Historia de la Construcción y de la Protección del Patrimonio
Profesor invitado en el 3er Workshop Internacional de verano de la ciudad de Würzburg (R.F.A.) "A new urban sign for the modern hill"

Asistencia al 6º congreso “Textile Roofs ‘2001” organizado por la Universidad Politécnica de Berlín y la empresa de software Technet
Profesor invitado en el 4º Workshop Internacional de verano de la ciudad de Würzburg (R.F.A.) "Microstructure/Megastructure/GrowingStructurel"

Profesor en EINA (Escola de Disseny i Art) para diseñadores de interiores en la asignatura "Materials i Tecnologias"

Profesor en ELISAVA de Barcelona en la asignatura “Medioambiente" para la formación de arquitectos técnicos
Participación en las jornadas “Urbanismo y Participación Ciudadana” organizado por el Colegio Territorial de Valencia y articulo en el libro “Participación Ciudadana para el urbanismo del siglo XXI”

Conferencia en la Universidad de Innsbruck (Austria) con el titulo „Wölbschalen de katalanischen Moderne“
Conferencia en Florencia (Italia) „Il barrio gótico de Barcellona“ dentro del Master del Dipartimento di Restauro e Conservazione dei Beni Architettonici de Firenze

Participación en el Simposio Techtextil 2005 de la feria internacional de Frankfurt con la conferencia „Bifid Tension Dome for the Forum 2004, Barcelona“

Profesor en EINA (Escola de Disseny i Art) para diseñadores de interiores en la asignatura "Arquitectura Textil"

Profesor en ELISAVA de Barcelona en la asignatura “Arquitectura amb calitat ambiental" para la formación de arquitectos técnicos

Profesor en el Postgraduado “Diseño de la vivienda ecoeficiente, el caso de Barcelona” de ELISAVA

EXPERIENCIA LABORAL
Prácticas sobre arquitectura solar en el estudio de Pierre Robert Sabady en Zürich
Primer Premio “Faci d´Alcalde” de la ciudad de Barcelona para el proyecto “Parque-Ecoestación” en colaboración con Feliciano Pla
Colaboración en obras de interiorismo con el diseñador Tristán Mur
Prácticas en el despacho de J. Briz y J.L. Fumadó, arqs. Sobre instalaciones técnicas de edificios
Colaboración en el estudio de arquitectura de Enric Miralles en diversos concursos y proyectos:
- concurso urbanístico de Reordenación de la antigua mina de carbón “Graf Bismarck” en Gelsenkirchen, Alemania (accésit)
- concursos: Nuevo Cementerio de Gijón (segundo premio), y Plan Urbanístico para la “Feria Internacional de Jardines, Dresden” (accésit)
- proyectos: Parque en Mollet del Vallés (Barcelona) y Estación Marítima “Karabournaki” en Tesalónica (Grecia)

OBRAS Y PROYECTOS PROPIOS
Creación de Arqintegral, Estudio de Arquitectura Integral, junto con Charo García Diego, dedicado a desarrollar la arquitectura ecológica y bioclimática y la arquitectura textil: www.arqintegral.com

Desde verano 1999 colaboración de Arqintegral con el catedrático Dr. Josep de Llorens de la Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya

SPRING 08

Syllabus Seminar I
ARC SP TOPICS ARCHITECTURE OF SPAIN - HISTORY
Instructor: Candid Rogers

Architecture requires: …effort, pain and suffering…. Jose Antonio Coderch

Description:
This is a lecture/discussion seminar as a survey of Spanish Architecture and Culture from the first settlements of the Iberian Peninsula through contemporary architectural design.
The first two weeks 1-2 will briefly touch on the history and geography of Spain,
weeks 3- 4 will study modernism in Barcelona architecture, 5- 6 will study contemporary architecture the following weeks will be for student presentations and class discussion.
Note: Schdeule is an outline and subject to change.
Studies will present examples of: Roman
Visigoth
Moorish
Romanesque
Gothic
Renaissance
Baroque
Neoclassical
Modern
Contemporary
Methods:

The class will consist of reading assignments, a series of lectures, class discussions, and presentations by the students

Project:

Each student will be responsible for one in-depth research paper (5 pages)
(10 pages Graduate) on one architect and a class presentation.

Travel:

The class will engage in multiple fieldtrips to site locations in and around Barcelona which will include project research.

In addition there will be local field trips in Barcelona to include: architectural tours, film screenings and cultural events.

Evaluation:
50% attendance - participation and 50 % research paper and presentation
Punctual and regular attendance is mandatory

Required Readings: Reference:

The Eyes of the Skin The Architecture of Spain, Juhani Pallasmaa Alejandro Lapunzina
Architect Publications

Syllabus Seminar II

ARC VIS COM SPAIN A DRAWING AS PRACTICE
Faculty: Candid Rogers

Many artists, writers and designers absorb the world through ‘notes’ whether image or text, that are made from their experiences.
This course will make a practice of drawing – a series of repetitive explorations examining the cultural landscape of Barcelona Spain moving across scales, materials and time to study through note, sketch, drawing and image with the intention of exposing the dynamic between man and the environment.
A range of hand drawing techniques will be explored extensively to enable an active dialogue of the context of the urban fabric of Barcelona.

The semester will be divided into 3 parts, each containing a series of drawing exercises,
With a concluding exercise of one drawing or series of multiple drawings which serve as a translation of the semesters experiences. This will consist of a digital translation of the semesters notes, sketches, drawings, ideas.
The course will focus on line, space, form and color. A variety of tools will be explored including: perspective, sections, landscape, figure/ground, tonal studies, color, etc.
Media: graphite, ink, ink wash, watercolor, pencil, digital etc.

Set one: Delineations (class exercises)
Set two: Notes (visual observations)
Set three: Translations (conclusions) digital print as final output

During each set we will review the work you have done with pin – ups and discussions
This course is designed as a study of Drawing and perhaps more importantly looking.

Evaluation:

Evaluation will be based on your rigor and development over the entire semester. Equal measurement will be given to each set of exercises.
Attendance and participation is mandatory

Final work (translations) will be exhibited at the UTSA COA in the fall semester
Translations may take the form of posters, book, portfolio, art
Due: April (TBA)

Materials Required:

Sketch book, drawing media and tools


Travel:

The class will engage in multiple local fieldtrips

calendar SPRING 2008

Syllabus Studio I

SPRING 08

SYLLABUS SEMINAR I

Themes in Contemporary European Architecture
Suzanne Strum

This course is designed as a series of thematic lectures on current European architecture that are complemented by site visits in Barcelona and environs to illustrative works. . This class begins by posing the question: If American and European architects now occupy the same intellectual space, in international journals, schools, forums and competitions, then how can we define European architecture today? Issues of urban history and politics, density, center vs. periphery, public space, transportation networks and public housing are some aspects of European architecture that are markedly different from their US counterparts and that will be explored. At the same time, European architecture now approaches an Americanized urbanism and building with globalized sites, enormous cultural containers, enclaves of consumption and theme parking. The selection of weekly readings assignments will explore these issues.

Meeting time: The 11 classes will meet 4 hours weekly during the semester, with lectures sometimes alternating with site visits. The last hour of each in class session will be used to meet with students individually in order to develop their project and presentation topic.

Evaluation: Students will be asked to develop a visual analysis and 7page research paper and presentation on a work or works of architecture in Barcelona. Evaluation will be based on attendance, participation in class discussions and the development and presentation of the project. All projects must be handed in bound hard copy form.


Session 1::Modernisme::Monday Jan. 14
The theoretical framework for turn of the century architecture and its manifestation and variations across Europe (Art Nouveau, Arts and Crafts, Secessionism). Special focus will be given to the work of Antoni Gaudi and other exponents of modernisme in Barcelona as well as the urban and social context. Analysis of Gaudi´s exploration of complex geometries, ruled surfaces, and cantenary arches realized with traditional construction.

Reading: William Curtis Chapter 3. The Search for New Forms and the Problem of Ornament. Pages 53-71. Modern Architecture since 1900 . Phaidon 3rd edition 1996

Session 2:Old City Visit::Monday Jan. 21
Raval, Gothic, and Ribera Areas to Ciutadella and Pompeu Fabra University. The aim of this visit is to underscore the public programs that have regenerated the area and the creation of new institutions within historic and new buildings.

Session 3::The German Pavilion ::Monday Jan. 28
Presentation Topics Due
Exploration of Mies' formation, influences and early work with their climax in the Barcelona pavilion’s classical allusions and supremacist space. Mies´s reputation as a modern master was based on five seminal projects created in the 1920´s that in fact were never built and the pavilion which was dismantled after six months. Focus on the building's reconstruction and its context. The work will be seen as a culmination of Mies´early career. What makes a work canonical?

Reading: Kenneth Frampton . Modernism and Tradition in the Work of Mies van der Rohe
1920-1968

Session 4::Visit to Colonia Güell::Monday Feb. 4
Meeting Point: Plaça Espanya Metros L3 L1 and L8
(Looking up the mountain from the Plaza you will see two brick towers. Sit to the right of the towers on the steps.) We will be taking a train to Colonia Güell from here. ) The train leaves at 10:09 but we will have to buy tickets first from the vending machines.
Cost: 2.80 euros entry to Colonia Güell Crypt and visitor center. Train costs 1.75 euros each way.
This factory town, located on the Llobregat River was modeled on English urban precedents. The urbanistic project, housing, school and collective structures were designed by Gaudí´s followers, while the master labored for eight years on the design for a church. Finally only the tiny but magnificent and experimental crypt was realized.
Discussion of Gaudi´s unusual experiential working method.

Session 5::Visit to Montjuic and public spaces in Sants::Monday Feb. 11
Meeting Point: The Olympic Stadium by the torch. Av de L´Estadi
Cost: 1.80 euros entry to Botanical Garden. 1.80 euros entry to Mies Pavillion
The itinerary will include the German Pavilion, Caixa Forum, the Botanical Garden, and three of the first public space making projects in Barcelona´s recent past.

Session 6::Visit to Diagonal Mar Park and the Forum Area::Monday Feb. 18
Meeting point: Metro Exit Selva del Mar Yellow Line L4
Works by EMBT. The office of EMBT, formed by the late architect Enric Miralles, and his partner Benedetta Tagliabue, have recently completed some major projects in Barcelona that exemplify the expanded notion of landscape.

TRAVEL WEEK

Session 7::Spanish Architecture::Monday March 3
Survey of Spanish architecture as seen through important figures and their works. Themes include the situation in Spain before and after the Civil War, the influence of Italian Realism and Rationalism, and the interplay of vernacular building methods, international currents, memory and construction. The work of Josep Lluís Sert and the GATEPAC, Coderch, Alejandro de la Sota, and Saez de Oiza will be discussed followed by the “Weak” architecture of Rafael Moneo. Discussion of the ideas of Ignasi de Sola Morales¨ “Weak architecture” vs Kenneth Frampton’s Critical Regionalism.
Readings: Kenneth Frampton Towards a Critical Regionalsm: Six Points for an Architecture of Resistance Pages 16-31. Postmodern Culture. Edited by Hal Foster Pluto
Ignasi de Solà-Morales. Weak Architecture 1987Architecture Theory since 1968 edited by Michael Hays MIT Press

Session 8::Urban triggers 1:Containers,Events and Infrastructures::Mon. March 10
Paper Outlines Due
In the last 20 years Paris, Berlin, Barcelona and other European cities have experienced major urban transformations in relation to political programs. An examination of architectural works as generators of redevelopment: the proliferation of cultural containers, the building of modern transportation networks, the redefinition of industrial areas, the creation of new satellite towns and housing. Special focus of the relation of architectural works and urbanism. The importance of the Olympics and other ephemeral events. A comparison between different approaches to Europe´s second period of modernization and post-industrial cities. The Barcelona Model vs the Guggenheim Effect.

Urban Triggers 2 New Monuments: commemorating the past.
This session examines the proliferation of sites that act as memory markers and their importance in urban centers. The counter-monument movement in Germany

Reading : Ignasi de Solà-Morales Introduction. Present and Futures ACTAR 1996

James E. Young Memory and Counter-Memory. Available on line Harvard Design Magazine. Constructions of Memory. Fall 1999 Number 9
HYPERLINK "http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/research/publications/hdm/back/9young.html" www.gsd.harvard.edu/research/publications/hdm/back/9young.html

EASTER WEEK

Session 9::Contemporary themes and figures::Mon. March 31
Explores some of the major European practitioners today and the theoretical and constructive basis of their work. The present architectural scene is marked by a pluralism of approaches and attitudes. The session examines current strategies, debates and operations in the work of some of the major figures today such as Rem Koolhaas, and Herzog and de Meuron.
Reading: Rem Koolhaas Life in the Metropolis or the Culture of Congestion, 1977 Architecture Theory since 1968 edited by Michael Hays MIT Press

Bigness or the Problem of Large pages 495-516 SMLXL with Bruce Mau

Session 10::The expanding definition of landscape::Mon. April 7
In the last decade the definition of landscape and building have merged. Exploration of the affinities between land art, earth works and architecture and the tendency to use landscape, green zones and open space as integral design elements. Examination of some of the massive brownfield redevelopment projects across Europe.

Reading: Charles Waldheim. “Landscape Urbanism” in Praxis 4.

James Corner, “Eidetic Operations and New Landscapes,” in Recovering Landscape: Essays in Contemporary Landscape Architecture, ed. James Corner (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999), 153–169,


Session 11::Presentations::Monday April 14
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Project and Presentation Topics:
Themes in European architecture
Suzanne Strum

You are asked to choose a building or to compare works of architecture that are found in Barcelona and to develop both a graphic visual analysis complimented by a written text of approximately 7 pages. You should determine the best form of documentation and analysis that can be developed for the work or works that you have chosen. This visual analysis should include any of the following medium: photography, video, sketching, diagrams, building drawings, analytical details of the building. Since each building suggests a different mode of representation and analysis, and presents a different set of urban and architecturally formal issues, I will work with you at the end of the class sessions to develop the project.

Below are a list of historic and contemporary projects in Barcelona and some suggestions of references and orientation. You may also propose your own project, should you prefer. Bear in mind that the list below is just a point of departure.


1. Historic Buildings and their structural systems:
In Spain there is a tradition of buildings that extend a single structural system throughout. The Great mosque in Cordoba is an early example. In Barcelona the Drassanes shipbuilding yard, now the maritime museum is an example dating back to the middle ages. During the middle ages, Catalan builders developed their own massive version of Gothic architecture. The Santa Maria del Mar Church was constructed in only 50 years.
One of Gaudi´s teachers, the master builder Josep Fontsere created some unusual structures worthy of investigation. These include the Reservoir Building Carrer Wellington 50, now part of the Pompeu Fabra Ciutadella Campus Library.1874-1880Josep Fontserè i Mestres with Josep M. Cornet i Mas 1998-2000 renovation Lluís Clotet and Ignacio Paricio ; the shade house or umbracle in the Ciutadella Park and the Borne Market in Passeig del Borne.

2. The Working Methods and geometries of Gaudi
Gaudi developed an experiential working method and developed complex designs with hanging models and unusual complex geometries, sometimes inverting the lines of force of Gothic structures. Yet his buildings could be carried out with traditional building techniques from Catalunya. Study his working methods, construction methods such as the Catalan vault, develop and analysis representational techniques for one of his buildings or elements from different structures.

References: Gaudí Universe : CCCB, Zeta 2002.
Gaudí : exploring form : space, geometry, srtucture and construction. Ajuntament de Barcelona, Institut de Cultura 2002.
See the exhibition in the Sagrada Familia School.

3. Comparison of Works between Modernista Architects.
This project could look at some of the works by other modernist architects. Some examples are Lluis Domenech I Montaner´s Hospital San Pau, or Palau de la Musica.
Or Josep Maria Jujol´s projects in San Joan Despi and Barcelona including Casa Negre.


4. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: The Barcelona Pavillion
This is a canonical work of architecture. Why? Which architects have been influenced by the building and what structures are variations on it? What are the formal premises of the building. What is the importance of reflection and mirroring, of pinwheeling, etc.


5. Josep Lluis Sert: The Miro Foundation and the Maeght Foundation
Sert was committed to the idea of collaborations between architects and artists. These two buildings, one in Barcelona and the other in the south of France, are both material manifestations of that premise. The buildings are conceived as itineraries that highlight works of art. How was the Spanish Pavillion of 1937 a precedent for that. (this building has been recreated in Vall d´Hebron. What are the regional aspects of the building. What was Sert´s relation to Miro? Is the building a counterpoint to the works of art?

References: See the institutional websites. See monographs on Sert´s work and on the buildings. See: Sert, Josep Lluis, Ferdinand Leger, Sigfried Giedion. “Nine Points on Monumentality” pp. 14-16. In ed. Xavier Costa. Sert: Architect in New York. Barcelona MACBA ACTAR 1997.


6. Jose Antonio Coderch: Barceloneta, Ugalde House, Raset Housing,
Coderch was the most important architect of the post civil war period. His Ugalde House was a regional interpretation of the international style built into its site with organic lines. Catalan architects of the time were influenced by Alvar Aalto, the Finnish master. Coderch worked in various modalities. His urban projects deal with traditional materials and typologies reconsidered. Explore some of the projects by Coderch. Choose one or two for visual analysis.

7. Taller de Arquitectura. Ricardo Bofill: Walden 7, 1970-1975
This building was a utopian project, first conceived as The City in Space and influenced by both Team X and Archigram. Why? What are the formal ideas: the section, the massing, the modules.

References: Website Taller de Arquitectura, Walden 7: See Walden 7 : Taller de arquitectura / Fernando Marzá, Neus Moyano. — p. 18-53 : il. ; 27 cm. En: Quaderns No. 244 (Dic. 2004).

8. Enric Miralles and Carme Pinos: Archery Buildings at Vall de Hebron
These structures are premised on the formal investigation of the retaining wall as building.
As such they are related to Gaudi´s viaducts in Park Güell. These changing rooms and shower facilites are also designed around the idea of the movements of the body and were influenced by Peter and Alison Smithson. Why? The works are also more like landscape than architecture. In this they are connected to the more complex project from the same years: the Igualada cemetery.

References: Miralles, Pinós: obras y proyectos 1984-1987 in: El Croquis: Miralles/Pinos 1983-1990, 1987,


9. EMBT Enric Miralles and Benedetta Tagliabue: Santa Caterina Market
Markets are a very important part of neighborhood life in Barcelona. Many markets were created on the site of religious structures, that were demolished in the 1830´s. this is the case of the Boqueria market and Santa Caterina Markets. The San Antonio market was the only one built exactly according to Cerda. These buildings emerged just with the advent of cast iron structures. The recent renovation of the Santa Caterina Market was meant to try to leave the various levels of time that are to be found on the site. Compare Market types. Study the idea of reuse and time in the new market.

References: See city market websites: www.mercatsantacaterina.net www.mercatsbcn.com/ - HYPERLINK "http://www.boqueria.info/" www.boqueria.info/. Also see the architect´s website EMBT.
See El Croquis magazine no 100-101, 2000 on the work of EMBT.


10. Josep Llinas: Fort Pienç Community Center, Library, market, Daycare, School, and Assisted Living for the Elderly and Library Jaume Fuster.
This local architect, not widely known outside of Spain was trained by Coderch and has done a series of interesting community buildings in different parts of the city. The most recent are the Fort Pienç civic center, a community nodal point with a complex and varied program and the new library in Gracia at Plaza Lessesp. This is a chance to study mid scaled buildings with interesting premises of use, and massing. How can this work be traced back to regional precedents?


Address: Centre Civic Ateneu Fort Pienç C. de Ribes 2000-2003Josep Llinás

References: El Croquis 128

11. Richard Meier: MACBA
American architect, Richard Meier began as one of the New York Five, a group who looked back to the early purist works of Le Corbusier from the 1920´s but carried them out using balloon frame construction methods. He is also the author of many museums. How does this work compare to his other museum buildings. What is the relation of the atrium and ramp to the public plaza and to the galleries behind. What are the formal aspects of the building and what is the urban relation to the context?

12. Foster Tower and Calatrava telefonica Tower.
These structures became instant landmarks in the city. They are works of communication infrastructure. What is the concept and structural ideas of each. How have these architects dealt with the technological and symbolic aspects.

13. Reuse of existing buildings.
At a difference to other European cities, especially Italy, many buildings in Barcelona have been transformed over a period as long as 1000 years. This study looks at the reuse of historic exisiting buildings coinciding with the creation of new public institutions since the 1980´s. Some especially interesting cases are The Picasso Museum, (Garces y Soria) occupying 5 medieval urban palaces; the Pompeu University Ciutadella Campus in a series of old Army Barracks (MBM and Bonell Gill); the Center of Contemporary Culture in an old Orphanage (Viaplana I Piñon); the National Museum of Catalan Art, transformed in the interior (Gae Aulenti); the National library of Catalunya on the premises of the city´s first hospital from the middle ages; the Caixa Forum in a modernista textile factory (Brufau and Isozaki); and the Santa Monica Arts Center in an old monastery (Viaplana I Piñon).

References: Institutional web sites.

14. Rafael Moneo: L´Illa 1986-1993
Conceived of as a horizontal skyscraper, with a mixed program, including a shopping mall, offices, hotel and apartments, the building occupies a site equivalent to three Eixample blocks. The project responds to two urban modalities present over the length of the Diagonal: the traditional closed edification of the older Eixample implantations and the object building zoning of the new Diagonal. The building has been treated with a multiplicity of scales and readings. Moneo is an architect interested in typologies and context.

Address: Av. Diagonal, 555-559

References: El Croquis no. 20, 64 and 98


15. Carlos Ferrater. Botanical Garden and or Hotel Juan Carlos.
This Botanical Garden has an interesting conceptual premise and formal resolution. How do these two aspects work together? How does the layout and organization differ from traditional botanical gardens. How does this architect work with geometry. Compare this notion with other projects by the architects such as the Hotel Juan Carlos, an atrium hotel, or some of his urban housing schemes.

References: monographs and books by and about architects. Architects website. Jardi Botanic de Barcelona Website.

16. European Skyscraper
Recent European experimentation in high rise buildings has dealt with the problem differently than in the North American context. For one thing, these skyscrapers are of moderate height and do not compete against each other. They are generally more contextual, establishing relationships with their surroundings. They also raise specific technical problems in relation to structure, skin and climactic conditions. Historical precedents for the these buildings come from Torre Velasca and the Pirelli Building, both built in Italy in the 1960´s as well as the Smithsons´ Economist building, in London, 1961. In Barcelona there are also interesting examples from this period, including the Colon Tower, the Urquinaona tower, Atalya Tower, and Banco Atlantico.

Recent New examples, including some that are built and some that are proposed include Jean Nouvel´s Torre Agbar, Dominique Perrault´s Hotel, Rafael Soriano and Dolores Palacio Eco tower for Plaça de les Glories, EMBT Catalana Gas Building in the Barceloneta neighborhood, Josep Lluis Mateo Towers as part of the Congress Center at Forum 2004, Clotet and Paricio Residential Tower at Diagonal Mar Park and Richard Rogers Hotel in Hospitalet.

References: Josep Lluis Mateo. IV European Skyscraper. Pages 76-77, 130-157. Big Scale Grossform. Architectural Papers 2 and Nicolai Ouroussoff. Why Are They Greener Than We Are? Find on line On line New York Times Magazine May 20, 2007. Architects web sites and web site of Torre Agbar. MAP architects. El Croquis 112-113 on Jean Nouvel. El Croquis 104 on Dominique Perrault. Quderns 248 Clotet and Paricio Illa del Llum.


17. Aranda, Pigem, Vilalta RCR Arquitectes
Sant Antoni Library, Senior Citizens Centre & Block Inner Space
Carrer del Comte Borrell, 44-46 (Sant Antoni Barcelona)

The Eixample was not constructed according to Cerda´s original vision. Most of the interiors of the block were privatized. The Proeixample group has been buying back some partial areas of block interiors in order to provide public space. This is one of the most interesting recent examples and the most developed architecturally. The architects are from outside of Barcelona and are known for their highly abstract buildings. Look at the urban issue and compare this project with other recovered blocks. Look also at the architects´other works and develop an analysis.

References: Proeixample website. El Croquis 115-116 +18 In Progress 2002-2003


18. Roig i Batlle: Nus de la Trinitat and Parc del Garraf
These architects have developed unusual public spaces and landscape projects, related to infrastructural issues. In the case of the Nus de la Trinitat, this is a public park built within a highway interchange and related to other public projects over the Rondas. In the case of the parc del Garraf, this is a garbage infill project that has been transformed into an earth work.

References: Garraf park website: www.diba.es/parcsn/parcs/index.asp?Parc=10
Quaderns 243 Rondas and Nus de la Trinitat Quaderns 193.


19. Herzog and De Meuron Forum building.
What is the urban condiditon of the building. How does the building relate to the ground. What about surface and skin. How can it be compared with other recent buildings by Herzog and De Meuron, including the de Young Museum in San Francisco?

References: El Croquis 129-130


20. Public Space and urban Furnishings.
Each public space has its own identity with designed elements from street banners, kiosks, paving to lighting and benches. This project could be an analysis of historic and contemporary public spaces and their furnishings. Some examples might be Park Guell, the Parc Central of Nou Barris, Diagonal Mar Park, or public spaces in the Barceloneta. How are public spaces and their outfitting different from in the US? How is public space used and appropriated? Recently several companies have been involved in producing specially designed furniture: examples include BD´s banco Catalana, a wire mesh bench by Oscar Tusquets, as well a Escofet, a traditional family company of ceramic tiles that has collaborated with Enric Miralles and other architects to create urban furniture. The city even has a municipal department of urban furnishings that commissioned Norman Foster to create a bus stop shelter.

References: Barcelona 1979-2004

SPRING 08

SYLLABUS SEMNINAR II
The Contemporary City
Dr. KATHRIN GOLDA-PONGRATZ
Dr. XAVIER COSTA

Objectives
This seminar aims to offer an introduction to the phenomenon of the contemporary city from an architectural and urbanistic viewpoint. The first series of sessions focus on to the case of Barcelona, starting from the present state and recent projects, gradually going back into history, giving a complete perspective of its urban development.

Term Exercise
The seminar offers a series of lectures to be complemented with a paper that should cover a given topic by developing the necessary research and documentation together with a personal interpretation of the topic.

The paper should be based on research conducted at the library through on-site documentation, and through other sources that should be properly acknowledged. Its extension should not exceed 15 pages and should include the necessary images to accompany the text. The paperwork includes a public presentation in class. At the end of the course, a printed version and a copy on CD has to be handed in.

Grading
Class attendance and participation is mandatory. It accounts for 30% of the final grade.
Paper development, tutorials and oral presentation account for 30% of the final grade.
The final paper accounts for 40% of the grade.


Session 1
Contemporary Barcelona: 2004 – 2008
The first session starts from the present, giving an insight into the contemporary Catalan capital, which is considered as an urban model.
At the beginning of the 21st century, it has to cope with the effects of mass tourism and the definition of its role as a city of “social inclusion” and “proximity” and as a potent European business and service metropolis. Large scale urban transformations mark Barcelona’s western and eastern edges.


Session 2
The Post-Franco years and the democratic renewal: 1979-2004
With the first democratic city government after the war, the city undertakes an ambitious urban transformation that brings together political, cultural, and design parameters into a unique experience that deserves to be observed in detail. Transformative events change the city profile decisively and accompany the shift into the post-industrial era.


Session 3 (outdoor)
A walk through the city
Walking and by metro and tram some emblematic areas and public spaces will be visited that have been presented in the first two sessions.


Session 4
From Cerdà to Le Corbusier
The industrialization of Barcelona is reflected in Ildefons Cerdà’s extension plan, developed in the mid-nineteenth century. The architecture of “modernisme” resulted from this urban transformation. The early twentieth century saw the arrival of Modern urbanism in the form of Le Corbusier’s Macià Plan.


Session 5 (Prof. Dr. Xavier Costa)
Barcelona’ s urban, architectural, and cultural roots
This session is directed at providing a general outline of the city’s history from a contemporary perspective. An introduction to the city’s Roman, Medieval, and Modern periods as they are experienced nowadays.


Session 6
The European city: From 19th to 20thC
I. An introduction to the European context during the period of the large transformations. The European capital cities become metropolis through the operations of Haussmann in Paris, Hobrecht in Berlin, Cerdà in Barcelona, the Vienna Ringstrasse, the and other cases of urban transformation. Art Nouveau as the first independent artistic intent to repond to the changing living conditions in the cities.

II. The European city in the first half of the 20th Century: From Patrick Geddes’ “Survey before plan” to Camillo Sitte’s principles of urban design and the garden city movement to the Corbuserian ville radieuse. The early CIAMs and the culture of the avantgarde. The German and Italian fascist cities.
III. The debate on the city after the Second World War: A renewed interest in public space, collective memory and a profound revision of avantgarde urbanism. Sert, Léger and Giedion on new monumentality, the reconstruction and the urban leitbilder of the 1950s, the emergence of TEAM X as led by the Smithsons. Participation and social criticism in urbanism.


Session 7
Contemporary Utopias
The International Situationist as a group that approximates urbanism, cultural criticism, political activism and artwork. Their proposals for the European city, from Debord’s writings to Constant’s New Babylon project, the Situationist ideas became a diversified basis for new ideas during the 1960s and 70s.
The 1960s is a decade of extraordinary optimism and full of proposals and ideas for the transformation of existing cities: Archigram, Yona Friedman, Haus-Rucker-Co and Coop Himmelblau are among the most radical proposals, contrasting with an emerging historicism in the work of the Italian tendenza, that also focused on the existing city as its main referent.


Session 8
Contemporary sculpture as generator of new public spaces in European metropolitan areas
The session intents to interpret public art according to twelve categories: Experimenting on limits: space – body; Experimenting on limits: space – body – architecture; Experimenting on limits: space – body – landscape; Experimenting on limits: widening the perception by means of reflection; Experimenting on limits: space – built mass; Working on the voids of history; Transforming memory into urban space with political symbolism; Modelling historic space; Rearticulating non-spaces and urban voids; Transforming emptiness into a surface of vibration; Articulating the imagined emptiness between earth and sky.


Session 9
Mapping Cities
Mapping as a tool of urban and territorial analysis is examined and examples presented that go from world maps to maps of small scale urban environments. Particular examples of cartography, anamorphotic, sound mapping and mental mapping are presented, in order to show how the determination of space by social, political and economical processes can be visualized.



Session 10
European Urban Landscapes
Urban landscapes and territorial transformations: The present day situation offers a new complexity that results from less clear distinctions between what is urban and what is non-urban. Categories such as landscape and territorial expansion have become part of the urban discourse.
This session aims at examining the IBA Emscherpark and other examples of large reconversions of industrial areas, as well as other experiences and proposals that reflect this recent shift in approaching the urban phenomenon. Also it focuses on European city networks as large scale territorial proposals.


Session 11
Final presentations
Students work throughout the seminar on a given topic. In addition to some previous discussions and presentations, this session is dedicated to the full presentation of their work.



BIBLIOGRAPHY / COURSE READER

1 Barcelona

Oriol Bohigas, “Architecture in the Emerging Metropolis”. In Michael Raeburn, ed. Homage to Barcelona: The City and Its Art, 1888-1936. London: Thames & Hudson, 1985, pp. 101-109.

Oriol Bohigas, “The Facilities of the Eighties”. In Josep Lluís Mateo, ed. Contemporary Barcelona, 1856-1999. Barcelona: CCCB, 1996, p. 211.

Joan Busquets, “Barcelona, a European city. Another change of scale?”. In: Barcelona. The urban evolution of a compact city. Rovereto: Nicolodi, 2005, pp. 413-444.

Manuel Gausa, “A Lap in Scale: From Urban to Metropolitan Barcelona”. In Josep Lluís Mateo, ed. Contemporary Barcelona, 1856-1999. Barcelona: CCCB, 1996, pp. 225-237.

Kathrin Golda-Pongratz, “Retracing a relation: Barcelona’s role as urban model for Ibero-American metropolis.” In Renate Bornberg, Antje Wemhöner, eds. Imposing European Urban Structures. Trialog N° 93, Darmstadt: Trialog, 2007, pp. 4-11.

Francesc Roca, “From Montjuïc to the World”. In Michael Raeburn, ed. Homage to Barcelona: The City and Its Art, 1888-1936. London: Thames & Hudson, 1985, pp. 133-139.

Peter G. Rowe, “Collective possessions”. In Peter G. Rowe. Building Barcelona. A Second Renaixença: ACTAR, 2006, pp.48-69.

Dietmar Steiner, “Politics or Power”. In Josep Lluís Mateo, ed. Contemporary Barcelona, 1856-1999. Barcelona: CCCB, 1996, pp. 215-218.


2 The European City

Giorgio Agamben, “Baudelaire; or, the Absolute Commodity”. In Stanzas: Word and Phantasm in Western Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minesotta Press, 1993, pp. 41-46.

Tom Avermate, “Urban modernization and vanishing architectural dimensions”. In Another modern. The post-war architecture and urbanism of Candilis-Josic-Woods. Rotterdam: Nai Publishers, 2005, pp. 198-202.

Constant, “The Principle of Disorientation”. In Libero Andreotti & Xavier Costa, eds. Situationists: Art, Politics, Urbanism. Barcelona: MACBA-ACTAR, 1996, pp. 86-87.

Kenneth Frampton. “Le Corbusier and the Ville Radieuse, 1928-46”. In Modern Architecture: A Critical History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980, pp. 178-185.

Thomas McDonough, “The Dérive and Situationist Paris”. In Libero Andreotti & Xavier Costa, eds. Situationists: Art, Politics, Urbanism. Barcelona: MACBA-ACTAR, 1996, pp. 54-66.

Jochen Schneider, “A Discussion of the Indivisual in the City as Landscape”. In Eduard Bru & Xavier Costa, eds. New Landscapes, New Territories. Barcelona: MACBA-ACTAR, 1997, pp. 170-187.

Josep Lluís Sert, Fernand Léger and Sigfried Giedion, “Nine Points on Monumentality”. In Xavier Costa, ed. Sert: Architect in New York. Barcelona: MACBA-ACTAR, 1997, pp. 14-16.

Alison & Peter Smithson, “Contributions to a fragmentary Utopia”. In Chuihua Judy Chung ed., The charged Void: Urbanism. Alison and Peter Smithson. New York: Monacelli Press, 2005, p. 100.

Peter Zlonicky, “Strategies for Extreme Conditions: The Emscher Park International Building Exhibition”. In Deborah Gans and Claire Weisz, eds. Extreme Sites: The Greening of Brownfield. AD Vol 74 N° 2 March/ April 2004: London: Wiley, 2004, pp. 54-60.