The present Barcelona Architecture Center program is based on the experience started in 1999 with the University of Calgary, Canada. The Faculty of Environmental Design of this Canadian university organized its Term Abroad Programs for the 1999 and 2000 academic sessions in Barcelona under the supervision of our current directors, Miguel Roldán and Xavier Costa. During three months their students had the opportunity to gain academic credits for their curriculums, a very important fact considering the existing administrative difficulties for the students’ mobility between America and Europe.
During the summer of 1999, the program directors send Barcelona students to the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, USA), and received groups of students from the Carnegie Mellon University (USA) and the University of Minnesota (USA) for short-term courses.
In the summer 2000 our study center, supported by the UPC, made its first on-line learning experience with the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico. Spanish professors and students communicated and shared their knowledge with their Mexicans colleagues through videoconferences.
From the last 14 years our program directors have had different experiences in organizing innovative workshops, like FAST or Groundcontrol, that were prepared to train young Catalan and Deutsche architects in the frame of European urban and landscape design tendencies.
During the summer of 1999, the program directors send Barcelona students to the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, USA), and received groups of students from the Carnegie Mellon University (USA) and the University of Minnesota (USA) for short-term courses.
In the summer 2000 our study center, supported by the UPC, made its first on-line learning experience with the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico. Spanish professors and students communicated and shared their knowledge with their Mexicans colleagues through videoconferences.
From the last 14 years our program directors have had different experiences in organizing innovative workshops, like FAST or Groundcontrol, that were prepared to train young Catalan and Deutsche architects in the frame of European urban and landscape design tendencies.
