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Core Design Studios: Spring 2012

Architectural Design

The second semester of the 2011-2012 MBIArch is in full swing, beginning with the 7-day workshop “Registering Landscapes of Uncertainty”, completed last week.

The Core Design Studios began this week, with students grouped in three very different projects proposed by Pier Vittorio Aureli, Iñaki Ábalos and Pere Riera:


Labour, City, Form: Towards a Common Architectural Language Pier Vittorio Aureli, Visiting Professor

The design studio focuses on the relationship between the development of the modern city and the construction of political subjectivity from the Renaissance on. This relationship will be investigated from the point of view of the project of housing as the locus where architecture directly addresses its subject not only in terms of bare life, but also of ethos.

Pier Vittorio Aureli, view the full set of MBIArch 2011-2012 photos here

Thermodynamic Somatisms/ Verticalscapes (II) Iñaki Ábalos, Professor
Renata Sentkiewicz, Adjunct Professor

The Core Studio will seek to consolidate an advanced understanding of high-rise construction in association with thermodynamics and to experiment with various somatic aspects of human behavior. The Studio will develop a spatial grammar and syntax associated with thermodynamics, through the definition of an operative bibliography, experimentation with zero energy-balance open and closed systems, the analysis of significant case studies associated with different technical fields, and a proposal for an operational grammar.

Renata Sentkiewicz, view the full set of MBIArch 2011-2012 photos here

BCN Desire Lab Pere Riera, Associate Professor

The BCN Desire Lab is an experimental realm for the production of knowledge about change and the desire to inhabit. The two constitute contemporary emergences that provide an excellent learning opportunity. Although permanent change is part of the life cycle, the progressive acceleration of change creates a vertiginous situation characterized by a high level of uncertainty about an unexpected future.
Visiting the Walter Benjamin Memorial in Portbou, more photos here

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