Interviews, articles, agenda & recommended links.

NEWSLETTER 22

INTERVIEW

“Above all, architecture is an enriching experience that goes beyond the tension between the structural components involved”

Interview with Anupama Kundoo, architect. She founded her first architectural practice in the Indian city of Auroville in 1990, at just 23 years old.

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ARTICLE

The difficulty of a manifesto

Technology is advancing faster than ideological and cultural conditions, heralding a change in the way we understand architecture. In other words, historically there has been more than one time which all the technological conditions were in place for a movement to emerge that would change the way we understood art, architecture or society, and until the right person, or group of people or schools of thought arrived, none of this could crystallize.

By Jaume Prat

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INTERVIEW

"We have to start valuing housing based more on its services than on its surface area"

Interview with Anna Puigjaner, architect and co-founder of the MAIO architecture firm, she is a member of the Habitar research group at UPC Barcelona's Higher Technical School of Architecture.

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AGENDA

Mark in your calendar:

The way things do
Barcelona | Until 1 October | Joan Miró Foundation | + info

Forensic architecture. Towards an investigative aesthetic
Barcelona | Until 15 October | MACBA | + info

The world of giorgio de chirico. Dream or reality?
Barcelona | Until 22 October | CaixaForum | + info

‘La modelo’ talks: 113 years, 13 guided stories
Barcelona | Until 26 November | Modelo Prison, Entença 155 | + info

The olympic games and the urban model: barcelona and the legacy of 1992
Barcelona | 2 October | DHUB, Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes 37-38 | + info

XIV architecture week 2017
Madrid - Paris | 29 September to 8 October | + info

Building health bucarest international forum 2017
Bucarest | Until 19 October | Radisson Blu Hotel | + info

David Hockney
Paris | Until 23 October | Centre Pompidou | + info

Xabier Unzurrunzaga exhibition
Bilbao | 4 September to 6 October | COAVNbiz, Bizkaia Architects’ Association | + info

Exhibition and micro-conferences on recent architecture in valencia
Gandía | 19 September to 26 October | Delegación de La Safor | + info

RECOMMENDED LINKS

We suggest:

Auroville, The city of dawn | + info

The Library of Lost Books
Enric Miralles Foundation | + info

Full Fill Homes Project
Bienal de Venecia | + info

Sustainable Emergency Architecture
Master International Cooperation, UIC | + info

Technological centers and universities

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