BAC Spring 2018 Design studio lecture series_LACOL, Carles Baiges

Spring 2018 Lecture Series:

Lacol, Carles Baiges

“Building together”

Thursday February 22 at 12:30  

BAC, Bruc 59, local

Open to the Public

Carles Baiges Camprubí (Barcelona, 1985) is an architect (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) and urban sociologist (Universiteit van Amsterdam). He’s a partner of Lacol and activist at the housing cooperative La Borda. He mainly works on citizen participation, public space and housing rights.

Lacol is a cooperative of architects who work in the neighborhood of Sants, in Barcelona. They work from architecture toward social transformation, using architecture as a tool to intervene critically in their immediate environment. They root their activity in a horizontal system of labor, acting alongside society with justice and solidarity in mind.

 

BAC Spring 2018 Design studio lecture series_Josep Ferrando

Spring 2018 Lecture Series:

Josep Ferrando

“rhythms and patterns”

Thursday February 15 at 12:45

BAC, Bruc 59, local

Open to the Public

Josep Ferrando, Architect who combines design and construction with his teaching activities.
He has taught classes in several universities since 1998. Some of these include the Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona (ETSAB), La Salle Engineering and Architecture School, the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), Universidad Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires (UTDT), Istituto Europeo di Design Barcelona and Rio de Janeiro, and the Eina School of Art and Design.
He has also been a guest professor at Hochschule für Technik Zürich (HSZT) in Switzerland, Escola da Cidade in Sao Paulo, Universidade Positivo (UNICENP) in Curitiba, and Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), Brazil.

He has given talks at various universities, including Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cornell University, Universidad de Palermo in Buenos Aires, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and at the International Union of Architects (IUA) conference in Tokyo.
His work has been exhibited in several countries including the United States, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, and Portugal. And solo exhibitions in prestigious Architecture Galleries like Aedes Berlin, events like the Biennale di Architettura di Venezia and museums like MAM Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro and MAC Contemporary Art Museum of Santiago de Chile.

BAC Spring 2018 Design studio lecture series_Robert Brufau

Spring 2018 Lecture Series:

ROBERT BRUFAU

“The structure of Santa Caterina Market: architecture of the complexity”

Thursday February 08 at 12:45

BAC, Bruc 59, local

Open to the Public