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Carlos Arroyo to lecture at Kent State University, Florence Program.

KSU Forum on the City — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 16:31:20 +0000

Madrid-based architect Carlos Arroyo will lecture at Kent State University, Florence Program on Tuesday March 18, 2014 at 7 pm. He will be introduced by Paola Giaconia, professor and coordinator for the Architecture Program at the school.

Carlos Arroyo Arquitectos is a Madrid based architecture and planning office of international scope, with built work and projects in Spain, France, Belgium, Argentina, Colombia and Rwanda. Carlos Arroyo has developed protocols for innovation on all scales, from building technology to landscape management, developing new types of public building, or researching into new forms of housing. His work, described by critics as “sustainable exuberance”, claims to set the frame for a new architectural culture, language and aesthetics, through the ethics, technology and parameters of sustainability.

For more information on Carlos Arroyo’s works, please visit his website.

Luis Úrculo to lecture at Kent State University, Florence Program.

KSU Forum on the City — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 21:58:18 +0000

Madrid-based architect and visual artist Luis Úrculo will lecture at Kent State University, Florence Program on Tuesday January 28, 2014 at 7 pm. He will be introduced by Marco Brizzi, professor of Architecture and Media at the school.

Úrculo studied architecture at the ETSAM Technical School of Architecture in Madrid, at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and at the Institute of Design in Chicago. In 2006 he established his own studio. Since then, Urculo’s videos have become well known and highly respected throughout the architecture industry.

He develops a work of small and indefinite architecture in an opened format. “I no longer know what architecture is and what an architect should do”, says Úrculo. “I am interested in the peripheral side to architecture, the processes, developments and approaches that can be manipulated, sampled and translated into other scales, adapting to the composition of the project, creating new scenes/ experiences / expectations not contemplated previously.”

He completed projects of diverse format among others for Philippe Starck, Absolut, Renault, Saffron, Redbull, Zara, Fabrica, Domus, Davidelfin, Mansilla & Tuñón, La Casa Encendida, Matadero, Rolling Stone, X Bienal of Architecture and Urbanism. All projects where the boundaries between graphics, architecture, design are questioned.

For more information on Luis Úrculo’s production, please visit his website.

Sebastião Salgado’s exhibition at CaixaForum Madrid.

KSU Forum on the City — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 14:32:59 +0000

CaixaForum Madrid is hosting a beautiful exhibition on photographer Sebastião Salgado. “Génesis” opens today and will run until May 4, 2014. The over 200 photographs on show, an unprecedented photographic tribute to our planet, are the result of eight years’ work and some thirty journeys across the world explored by Sebastião Salgado. For more info, please see the CaixaForum Madrid website.

Rafael Moneo’s retrospective until March 30.

KSU Forum on the City — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 10:40:41 +0000

Spain’s most honored architect, 1996 Pritzker Prize winner Rafael Moneo, is looking back over his career with a retrospective at the Fundación Barrié in A Coruña until March 30 under the title “Una reflexión teórica desde la profesión” (A theoretical reflection from inside the profession).

Rafael Moneo, whose office is based in Madrid, is the author of a series of architectural masterpieces, among which: the Museum of Roman Art in Mérida (1985), the Pilar and Joan Miró Foundation in Palma de Mallorca (1992), the Kursaal Congress Center and Auditorium in San Sebastián (1999), Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral in Los Angeles (2002). For more info, here’s an article (in English) from “El Pais” newspaper.

The Kent State Forum on the City: BERLIN.

KSU Forum on the City — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 10:03:35 +0000

The Kent State Forum on the City: BERLIN is taking place this Friday, November 22, 2013 from 10 am to 6:30 pm at Kent State University, Florence Program.

Here’s the complete program for our symposium:

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