A collection of installments compiling the works of the students of the Master in Integrated Architectural Design during the academic year 2020/21.
The course is organized in 5 logics: environmental, social, digital, tectonic and cultural through which the students explore how architectural design can adapt to the context in which they operate. This collection of installments compiles the works of the students of the Master in Integrated Architectural Design during the academic year 2020/21. The program objectives are to promote innovative architectural design integrated with the wide range of skills on technical and cultural knowledge that contemporary architecture demands.
The course is organized in 5 logics: environmental, social, digital, tectonic and cultural through which the students explore how architectural design can adapt to the context in which they operate. Their systems of methods and principles are expanded to face challenges such as climate change, technological disruptions, economic and geopolitical collapses, and demographic movements, among other major global changes.
With Contributions of Kiel Moe, Interboro, Ciro Najle, bosch.capdeferro, Marina Otero, T.J. Demos, Ferran Vizoso, Javier García-Germán, Alex Ivancic, Pau Bajet, María Langarita, Carles Baiges, Cristina Gamboa, Anna Font, Edouard Cabay, David Tàpies, Francisco Cifuentes, Arturo Franco, Ivan Blasi, Ricardo Devesa, Irma Arribas, Roger Paez, Pedro García, Sultan Ahmed, Asmita Banyal, Marta Bugés, Luis de Felipe, Dima Fadel, Arina Semenova, Domenica García and Halwest Mustafa
About the Author :
Ricardo Devesa received his degree in architecture from the Valencia School of Architecture and he holds a PhD from Barcelona Tech University (UPC, 2012) for his dissertation Houses & Trees (to be published in 2020). He is currently editor-in-chief at Actar Publishers, and at his digital platform urbanNext.net, based in Barcelona and New York. Since 2019 he is professor of architectural design at the School of Architecture La Salle, University Ramon Llull (ETSALS), as well as the coordinator of its Master in Integrated Architectural Design. He was associate professor of Architecture Theory and History at the Barcelona School of Architecture of Barcelona (ETSAB, UPC, 2011-2016) and senior professor at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IaaC, 2013-2019). He served as a member of the editorial staff of the magazine Quaderns d'Arquitectura i Urbanisme (1997-1999) and was a member of the editorial board for the magazine Basa (2004-2008). He was a visiting scholar at Graduate School of Architecture (GSAPP) Columbia University in New York (2007-2009). He is coauthor of Otra mirada. Posiciones contra crónicas. La acción crítica como reactivo en la arquitectura española reciente (Gustavo Gili, 2010) and Barcelona: Modern Architecture Guide (Actar, 2013) as well as editor in many books published by Actar since 2012.
