20131002
Trip to Los Angeles
During our trip to L.A. we visitied a lot of architectural studios. We enjoyed the city and looked for interesting buildings and museums.
20130930
Visit to Scenic Architecture
Xiaofeng Zhu, principal at Scenic Architecture (www.scenicarchitecture.com). Zhu's practice is one of the most prestigious boutique office in Shanghái, combining wisely and creatively his learning overseas with his cultural chinese background.
Visit to HOOP
Zhao Zhong, one of the partners of the office has been our guide to the work and perfomance of this local firm with around 100 employees.
This is an interesting visit to discover new developments in Pudong Area and to visit a completely chinese managed office working for chinese clients but trying to be known and with a really nice office environment.
The visit has started visiting the buildings around the Kerry Parkside building to have an idea about the development of the area around the Shanghai International Expo Center, which is filled with high level 5 star hotels with really good details and commercial centers looking like european standards as Kerry Park or Jumeirah Hotel Pudong. The area is surrounded by the "Shanghai Central Park" alias, Century Park, and by the Maglev Station, which gives an idea about the relevancy of this area in Pudong.
The visit has started visiting the buildings around the Kerry Parkside building to have an idea about the development of the area around the Shanghai International Expo Center, which is filled with high level 5 star hotels with really good details and commercial centers looking like european standards as Kerry Park or Jumeirah Hotel Pudong. The area is surrounded by the "Shanghai Central Park" alias, Century Park, and by the Maglev Station, which gives an idea about the relevancy of this area in Pudong.
Visit Hassell office
We have visited Hassell office (www.hassellstudio.com)
It
is an australian firm well know in the business for their top perfomance and,
also, for having in Shanghái one of the most inspiring working spaces and
environment. 
After the visit, in the same office, there were a short lecture-dialog about sustainability by Álvaro Guinea
Visit to PDM Internation office in Shanghai
PDM International office is in
Shanghai
This was an interesting visit to see
something different to big scale. In China due to the ownership of the land by
the government, the most valuable thing for the clients is the Interior design
strategy and concept, and thats why this office in China is mostly doing big
offices and retail, hospitality, and out of China is doing some architecture.
Is a totally different scale and is interesting to see how they can control the process they are doing.
Is a totally different scale and is interesting to see how they can control the process they are doing.
Visit to ARUP Shanghai
Marta Colas, Senior Urban Planner of
the firm has been our guide to the work and perfomance of this world-wide
prestigious firm. ARUP Associates office is in Shanghai
20130730
Visit to Chapman and Taylor
Today we found ourselves in
one, of many others, Shanghai' towers where you can enjoy a spectacular view
over the city. This tower also houses the international office of Chapman and
Tayler, established in the UK in 1959 and already expanded all over the world.
We were well received by one of the header of Shanghai's office - Andy Hudson- in a very informal meeting near the coffee corner.
After going through the development of the company and the business management he showed us some of the projects that are currently being done.
As they are well known all over the world by their retailing projects, in China couldn't be different and they are working in some commercial centers all over the country.
Like in other offices we visit, Andy could not pass unnoticed the fact that in China a project runs much faster that we are used in Europe.
http://www.chapmantaylor.com/en/
We were well received by one of the header of Shanghai's office - Andy Hudson- in a very informal meeting near the coffee corner.
After going through the development of the company and the business management he showed us some of the projects that are currently being done.
As they are well known all over the world by their retailing projects, in China couldn't be different and they are working in some commercial centers all over the country.
Like in other offices we visit, Andy could not pass unnoticed the fact that in China a project runs much faster that we are used in Europe.
http://www.chapmantaylor.com/en/
6th of May: Chen Haoru Lecture
6th of May
Lecture Chen Haoru at the Faculty of architecture of University of Hong Kong in Shanghai:
“This Monday, our lecture series ‘The Next
Decade’ at HKU/Shanghai Study Centre will focus on the future of the
countryside. In his talk, Chen Haoru will discuss ‘The village surveys and the
design approach to nature’.
Behind every wave of urbanization, there’s a
massive destruction of ways of lives. However, in the rural areas of China’s
Southeastern region remain villages with an inspiring way of life: a
sophisticated sustainable living that we have long forgotten. The survey of
these villages brings together the understanding of the old with an alternative
approach to a greener and more sustainable way of architecture. In this talk,
Chen Haoru will discuss the possibilities of this revival in a new time.
Chen Haoru is the principal of Hangzhou based
CITIARC design studio and a professor of architecture at the China Academy of
Art. Chen has received his education from NYU and the City University of New
York. He was trained as an architect in New York City and returned to China to
practice in 2001. He is currently a candidate for a doctorate degree from CAA.”
BRANDING IDENTITY
25th of April
Miguel Luengo organized an academic presentation and debate tittled Branding Identity:
"Learning from Las Vegas emerged from a healthy controversy that took place in 1972, in which it concluded that architects should be more receptive to the tastes and values of the common people and less immodest in their erections as “heroes” of high monuments to themselves. GG, 1998.
Learning from the existing landscape is the way to become a revolutionary architect. And not in an obvious way, like that wiping Paris to start again as proposed by Le Corbusier in the twenties, but in a different, more tolerant and thus questioning own way of looking at things.
Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour. Learning from las Vegas, 1977
Architecture is also a way to communicate, and although International Style positioned itself as the only true understanding of the discipline (objective, structure and function-ruled, white…)soon after new voices emerged and claimed for complexity and the symbolism of form.
Contemporary architecture around the world is looking for recognition, the Internet_ional Style that we are facing deletes identity and favours a rendered vision of fashion and immediate appareance. In a world full of brands, being recognizable (and desired) is crutial.
This open debate focuses on this branding framework, where already tested (and commercially approved) companies are exporting their identity mottos and are designing/building “little” portions of their homelands.
Commodities tabula rasa."
Miguel Luengo organized an academic presentation and debate tittled Branding Identity:
"Learning from Las Vegas emerged from a healthy controversy that took place in 1972, in which it concluded that architects should be more receptive to the tastes and values of the common people and less immodest in their erections as “heroes” of high monuments to themselves. GG, 1998.
Learning from the existing landscape is the way to become a revolutionary architect. And not in an obvious way, like that wiping Paris to start again as proposed by Le Corbusier in the twenties, but in a different, more tolerant and thus questioning own way of looking at things.
Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour. Learning from las Vegas, 1977
Architecture is also a way to communicate, and although International Style positioned itself as the only true understanding of the discipline (objective, structure and function-ruled, white…)soon after new voices emerged and claimed for complexity and the symbolism of form.
Contemporary architecture around the world is looking for recognition, the Internet_ional Style that we are facing deletes identity and favours a rendered vision of fashion and immediate appareance. In a world full of brands, being recognizable (and desired) is crutial.
This open debate focuses on this branding framework, where already tested (and commercially approved) companies are exporting their identity mottos and are designing/building “little” portions of their homelands.
Commodities tabula rasa."
Visit to Atelier Liu Yuyang Architects & visit to Pro-form Architectural Design
19th April Atelier Liu Yuyang Architects
In the same
building as the EMBT office at Tianjing Rd there are several architectural
offices. In that way, they could have some shared spaces such as meeting rooms,
kitchen and bathrooms.
This time
we visited Atelier Liu Yuyang Architects. We gathered directly with him and he kindly spent a lot of time with us
explaining his projects.
He studied abroad so the
feelings of his work are related more to the western architecture than the
eastern one.
The same day we visited also ShanghaiPro-form Architectural Design Consultants where Mr. Fangji Wang explained us their projects.
20130716
Visit to ENCLAVE planning landscape architecture
12 April ENCLAVE planning
landscape architecture
In the same day but a little bit later, we went to
another and very different company from the other one. This office is
established in Shanghai, Chengdu, Beijing, Madrid and Melbourne. Their architectural
line of work consist on the interior renovation from concept to construction of old buildings. They transform it in more flexible
office environments with moveable meeting room partitions and numerous communal
spaces.
Visit to Nei & Hu Office
12 April Neri & Hu Design and Research Office
This studio was established
on a fantastic building called the black box, where they develop a lot of
projects from industrial design to urban landscape. On the ground floor we
could see an amazing shop of designed furniture.
The multi-cultural
staff who speaks over 30 different languages is the main key of the office.
That makes it a very international place with such different and interesting points
of view.
Visit to BAU office
5 April BAU
This is an
international Australian office leaded by Mr James Brearly and his partner and
wife Mrs Qun Fang.
He explained us their projects in his welcoming office
(and on a holyday dayJ!). They
had developed a lot of work during ten years and in different scales:
“Australian
trained James Brearley and Qun Fang established BAU, an Australian design
focused architecture and urban design firm based in Shanghai. An
inter-disciplinary approach to architecture, landscape, urban design and
planning encourage the success and comprehensiveness of their projects. BAU,
along with Steve Whitford, won the first prize in the 2001 International Urban
Ideas Competition for their project “City Centre: City of Ningbo, Beilun”. Brearley
is adjunct professor at RMIT University.”
Visit to EMBT office
2nd. April EMBT
Our first
contact with the architectural work was during the visit at the spanish office
EMBT established in Shanghai. There, Igor Peraza, the director of the abroad company
explained us some of their current projects. We finally could see an amazing
video about the creative process on the recent competition of Disney Park in
Shanghai.
CHINA! TJAD (Tongji Architectural Design Group Co. Ltd., Shanghai)
During this period, we have been working at the Tongji Institute where we could experience the different stages of the architectural projects development.
And thanks to
Miguel Luengo, on this first second part of the master degree we went to different
architectural office to understand how the architectural practice works in China.
20130309
MD TECHNOLOGY & LECTURE
MD ANALYSIS
This was the analysis class with Paco Casas & Beatriz Villanueva. They talked about concepts as mixophilia/mixophobia (the place where the people gather around or not), the antropophagic or antropoemic space of Zigmunt Bauman and at the end of the class we had a debate about this kinds of spaces.
MD ANALYSIS & LECTURE
Analysis class with Uriel Fogué
We saw this movie of HG Wells. A film from 1936 but too early for its time. Analising the progress, the science, the war, the peace, the society and the prediction of the future.
A class about how the extraordinary advances in technology can change the society.
The possibility / The impossibility
"Opening the black box: making visible the invisible": the energy, the air, the underground,...
MD VISITS
MD LECTURE
Super interesting lecture with Andrés Jaque about HOME / HOUSE / FAMILY and the domesticity. He explained us the main three pilars of his job: Homey politicy activation space. 1) From Home to House 2) Sweet Lab Homes 3) Technodisputes.
20130219
Dear friends,
Tomorrow, wednesday February 20th at 18:30 (CET time) we will hold the masterclass by Langarita Navarro at Tricontinental Master’s Degree in Advanced Architectural Design.
You may live follow the lecture through this link
Thanks for your interest, hope you find it as interesting as we do.
Best regards!
20130211
MD02 DESIGN PKMN!
Workshop with PKMN: Rocío & Carmelo.
ANALOGICALL SMART CITIES.
Objectives: coding complex phenomena and realities. From digital to analogical information.
ANALOGICALL SMART CITIES.
Objectives: coding complex phenomena and realities. From digital to analogical information.
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20130118
MD TECHNOLOGY
The technology class was taught by Martin Ocampo. We saw how natural structures are those that operate more efficiently.
And how, throughout history, we get larger spaces with less material.
And how, throughout history, we get larger spaces with less material.
MD ANALYSIS
GROUP[ING] with Ricardo Montoro and Franca Sonntag
They explained us the concept of grouping. Understood as a system of elements and rules or strategies. We look at ideas like geometry, repetition, combination, stacking, mobility, etc.
and then we apply these concepts in a ballons game.
They explained us the concept of grouping. Understood as a system of elements and rules or strategies. We look at ideas like geometry, repetition, combination, stacking, mobility, etc.
and then we apply these concepts in a ballons game.
MD LECTURES
We had our first lecture with Néstor Montenegro who presented us his architectural office dosmasunoarquitectos along with Ignacio Borrego and Lina Toro.
20130114
MD01 ANALYSIS
In our firs analysis class with Ignacio Borrego, we learned to classify materials according to their deformation, structural configuration and encoding.
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