Urban horticulture in Madrid.
Urban horticulture has widely spread in Madrid in recent years. Many of these urban orchards in the city are dedicated to children and school groups. For a commentary, see this post on ecosistema urbano’s website.
Plan General de Ordenación Urbana de Madrid.
The Municipality of Madrid just approved the next General Plan (Plan General de Ordenación Urbana), expected to take effect in spring 2015. See this article on “El País” newspaper (in Spanish) for additional information.
The Kent State Forum on the City: BERLIN.
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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Iñaki Ábalos to curate Spanish Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Biennale.
Iñaki Ábalos, director of architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and chair professor at the Madrid School of Architecture, has been appointed curator for the Spanish Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale. Ábalos proposes a critical strategy centered on the idea of the ‘Interior’: “There is no architecture without an interior. There can be no architectural idea without thought of an interior in all its orders. The interior speaks of space, and space is by definition the theme of architecture.”
New Generations. Luis Úrculo.
Luis Úrculo is an architect based in Madrid, if it’s possible to say “based” for someone who is constantly traveling to different countries and working on projects around the world, from China to Lisbon. Licensed at the ETSAM School of Architecture in Madrid (December 2006), at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and at the Institute of Design in Chicago. In 2004 he founded Motocross and in 2006 he established his own studio. {Read more}
Gianpiero Venturini visiting Estudio SIC.
Gianpiero Venturini founded Itinerant Office in 2012, presenting the “New Generations” project, an investigation on young European architects’ conditions and visions that aims at creating a web platform for debate and discussion. {Read more}
Madrid Río wins the Green Good Design Awards 2013
The Green Good Design Award is promoted by The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies, an institution dedicated to public education concerning all aspects of the built environment —from entire cities to individual buildings— including the philosophical issues of arts and culture that ultimately give the final shape to design. {Read more}
