13/3/2015, 18:00, Dept. Arch Amphitheatre
11/3/2015, 15:00-18:00, Dept. Arch. Amphitheatre
Gonzalo García-Rosales, architect, professor of the Graphic Design Department at the School of Architecture of Madrid, and professor of the Department of Architecture at the University of Alcalá.
From mid fifties to mid sixties Spain lived one of its most interesting periods in visual arts, music, cinema and architecture. Walking together in common synergy and merging into similar proposals, projects and ideas, these experimental manifestations have influenced actual art, cinema and architecture, something still not plainly admitted.
20:30 Dept. Arch Amphitheater
Volume Magazine was inaugurated in the 2000's with the tagline 'To Beyond or Not To Be'. It was meant as a call to arms for architects and urbanists to think beyond their everyday practice to the larger forces acting on architecture, from economic crises, to demographic aging, to human emotion and so on. This telescoping outwards was meant as a way to break free from the shackles of convention and to find new ways to address the urgencies of the day through architectural intelligence. Former managing editor, Brendan Cormier, will detail his experience working at Volume, the themes they tackled, and the increasing need to think beyond.
Read more at http://parapoesis.tumblr.com/tagged/On-Urban-Objects
10-12/02/2015
8/12/14, 21:00, AmphArch
Lecture of Kostas Thomopoulos, professor, Department of Photography and Audiovisual Arts, Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Athens