Isabelle Anguelovsky: National Research Prize for Young Talent
We would like to congratulate our faculty member Isabelle Anguelovsky who received the National Research Prize for Young Talent, awarded by the Generalitat of Catalunya and the Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation, for their professional trajectory and the quality and excellence in their work. Isabelle Anguelovsky specializes in issues of poverty related to and exacerbated by … Continue reading
Winners of the European Prize for Urban Public Space
Winners have been announced for the seventh edition of the European Prize for Urban Public Space, a biennial competition created in 2000 and organized by six European institutions with the aim to recognize and encourage the recovery projects and defense of public space in our cities. The competition is organized by Barcelona’s Centre de Cultura Contemporània … Continue reading
10 urban infrastructure regeneration projects
There’s no doubt that the High Line‘s success pushed urban renewal to the forefront and made its mark on public awareness. In our fourth installment of case studies related to our program’s field of research and practice, we’ve decided to highlight similar projects involving infrastructural renewal that are perhaps less known but just as significant … Continue reading
Professor Bet Alabern leads a university course on Accessibility
We are proud to announce that a course directed by one of our faculty and LAU member Bet Alabern, together with Carles Llop, has been chosen by the International University Consortium Menéndez Pelayo de Barcelona for its 2012 Fall program. The course, an Acces_sos initiative, is titled Accessibility amplified: Solutions for the management of public … Continue reading
Friday Faves! 5 Things to Watch and Read
Blame the Architect – A series of lectures with an amusing tone yet a very serious subject matter: Are architects and urban planners to blame for urban violence? Professor Wouter Vanstiphout talks about the inextricable relationship between design and politics, thus design as politics. Organized by the chair of Design as Politics at the Delft … Continue reading
History as a Guide for Adaptive Reuse
In a recent article, Atlantic Cities transports us to the town of Split, Croatia to point out the importance of looking back at history when reshaping our cities for the future. In an age of urban redevelopment, retrofitting neighborhoods and landmarks sacrificed for the sake of mixed-use complexes, sometimes we forget that what was already there … Continue reading
Friday Faves! 5 Things to Watch and Read
Here are this week’s Friday Faves… Share and enjoy! Google + Paris Develop the Best and Largest View of Google Earth – The Paris Center for Architecture and Urbanism has teamed up with Google to create an interactive 40-square-meter digital mapping of Paris–the largest of its kind according to Google–as it is expected to be … Continue reading
Friday Faves! 5 Things to Watch and Read
Here are this week’s Friday Faves: Occupy: The Day After – Design Observer Places analyzes how the recent evictions and violent repressions of Occupy Wall Street protestors at university campuses in California raise questions as to the nature of what we consider, or how we define public space. Traffic in Frenetic HCMC, Vietnam – Check … Continue reading
10 Waterfront Regeneration Projects Around the World
Whether it’s preserving cultural landscapes, regenerating informal settlements, retrofitting sprawl, designing waterfronts or transforming highways into civic axes, our program addresses these challenges with a unique methodology that encompasses practices from urban design to landscape architecture and works at a scale between neighborhood and region. In the spirit of these challenges and our program’s subject matter, we’re kicking off … Continue reading
Master in Regenerating Intermediate Landscapes 