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The second BIArch Open Lecture of the Spring 2010 cycle was delivered on June 11th by Stan Allen, principal of Stan Allen Architect and Dean of the Princeton University School of Architecture (SOA). The lecture was titled “From Object to Field (and back).” Stan Allen will be part of the faculty for the first edition of the Institute’s MBIArch Master’s Degree in Architecture program. For more info visit http://www.biarch.eu

The Barcelona Institute of Architecture (BIArch) is an international institution set up to further interaction between academic research, specialized practice and the cultural dissemination of contemporary architecture. Occupying a space midway between schools of architecture and professional praxis, BIArch is an open laboratory for professionals and researchers that aims to promote new ways of thinking and acting for a technological, energy and economic reality in permanent flux.

Energy exchanges have their own laws and obey their own principles that reach far beyond the results of our actions, and knowledge of them is a great opportunity to improve the capacity for relation with our environment. The objective of the “Energy” seminar is not to solve specific problems inasmuch as to try to represent the broad scenario of which they form part, with the intention of adopting attitudes that set out to address these issues from a similarly global viewpoint.

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The Barcelona Institute of Architecture (BIArch) is an international institution set up to further interaction between academic research, specialized practice and the cultural dissemination of contemporary architecture. Occupying a space midway between schools of architecture and professional praxis, BIArch is an open laboratory for professionals and researchers that aims to promote new ways of thinking and acting for a technological, energy and economic reality in permanent flux.

BIArch Open Lecture / TUE 6 OCT
UN RUIDO NARANJA
Smiljan Radic
La Pedrera – Auditorium, Barcelona, 8.00 PM

Smiljan Radic (Santiago de Chile, 1965) graduated from the Architecture School of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in 1989. He won the prize for the best Chilean architect under 35 from the Colegio de Arquitectos de Chile in 2001. He was selected to be part of the Architectural Record’s Design Vanguard 2008, and named Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 2009. Recently, he has taken part in the “Crossing Now” exhibition at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing. His work has been published in such international architectural journals as 2G International Architecture Review, a+u, ARQ, Casabella, Detail, Lotus and Quaderns. In 2007 he was Visiting Professor at the University of Texas, and currently works together with the sculptress Marcela Correa in their studio in Santiago de Chile.

Introduction by Miquel Adria
Miquel Adrià graduated from the Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona. In 1994 he moved to Mexico, where he founded the international journal of architecture Arquine. He is the author of almost 30 books through which he has contributed actively to the dissemination of Mexican and Latin American architecture from a contemporary perspective. He directs the Master’s Platform C+ at the Centro Metropolitano de Arquitectura Sustentable, Mexico City.

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