EURAU 12 PORTO

EURAU 12 PORTO

1. Making City | Session T1.8
274 Performing Democracy at the Heart of the City. Re-configuring politics
through architecture
Del SANTO MORA, María De La O / VELA CASTILLO, José

La tarde del viernes 14 presentamos nuestra ponencia, con una interesante discusión posterior.

Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto FAUP

The sixth edition of the European Symposium on Research in Architecture and Urban Design will be held from the 12th to the 15th of September 2012 in Porto.
The seminar will take place at the Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto in collaboration with the institutions that organized the previous editions:
- École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Marseille, on doctoral research (2004);
- École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture et Paysage de Lille, on large scale (2005);
- Association des Instituts Supérieurs Brussels-Liège-Mons (IESA), on cultural heritage (2006);
- Escuela Superior de Arquitectura de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, under the theme cultural landscape (2008);
- Facoltà di Architettura dell'Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, under the theme venustas (2010).

The project EURAU is constituted within a network of schools and researchers in Architecture and Urbanism, meeting every two years to share the status of their investigation. In the long-term, it is intended to lead to the creation of a physical meeting and deposit space with all the research undertaken and ongoing in Europe to facilitate the sharing of resources and deepening of knowledge in these scientific areas.

The main concern of the EURAU is to establish itself as a place of debate and discussion of thematic disciplines of Architecture, City and Town Planning.

The theme of EURAU12 will be "Public Space and Contemporary City".

Indeed, the contemporary city has attracted a diverse and complex theoretical debate by different areas of knowledge. Interpretations of the reason for its diffuse form and dispersed growth, reassessment of the significance of its architecture and its public space, the statement of theoretical foundations that define it as a new urban entity - the ongoing debate is clarifying opinions, establishing disciplinary differences and inducing reflections that leave us far from a dogmatic and uncritical posture and allow the construction of a non-reducing rationale of the new paradigms.

In this sense, EURAU12 is intended to develop the discussion of public space as a fundamental element in building an idea of the contemporary city. In order to achieve it, we propose three stqrting points:

1. Construction of a collective memory, the fundamental value of urbanity: public space as a condition of making the city;

2. Systems of connection between the consolidated city and new urbanized areas: public space as builder of urban fabric;

3. A shape for the contemporary city: public space as an element of an urban order.

(de)gustaçoes gratuitas

http://www.casadaarquitectura.pt/lancamento-do-livro-degustacoes-gratuitas-pelo-arquiteto-jose-vela-castillo_13-out-faup-19h00/

Recently TRANSLATED to Portuguese.
With many thanks to Nuno Higino.

Lançamento do livro “(DE)GUSTAÇÕES GRATUITAS” pelo arquiteto José Vela Castillo_13 out, FAUP, 19h00

Na próxima 5ª feira, 13 de setembro, pelas 19h00, realiza-se o lançamento do livro “(DE)GUSTAÇÕES GRATUITAS DA DESCONSTRUÇÃO, A FOTOGRAFIA, MIES VAN DER ROHE E O PAVILHÃO DE BARCELONA”, pelo autor, o arquiteto José Vela Castillo. O evento terá lugar no Auditório da Biblioteca da FAUP – Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade do Porto.
‘Degustações gratuitas’ – o autor percorre a vida atribulada do Pavilhão e reflecte sobre a arquitectura, sobre o gosto e a gratuidade, sobre a ruína e o espectro, sobre o segredo e a cegueira, sobre o arquivo e a ruína, sobre a origem e o porvir.

Edição ACA – CASA DA ARQUITECTURA
ENTRADA LIVRE
O livro estará à venda no local a preço de lançamento: € 12,00


(DE)GUSTAÇÕES GRATUITAS
O que neste ensaio se oferece é uma leitura, uma interpretação, duma obra de arquitectura e do autor dessa obra: o Pavilhão que Mies van der Rohe projectou para a Exposição Internacional de Barcelona de 1929. Dentro deste movimento interpretativo, orientado a partir da desconstrução, e especificamente da desconstrução derridiana, fala-se também da arquitectura em geral e da arquitectura como pensamento. O objectivo é desencadear uma espécie de desconstrução filosófica que opera em, ou entre, a própria arquitectura – uma arquitectura múltipla e abismada, uma arquitectura fotografada. Não se pretende, portanto, testar os temas típicos da desconstrução, procedentes da obra de Jacques Derrida (o espectro, a marca, a ruína), em confronto com uma obra de arquitectura, mas, através deles, chegar a desconstruir a própria arquitectura. O que se procura é a iluminação duma arquitectura e dum pensamento mediante um processo que pretende mostrar, no que têm de mostrável, os segredos ocultos, os fantasmas, os desejos e esperanças que, ainda hoje, povoam e assediam o Pavilhão de Barcelona. E que, neste sentido, o abrem ao porvir.
O que dá título a este ensaio é uma frase casual que aparece reflectida numa das superfícies espelhadas do Pavilhão numa das fotografias de 1929, da agência Berliner Bild-Bericht. A partir dessa frase fantasmática – ‘Degustações gratuitas’ – o autor percorre a vida atribulada do Pavilhão e reflecte sobre a arquitectura, sobre o gosto e a gratuidade, sobre a ruína e o espectro, sobre o segredo e a cegueira, sobre o arquivo e a ruína, sobre a origem e o porvir.

JOSÉ VELA CASTILLO

José Vela Castillo é arquitecto e doutorado em arquitectura pela ETSAM.
É professor de Projectos arquitectónicos, Projecto de fim de curso e Teoria e cultura em arquitectura na IE University de Segóvia.
Actualmente é doutorando na Faculdade de Filosofia da Universidade Complutense, onde investiga sobre filosofia e projecto de arquitectura a partir do pensamento pós-metafísico e desconstructivo.
Publicou em diferentes meios, entre eles, Arquitectura, Iluminaciones, Metalocus e Despalabro e apresentou as suas investigações em diversos fóruns internacionais.
Para além do presente ensaio, publicou um outro sobre a arquitectura de Richard Neutra.
É membro fundador de Intersección (Grupo de investigação de filosofia e arquitectura, www.interseccion.info), membro da ESA (European Society of Aesthetics) e foi investigador no projecto Espacio y subjetividad: ampliaciones y quiebras de lo subjetivo en la ciudad contemporánea, patrocinado pelo Ministério da Educação e Ciência.
Tem o seu gabinete profissional em Madrid.

GABINETE DE CRISIS DE FICCIONES POLÍTICAS

El grupo intersección comienza su residencia en El ranchito, Matadero Madrid, con su Gabinete de crisis de ficciones políticas.


http://gabinetecrisisficciones.blogspot.com.es/

http://escaravox.tumblr.com/post/28047330270/elranchito

http://www.interseccion.info/index.php?/quien/jose-vela-castillo/

STUDIO magazine

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El último número de Studio es espléndido. No se lo pierdan!!!

PLANOS DE INTER[SECCIÓN]

Presentación en La Central del MNCARS del libro:

Planos de (Inter)sección: materiales para un diálogo entre filosofía y arquitectura.

El objetivo es poner a hablar a dos disciplinas como son la filosofía y la arquitectura con el objetivo de mostrar que estas dos esferas no sólo no son ajenas la una de la otra, sino que se necesitan y se interpelan y que con ese empeño se abren oportunidades emocionantes para construir el pensamiento, para pensar la arquitectura. Ambas forman parte de un complejo archivo: nuestra época diversa, plural, multidisciplinar. Porque la construcción es un campo de pruebas que, a la vez que edifica, moviliza la reflexión y constituye el laboratorio en el que los lenguajes se materializan y se retuercen al tener que enfrentarse a programas intempestivos. Y porque, por otra parte, la filosofía despliega sus destrezas abriendo espacios y construyendo problemas, ensamblando las materias, cuestionando las evidencias y poniendo a prueba los sentidos comunes. Los planos de intersección entre la filosofía y la arquitectura son los espacios heterogéneos de la interpretación pero también de la controversia: una (a)puesta en acción desde la que (se) interviene (en) la realidad .
El libro está editado por Luis Arenas & Uriel Fogué y es colectivo del grupo (INTER)sección.

http://www.interseccion.info/

Intersección son:

• Luis Arenas
• Fernando Espuelas
• Uriel Fogué
• José Javier Hernández Ruiz
• José Vela Castillo

En el libro hay textos muy variados, desde Massiimo cacciari a Iñaiki Ábalos, incluyendo mi "No solamente una fotografía, y al margen..."

José Vela

Master of Landscape Architecture

Here is a pretty nice master for everyone interested in landscape architecture!

Master of Landscape Architecture by coursework degree

Introduction

I am pleased to announce the establishment, and AILA professional accreditation, of a new Master of Landscape Architecture degree by coursework at Deakin University to operate at its Geelong Waterfront Campus. This is first new MLArch in Australia in 15 years.

Course overview

Deakin University’s Master of Landscape Architecture has been developed for people who want to practise as a landscape architect and who have a passion to improve the quality and development of our towns, cityscapes and regional landscapes.

Focused upon sustainability and its economic, social and environmental underpinnings, the course addresses the creation of quality places in response to current and future environmental and lifestyle challenges, and enables opportunities for you to specialise in project management, public art curatorship and management, cultural heritage, urban design, and change management planning.

Distinguishing characteristics of this course include its engagement with ecology, spirit of place, people, Indigenous thought and urban design to inform and craft places of renewal, stimulation, healing and respect.

This course meets the challenges of an ever-changing urban, regional and rural environment. As a graduate, you will be a practice-rich professional equipped with the skills to successfully deliver and lead in the creation and restoration of landscapes and provide leadership by challenging conventional thinking within complex environments.

The Master of Landscape Architecture has been designed in direct consultation with the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects, potential employers, industry, government and professional representatives to ensure it meets the needs of prospective employers.

Course Structure

The Course Structure consists of:

To qualify for the Master of Landscape Architecture, students must successfully complete 16 credit points of study comprising:

• 11 core units (13 credit points) from:

o SRA760 Urban Ecologies

o SRD761 Designing Urban Environments

o SRL731 Landscape Narrating and Meaning

o SRD764 Urban Design Studio

o SRL732 Plants, Design and Ecologies

o SRL733 Indigenous Narratives and Processes

o SRM750 Built Environment Professional Practice

o SRD762 Interdisciplinary Planning and Design

o SRR782 Thesis Preparation

o SRD768 Landscape Design Masterclass (2 credit points)

o SRR716Thesis (Landscape Architecture) (2 credit points)

plus

• 3 credit points of electives that may comprise specialisms in:

o Urban Design

o Architecture

o Planning

o Cultural Heritage

o Public Art

o Project Management

AILA Professional Accreditation

This course now has Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) professional accreditation: http://www.aila.org.au/education/Universities.htm

Staffing

Key staffing includes:

· Associate Professor David Jones, FAILA, MLArch Melb, PhD Penn

· Dr John Rollo, MArch UCLA, PhD Cambridge, MPIA

· Dr Simone Leao, MSc (Urb&RegPlan) UFRGS [Brazil], PhD Melb

· Yolanda Esteban, MAIA MPIA (Associate), PhD (pending) Deakin

· Dr Anne Bourke, PGrad Dip Land Arch Melb, PhD Melb, recent graduate of the University of Melbourne

· Paul Thompson, FAILA, author of Australian Planning Design (2002), and plants master behind the Cranbourne Botanic Garden

· Gavin Keeney, MLArch Cornell, author of On the nature of things : contemporary American landscape architecture (2000)

· Chris Dance, FAILA, formerly Chris Dance & Associates, designer of the recent Geelong Botanic Gardens front entrance gardens

· with assistance from the Boon Wurrung (Mornington Peninsula), Wathaurung (Geelong) and Gundjitjmara (Lake Condah / south west Victoria) Indigenous communities.

Applications:

Domestic student applicants: http://www.deakin.edu.au/future-students/courses/course.php?course=S703&stutype=local&keywords=landscape

International student applicants: http://www.deakin.edu.au/future-students/courses/course.php?course=S703&stutype=international&keywords=landscape

Enrolment Portal:

Enrolments are now open via Deakin’s application portal at:

http://applicantportal.deakin.edu.au/connect/webconnect

Courses commence Semester 1 2012, @25^th February 2012.

Commonwealth Supported Places:

Some places are now available.

Scholarships:

Domestic student applicants: http://www.deakin.edu.au/future-students/scholarships/index.php

International student applicants: http://www.deakin.edu.au/future-students/international/scholarships/index.php

Inquiries:

david.jones@deakin.edu.au

ruth.henderson@deakin.edu.au

Some Units Include:

o SRA760 Urban Ecologies T1

Content

The unit will challenge students to rehearse and then apply this understanding to specific urban conditions and sites. The unit will act as a broad critical analysis of the contemporary social, economic and environmental challenges that shape Australia’s built environment and to consider various strategies for forming new or regenerating existing urban territories. This unit will immerse students in analysis of a complex urban project addressing the multiple scales, ecologies, infrastructure conditions, building types and material expressions.
The project-based format will be supplemented with lectures that introduce each exercise and additional talks that address the theoretical bases of urban ecologies. Students are presented with urban conditions that have been selected to introduce an increasing array of physical, social, and environmental complexities as the trimester proceeds. Students will be asked to engender a critical consideration of contemporary urban environments and its relation to differing ecologies.

o SRL731 Landscape Narrating and Meaning T1

Content

This unit seeks to provide a foundational overview of the history, theory and practice of the evolution, exemplars and role of the profession of landscape architecture in Australia and internationally. Part of the unit will address theories inherent in landscape architecture including reviewing their authors, precedent texts, and exemplars arising from these theories. A second part will explore the historical evolution of the profession of landscape architecture internationally, and its foundations in Australia into a profession including its contemporary activities, proponents and key practices. A third part will examine the ethos of the Australian landscape architecture profession including its proponents, key influencers and precedents, and the role and activity of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects. The last part with examine significant texts and projects that embody the aims and objectives of the Australian profession together with engaging in and appreciating the art of narrating design, constructing designs, and illustrating designs.

o SRD764 Urban Design Studio T2

Content

The subject allows students to work on high profile strategic planning and design issues in three areas critical to the future growth of Australia's urban environment: Metropolitan Urbanism, Urbanism on the periphery and Regional Urbanism. The aim of the subject is to analyse the existing fabric or specific precincts in transition; identify the artificial and natural boundaries which shape or limit their place setting; and develop a range of sustainable generic urban design strategies that resolve areas of discontinuity and open up options for stimulating urban regeneration. On completion of the unit students should be able to: Develop an understanding of the place of architecture and landscape within the context of the city; explore methodologies for evaluating and responding to an urban context; be familiar with the preparation of an 'Urban Design Framework'; develop strategic planning policy and guidelines information to assist in the effective urban design decision making; evaluate the impact of design related decisions on community health and well being; appreciate ecological sustainable development principles within the urban context; and make sensitive design decisions which consider the cost/benefit impact in relation to both physical and cultural heritage issues.

o SRL732 Plants, Design and Ecologies T2

Content

This unit seeks to explore and review the realm of plant science and natural ecology as it pertains to the profession of landscape architecture. Part of the unit seeks to explore nomenclature, plant habitat and needs and plants generally in terms of their scientific and taxonomic use, language and peculiarities. A second part seeks to build an individual appreciation and palette of plant materials pertinent to the practice of landscape architecture. A third part explores basic concepts of ecological science including systems, scientific communities, the role of soils and geology, the links between plants and wildlife, and the food and medicinal properties of plants whether European, scientific and or Indigenous. A fourth part will examine two ecosystem types, for example coastal and riverine, as case studies in indigenous plant and ecological systems and the manner in which such systems have been appropriated and used in landscape architecture design, rehabilitation, planning and or management projects as well as their despoliation, misuse, dilution by exotics and noxious species, fragmentation of corridors and patches, and the impact of human-driven land development activities. And, lastly, the use of plants as a medium in design will be explored and considered.

o SRL733 Indigenous Narratives and Processes T2

Content

This unit considers and explores contemporary engagements and relationships with Australian and international Indigenous communities in design and planning projects. Part of the unit will examine the concept and entity of Indigenous peoples and their cultural and spiritual relationships to land, territory, country, language, name, knowledge transferral, sedentary patterns, custodianship, curatorship, alternate approaches to ‘natural science’, and their symbiotic use and curatorship of natural resources as legitimate land design, planning and management tools and approaches. A second part will examine a set of Australian and International exemplar case studies where Indigenous peoples have served either as client or as consultant in the formulation of design projects that have resulted in international and or highly significant, innovative and creative design outcomes that demonstrate respect and cultural richness. A third part will consider processes of managing cultural-rich projects including consultation, engagement and protocols. A fourth part will draw upon on-site engagement with a place rich in Indigenous meanings, associations, history, myth, and provide a first-hand understanding of Indigenous protocols.

This unit is a direct response to a clear policy shift and reconciliation commitment by the Australian architecture, landscape architecture and planning professions to better engage with, respect, understand, and embrace Indigenous culture in design and planning projects. It is intended as unit to provoke understanding and respect, and processes of engagement within the professional practice of design and planning.