Digital Coffee: "Digital Coffee | New architectural logics for post-COVID-19 cities"

Conferences and workshops

Start date

Tue, 06/02/2020 - 19:00

Venue

Online

The logics of design and architectural construction are in continuous adaptation to the context in which they operate. Their systems of methods and principles are expanding to face challenges such as climate change, technological disruptions, economic collapses, geopolitical strategies and demographic movements, among other imminent global challenges.

In this session we will review the most significant phenomena affecting our society (such as climate change, social inequalities, technological disruptions, efficiency of material resources, and the need for other worldviews - and for the consequences that the Covid-19 pandemic may bring to all these phenomena), to rethink them from evolved architectural logics, such as environmental, social, digital, tectonic and cultural logics that are oriented towards an expanded conception of architecture.

To have an integrated approach to architectural design and research, attending equally to the areas of design, technology and culture is the new task of the architect.

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RICARDO DEVESA is an architect, author, researcher and professor. He is the Coordinator of the MASTER IN INTEGRATED ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN - MIAD and Profesor Visiting Unit ETSALS and the Editor-in-Chief at Actar Publishers and at his digital platform urbanNext.net, based in Barcelona and New York (since 2012). In addition, he published his thesis entitled The House and the Tree in spring.

He was an associate professor in the department of Theory and History of Architecture at the ETSAB-UPC, senior professor at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IaaC) and Head of the research module for the Master in Architecture and Environment; Master in Ecohabitat at Elisava-UPF, visiting researcher at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP, Columbia University in New York) and assistant director in the area of culture at ETSAB (2014-2016). He was a member of the editorial team at Quaderns d’Arquitectura i Urbanisme (COACatalonia, 1997-1999), and was a board member of the Basa magazine, (COACanarias, 2004-2008).

He is co-editor of the books Otra mirada. Posiciones contra crónicas. La acción crítica como reactivo en la arquitectura española reciente (Gustavo Gili, 2010) and Barcelona: Modern Architecture Guide (Actar, 2013).

INTERVIEWER

Lluís Font, Director of the Executive Education de La Salle-URL and Coordinator of the Executive MBA, will talk with Ricardo Devesa about the logics of design and architectural construction.