Elastic: Between Architecture + Urbanism | U-SoA Tecnoglass Lecture by Iñaki Alday and Margarita Jover of aldayjover

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aldayjover arquitectura y paisaje is an architectural practice founded in 1996 with offices in Barcelona and Virginia. Its main workload public buildings and spaces and landscape interventions. It has also developed various work-family projects, multi-family housing and interventions in heritage buildings.

Major awards include the European Prize for Urban Public Space (2002), two first prizes Garcia Mercadal (2001 and 2005) and the FAD Award City and Landscape (2009), finalist of the Biennial of Spanish Architecture on two occasions (2005 and 2009), FAD Award (2002), the Ibero-American Biennale of Architecture (2004) and the European Landscape Prize (2008), and the Nomination Award for European Architecture Mies van der Rohe (2009).

Iñaki Alday’s is a partner at aldayjover arquitectura y paisaje. Alday’s work is characterized by promoting a new attitude in response to professional and academic challenges facing the transformation of our environment, of finding the role of architecture and architects, as an interdisciplinary work and integration of scales, and non-traditional programs such as hybrid infrastructures.

Margarita Jover Biboum is a partner at aldayjover arquitectura y paisaje, which focuses on public works and landscape architecture. She has been Project Professor and Department of Interiors Coordinator for the BAU School (1998-2009), Visiting Professor at several colleges, and maintains activity in several master teachers and specialization courses in different universities. Biboum is the the author of “Water Park”. Jover was appointed Research Faculty at the University of Virginia (2012).

1.5 Continuing education credits (CEU) offered. Sponsored by The Miami Chapter of American Institute of Architects. contact [email protected] for more info. Sponsored by Tecnoglass.

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The lecture series, Elastic: Between Architecture and Urbanism, posits a group of practices leveraging the potential of design to define environments stretching across scale, fabric, social contexts, territories, sensibilities, and objects. Sharing a common thread lecture guests hold a deeply rooted agenda linking people to place, building to place, material to place, and social values to place. The shared agenda will serve as a guide to establish questions and define values into each specific architectural investigation-defining new narratives for each design intervention that shape inclusive, equitable, resilient, and most of all spaces of excitement. These uncommon approaches to practice challenge the profession’s contemporary thinking on the role of architecture; stretching design thinking across the limits of building. In these innovative practices, there is a contemplative yet vigilant approach in the relationship of architecture and urbanism, an elasticity of design emerges. Elastic: Between Architecture and Urbanism sets out to discuss the futures of design, culture, and environment.