Participants: María Tirón Barceló

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María Tirón Barceló (1978, Mallorca). Arquitecta por la ETSAV de la Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV), ha abierto su prática a la cooperación internacional, arquelogia y arte.

Así, tras adquirir experiencia como voluntaria en yacimientos arqueologicos de Daniya (Alicante) y Closos de Can Gaià (Mallorca), en 2008 ha sido seleccionada y becada como única representante de la UPV para colaborar dentro de un equipo multidisciplinar formado por profesionales y estudiantes de las Universidades de la Red Vives. La misión de este equipo, enmarcada en un Proyecto de Cooperación Internacional, ha sido la Rehabilitación y reconstrucción del antiguo mercado de Béni Abbès en Béchar, Argelia. En 2010, María vuelve a conseguir una beca y repite experiencia como única estudiante de arquitectura dentro de un equipo multidisciplinar, esta vez dirigido por el arqueologo Oriol Vicente, miembro del Seminario de Arqueologia Prehistorica del Proximo Oriente (SAPRO). La misión del equipo ha sido la Prospección y catalogación arqueologica de Bouhanak asi como formación a profesionales en la Universidad de Tlemcen, Argelia.

Así mismo desde 1996 hasta la fecha ha participado en exposiciones de arte individuales o colectivas entre los cuales: «Terra i Foc» (Centro Cultural de Felanitx, 1996); «Per amor a l’art (Palma, 1997, 1998), «Nitxdelart» (Felanitx, 2012, 2013); «Feria Alternativa de Valencia (2005, 2007) etc.

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María Tirón Barceló (1978, Mallorca). Architect from the ETSAV of Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), she has widened her practice to International Cooperation, Archaeology and Art.

Thus, after gaining experience as a volunteer in archaeological deposits in Daniya (Alicante) and Closos de Can Gaia (Mallorca), in 2008 she has been selected and offered a grant as the only representative of the UPV to work within a multidisciplinary team of professionals and students from Universities of The Vives Network. The mission of this team, part of an International Cooperation project, was the Rehabilitation and Reconstruction of the Old Market in Bechar Beni Abbès, Algeria. In 2010, Maria wins a second scholarship and repeats the experience as the only student of architecture within a multidisciplinary team, this time led by archaeologist Oriol Vicente, a member of the Seminary of Prehistoric Archaeology of the Near East (SAPRO). The mission of the team has been archaeological prospection and cataloging in Bouhanak as well as professional training to members of the University of Tlemcen, Algeria.

Also, since 1996 she has been participating in solo or group exhibitions of art, including: «Terra i Foc» (Cultural Center Felanitx, 1996); «Per love l’art (Palma, 1997, 1998),» Nitxdelart «(Felanitx, 2012, 2013),» Feria Alternativa de Valencia» (2005, 2007) etc.

Participants: Carmen Soler Mas

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Carmen Soler Mas (1990, Palma de Mallorca). Estudiante de arquitectura en la Universidad Rovira i Virgili de Reus, Aactualmente está realizando el Proyecto de Fin de Carrera, ubicado en el barrio marítimo de Es Jonquet en Palma de Mallorca. En 2012-2013, ha cursado en la Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de la Universidad de Granada en el marco de SICUE (Sistema de Intercambio entre Centros Universitarios Españoles).

Ha realizado prácticas con el arquitecto técnico Andrés Mariano (verano de 2009), en el Departamento de urbanismo del Ayuntamiento de Marratxí (verano de 2012) y ha colaborado en artículos y estudios junto al arquitecto Josep Lluís i Ginovart (durante el 2015) en el departamento de restauración y patrimonio arquitectónico de la ETSA Reus.

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Carmen Soler Mas (1990, Palma de Mallorca). Architecture student at the University Rovira i Virgili in Reus, she is currently focused on her Final Year Project, located in the waterfront district of Es Jonquet in Palma de Mallorca. In 2012-2013, she has studied at the School of Architecture of the University of Granada under SICUE program (Exchange System between Spanish University Centres). She has done internships with technical architect Andrés Mariano (summer 2009), in the Planning Department of the City of Marratxí (summer of 2012) and she has contributed to articles and studies authored by architect Josep Lluís i Ginovart (during 2015) within the Department of Restoration and Architectural Heritage of the ETSA Reus.

Participants: Eva Seijas

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Eva Seijas (A Coruña, 1986). Tras titularse en Arquitectura por la Universidad San Pablo CEU de Madrid y completar su formación con estudios de diseño y paisaje en el Politecnico de Milan, orienta su práctica hacia el diseño y las instalaciones efímeras. Actualmente colabora con la artista Darya von Berner y es ayudante de comisario de la exposición Export, arquitectura española en el extranjero para el Museo de la Fundación ICO.

Ha colaborado en proyectos como Burbujas Voladoras, de Myra Arquitectos, Premio A+ a la Mejor Arquitectura Efímera 2011; o el Tender Wiphala de Martin Huberman, del Estudio Normal, y ha estado implicada en el diseño y la gráfica del proyecto Garbage Patch State de Maria Cristina Finucci.

Visita aqui la web de Eva Seijas!

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Eva Seijas (A Coruña, 1986). After graduating in Architecture from the Universidad San Pablo CEU and completing her education with design and landscape design studies at the Politecnico of Milan, she guides her practice towards design and ephemeral installations. Currently she collaborates with artist Darya von Berner and she works as a curator assistant for the exhibition Export. Spanish architecture abroad for the Museum of the ICO Foundation.

She’s taken part at projects such as Burbujas Voladoras by Myra Architects, A + Award for Best Ephemeral Architecture 2011; or the Tender Wiphala Martin Huberman from Normal Studio, and she’s been involved in the design and graphics of Garbage Patch State, a project by Maria Cristina Finucci project.

See here Eva Seijas’s website!

Participants: Marina Moner

///  for English, scroll down Tras el cierre con éxito de la convocatoria al Taller de Arquitectura Efímera y Espacios Culturales, en diciembre 2014, Andrés Jaque y Nerea Calvillo, los tutores del Taller, asistidos por Juana Canet Rosselló, han tenido una video conferencia con los 11 participantes al mismo. Desde entonces trabajan para desarrollar las ideas que llevarán a la construcción, en abril, de la pieza de arquitectura efímera para Espai Educatiu – Es Baluard. En las siguientes semanas, y en orden aleatorio,  vamos a ir conociendo a cada uno de los participantes al Taller.

Marina Moner (1989, Mallorca) : actualmente centrada en su Proyecto Final de Carrera cuyo tema está vinculado con los espacios museísticos y culturales, Moner es estudiante de la Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de la Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) en Reus, Cataluña. Ha completado su formación con una estancia de un año en la Università degli Studi di Trieste (Italia) dentro del programa Erasmus y ha sido becada para otra estancia en la Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV) en el marco del programa Séneca. Es ganadora del Premio para el diseño de la agenda de la URV y ha quedado finalista en el Concurso para el diseño del stand de la Agencia de Turismo de las Ilas Baleares (ATB) en la Feria de Turismo (FITUR). Ha participado en cursos y talleres, entre ellos el 3er Taller Internacional “Paisatges agraris de muntanya mediterrània, El Priorat” y las «Jornades sobre la LOUS» del Colegio de Abogados de las Islas Baleares. Ha trabajado en las oficinas del arquitecto Magí Marquès y de la interiorista Marian Carayol. ///

Following the successful closing of the call for the Workshop of Ephemeral Architecture and Cultural Spaces, back in December 2014, Andrés Jaque and Nerea Calvillo, the workshop tutors, assisted by Juana Canet Rosselló , have had a video call with the 11 participants to it. Since then they have been working to developing ideas that will lead to the construction, in April this year, of the piece of ephemeral architecture at Espai Educatiu – Baluard. In the upcoming weeks, and in random order, let’s get to know each of the participants to the workshop. Marina Moner (1989, Mallorca) Currently focused on her Final Project whose them is linked to Museums and Cultural Spaces, Moner is a student at the School of Architecture at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) in Reus, Catalonia. She completed her education with a one-year stay at the Università degli Studi di Trieste (Italy) within the Erasmus program and has been awarded a scholarship for another stay at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) under the Seneca program. Winner of the Competition for the Design of the Agenda of the URV, she was also a finalist in the Competition to design the Stand of the Tourism Agency of the Balearic Islands (ATB) at the Tourism Fair (FITUR). She participated in courses and workshops, including the 3rd International Workshop «Paisatges Agraris of mediterrània muntanya, El Priorat» and «Jornades on the LOUS» of the Lawyers’ Association of the Balearic Islands. She has been working in the office of the architect Magí Marquès and of the interior designer Marian Carayol.

Andrés Jaque & Nerea Calvillo at Espai Educatiu (EE) – Es Baluard

Yesterday, December 18th 2014, Andrés Jaque and Nerea Calvillo lectured at the Museum Es Baluard and before they visited its Educative Space (Espai Educatiu) for which themselves along with the 11 participants selected for the Workshop,  will propose an intervention to be built in April 2015. Before the lecture they also worked with Nekane Aramburu, the director of Es Baluard and after the lecture, they established a first contact with the participants of the Workshop.

Ayer, 18 de diciembre 2014, Andrés Jaque y Nerea Calvillo han dado una conferencia en el Museo Es Baluard tras haber visitado su Espacio Educativo (EE) para el que, junto a los 11 participantes seleccionados para el Workshop, van a proponer una intervención a ser realizada en Abril 2015. Antes de la conferencia han trabajado con Nekane Aramburu, la directora de Es Baluard y tras la conferencia, han establecido un primer contacto con los participantes al Workshop.

Andrés Jaque and Nerea Calvillo with Nekane Aramaburu, director of Es Baluard and the team of the Museum.

 

18.12.14 / 19.30h: Conferencia de Andrés Jaque y Nerea Calvillo en Es Baluard

El próximo 18 de diciembre, a 19:30h, Andrés Jaque y Nerea Calvillo, darán una conferencia abierta al público.

Esta conferencia da comienzo a un proceso de reflexión y trabajo téorico que culminará en abril 2015 con la construcción de una pieza de arquitectura efímera en el Espai Educatiu Guillem Cifre de Es Baluard. Todo este proceso está siendo dirigido por Andrés Jaque y Nerea Calvillo como tutores del Workshop de Arquitectura Efímera y Espacios Culturales, asistidos por Juana Canet Rosselló. 

La inscripción al Workshop se ha clausurado el pasado 1 de diciembre 2014. Entre los candidatos se elegirán 10 participantes que así tendrán la oportunidad de trabajar junto a dos de los arquitectos más innovadores de la escena contemporánea.

¡Os esperamos!

18 diciembre 2014 / 19:30: Conferencia de Andrés Jaque y Nerea Calvillo en Es Baluard. Acceso libre

PROTAGONISTS OF THE WORKSHOP EPHEMERAL ARCHITECTURE & CULTURAL SPACES: JUANA CANET ROSSELLÓ

The workshop Ephemeral Architecture and Cultural Spaces is going to be lead by a strong team of architects: Andrés Jaque, recently awarded with the Silver Lion at the 14. Venice Biennial and Nerea Calvillo, renown for curating the European Urban Screens Connecting Cities Network and recently awarded with a Poiesis Fellowship at the Public Knowledge Institute. They are going to be assisted by Juana Canet, who, among others, won the first prize in the international competition for a Memorial Building for the Tsunami victims in Thailand and the first prize in the competition for Emergency in San Cristobal de Colombia.

We invite you to know more about their works, by visiting their websites while we are happy to share a brief of their curriculum in different posts here.

Juana Canet Rosselló

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Architect by the ETSAM in 1999, and researcher (DEA, 2010) is currently working on her thesis. Her scope covers professional practice, research and teaching in the field of design, architecture, urbanism and landscape, earning the title of Master in Landscape Analysis and Design (UIB, 2009) and the title of expert in Cooperation for Development in the Third World (UPM 2011, ICHAB Chair), participating in cooperative programs and working as a professor at the European University (2011 workshops in Morocco, India, 2012 and 2013). Professor of architecture design, drawing, anthropometry in the European University from 2005 to 2013. She has got international experience in foreign offices, in London and built projects in Madrid and Mallorca, collective social and private housing, rehabilitation and other uses. In 2000 she won the first prize in the 1st stage and Special Mention in the 2nd stage of the International Competition of Architecture and Urbanism, in Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico. In 2006 she co-founded Architecture Disc-0 with Ana Somoza, winning the first prize in the international competition for a Memorial Building for the Tsunami victims in Thailand. Since then she obtained numerous awards, among them, a second award for the construction of 38 homes, Ibiza 2007 with C + Architects and a First Prize for a day center, Palma de Mallorca in 2010. In 2011 she co-founded the Estudio SPN with Ruth Cuenca and Elena Gomez, investigating the use of bamboo as a driver of human development in vulnerable communities in tropical countries and they got a first prize in the competition for Emergency in San Cristobal de Colombia Sept. 2012 and a second prize in the Competition for the Urban Development and Social Inclusion.

PROTAGONISTS OF THE WORKSHOP EPHEMERAL ARCHITECTURE & CULTURAL SPACES: NEREA CALVILLO

The workshop Ephemeral Architecture and Cultural Spaces is going to be lead by a strong team of architects: Andrés Jaque, recently awarded with the Silver Lion at the 14. Venice Biennial and Nerea Calvillo, renown for curating the European Urban Screens Connecting Cities Network and recently awarded with a Poiesis Fellowship at the Public Knowledge Institute. They are going to be assisted by Juana Canet, who, among others, won the first prize in the international competition for a Memorial Building for the Tsunami victims in Thailand and the first prize in the competition for Emergency in San Cristobal de Colombia.

We invite you to know more about their works, by visiting their websites while we are happy to share a brief of their curriculum in different posts here.

Nerea Calvillo /// C+

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Architect, studied at the ETSAM and the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, is a graduate of Advanced Design at Columbia University in New York with a Fulbright scholarship. She has collaborated with NO.MAD (Madrid) and Foreign Office Architects (London) and in 2004 opened her own studio: C +.

Specializing in new technologies as a project tool, she has designed numerous exhibitions, architecture projects and texts on architecture as well as research projects aimed at data visualization and generation of maps, all published in newspapers and the media and exhibited in reference centers such as LABoral (Gijón), Museum of Contemporary Art in Chile (Santiago, Chile), and the Canadian Center of Architecture (Montreal), among others.

Since 2006 she is a professor at the Universidad Europea de Madrid (UEM) and since 2010 she is a visiting professor at the University of Alicante (UA). She has been a curator of the research on digital façade Media(nera) Lab at Medialab-Prado in Madrid and the Media Façades Festival Europe 2010, and recently she obtained the Poiesis Fellowship of the Institute of Public Knowledge at the University of New York (NYU). She is currently a curator of European Urban Screens Connecting Cities Network, a researcher within the project Citizen Sense (Goldsmiths, University of London) and professor of architecture design in the Graduate School of Design (Harvard Univesity).

Protagonists of the workshop Ephemeral Architecture & Cultural Spaces: ANDRÉS JAQUE

The workshop Ephemeral Architecture and Cultural Spaces is going to be lead by a strong team of architects:  Andrés Jaque, recently awarded with the Silver Lion at the 14. Venice Biennial and Nerea Calvillo, renown for curating the  European Urban Screens Connecting Cities Network and recently awarded with a Poiesis Fellowship at the Public Knowledge Institute. They are going to be assisted  by Juana Canet, who, among others, won the first prize in the international competition for a Memorial Building for the Tsunami victims in Thailand and the first prize in the competition for Emergency in San Cristobal de Colombia.

We invite you to know more about their works, by visiting their websites while we are happy to share a brief of their curriculum in different posts here.

 

Andrés Jaque /// Office of Political Innovation

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Andrés Jaque and the Office for Political Innovation work to bring inclusivity into daily life. All their architectures can be seen as durable assemblages of the diversity ordinary life is made of.

In 2014 they received the Silver Lion of the 14 Mostra Internazionale di Architettura, Biennale di Venezia and they are authors of awarded projects such as Plasencia Clergy House (Dionisio Hernández Gil Prize), House in Never Never Land (Mies van der Rohe European Award’s finalist), TUPPER HOME (X Bienal Española de Arquitectura y Urbanismo), or ESCARAVOX (COAM Award 2013). Their work has participated in crucial debates where contemporary architecture is being developed. In 2012, the Museum of Modern Art of New York (MoMA) acquired their ‘IKEA Disobedients’ project as its first architectural performance to be part of its collection. In 2013 they presented ‘SUPERPOWERS OF TEN’ at Lisbon Architecture Triennale, ‘Different Kinds of Water Pouring into a Swimming Pool’ for RED CAT / CalArts Center for Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles, and ‘Hänsel & Gretel’s Arenas’ at La Casa Encendida, in Madrid. In 2012, they presented their intervention ‘PHANTOM. Mies as Rendered Society’ at Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona. In 2011, the research and prototype-making project ‘SWEET PARLIAMENT HOME’ was presented at the Gwangju Biennale and, in 2010, the installation ‘FRAY HOME HOME’ was presented at the Biennale di Venezia 2010.

They are authors of the publications PHANTOM. Mies as Rendered Society, Different Kinds of Water Pouring into a Swimming Pool, Dulces Arenas Cotidianas, Eco-Ordinary. Codes for everyday architectural practices and Everyday Politics. Their production has been published in the most important media including A+U, Domus, El Croquis, The New York Times or Vogue, among others. Their work has been exhibited at MoMA New York, MAK Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art in Vienna, London Design Museum, RED CAT Gallery at Roy and Edna Disney / CalArts Center for Contemporary Arts, Schweizerisches Architektur Museum in Basel, the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine de Paris, Mostra di Architettura de la Bienal de Venezia, Gwangju Biennale and Lisbon Architecture Triennale.

Andrés Jaque [1971], leads Andrés Jaque Architects and the Office for Political Innovation. He is currently a Professor of Advanced Design at Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation GSAPP Columbia University. He has been a Tessenow Stipendiat 1998 in Toepfer Stiftung FVS, in Hamburg, and Visiting Teacher in a number of international universities and has lectured and taken part in round tables throughout the world including Princeton University, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zurich, Instituto Politecnico di Milano, Centre International pour la Ville de Paris, Centre pour l’Architecture et le Paysage (Brussels), Sociedad Central (Buenos Aires), Berlage Institut (Rotterdam) or Museo Nacional (Bogotá).