This article was written by our director Carmen Mendoza-Arroyo and first appeared in Spanish in The Conversation. Crises caused by natural disasters or situations of conflict are always a challenge…
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An Alumni Interview with Dario Guazzo, Jonathan Maier, and Marcello Maltagliati about their work with Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman at the UCSD Center on Global Justice The complex challenges…
The ever-growing impact of climate change, military conflicts, rapid urbanization and economic crises are some of the pressing issues we examine with our students in our master’s degree with a joint…
Today as we move into a new decade, we reflect on how the global events in the past ten years have shaped our Master program. The essence of our program…
Alejandro de Castro returned this year as guest professor to teach the course “The visual bias: A history of urban design arguments at precarious areas”. De Castro coordinated GSAPP’s Latin Lab…
UIC Barcelona and the Master of International Cooperation Sustainable Emergency Architecture are co-organisers of the upcoming scientific conference on Risk, Resilience and Gender. The conference will take place in Rio…
Kathrin Golda-Pongratz (Augsburg, 1971) is an architect, urban planner, and professor at the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture. She has carried out research into urbanisation processes linked to migration, informal…
Though much of the mainstream architectural discourse around informal settlements centers on the issue of adequate housing, it is inadequate sanitation that poses an even greater risk to the health…
This article was written by former student Thaisa Comelli and originally published in the Septmeber 2015 print issue of the German architecture magazine Baumeister. Babilonia favela, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil…
This year’s Curry Stone’s Vision Award goes to The Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centers (SPARC) “for their dedicated work in improving the lives of slum-dwellers across India.”…