Farzana Gandhi is an Architect and Associate Professor at the New York Institute of Technology. Her architecture and planning practice, Farzana Gandhi Design Studio, focuses on sustainable and socially conscious…
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UIC Barcelona hosted the ‘Executive Education & Business Challenges Forum’, a four-day virtual event that brought together more than 30 CEOs and entrepreneurs from renowned national and international corporations…
On August 4th, 2020, we witnessed the devastating blast in the port of Beirut. It was one of the biggest non-nuclear explosions in history. Approximately 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate,…
During the next month, teachers and students from UIC, AUB, Chalmers and RMIT university will work together on the planning and design components of the post-disaster recovery and reconstruction plan in Bourj Hammoud after the August…
Our guest professor Gonzalo Lizarralde from the University of Montreal returned this month to teach the workshop “Unnatural Disasters – Controversies in Low-Cost Housing and Post-Disaster Reconstruction”, exploring the connections between…
The Humanitarian Shelter & Settlements workshop is an important component of our Master’s program. The course explores how international agencies respond to displacement crisis for sudden natural disasters and draws…
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…
In October, guest professor Gonzalo Lizarralde visited to teach the seminar “Unnatural Disasters – Controversies in Low-Cost Housing and Post-Disaster Reconstruction”. During the seminar, our students explored the connections between social injustices,…
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…
For the 10th anniversary of our Master of International Cooperation and Emergency Sustainable Architecture, we had the honour to welcome Ian Davis as our guest speaker for the event. Drawing on more…