After a fwe days in Quito working hand by hand with FLACSO and AYRIWA, our MICSEA teams have been in “La Lucha de los Pobres”. They have developed a small…
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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,…
As part of our Beirut Workshop, we were honoured to have Brett Moore join us online to explain the UNHCR’s formal humanitarian response to Beirut’s port explosion. Brett Moore is…
INITIAL PHYSICAL ASSESSMENT AT A NEIGHBORHOOD SCALE Following the Introductory Context Workshop held on February 18th and 19th, the UIC and project partners have now entered the design stage of…
On Friday March 6, our students presented their proposals for the Montjuïc area in Barcelona prepared during the two-week socio-spatial workshop Mapping Towards Connectivity. The jury included director Carmen Mendoza,…
Over the next two weeks, our students will participate in our local socio-spatial workshop. After working for the last two years with Barcelona’s Ciutat Refugi, a municipal program that handles the reception,…
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…
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…
This is the main conclusion drawn from a study by the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture on the process of urban reconstruction in the Barcelona neighbourhood of San Cosme since…
India’s urban population is projected to grow from around 400 million (2011 census) to 600 million by 2030, comprising 40 percent of the country’s population. Cities will face multiple challenges…