From its 19th century grid expansion devised by the Catalan engineer that coined the term ‘urbanization’, to the urban renewal projects led by Manuel de Solà-Morales and Oriol Bohigas during…
Poverty is widely perceived as an ailment of the developing world, but its reach extends to rich countries where the recent recession has only exacerbated the problem. The need for…
This week marks the beginning of our annual socio-spatial workshop in which our students undertake a hands-on, real-world project with a local neighborhood in Barcelona in assessing its social and…
Students visiting Comuna 8 with representative of the Urban Development Enterprise of the Municipality of Medellín. Photo: Allison Koornneef, 2013. We are proud to present a new article co-authored by…
We are excited to announce that Alejandro Haiek Coll, Venezuelan architect, artist and cofounder of LAB.PRO.FAB and The Public Machinery will be joining our faculty and leading his first workshop…
This week’s workshop is taught by African geopolitics and refugee camps expert Gonzalo Sánchez-Terán, former director of the Jesuit Refugee Service in Liberia and Ivory Coast and head of its programs…
We are proud to announce that the socio-spatial analysis conducted by our students this year in the Torre Baro workshop to assess the strategic value of spatial and cultural resources…
As part of the Housing and Land Management team of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), former student Noel Sampson is organizing a workshop titled Building resilient communities…
Our proposal for an alternative intervention in the urban periphery of Medellín developed in partnership with Universidad Nacional de Colombia in last year’s Medellín workshop has been awarded first prize…
Today marks the end of our newly launched Humanitarian Shelter & Settlements workshop in partnership with and certified by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Society (IFRC)….