>PRESENTATION DISSECCIONS DES DE PERE IV. POBLENOU PER PARTS.
13:30. MUHBA-Oliva Artés, Barcelona. Exhibition about the results of the course Urbanística II-M.

>PRESENTATION Presentation of the European Prize Manuel de Solà-Morales, at the Manuel de Solà-Morales library, COAC. [link]

>WORKSHOP ETSAB students, along with LUB profesor Carles Crosas, participate in the International Workshop Internacional Integrated Urban Design for Sustainable Metropolitan Region, at the IUAV. [link]

>LECTURE 4th Edition of the Manuel de Solà-Morales Memorial. "Querido Manuel, ¿Por qué 22 x 18?" presented by professor Eduard Bru on thursday, 25th February, 12:00 in the ETSAB conference hall. [link]

>EXPOSITION PIN-B. MIXED FABRICS IN THE CONTEMPORARY METROPOLIS. 19:00h, Centre Cívic Can Cabanyes, Badalona. Opening of the exhibition about the results of the course Urbanística V-M, leaded by professors J. Bellmunt, Á. Clua, C. Crosas, S. Jornet and M. Ruisánchez. [link]

>SEMINAR ON THE ROAD. Research Group Urban Projects, Collective Spaces and Local Identities, from KU Leuven, along with LUB, organize on 25th and 26th January a PhD Seminar at the ETSAB. LUB Researchers Carles Crosas, Jorge Perea, Eulàlia Gómez and Álvaro Clua participate with different lectures. [link]

>ARTICLE The journal Proyecto. Progreso. Arquitectura publishes the article Slussen as a Paradigm. Architecture and Infrastructure in five stages, by LUB’s researcher Alvaro Clua. The article is included in the 13th publication entitled Arquitectura e Infraestructura. [link]

>ARTICLE Reivindicación de la Monumental. Maria Rubert de Ventos, Chair Professor of Urban Planning at the ETSAB-UPC, explains the situation in El Periódico of the Monumental bullring, putting it in relation to other actions undertaken in the city such as Las Arenas or the Forum. Noticing a tendency to give effective responses to ill-defined problems, it is proposed to rethink the proposed use of the building to launch a neighborhood improvement in relation with Passeig de La Marina, exploiting the potential of the ground floor and its central void. [link]

>Friday 4th of December, teacher  Eulàlia Gómez defended her DOCTORAL THESIS "Comerç, Ciutat. Paisatges arran de Terra.”, directed by professor Enric Serra and qualified as CUM LAUDE. Joan Busquets, Blanca Lleó, Kris Scheerlinck, Eduard Bru and Carles Crosas were the jury.
Congratulations, Eulàlia!

>OPENING_LECTURE “Una ciutat a dues velocitats. Escenaris a l’origen de la Tarragona Moderna.” Presented by profesor Josep Parcerisa November 26 in occasion of the beginning of the 2015-16 academic year in the Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Reus.

>SEMINAR The Laboratori d'Urbanisme de Barcelona, along with Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (UNCUYO) and LabMPCAT has organized a Seminar to the Gran Mendoza’s Metropolitan Area delegation, led by Mr. Alfredo Víctor Cornejo and four local governors. Professionals from the most representative public institutions in Barcelona (AMB, Ajuntament de Barcelona, Barcelona Regional and UPC) have intervened Under the title Design, Management and Governance in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona. [program]

>PUBLICATIONCarles Crosas and Jorge Perea, both members of Laboratori d'Urbanisme de Barcelona, along with the Laboratory on Urbanism, Infrastructure and Ecologies, from Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), published the results of the international workshop UPCYCLE BARCELONA. Cogenerative strategies for a sustainable Urban Metabolism.[link]

>EXHIBITION Some of the last results on Barcelona Links, Racons Públics and Learning from Medellín are exhibited at PISO PILOTO expo at CCCB from 03.06 to 25.10 under the theme #Right to the city. Professors Àlex Giménez, Josep Parcerisa, Maria Rubert, Carles Crosas and Àlvaro Clua have been curators of that section. [link]

>PRESENTATION Presentation and discusion about the book Barcelona, 20th Century Urbanism from professor Josep Parcerisa, in the framework of Cicle Lletraferits "Al voltant dels hàbits... de Barcelona", moderated by professor Jorge Perea, in sala de graus of ETSAB at 19:30h. [link]

>EXHIBITION Inauguration of the exhibition "Palma: Centralitat i densitat a l'Eixample Nord" in COAIB about the work produced in the course Taller de Projectes d'Urbanisme. Presentation and debate on friday, 6th March at 18:30h in the exhibition hall of COAIB.[link]

>LECTURE"Manuel de Solà-Morales. Porto. Passeio Atlantico", presented by professor Jorge Perea on thursday, 5th march, 10:30 in the ETSAB conference hall.

>LECTURE On the occasion ofInternational Graduate Research Symposium "Tabula Rasa" in Pamplona, researcher Álvaro Clúa presents the dissertation "Slussen before Slussen: built and imagined ideas". [link]

>EXHIBITION LUB collaborates with AMB in the framework of the exhibition Metròpolis Barcelona: 1975/2015. The period between 1975-2015 correspods to a great growth of Barcelona under the guideline of PGM and the development of a big european metropolis. During these years the urban land has been duplicated in the metropolitan cities. The transformation has been focused in the modernization of the infrastructures, the scale change of the tissues, the formalization of a new structure of green public spaces and the development of big metropolitan devices. [link]

>EL PERIÓDICO Josep Parcerisa brings to the spotlight the accidents of Girona's AVE line in the article "Un precedent poc recomanable", in which he considers alternative solutions given to the railway crossings across urban cores. Starting from economic and political variables, it goes into detail about the true problems and prejudices that have given cause to the current situation of urban conciliation of the infrastructures within the cities. [link]

>Tuesday 25th of November, LUB investigator Álvaro Clúa defended his MASTER THESIS "Building the interstice. From the Slussen as an urban project to the Stockholm of T. W-Olsson", directed by professor Josep Parcerisa and HONORS qualified.
Congratulations, Álvaro!

>COMPETITION Bayona-Valero Architects Associates, together with Cantallops-Vicente Architects, has won the proposals' competition organized by BIMSA for the social center of Trinitat Nova, in Nou Barris district. Congratulations!

>LECTURE+ARTICLE Josep Parcerisa and Àlvaro Clua publish the article Territorial Hypotheses after forty years of amendments to the general metropolitan plan, as part of Quaderns 05: Metropolitan research[1]. This study is a look at isolated amendments of the PGM intended to help make them visible from the point of view of a strategic and geographical understanding of their impact. [link]

>SEMINAR Santiago de Chile, 1929-1939. Ideas y formas de la ciudad moderna proposes a critical look into the urban knowledge included in Brunner's "modern city" plan, which will allow an interpretation of the operations that lead the urban development process and the urban condition with the main interventions. [link]

>PUBLICATION Barcelona, 20th Century Urbanism outlines questions and answers to a century of urbanism in Barcelona stressing two key periods: the years in which Barcelona was conceived as a capital city and the years in which it was converted into a metropolis, always from the standpoint of the current matters of the city crucial for its future. [link]

>PUBLICATION Carles Crosas, Jorge Perea and Josep Maria Solè contribute to Raval Barcelona Street Scape Territories Notebook, the compilation of reflections, interventions and conclusions arosen in the framework of the international workshop Streetscape Territories: Spaces of Inclusion. The starting point brings closer new anthropological and social facors to incorporate in the design process of the public space. [link]

>DIARI ARA Josep Parcerisa proposes, in the article "Mancomunar la línia 9 del metro" an association between different administrations in order to complete the construction of the metro's line nine central section, arguing that it would be a great advance in the Barcelona's metropolitan area mobility . [link]

>LECTURE The Urbanism Laboratory of Barcelona participates in the symposium organised by the Polytechnic University of Catalonia "Transició vers un nou model energètic".[link]

>LECTURE+ARTICLE Maria Rubert outlines a reflection about the handling of open spaces in Green civic structures in metropolitan complexes, within the framework Quaderns 03: Urbanism of open spaces: landscape, leisure and production. Emphasizing this new spaces of oportunity, the article defends an approach which attends to the distinctive features within the area without refusing to follow a global proposal. [link]

>PUBLICATION The Urbanism Laboratory of Barcelona has reedited Maria Rubert and Josep Parcerisa's La ciudad no es una hoja en blanco. The issue is an invitation to the knowledge of the facts that have build the city, as well as a promotion of the lessons that come from its conflicts and the compromises. [link]

>LECTURE+ARTICLE Josep Parcerisa publishes the article El PGM en perspectiva, as part of Quaderns 01: Towards the writing of Pla Director Urbanístic metropolità, in which previous decisions made during the last decades are revised. It also develops a new questioning view, closer to the needs of many of the numerous disciplines involved. [link]

>WORKSHOP Cogenerative design strategies for a sustainable urban metabolism focuses on urban design strategies to achieve a sustainable urban metabolism in an industrial district such as Barcelona's Zona Franca. [link]

>Thursday 20th of March architect and prof. José Rosas presents "Una ciudad americana" at the conference hall of ETSAB.

>Architect and urbanist Eduardo Mangada will give a talk on "MANUEL DE SOLÀ-MORALES ayer y hoy " on March 13th at the COAC conference hall.

>Thursday 20th of February Engineer José Luis Gómez Ordóñez presents "MANUEL DE SOLÀ-MORALES desde el Plan de la Ribera | Manuel de Solà-Morales from the Ribera Plan" in the ETSAB conference hall.

>WORKSHOP Streetscape Territories: Spaces of Inclusion is the workshop organised by the ETSAB and other european schools of architecture, wich focuses on the social dynamics of Barcelona's district Raval, proposing some solutions for the neighbourhood's future. [link]

>PRESENTATION PAPERS D'UR 04/2013 is presented at the PUC of Santiago de Chile. Professors Maria Rubert, Josep Parcerisa and Carles Crosas present Papers D'UR 04/2013 in the symposium "Urbanismo, disciplina y enseñanza" which will be held in the Pontificia Universidad Católica of Santiago de Chile. [link]

>Jordi Sardà gets the "X Concurso Arquia/Tesis" first award for his PhD thesis “Només imatge, vehicle de coneixement urbà”. [link]

Professor Josep Parcerisa has been designated Vice-rector of the UPC's Architecture Area in the team leaded by the Rector Enric Fossas, who was elleged last november by the UPC's community. The laboratory of urbanism wishes the best to the new board of directors.[link]

>EL PERIÓDICO In the context of FC Barcelona's recent announcement, wich has proposed to refurbish the old stadium or build a new one in the beginning of Diagonal Av., Josep Parcerisa argues for the the second option in the article " El Barça, a la Diagonal". [link]

>DEBATE The online video version of "Barcelona Links" wich was held on 29th November is now available. Joan Busquets, Judith carrera, Josep Llinàs, Miquel Roa, Maria Rubert and Josep Parcerisa took part in this debate.[link]

>EL PERIÓDICO Josep Parcerisa reviews the latest changes in Les Glòries square in the article called "Les Glòries, pam a pam". The author gives a critical reflexion about the future of the square and its urban projects to develop in.[link]

>LECTURE "Theory and Urban projects: Honoring Manuel de Solà-Morale" is the lecture presented by professors Carles Crosas, Jens Aerts, Kris Scheerlinck and Jorge Perea in the faculty of architecture of the Université Libre de Bruxelles on Oct 30th at 8:00 PM. [link]

>DEBATE: Architects Joan Busquets, Judit Carrera, Josep Llinàs, Miquel Roa, Maria Rubert, Josep Parcerisa will discuss some of the issues displayed in the exposition "Barcelona, Links". [link]

>LECTURE: "Roots for a twenty first century urbanism" is the symposium dedicadated to the critical and theoretical legacy of professor Manuel de Solà Morales at the GSD Harvard Piper Auditorium on October 10th. [link]

>EL PERIÓDICO: Oriol Bohigas publishes "Enlaces de Barcelona", where he mentions the exhibition "Barcelona Links" organized by LUB, as well as the potential that the laboratory of urbanism has in terms of producing lines of research to approach the urban challenges of the city of Barcelona.[link]

>EXHIBITION Opening of "Barcelona Links" exposition at 19:30 at the Conference Hall of the Assoctiation of Arhcitects of Catalonia (COAC) with the participation of architects Beth Galí and Xavier Monteys and comissioners Josep Parcerisa and Carles Crosas. The exposition will be opened until October 24th. [link]

>LECTURE Professor Manuel Bailo presents "Urban Catalyst. Against Indifference" lecture at the Campbell Hall (University of Virginia) on September 27th at 6:00 pm. [link]

> Architect Alberto Cruz, founder of the School of Architecture and Design of PUC Valparaiso has passed away. The Laboratory of Urbanism has had a close relationship with the main chilean schools; the one which had more personality was founded by Alberto Cruz and Godofredo Iommi. This link to the Mercurio's newspaper obituary is shared by all who met him and discovered and admired his vision on architecture. JP [link]

>EL PERIÓDICO Professor Maria Rubert de Ventós publishes "¿Rotondes o círculos viciosos?", in wich she questions the use of roundabouts to organise the traffic, providing some ideas that would improve the quality of the roads. [article]

> Professor Marshall Berman (1941) passed away on September 11th while he was having breakfast in a dinner in New York. His book "All that's solid is melt into air" is one of the most important essays about the city of New York. From the LUB we invite you to read the obituary published in the New York Times. [link]

>EL PERIÓDICO "Las aceras de los Encants" is the title of the new article in which professor Maria Rubert de Ventós proposes a new way to read and understand the sense and use of architecture around Glòries. [article]

>Professor Álex Giménez presents ten years of RACONS PÚBLICS in a new LUB short take. [Racons Públics Barcelona 2012]

>Forma urbis. Cinco ciudades bajo sospecha by teacher Josep Parcerisa Bundó has been recognised as one of the PREMIS FAD (FAD AWARDS) finalists of Critical and Thinking 2013.

>EL PERIÓDICO "El futuro de la arquitectura habla". The ETSAB Urbanism II-M students, with professors Àlex Giménez and Maria Rubert, have developed the last part of their excercise about the Besòs-Campus Llevant with an action in the school's outdoors. The act consisted on creating big numbers done with reused materials and parts of students models, which represents the volum of the cutbacks done to the UPC in the last months. [article]

>GIORNATE INTERNAZIONALI DI STUDIO SUL MURATTIANO To commemorate the bicentennial of the Borgo Murattiano Bari founding, professors Carles Crosas and Jordi Sardà participate in the International Murattiano Study Conferences held on April 22th and 23th in the city. [pdf]

>Maria Rubert publishes “Costes de la Ley de Costas", denunciation of the urban development of the coastline of our country in the recent years and tribute to the important figure of Manuel Ribas Piera (1925-2013), praising its discretion, civic interest and passion for landscape and territory.[+]

>The Arquitectes per l'Arquitectura (WxH) Collective in collaboration with the Ateneo Barcelones organizes a cycle of LECTURES-DIALOGUE about the future of Barcelona. Based on the issues presented in "Deu Lliçons sobre Barcelona", it will be discussions on current city planning from the hand of some professionals, including several teachers of the Laboratory and the Urbanism Department.

>Manuel Ribas Piera, Professor of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, passed away on Thursday March 14th in Barcelona. Doctor of Architecture and Bachelor of Laws, he was Professor of Urbanism at the UPC from 1956 to 1990, where he began studying landscaping. Renowned author of works of architecture, urban plans for Catalan and Spanish cities and of various publications, received the Creu de Sant Jordi from the Generalitat de Catalunya (2001). The Laboratory of Urban laments his death and expresses his condolences to the family.

>Thursday 14th of February Architect Oriol Clos presents "MANUEL DE SOLÀ-MORALES al port de Saint-Nazaire (1995-2002) | Manuel de Solà-Morales into the Saint-Nazaire harbour (1995-2002)" in the ETSAB conference hall.

>Past Wednesday 12th of December. professor Jordi Sardà defended his DOCTORAL TESIS "Només Imatges. La targeta postal, vehicle de coneixement urbà | Images only. The postcard, vehicle of urban knowledge ”, directed by teacher Manuel de Solà-Morales, co-directed by professor Maria Rubert and qualified with a CUM LAUDE. Rafael Moneo, Josep Parcerisa, Manolo Laguillo, Carmen Bonell and Pau Solà-Morales were the jury.
Congratulations, Jordi!

>Josep Parcerisa publishes “Llorca-Montpeller i l’eix mediterrani | Lorca-Montpellier and the Mediterranean axis” in ARA newspaper talking about high velocity development politics in the Spanisht State as the AVE has finally arrived to Girona and Figueres. .[+]

>Presentation of the book FORMA URBIS. CINCO CIUDADES BAJO SOSPECHA | Forma Urbis. Five cities under sispicion.
by Josep Parcerisa Bundó.

Will take part, besides the author:
Manuel Ruisánchez, COAC vowel and DUOT teacher
Joan Busquets, Urban Planning Design Harvard Graduated School teacher.
Antoni Marí, writer, Art theory teacher UPF

>Professor Francesc Bacardit and Manuel Ruisánchez presents the FABRA i COATS project and work in a new LUB short take.

>GLÒRIES DISCUSSION is a new LUB short take in which Daniel Mòdol presents his experience with the recent project and Miquel Corominas will take the turn first to make a preliminary intervention talking about some background references.

>Carles Crosas gets the EXTRAORDINARY DOCTORATE AWARD 2012. Congratulations!

>“Eurovegas: la mida sí que importa | Eurovegas: size matters”. Josep Parcerisa gives his opinion in the SPECIAL ISSUE ARA newspaper dedicates to one of the last months main discussion subject. [+]

At the end of summer, the new Barcelona bus lines are a good ocasison to debate about general mobility in the city, focusing on “La Diagonal del tot o res | The all or nothing Diagonal”, where Parcerisa rough out some lines related to the public transport, the Diagonal failed discussion and the future of the 22@ sector. [+]

22-sept-2009