FULVIO IRACE ANDRES LEPIK ANTONIO LUCAS LLÀTZER MOIX

III INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS

RELATORES RELATORS

ARQUITECTURA NECESARIA

NECESSARY ARCHITECTURE

ANDREAS GJERTSEN / TYIN JUAN HERREROS BJARKE INGELS / BIG CHRISTIAN KEREZ

ANUPAMA KUNDOO FRANCISCO MANGADO SHELLEY MCNAMARA / GRAFTON JUHANI PALLASMAA

DOMINIQUE PERRAULT ÁLVARO SIZA

III International Architecture CongressBaluarte de Pamplona, June 2014

Following the first two congresses held at the Baluarte de Pamplona – ‘More for Less’ in June 2010 and ‘The Common’ in June 2012 – the third international congress organized by the Fundación Arquitectura y Sociedad is set to take place in the same venue of the Navarrese capital to discuss ‘Necessary Architecture’. Like the ones before it, this congress will be a gathering of prominent architects and emerging figures.

The maiden edition brought Renzo Piano, Jacques Herzog, and Glenn Murcutt (three winners of the Pritzker, architecture’s Nobel) together, with the architecture deans of Harvard and Columbia and the philosopher Slavoj Zizek completing a cast of participants from five continents. The sequel two years later was graced by another three Pritzker holders, with Norman Foster opening the event and Iberian masters Rafael Moneo and Eduardo Souto de Moura closing it, and between them a fine array of international architects, veteran and young.

The first two congresses upheld austerity and solidarity as tools for addressing the crisis that afflicts the country and the profession. The third one seeks to put emphasis on architecture as something we need to improve the environment and people’s lives, but also as an activity that must avoid unnecessary works and unnecessary expense. For this purpose it is bringing together a mix of leading and emerging architects who are known to combine professional excellence with attention to sustainability and the social dimension of architecture.

The motto of this new symposium, ‘Necessary Architecture’, has two meanings that are mutually reinforcing. On the one hand, it proposes the necessary, as opposed to the excessive or the extravagant; on the other hand, it defends the need for architecture against those who deem it superfluous. The first sense of the motto advocates restraint and moderation, preferring austerity and laconicism instead of material and symbolic squander: an architecture that uses reasonable means and makes scarce gestures. The second stresses the importance of this public art, which cannot be reduced to mere construction: architecture understood as a vehicle for presenting and conveying cultural values.

Rallying at once against excess and defect, the motto’s two meanings converge in defense of a restrained and responsible architecture, as attentive to the limits marked by sustainability as aware of its role in the orchestration of sociability. Architecture, hence, as necessary; but no more of it than is necessary. Tatlin said, “Not the old, not the new, but the necessary,” and this determination to rescue architecture from changing tastes and establish its necessity perhaps forgets that time and circumstances alter what we consider indispensable; but it also illuminates, with its blinding flash of bold slogan, the supreme aesthetic elegance and the exact ethical responsibility of the necessary.

Luis Fernández-Galiano

Program11-13 June 2014

11 June, morningOpening: Tasks of the Present Bjarke Ingels / BIG, Copenhagen, New York Dominique Perrault, ParisRelator: Llàtzer Moix, Barcelona

11 June, afternoonArchitecture and Shelter: Small is LargeAnupama Kundoo, Auroville Andreas Gjertsen / TYIN, Trondheim Relator: Andres Lepik, Munich

12 June, morningArchitecture and Performance: Building OrderJuan Herreros, MadridChristian Kerez, ZurichRelator: Fulvio Irace, Milan

12 June, afternoonArquitecture and Pleasure: Pragmatic BeautyFrancisco Mangado, Pamplona Shelley McNamara / Grafton, DublinRelator: Antonio Lucas, Madrid

13 June, morningConclusion: A Humanistic FutureJuhani Pallasmaa, HelsinkiÁlvaro Siza, PortoSiza and Pallasmaa in Conversation

Andreas G. Gjertsen and Yashar Hanstad set up the practice TYIN Tegnestue Architects in the Norwegian city of Trondheim in the year 2008. Under the principle that solutions to real challenges call for an architecture that follows necessity, the firm has completed several projects in poor and underdeveloped areas of Thailand, Burma, Haiti, and Uganda. The studio’s activity does not stay on the boards at the office, but rather, by involving the local populace actively in both the design and the subsequent execution of their projects, TYIN are able to establish a framework for mutual exchange of knowledge and skills. All the materials used in TYIN’s constructions are either collected close to the sites or pur-chased from local merchants. Their work has won several international awards and their buildings have been published and exhibited worldwide.

Juan Herreros (Madrid, 1958) is a chair professor of Projects at the Madrid School of Architecture and a full professor at Columbia University’s GSAPP in New York. Previously he has taught at Princeton, the Architectural Association, the EPF of Lausanne, and the IIT in Chicago. With Iñaki Ábalos he set up Abalos&Herreros back in 1984. The work of A&H was distinguished on several occasions, extensively featured in specialized journals, and included in collective exhibitions like the MoMA shows ‘Light Construction’, ‘Groundswell’, and ‘On Site: New Architecture in Spain’. Since 2006 he has been working under the name Herreros Arquitectos, a collaborative entity that, among other achievements to date, won first prize in the competition to design and build the Munch Museum in Oslo as well as in that for the Bogotá International Convention Center. Juan Herreros is a RIBA International Fellow.

A. Gjertsen / TYIN Trondheim

Juan HerrerosMadrid

Bjarke Ingels (Copenhagen, 1974) created BIG in 2005 after co-founding PLOT Architects in 2001 and working with OMA in Rotterdam. The programmatic and technically innovative nature of his buildings, coupled with their attention to available resources, has made him the leader of a sustainable hedonist approach to architecture that combines environmental and social aspects. Ingels has received numerous distinctions, including the Danish Crown Prince’s Culture Prize in 2011, the Golden Lion of the Venice Biennale in 2004, and the ULI Award for Excellece in 2009. In 2011 the Wall Street Journal named him Innovator of the Year for architecture. He has combined professional practice with teaching at universities like Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Rice, and is an honorary professor at the Royal Academy of Arts School of Architecture in Copenhagen.

Christian Kerez (Maracaibo, 1962) studied at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. With an extensively published body of work in the field of architectural pho-tography to show for, he set up practice in this Swiss city in the year 1993. At his alma mater he became visiting professor of design and architecture in 2001, assistant professor in 2003, and finally full professor in 2009. The list of his completed projects include the apartment building on Forsterstrasse, the House with One Wall, and the Leutschenbach School, all of these located in Zurich. Notable among Kerez’s design competition wins are for the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw in 2007 and for the Holcim Competence Center in 2008, and these days find him busy working on a large social housing development in São Paulo as well as a skyscraper in China.

Bjarke Ingels / BIG Copenhagen, New York

Christian Kerez Zurich

Anupama Kundoo (Pune, 1967) set up her studio in Auroville, India, in 1990. Her work focusses on the study of materials and experimentation to produce architecture of low environmental impact and adjusted to its socioeconomic context. She has taught at several schools, such as London’s Architectural Association, TU Darmstadt, TU Berlin, and Parsons New School of Design in New York. Currently she teaches at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, and from September 2014 on she will be engaged as professor at the ESAYT, Escuela de Arquitectura de la UCJC, in Madrid. Projects and writings of hers have been featured in a wide range of books, international journals, and newspapers. Her recent contribution to the XIII Venice Architecture Biennale involved a full-scale facsimile of her ‘Wall House’ project. In 2013 she received an Honorable Mention in the International Prize arcVision – ‘Women and Architecture’.

Francisco Mangado (Navarre, 1957) graduated from the University of Navarre School of Archi-tecture, where he has taught since 1982. He has been a guest professor at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, an Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor at Yale’s SOA, and a guest lecturer at the EPF of Lausanne. This term he is a visiting professor at Cornell. In 2008 he created the Fundación Arquitectura y Socieded. Prominent among his works are the Baluarte Congress Center and Au-ditorium and the Spanish Pavilion at Expo Zaragoza 2008. His professional activity has earned him, among other honors, the Andrea Palladio Architecture Award, the FAD for Architecture, the Copper in Architecture Award, and Spain’s National Architecture Award in 2009. He was named a RIBA International Fellow in 2011 and an AIA Honorary Member in 2013, a year which also brought him the RIBA EU Award for the Municipal Auditorium of Teulada.

Anupama Kundoo Auroville

Francisco MangadoPamplona

Juhani Pallasmaa (Hämeenlinna, 1936) has combined architectural practice (he is co-author of the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki) with teaching (he was director of the Helsinki School of Architecture) and his work as an architectural historian and critic, which has been materialized in several books; a multifaceted career that has put him on the jury of the Pritzker Prize since 2008. Pallasmaa also directed the Museum of Finnish Architecture, where he curated exhibitions with much international impact, including ‘The Language of Wood’ (1987) and ‘Animal Architecture’ (1995). Encounters: Architectural Essays (2006), The Thinking Hand (2009), and The Embodied Image (2011) count among his most widely read books, but without a doubt his most translated publication is The Eyes of the Skin, where he advocates a return to the haptic and sensual nature of architecture.

Yvonne Farrell (Tullamore) and Shelley McNamara (Lisdoonvarna) graduated from University College Dublin, where they taught from 1976 to 2002. In 1978 they set up Grafton Architects, which they head with Gerard Carty and Philippe O’Sullivan. Their work has merited numerous international honors, prominent among which is the World Building of the Year award in 2008 for their building at Luigi Bocconi University in Milan. They are currently busy with the cons-truction of the University Toulouse 1 Capitole School of Economics and the new UTEC campus in Lima. This professional activity comes with membership in several prestigious institutions including the RIAU, the RIBA, or Aosdána, Besides holding the Kenzo Tange Chair at Harvard and the Louis Kahn Chair at Yale, they have been visiting professors at the Accademia d’Archittetura di Mendrisio and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne..

Juhani Pallasmaa Helsinki

S. McNamara / Grafton Dublin

Álvaro Siza (Matosinhos, 1933) studied architecture at the School of Fine Arts of Porto and began to teach there after graduating. He has also been a visiting professor at the universities of Lausanne, Pennsylvania, and Bogotá, as well as at Harvard. His most important works include the Casa de Cha Boa Bova restaurant (1958), the Leça de Palmeira swimming pools (1966), the Schlesisches Tor housing in Berlin (1988), the Meteorology Center in Barcelona (1992), the Galician Center of Contemporary Art in Santiago de Compostela (1993), the Faculty of Architecture (1988), the church of Marco de Canaveses (1996), and the Serralves Foundation in Porto (1999). Among many distinctions Siza holds the gold medals of the Council of Spanish Architectural Associations (CSCAE) and the Alvar Aalto Foundation, both bestowed on him in 1988. He won the Pritzker Prize in 1992 and the Praemium Imperiale in 1998.

Dominique Perrault (Auvernia, 1953) is perhaps the youngest of the heavyweights in the current international architecture scene. He earned his architecture degree at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1978, and a year later he finished postgraduate studies in town planning from the École supérieure des Ponts et Chaussée. He also holds a diploma in history. Among his early works we can mention the ESIEE engineering school building in Marne-la-Vallée and the Biblio-thèque Nationale de France, and more recent projects include Fukuoka Tower in Osaka, Donau-City Tower in Vienna, and the Grand Theatre complex in Albi. Since 1988 he has sat on the board of the Institut Français d’Architecture, and in 1990 he became consultant architect for the city of Nantes. The numerous distinctions he has received include the Silver Medal for Town Planning, the Grand National Prize for Architecture, and the Mies van der Rohe Award.

Dominique Perrault Paris

Álvaro Siza Porto

Andres Lepik (Augsburg, 1962) is an architecture curator and critic. He headed the architecture collection of the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, where he organized large-scale exhibitions on Renzo Piano (2000), OMA (2003), Oswald Matthias Ungers (2006), and so on. He has combined his keen interest in contemporary architecture with a devotion to the study of history – evi-denced by the exhibition on Mies van der Rohe that was put on show in 2001 at Schinkel’s Altes Museum – and a sensitivity for social issues, manifested during his 2007–2011 stint as curator in the MoMA’s architecture and design department, where besides involvement in the Young Architects Program at PS1, he presented the exhibition ‘Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement’ and the accompanying book. Lepik has been at the helm of the TU Munich Architecture Museum since 2012.

Fulvio Irace (Salerno, 1950) teaches Contemporary History and Criticism at the Polytechnic University of Milan’s design school. He is a visiting lecturer at the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture and sits on the board of the Architectural History doctorate at the Polytechnic of Turin. A senior editor at Domus (1980–1986) and Abitare (1987–2007), he is a regular contributor in international specialized magazines and the Sunday supplement of the newspaper Il SOle 24 Ore. In 2005 he won the Bruni Zevi Prize for Architectural Criticism. He is part of the scientific committees of the Vico Magistretti and Renzo Piano foundations, and served in the Triennale di Milano’s. He has curated many exhibitions and his recent books include David Chipperfield Architects, Renzo Piano Building Workshop: Visible Cities, Dimenticare Vitruvio, La Divina Proporzione, and Gio Ponti:Designer.

Andres LepikMunich

Fulvio IraceMilan

Antonio Lucas (Madrid, 1975), a journalism graduate, has worked in the newspaper El Mundo since 1996 and is currently a culture editor and writer. Besides daily news reporting, he produces En Primera Fila, a Sunday edition series of interviews with prominent figures of national and world culture. Antonio Lucas also has an extensive poetic career, having published Antes del mundo (second place in the Adonais Awards, Madrid, Rialp) in 1996 and Lucernario (Barcelona, DVD Ediciones) in 1999, which in 2000 won him the Ojo Crítico de Poesía recognition of Spanish radio (RNE). In 2004 he published Las Máscaras (Barcelona, DVD Ediciones), and that same year he won the International City of Melilla award for the book Los mundos contraries. In 2014 he was given the prestigious Loewe Foundation Inter-national Poetry Prize for the collection of poems Los desengaños.

Llàtzer Moix (Sabadell, 1955) is a cultural journalist. Having earned his degree in Informa-tion Sciences at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, he worked in Catalunya-Express, El Correo Catalán, and TVE (Spanish Television) before starting in the Barcelona newspaper La Vanguardia, in which for twenty years, until 2009, he was in charge of cultural themes, and where he now serves as deputy editor, leader writer, columnist, and architecture critic. His books, published by Anagrama and Six Barral, include Mariscal (1992), La ciudad de los arquitectos (1994), Wilt soy yo. Conversaciones con Tom Sharpe (2002), Mundo Mendoza (2006), and Arquitectura milagrosa (2010). He taught in the University of Gerona’s Master of Art Communication and Criticism program and participated as a relator in the Fundación Arquitectura y Sociedad’s ‘More for Less’ congress in 2010.

Antonio LucasMadrid

Llàtzer MoixBarcelona

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