ACTIVITIES + CONFERENCES
Enric Massip-Bosch has held a lecture called «Forms of Immediacy» in the Urbanism chapter, in conjunction with Miquel Lacasta architect. With Vicente Guallart moderator, at the IAAC main hall.
FORMS OF IMMEDIACY
Architecture
is commonly seen as an interface between the world and the human being. A sort
of mediator between a hostile exterior and a precarious me.
Architecture, so the story goes, makes the world inhabitable. It is our buffer,
so intimately ingrained in our everyday life that it is an extension of
ourselves.
Or is it? What if
these assumptions were wrong and architecture is not a buffer but a straitjacket,
not comforting our senses but dulling them? A limitation that hampers our
understanding of reality? What if architecture doesn’t help us see but impedes
us to see?
Architectural
responses to this condition of being a mediator have been complicated at best,
and usually rhetorical. It has favored narratives to supportarchitectural
choices, and they have inevitably derived towards fallacies -conceptual
crutches to uphold a cultural fabrication, bringing us further apart from
architectural experience.
Forms of
Immediacy explores the possibility of an architecture born directly from its
conditions, technical or topological to out it briefly, generating emotion
without the layering of convoluted arguments, using EMBA’s work in the last ten
years as a paradigm.
Enric Massip-Bosch has participated in the event «Grandes Proyectos de Arquitectura Barcelona», organizated by Grupo Vía publisher, talking about the future projects of the studio jointly with other architecture firms in Barcelona.
See more about the event and this publisher, in her website
EMBA was invited in OCiam International Comparison of Ideas «Fragile Landscape» on the occasion of the 10th edition of the OC OPEN CITY International Summer School at Politecnico di Milano, Piacenza Campus.
EMBA participed in making a panel within the exhibition, reflecting on «Fragile Landscapes» as well as intervening in an open discussion session with other participants based on its design practices.
Enric Massip-Bosch participates in the open talks of Grid Second Life talking about the renovation of the Place de la République (Lecaut) in the second life chapter of the monuments, together with Marc Barani, Édouard François, Vincenzo Latina and Federico Deambrosis as session moderator.
Organized by CIAM Congresso Internazionale Architettura Moderna 2019 in Bergamo, Italy
Bergamo, October, 23rd-26th 2019
More info about the project here
See more about this conference here
Enric Massip-Bosch and Taku Sakaushi organized and completed a workshop at the Tokyo University of Science, related to the works «House of Earth» by Kazuo Shinohara.
The students had to design an additional room, an extension to the original house.
Further the workshop completion, a book has been published collecting all the student’s works.
EMBA is happy to announce the publication of a monograph dedicated to EMBA’s work in the last 10 years.
TC cuadernos No. 121, 2015
The book will be presented publically at the Catalan Architect’s Association COAC, Barcelona, Wednesday, January 13, 2016, at 7.30 p.m.
EMBA designs the exposition BARCELONA URBAN EXPERIENCE – 25 YEARS OF URBAN REMODELING OF THE METROPOLITAN AREA OF BARCELONA which shows a selection of projects realized by the administrative body governing the metropolitan area of Barcelona, AMB.
One of our projects is shown in the exposition.
Inauguration: West Bund Art Centre , September, 29
Conference held by Enric Massip-Bosch, September, 30
The master program BUILDING THE CITY NOW concludes with success its first year. This unique international program explores contemporary design instruments for a qualified urban space.
Organized by CISR-Centre for Independent Social Research/SREDA – URBAN DESIGN CENTRE, Saint Petersburg
In collaboration with the UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA UPC – BARCELONA TECH.
Cofounder and director: Enric Massip-Bosch
Enric Massip-Bosch keyspeaker at the round table ‘Urban Environment – Methods of creation’ during the SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT FORUM ‘HARMONY OF COMPLEXETY’.
Organized by Government of St. Petersburg, Government of Leningrad region, Council of Rectors of St. Petersburg and ITMO University – Institute of Design & Urbanism
Saint Petersburg, May 22-24, 2015
Enric Massip-Bosch shares his professional experience with students of the Rikadai-Tokyo University of Science during the Using Public Space – NeoMatsuri-Workshop.
Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Wednesday, December 10, until Saturday, December 20.
