Architecture Beyond the Object: Inaki Alday
| Date/Time: | Wednesday, 21 Mar 2012 from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm |
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| Location: | Kocimski Auditorium, 101 College of Design |
| Cost: | free |
| Contact: | Peter Goche |
| Phone: | 515-294-8276 |
| Channel: | College of Design |
| Categories: | Lectures |
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Boundaries are increasingly blurred among the traditional design disciplines. Complexity in problems and solutions, in design teams and social players, in technical requirements and multiscale impacts are expanding the role of architecture and architects. A responsible social and environmental position deals with multiple scales and logics, in a critical and demanding approach to new and known technologies. The designers take leadership in managing this complexity, identifying problems, proposing solutions and adding contemporary cultural value.
In his lecture, Alday will share several of his firm's projects dealing with landscape and territory, urban public space and public buildings. Works challenged to the integration of different scales, to the aim of public service and to the transformation of the society through the increasing of the quality of collective architecture and city space.
About the Speaker
Inaki Alday is the Elwood R. Quesada Professor of Architecture and chair of the architecture department at the University of Virginia. With Margarita Jover he also is a founder and principal of aldayjover architecture and landscape in Barcelona, Spain. the firm specializes in works of public architecture, urban space and landscape, and has received numerous design awards, including the FAD Prize of City and Landscape and the European Urban Public Space Prize. Together with RCR Architects and WEST8, aldayjover recently won the Sagrera Parc competition for the design of a 100-acre green space over the railroad tracks in Barcelona.
Alday received a degree in architecture from the Polytechic University of Catalonia Valles School of Architecture in Barcelona. He has held visiting and associate professor positions there as well as visiting professor and lecturer positions in several architecture and landscape architecture programs.
Alday's presentation is part of the ISU Architecture Advisory Council Lecture Series.