>Thursday 27th of September starts the seventh edition of the EUROPEAN LANDSCAPE BIENNIAL organized by the DUOT Landscape team.
In the Biennial set, it will be possible to visit the Contest “Portes de Collserola” exposition until October 15th, convened on 2011 fall and in which some ot the Investigation Group members took part.

>LUB_DIGITAL_LIBRARY LUB incorporates in high definition and digital book format the UR-revista 1985-1992.
You can now consult all its numbers online! [+]

>LUB_DIGITAL_LIBRARY LUB is now incorporating in high definition and digital book format the UR-revista 1985-1992.
You can now check the first three numbers online! [+]

>“Aragó i Gran Via, les últimes autopistes urbanes de BCN | Aragó and the Gran Via, the last urban highways in BCN” is the ARTICLE Josep Parcerisa publishes in ARA newspaper. The text incises in the nowadays functionality of these main ways of the city and how they could be rethought in terms of global mobility. "If the Gran Via has double traffic direction now, from Plaça Espanya to Hospitalet, why it couldn't be on its whole dimention?".

>Thursday 25th of March, teacher  Manuel Bailo defends his DOCTORAL TESIS "Contra la Indiferència: Catalitzadors de la Urbanitat | Against indifference: urbanity catalysts”, directed by professor Enric Serra and CUM LAUDE qualified. Iñaki Ábalos, Jaime Coll, Quim Español, Gloria Moure and Yoshiharu Tsukamoto were the court.
Congratulations, Manuel!

>>The TRIBUTE to Manuel de Solà-Morales was celebrated with big success. In the morning, 4 panel discussions glossed the figure of this architect and teacher in the ESTAB conference hall, with dialogues around his contribution to areas as education, investigation, divulgation and professional practice. A comemorative act has been celebrated at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània in the afternoon, centered in the relation between Manuel de Solà-Morales and Barcelona. This act was organized by the Laboratori d'Urbanisme, in which have took part over 60 professionals of all around the world with hundred attendees in both auditoriums. 

>>Papers D’UR 03/2012 it's presented, monographic about the figure and work of Manuel de Solà-Morales. This edition contains over a hundred memories, sketches and impressions of a lot of his friends, disciplies and collaborators who have answered to the magazine call. All this voices want to construct a polyhedral portrait of his activity and influence.

>>Below you will find the main glosses to his work that have been published during these weeks:
-Joan Busquets, El gran llegat urbanístic de Solà-Morales, La Vanguardia, March 18th, 2012
-Antoni Marí, El hombre y la ciudad, La Vanguardia, February 29th, 2012
-Lluís Domènech, Manuel de Solà-Morales, el arquitecto que ayudó a abrir Barcelona al mar, El País, February 28th 2012.

>Last Tuesday 6th, the Chilean architect Rocío Hidalgo, PUC teacher, defended his doctoral TESIS "Las estaciones que fundaron el metro en Santiago de Chile | The stations which founded Santiago de Chile's underground ", directed by professor Jodep Parcersia and CUM LAUDE qualified. The court was formed by teacher Eduard Bru, Maria Rubert, Blanca Lleó, José Rosas and J.L. Gómez Ordoñez.

Congratulations!

>> It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of Manuel de Solà-Morales, architect, beloved teacher and founder of the Barcelona Urbanism Laboratory, on Monday, February 27, 2012.  Over more than half a century Professor Solà-Morales' masterful teaching
has served many of us as a guiding light.  Indeed, this website was created to disseminate his ideas and projects along with the work of countless other teachers who have looked to him for inspiration.  We now invite his many students, colleagues and friends around the world to offer your tributes and remembrances here.

© Rosa Feliu

>>D’UR presents “l’Urbanisme pot fer que les coses siguin millors | Urbanism can make things better ”, Joan Busquets magistral conference, teacher in the GSD of Harvard and recently awarded with the 2011 Erasmus Award, Grand Prix de l’Urbanisme and the Premio Nacional de Cultura, arquitectura y espacio público 2011.

>We have closed PAPERS 02 D'UR. Teacher Joan Busquets join us in the printed edition presentation at the ETSAB hall.

>Pensament i ciutat | Thought and city is the title of the ARTICLE that Manuel de Solà-Morales publishes in ARA newspaper. The author praises the Centre de Cultura contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) for having inveted and built "(...) from over 20 years, a perfect intellectual gear around the city concept".

>EN PARAL·LEL short take. Josep Bohigas, Josep Ferrando, Ariadna Perich y Marta Peris presents them studies for this avenue transformation.

>Teacher Àlex Giménez presents the summary of the successful contest “RACONS PÚBLICS” at the central headquarter of the Col.legi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya. Giménez summed up the results of the different editions and analized the repercussion of the proposals and projects built up. Racons Públics, organized with the FAD and Periódico de Catalunya support, jumps to other cities, opening the first edition in Castellón and with Sao Paulo, Bruselas or París as future possible locations.

>ARTICLE Coinciding with the "closuer" of the bull fighting in the Monumental, Maria Rubert suggests opening the "square" to new uses and try to improve its surroundings thanks to this impulse. Also says that, more than organizing a brainstorming contest to rebuild the building to new functions, it would be worthy imagining activities and programs that fit in its splendid architecture.

>CATHEDRA Teacher Maria Rubert is named urbanism Professor of the ETSAB. Congratulations!

>PUBLICATION Some equipment projects are the main subject of this publication: “Equipaments: l'ordenació dels conjunts dotacionals: Barcelona, dotze exemples | Equipments: endowment set ordination: Barcelona, twelve examples ”,  Barcelona, Ajuntament de Barcelona, 2011. 9788498503159.  

The Guinardó set (Marta Bayona and others), the Ferran Junoy-Maquinista propossal (Bailo-Rull) and the Casernas de Sant Andreu (M. De Solà-Morales) are included in this publication directed by Ricard Fayos, with presentation by Carles Crosas.

>DISCUSSION Teacher Josep Parcerisa takes part in the discussion MEDELLÍN-BARCELONA: DOS MODELOS URBANÍSTICOS EN DIÁLOGO | Medellin-Barcelona, dialogue between two urban models, included into the Cátedra Medellí-Barcelona program, promoted by the Fundación Kreanta.

>ARTICLE Eulàlia Gómez, LUB investigator, expresses her opinion in the section “La ciudad vista por los arquitectos | City seen through architects eyes ”, in the special “Microcirugía urbana | Urban microsurgery ” that La Vanguardia dedicates to Barcelona. In ocassion of the unsuccessful Diagonal consulting, Gómez Escoda explains that some of the future city challenges should be seen from a metropolitan scale.

>EXPOSITION "El Efecto Cerdà. Ensanches mayores y menores / The Cerdà Effect. Greater and Lesser Ensanches”. DUOT-ETSAB.  Inauguration of the itenerant exposition that expresses the present and formation of the "ensanches" of over twenty Spanish cities.

>Inauguration EXPOSITION. "La construcción del plano de Santiago de 1910 | The construction of the 1910 Santiago planning ". Explanation panels and intentioned cartographies shows the process and result of the construction of the 1910 city in 1 / 5000 scale.

>D'UR and ETSAB presents JOSÉ ROSAS VERA ( Dean Facultad de arquitectura, Diseño y estudios Urbanos PUC Chile).
Lecture at the ETSAB conference hall “ La construcción del plano de santiago de 1910 | The construction of the 1910 Santiago planning ".

>PUBLICATION The day of the inauguration of the transformed "plaza de Toros de Las Arenas", teacher Maria Rubert writes in El Periódico “A levitating façade for an inhospitable square”, Rubert makes a quick route through the square significance and its surroundings for Barcelona and makes us thing about which could be the paper of this new mall located in the "ensanche" border, as a joby between Avinguda del Paral·lel and carrer de Sants.

>PUBLICATION Una teoría urbana | A urban theory, is the title of the article that Luís Domènech publishes in Culturas La Vanguardia about the propossal of Manuel de Solà-Morales for El Prat Nord contest. In ocassion of the publishing of the project documents (Prat Nord, 6+6, Edicions de Cantonada, 2010) the author highlights that it is all about "an excercise of reflexion that goes beyond the conventional urban terms".

>Lecture "Más allá de la superficie | Beyond the surface" of JORGE RODRÍGUEZ-GERADA, Urban artist whot will present his works in several cities. ETSAB y D'UR.

>APPRECIATION Joan Busquets, cofounder of the Laboratori d'Urbanisme, received the prestigious 2011 Erasmus Award for his "outsanding and multifaceted work in urban planning". This award is annually granted by the Fundación Praemium Erasmianum – linked to the Royal Dutch House – to people or institutions who has made exceptional contributions to the European culture.

>Conference "Lo ordinario | The ordinary " of ENRIQUE WALKER, Teacher GSAPP (Columbia University, NY). Optional "Learning from NY". ETSAB and D'UR.

>We have closed PAPERS o1 D'UR. Presenting the printed edition and starting with the new Papers o2 subjectes., we invite you to comment, to participate in its sections and to join us in a cocktail at the ETSAB hall.

>D'UR and ETSAB presents Teacher ALBERTO FERLENGA (IUAV, Venezia) in the lecture “Momenti di passaggio/Momentos de cambio | Changing times”.

> DISCUSSION session about the CAMP DE TARRAGONA, with Antonio Font (in ocassion of the "Plan Director Urbanístico de la área central del Camp") and Jordi Sardà interventions, presenting the monographic number of AT#19 magazine.

>Dinner-celebration. Teacher MIQUEL DOMINGO culminates an over 40 year teaching career. He was one of the Laboratori d'Urbanisme founder and Director of the Departament d'Urbanisme i IOrdenació del Territori (1999-2006). Author of projects and publications about Barcelona's urban history, pioneer in studies about Cerdà and his "Ensanche" and specialized in the Catalonia's railway, inter alia.

>"PONENCIAS BARCELONA | BARCELONA LECTURES" is the title of the Short Take in which Maria Rubert, Josep Parcerisa and Miquel Roa presents some of the tesis about movility, transport and infrastructures in this city, the week after the "debat diagonal | diagonal discussion" .

>DEBATE DIAGONAL | DIAGONAL DISCUSSION: María Rubert and Josep Parcerisa  takes part of the discussion day.
UPC y el Tram en la Diagonal | UPC and the Tram in Diagonal.

>EL AÑO CERDÁ en la etsab | THE CERDÀ YEAR at the ETSAB
PresentS: Ferrán Sagarra
Manuel de Solá-Morales, "CERDÁ/ENSANCHE"
Enric Serra, "12 TESIS....CATÀLEG DE L'EXPOSICIÓ"
PANEL DISCUSSION with E. Bru/M. Corominas/J. L. Gómez-Ordóñez/P. Panerai/M. de Solá-Morales
Moderation by: Enric Serra

> LUB publishes the BOOK "CERDÁ/ENSANCHE" by MANUEL DE SOLÁ-MORALES. Carles Crosas (ed). UPC-ETSAB, 2010.

An anthology of his most remarcable texts dedicated to the Ildefonso Cerdà figure and to the Barcelona "Ensanche", in a revised version, illustrated (pictures by Rosa Feliu) and bilingual Spanish-English.
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>DIAGONAL DISCUSSION: María Rubert exposes new reasonings about the Diagonal in an interview to a La Vanguardia and in an article in El Periódico.
De Esplugues a Badalona en Diagonal', El periódico, 21/04/2010, p.8 link
'La Diagonal necesita un autobús exprés', La Vanguardia, 13/04/2010, VeB, p.3 link

>PUBLICATION: Manuel de Solá-Morales publishes in La Vanguardia: ¿CALLES RECTAS, CALLES CURVAS? | STRAIGHT STREETS, CURVED STREETS?, A reflection about an "esthetic and ideological" dilema that focus two alternative visions in the way the cities could be built. A propossal that comes from the romanticism trace in the 19th century architecture and urban planning and it is focused in its derivations and present contemporaneous character.
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>PRESENTATION of the book "L'AGENDA CERDÀ: CONSTRUINT LA BARCELONA METROPOLITANA/ The Cerdà Agenda: Constructing Metropolitan Barcelona".
Organized by the Institut Cerdá y el Ayuntamiento de Barcelona. Coordinator: Joan Fuster y Sobrepere. Texts by M. de Solá-Morales, Josep Parcerisa and Joan Busquets, inter alia..
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>Publication of the BOOK of the exposition: 12 TESIS en relación al proceso de formación del Ensanche Cerdá de Barcelona | 12 TESIS in relation to the formational proces of the Barcelona's Ensanche Cerdà". Enric Serra, Eulalia Gómez and Mario Jiménez, ed. EDICIONS ETSAB

>"12 TESIS en relación al proceso de formación del Ensanche Cerdá de Barcelona"
EXPOSITION inauguration by the Urbanisme i Ordenació del Territori Department.

>PANEL DISCUCCION at the ETSAB: Renewal of the discussion about one of the main transformational areas in Barcelona. Interventions of María Rubert, con Julián Galindo and Aurora López (Urbanisme director of the 22@).

>EXPOSITION: "ALONGSIDE PERE IV" La ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences presents at the ETSAB their works about the 22@ zone. María Rubert presenting.
pdf publication
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>"ARQUITECTURAS DE IDA Y VUELTA. PATRIMONIO COLONIAL, INDIO Y CONTEMPORÁNEO EN CUBA , CATALUÑA Y OTRAS EXPERIENCIAS".Course included in "Las Jornadas Internacionales sobre la Intervención en el Patrimonio Arquitectónico en la XXXII edición del Cursillo". COAC 10-13 december 2009

Teachers of the Laboratori d'Urbanisme de Barcelona (María Rubert, C.Crosas and X. Eizaguirre) took part in these lecture days with contributions about colonial urbanism and the intervention in the cities. Sert and TPA projects for iberoamerican cities, the transformation and the El Vedado de La Havana heritage and the discussion about intervention strategies on La Habana singularity, are subjects their lectures talked about.

>PUBLICATION: Quaderns d’Arquitectura i Urbanisme magazine presents “Ciudad jardín, ciudad central. El Vedado, La Habana | Garden city, central city. El Vedado, La Habana”, by Manuel de Solá-Morales and Carles Crosas.
Num. 259. December 2009. pp. 70-79

>CONFERENCE: "LA URBANIDAD DE LA ARQUITECTURA | ARCHITECTURE URBANITY".
Title of the opening course 2009-2010 conference by Manuel de Solá-Morales y Rubió, named Professor Emeritus of the UPC.
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>PUBLICATION:“Polígonos sin alrededores | Polygons without surroundings"  by María Rubert it's presented in the Fundación Antoni TÀpies, 2009. A project of PG Romero. ARCHIVO F.X. : La ciudad Vacia. Política

>PUBLICATION: María Rubert and Xavier Monteys presents "Transformación urbana y espacio público. De la A a la Z | Urban transformation and public space. From A to Z" in the book “Más es Más. Sociedad y Cultura en la España democrática , 1986-2008 | More is more. Society and Culture in the democratic Spain, 1986-2008” by Jordi Gracia and Domingo Ródenas de Moya (eds)