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Next Monday May the 8th, Jonathan Foote will give us a masterClass about the Post-Extractive Architecture: Repair and Territory, at the ETSALS, 17:00h CEST, Q1 Classroom & ZOOM ID 934 6211 7908

Currently, the architectural discipline has very few tools for considering what happens to the landscapes affected by our extractive practices. Post-industrial landscape repair has been a topic among landscape architects and ecologists for decades, but by the time these professions arrive, the crime has already been committed. Therefore, how can architecture reduce its impact on extractive landscapes through the design decisions we make? To explore this question, we introduce two contrasting cases of extractive landscapes in natural stone. The first is in Larvik, Norway, where one of the world’s most technologically advanced quarries extracts large quantities of larvikite, most of which is exported for further processing. The second case is on the island of Mallorca, Spain, where a largely artisanal quarrying process, in place for centuries, still produces the characteristic marès stone, famous among Danish architects for Jørn Utzon’s use of it at Can Lis and Can Feliz.

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Jonathan Foote, Ph.D, is an architect and Associate Professor at Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark. His teaching, editorial work and research focuses on the relation between architectural drawings and materials, as well as the relation between architectural history and workshop-based knowledge. He has published on the drawings and workshop practices of Michelangelo Buonarroti, Francesco Borromini, and Sigurd Lewerentz.
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Eduardo Prieto will do the next MIAD’s masterClass on Comfort History: Architecture, Environment and Culture, on Wednesday, April 12, 2023 at 7:00 p.m. in the Q14 classroom, at Sant Josep building LaSalle Campus Barcelona and by streaming (Zoom ID: 934 6211 7908).

The lecture will examine the origins of the concept in the 18th-century and will give an account of its evolution throughout the recent history of Western culture through a story in which architecture will merge with technique, art and literature to present comfort in the light of other concurrent and no less important contemporary concepts: energy, hygiene, habitat and atmosphere.

Eduardo Prieto is a Doctor of Architecture, a Graduate in Philosophy. He teaches History of Architecture at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, where he is also the director of the international course ‘Architecture and Environment’. He is the author of more than sixty articles and chapters of indexed books, and several reference books, including Historia medioambiental de la arquitectura (Environmental History of Architecture) (Cátedra, 2019, 2022).

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The fourth lecture of the MIAD’s masterClass cycle was teached by Beth Capdeferro and Ramon Bosch .capdeferro.arquitectura during the Tectonics Logics.
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bosch.capdeferro is an architecture studio based in Girona founded by Ramon Bosch and Bet Capdeferro. They conceive the project as a concave and inclusive experience, capable of harmoniously integrating through an open process all diverse agents and facts that configure it. In 2011 they received the Emerging Architect Special Mention of the European Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award.

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