Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual

Deeper into architecture: projection -a transit

2010, Jul 25 -- Jul 31

Organizers:
A. Sanmartín (UPC)
Sung Ho Kim (Sam Fox School)

Diverse and numerous management, production and invention systems used in architecture are implemented and deployed by all agents, institutions and architects to facilitate, teach or practice it. Is the mediation, transition or transcription between systems what makes the practice and the understanding of possible architectures. (“trasiego” is the spanish word) “Projection” occurs constantly in architecture and makes it. Not only does projection occupy the gap between dimensions (from 2 to 3 or vice versa is a frequent case), but operates between a diversity of phenomena related to architecture as well. “Imprinting”, “memory-experience”, “transfinite”, “intelligibility”, “metaphor” are also forms of transit. Projection is a vehicle to allow the built to travel into the unbuilt as well as to make the later become the former or become something else. This transit happens in a non-uniform and non-isolated field.

Geometry supports projection. Projection operates between thinking, imagining, drawing and making things. Our eyes and built things share projection processes. Architecture finds a non originary origin in every transition understood and performed as an intelligible sequence to be described, built, narrated and shared. “Transit” also operates as a surveying instrument for guiding and tracing the process of projecting emerging architectural thoughts being developed in the contemporary culture. Is there such a thing as a geometric experiment within the visual space?. Is projection able to connect palpable experience and abstract mathematics? “Transit”, transition, transgression, transcription,...the meeting in Benasque expects to leave at sight such avatar or apotheosis.

This event assembles young architects, educators, historians and theoreticians from around the world to question and define the depth of field in current architectural practice and culture.

Invited Speakers

(to be confirmed)

Alisa Andrasek (Architectural Association, London)	andrasek@gmail.com
Ana Pla Catalá (ie_school of architecture, harvard gsd, Madrid)	aplacatala@coac.net
Silvia de Felipe (BCN)	hybrida@telefonica.net
Omar Khan (SUNY at Buffalo, USA)	omarkhan@buffalo.com
Achim Menges (EMTECH, GSD, Stuttgardn DE)	achimmenges@yahoo.de
Alfons Puigarnau (EsArq-UIC, BCN)	vitrubusier.foundation@gmail.com
Ali Rahim (University of Pensylvania, USA)	alir@design.upenn.edu
Jordi Truco (Elisava. BCN)	hybrida@telefonica.net
Heather Woofter (Sam Fox Sch,St. Louis, Mo, USA)

Bus Transportation

The center provides free buses with depart:
From Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, Diagonal 647 (metro: Palau Reial, green line) at 15:00h with a stop at the airport (at the entrance of Car Park A, next to the Police Office, on your left from terminal T2 A) at 15:30h.

Return buses:
From Benasque to Barcelona airport will depart at 9:00h.
The trip by bus to Barcelona takes 6h. The trip by car only takes 3h 30m.

Bus trajectories and dates:
- Barcelona - Benasque, 25 July 2010, .
- Benasque - Barcelona, 31 July 2010,