Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago
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Category Archives: Arquitectura y crítica
CfP: Los años CIAM en España. La otra Modernidad
Convocatoria para el envío de ponencias aquí.
Posted in Arquitectura, Arquitectura y crítica, Historia del urbanismo, Sin categoría
Tagged Arquitectura moderna, Call for papers, Carlos Sambricio, CIAM, COAM, Convocatoria, España, I Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Historiadores de la Arquitectura y el Urbanismo, Modernidad, Movimiento Moderno, Ricardo Sánchez Lampreave
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Talk at the AA – Thanks and additional materials
I had a great time during the seminar last week at the AA, where I presented my recent research on planning’s role in the destruction of working-class centralities through several historical illustrations from Germany and the US. This is a … Continue reading
El Movimiento Moderno y el Derecho a la Ciudad | Vídeo de la ponencia en IX DOCOMOMO Ibérico
El pasado mes de noviembre se celebró el IX Congreso de DOCOMOMO Ibérico ‘Movimiento Moderno, Patrimonio Cultural y Sociedad’, en el que intervine como uno de los ponentes invitados de la segunda jornada, dedicada a la dimensión social de los … Continue reading
Posted in Arquitectura, Arquitectura y crítica, Derecho a la ciudad, Espacio público, Espacio social, Henri Lefebvre, Mis publicaciones, Participación, Sin categoría
Tagged André Lurçat, Arquitectura, Daniel Mòdol, Debate, Debates de arquitectura, DOCOMOMO, Ernst May, Eva Prats, Flores Prats Arquitectes, Henri Lefebvre, José Luis Sert, Louis Kahn, Martin Wagner, Movilización ciudadana, Movimiento Moderno, Oscar Stonorov, Participación, Patrimonio, Patrimonio cultural, Política urbana, Premio Nacional de Arquitectura, Ricardo Flores, Urban renewal, Víctor López Cotelo
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Modernism and the Right to the City | Talk at DO.CO.MO.MO Conference
Next week I will be giving a keynote speech at the DO.CO.MO.MO. Conference (Iberian section) in San Sebastián. My talk is entitled ‘Modernism and the Right to the City’, which will strike many as contradictory, since Lefebvre’s notion synthesized his … Continue reading
Posted in Architectural design, Arquitectura y crítica, Convocatorias, Derecho a la ciudad, Diseño urbano, Espacio social, Espacio y política, Henri Lefebvre, Modernism, Planning history, Sin categoría, Teoría urbana, Urban design, Urban studies, Urbanismo crítico, Vivienda social
Tagged André Lurçat, Derecho a la ciudad, DOCOMOMO, DOMOMOMO Ibérico, Henri Lefebvre, Right to the City, Urban design
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Gramsci and Foucault in Central Park | New article in Society and Space
My latest article, ‘Gramsci and Foucault in Central Park: Environmental hegemonies, pedagogical spaces and integral state formations’, is now available online on the early view webpage of Environment and Planning D: Society and Space (requires subscription). The piece draws on … Continue reading
Posted in Antonio Gramsci, Arquitectura y crítica, Central Park, Diseño urbano, Espacio público, Espacio y política, Historia del urbanismo, Landscape architecture, Landscape theory, Marxism, Marxismo, Michel Foucault, Mis publicaciones, Nueva York, Planning history, Political urbanism, Politics, Social History of Planning, Space and politics, Urban design, Urbanismo crítico
Tagged Antonio Gramsci, Central Park, Design, Frederick Law Olmsted, Governmentality, Hegemony, Integral state, Landscape architecture, Landscape history, Michel Foucault, Planning history, Public space, Society and Space, Space and politics, State, Urbanism
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Martin Wagner and the politics of capitalist urbanization
It’s been almost a month since I arrived in Cambridge to conduct a research on the work of Martin Wagner at Harvard during his appointment as a professor at the Graduate School of Design. Wagner —an engineer and planner, head … Continue reading
Posted in Arquitectura y crítica, Comunes, David Harvey, Espacio social, Espacio y política, Martin Wagner, Neil Brenner, Sin categoría, Urban politics, Urban Theory Lab, Urbanismo crítico
Tagged Architecture and Politics, Commons, Gentrification, Graduate School of Design, GSD, Harvard University, Martin Wagner, Modern architecture, Modern urbanism, Modernism, Neoliberal urbanism, Planning, Political economy, Politics, Walter Gropius, Weimar Republic
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Waldheim | Landscape as Urbanism
Charles Waldheim presents his book Landscape as Urbanism: A General Theory (Princeton University Press, forthcoming) at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. The talk includes an interesting discussion about the discursive constitution of disciplines. Waldheim draws on Harvey’s notion of … Continue reading
Posted in Arquitectura y crítica, Landscape architecture, Paisaje urbano, Urban design, Urbanismo crítico
Tagged Adriaan Geuze, Architecture, Charles Waldheim, David Harvey, Frederick Law Olmsted, James Corner, Landscape as Urbanism, Lanscape architecture, Ludwig Hilberseimer, Spatial fix, Stan Allen, Urbanismo
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CfP The Architecture of Capital
Call for papers for an interesting panel in the next AAG meeting in San Francisco. More info here. ———————– The Architecture of Capital: Rethinking the Geographies of Design in a Planetary Moment AAG Annual Meeting, San Francisco, March 29-April 2, … Continue reading
Back to the academic front…
Back in the trenches, getting ready for the new semester with two courses to teach, ‘Ciudad y Urbanismo’ —an introduction to the analysis of urban processes, related bog in Spanish here— and ‘Taller de Urbanismo’. The latter is a workshop … Continue reading
Posted in Architectural design, Arquitectura, Arquitectura y crítica, Commons, DUyOT, Espacio y política, Investigación urbanística, Planning history, Sin categoría, Urban studies
Tagged Antipode, Architectural design studio, Capitalist formations of enclosure: space and the extinction of the commons, Commons, DUyOT, Enclosure, Espais Crítics, ETSAM, Juan Herreros, Máster habilitante, Neil Smith, Planning history, Urban research
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Architecture_Media_Politics_Society
Los más interesados en la conexión entre arquitectura y política tienen un excelente foro en la revista-web-blog Architecture_MPS, con una amplia colección de contenidos. La mayor parte de las aportaciones en la revista son foráneas pero me ha sorprendido encontrar … Continue reading
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