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MBIArch Notes: Design Studios

  The second term of the MBIArch Master in Architecture program is structured around two design studios and the Core Design Studio. Focusing on the hybrid proto-typology of the “Verticalscape“, which combines architectural, landscape, and environmental considerations, the Core Design Studio led by Iñaki Ábalos will feature seven different stages of in-depth research and intensive [...]

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MBIArch Notes: Productive Land Program (PLP)

The Productive Land Program (PLP) was a two-week seminar and site-specific workshop dedicated to analyzing and developing the productive capacities of land in a semi-rural context. Directed by Joan Roig—member of the BIArch Board of Directors and Principal of Batlle i Roig Arquitects—and with the support of architects Anna Viader and María Buhigas, as well [...]

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MBIArch Notes: Ferran Echegaray, Director of the Barcelona Airport

The MBIArch’s Urban and Territorial Studies course reflects on ubiquitous, global socio-technological conditions that frame urban experience and development, through a project-based understanding of the evolution of cities spanning from early industrial to present day neo-tertiary societies. As a part of the course’s guests lectures series, the Director of the Barcelona Airport, Ferran Echegaray, was [...]

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