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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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MBIArch Notes: Mark Chown

As a part of the Sustainable Building Services course, led by Juan Gallostra–engineer and General Director of Grupo JG, Barcelona–which addresses the limitations and possibilities of building services design through the interaction of mechanical and electrical systems in relation to other building elements (structure, circulation, envelope), MBIArch students followed a guest lecture held by Mark [...]

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