SYMMETRIES WORKSHOP AT SPLIT

ARCHITECTURE WORKSHOP SPLIT, CROATIA JULY 4th .8th 2011.

Workshop directors: Iñaqui Carnicero, Jacobo García Germán and José María Sánchez.

Conceptual reconsideration of the past and its projection into the future has been a dominant theme throughout the history of architecture. This could be considered to be especially relevant today as a counter-force upon the on-going fascination with the avang-garde in many architectural schools and also given the current cultural and economic crisis which encourages a critical revision of inherited methods and protocols. In this context, the idea of “symmetries” emerges as a powerful concept for revisiting old urban tissues, particularly those which rather than encapsulating the past have opted for a creative and dialectic relationship with it, as occurs very eloquently in the city of Split. The emergence of a new city inside old Diocletian’s Palace conserving its original structure for a different use may give way to tracing and documenting the different symmetries (or a-symmetries, or equivalences, or opposites...) between now and then as a platform of possibilities for the future of Split. Student will therefore explore these latent symmetries with a variety of architectural, artistic and observational tools.
This workshop is a joint-venture between Madrid’s Architecture School (ETSAM) and Split’s Architecture School (GAF).

Lecturers:

Luis Maldonado, Robert Plejic, Luis Fernández Galiano, Andrija Rusan, Emilio Tuñón, Hrvoje Niric, Luis M. Mansilla, Perica Bujic, J.M. Hernández León, Sara Randic, Dario Gazapo, Emil Sverko, Jacobo García Germán, Nikola Popic, José María Sánchez, Sara Begonic, Iñaqui Carnicero, Studio up.

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