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19:00
MANUEL DE SOLÀ-MORALES AWARD. URBAN DESIGN AS A CRAFT. KNOWLEDGE AND PROJECT FOR THE CITY
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Conference
. Barcelona
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Vàries entitats
Lloc
Sala d'actes
Plaça Nova, 5
Barcelona
Horari
A les 19 h
Preu
Free
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In the framework of the 4th edition of the Manuel de Solà-Morales Prize award ceremony, a conference by the president of the jury, Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, will take place under the title ‘Urban design as a craft. Knowledge and project for the city’.
Magnano is an architect, architectural theorist and architectural historian, as well as professor emeritus of the History of Urban Design at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich). Born in Rome, Italy, he practices and promotes a formally disciplined, classically timeless, and aesthetically sustainable form of architecture. He is also the author and editor of several acclaimed works on the history and theory of architecture – his ideas are widely cited. Magnano’s most important urban projects are the Novartis Campus in Basel and the Richti neighbourhood near Zurich.
Organising entities: Laboratori d’Urbanisme de Barcelona (LUB), ETSAB, Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), Department of Urban Planning and Territorial Planning DUOT, Metropolitan Area of Barcelona, Arquia Foundation, and COAC.
Manuel de Solà-Morales European Prize
This prize recognises the best university research in the field of urban planning to obtain the PhD degree biannually. Those doctoral theses that are based on urban planning, presented in a European university and in a European language, can be submitted there.
This award honors the memory of the professor and architect Manuel de Solà-Morales i Rubió (1939-2012), who was a master in urban planning understood as an intellectual and creative activity, committed to the improvement of cities through what he called it "an insistent search".
The Manuel de Solà-Morales Award is an academic initiative of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia’s Barcelona Technical School of Architecture, where he taught for more than 40 years. The Laboratori d'Urbanisme de Barcelona, which Solà-Morales founded in 1968, takes over the organisation, oversees the development of the prize and makes the maximum dissemination of the award-winning works possible.