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Manuel de Solà-Morales Prize / Building Cities in Dynamic Landscapes
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Conference
. Barcelona
Organizes
Vàries entitats
Place
Sala de Actos
Plaça Nova 5, first floor
Barcelona
Time
At 7pm
Price
Free
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As part of the 5th edition of the Manuel de Solà-Morales Prize ceremony, a lecture will be held by the president of the jury, Han Meyer, titled “Building Cities in Dynamic Landscapes.” The event is co-organized by the Urbanism Laboratory of Barcelona (LUB) from the Department of Urbanism ETSAB UPC and the Open Center for Architecture.
Meyer is an architect and professor of Urban Design at TU Delft.
With the collaboration of the Department of Urbanism, Territory, and Landscape DUTP, the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona, the Arquia Foundation, and the COAC.
On the same day, March 19th, at 12 p.m., the Manuel de Solà-Morales European Prize 2025 will be awarded to the best doctoral thesis in urbanism presented at European universities.
Han Meyer (1951)
graduated as an urbanist at TU Delft and completed his PhD thesis on transformations of port cities in 1997. He was working in the urban renewal process at the Rotterdam City Planning Department from 1980 to 1990. Since 1990 he was employed at TU Delft, first as an Associate Professor Urban Design, from 2001 until 2019 as a Full Professor Urban Design Theories and Methods. He published on the fundamentals of urbanism and on the special conditions for urban design in delta regions. Currently he is director of Deltastad, focusing on the design of sustainable relations between complex water systems and urban development.