Lecture by Antón García-Abril from Ensamble Studio, Madrid, Spain.

The lecture focuses on Ensamble Studio's works. This studio develops architecture that uses technology with a new insight, from local site specific proposals to global synthetic systems. The structure, the assembly, the scale of the material, are explored affecting the resultant space, trying to achieve effective processes of construction and the maximum expressiveness with the fewer resources. The scale of the proposals range from the installations or small interventions in historical buildings to the design of towers, collective housing systems or cities.

Antón García-Abril, (Madrid, 1969) is a European PhD Architect and associate professor in the School of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (E.T.S.A.M.-U.P.M.). He received the Spanish Academy Research Prize in Rome in 1996. In 2000, he establishes Ensamble Studio leading a team in search for architectural application of conceptual and structural experimentation. He has been invited professor at the Graduate School of Design of Harvard University and Cornell University among other universities in America and Europe.

This event is free and open to the public.

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