Design for Living : Global Contest to Rethink Our Habitat from the Body to the City
Language: English
Published by Actar, 2021
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- Title
- Design for Living : Global Contest to Rethink Our Habitat from the Body to the City
- Author
- Guallart, Vicente (EDT); Pifarre, Laia (CON); Ribeiro, Fabio Capra (CON)
- Publisher
- Actar
- Publication year
- 2021
- Condition
- As New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1948765977
- ISBN 13
- 9781948765978
This effort offers the opportunity for a global reflection to rethink human habitats, at a time when the fight for life and climate allows us to consider how we would like to live in the coming decades. We like to think that each person’s life begins at home, which is the center of their universe and the origin of their social interactions. During the pandemic, we had been confined to our homes and they have become microcities where we live, work and rest, connected to the world through information networks. So, after this experience, how do we imagine the future for our living environment?
The contest encourages participants to propose a design related to their way of life, at the scale that most interests them from our bodies to the city, anywhere in the world, and that reflects different cultural, environmental, economic or social conditions. In total, the competition received 193 proposals from all around the world and the book includes all the rules and results of the competition, the 33 members of the international jury and the images and information of 126 selected projects. Seen as a whole, this effort serves to build a contemporary vision of the conditions that are currently shaping design and architecture and will continue to shape it in the following years.
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About the Author
Laia Pifarré studied Law at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and at the Università degli Studi di Parma, in Italy (Erasmus Programme). She is about to finish her second degree in Administration and Political Science at the Universitat de Barcelona. She has been involved in managing projects in the field of Law and Architecture. Laia joined IAAC in March 2008 as Assistant Director, but she took leave of absence during the period 2011-2015 to work for the Barcelona City Council as a Chief of Staff for the Deputy Mayor for Urban Habitat. She holds a diploma from the programme ‘Global Trends, Local Impacts: An Urban Futures Masterclass’ by the London School of Economics. She returned to IAAC in January 2016.
Fabio Capra Ribeiro graduated second of his class in a five-year program in Architecture allowing him to participate in a four-year Master’s in Science in Architectural Design, both at the Universidad Central de Venezuela. He started to teach in the same institution in 2009, becoming Assistant Professor in 2013 and Associate Professor in 2019. During these years, he acted as Coordinator of the Master’s in Urban Design and then as Director of the School of Architecture Carlos Raúl Villanueva. During his 11 years as a university professor, Fabio has taught a wide array of architectural and urban design studios, as well as research methodology and representation courses. He has also supervised several graduate, postgraduate and PhD thesis.
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