Photography - RCR Arquitectes (2024)

Admission process by open call
Friday, December 22, 2023. Start of registrations.
Friday, April 12, 2024. Registration deadline.
Friday, April 19, 2024. Communication of admissions and refusals.
Friday, April 26, 2024. Deadline for payment of registration fees.
Tuesday, April 30, 2024. Deadline for payment of registration fees extended.
Friday, May 24, 2024. Deadline for cancellations.

XII International Photography Workshop
Monday, July 1, 2024: Start of the workshop
Saturday, July 6, 2024: Excursion to the new Perelada winery
Monday, July 15, 2024: Closing of the workshop

With the support of

Software
Adobe Photoshop and Adobe InDesign.

Technical Requirements
Camera and tripod (recommended).
Computer with recommended minimum screen resolution of 1440px.
Updated browser to access Google Drive for storage and synchronisation services of the workshop contents, collaborative work and archiving of exercises.
Install WhatsApp instant messaging on the mobile phone for information and organisation through RCR chat groups.

Shared creativity refers to relational processes where different fields of knowledge are integrated. It allows complex problems to be addressed from an interdisciplinary perspective. With this idea in mind we will approach the exercises of the Architecture and Landscape workshop in a transdisciplinary way, contributing from the visual arts a sensory and analytical component to the creative process. In this way, we seek participation, exchanging ideas, cooperation and mutual teamwork learning.

Exercise directed byHisao Suzukiwith the coordination and tutoring ofJúlia de Balle and the assistance of Fumi Suzuki.

Shared exercise with Architecture and Landscape: The Sagrada Família in today’s Barcelona

The construction of the Sagrada Família church, the work of Antoni Gaudí, began in 1882 and is still in progress. Gaudí proposed inserting the church into the urban fabric of the Eixample district of Barcelona by its representativeness and symbolism. This question has yet to be resolved and is included in the exercise with an approach to the mountain-sea connection to articulate a global strategy as an intervention instrument. The exercise was initiated in the last edition and will build on the results of the previous workshop.

Participants: Sara Bartuś, Poland · Quentin Besson, France · María Teresa Castro Cuellar, Mexico · José Francisco Estévez Rodríguez, Mexico · Adrien Guitard, France · Kane Liou, Taiwan · Juan Francisco Mosqueda Morelos, Mexico · Brenda Soto Suárez, Mexico · Slavena Todorova, Bulgaria · Inés Valdovino Popovich, Spain · Isabel Vilalta Pigem, Spain.

Sketch:The Sagrada Família in modern-day Barcelona, Series 1, June 2024. Gouache with ink and pencil on Canson Imagine paper 200 g/m². 23×32.5 cm. 24-203_E08

Each participant chose a word and filmed a 10-second clip summarizing their experience.

soltar – María Teresa Castro · patience – Adrien Guitard · connection – Slavena Todorova · reflexionar – Inés Valdovino · descubrir – Isabel Vilalta · aprender – José Francisco Estévez · permanecer – Zaickz Moz · conversation – Kane Liou · seuils – Quentin Besson · exploration – Sara Bartús · calma – Brenda Soto

Music: McEnroe – La Electricidad

Exercise: The Sagrada Família in modern-day Barcelona· Conference ·The City of Barcelona · Clara Solà-Morales

Clara Solà-Morales(Barcelona, Spain, 1975)is a licensed architect with a degree in Architecture from Barcelona’s School of Architecture (ETSAB-UPC, BarcelonaTech) and holds a Master in Architecture (MArch II) from Harvard University. She is an associate professor at the ETSAB-UPC, BarcelonaTech. Clara has been Visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), associate professor at the School of Architecture at the Rovira i Virgili University, visiting professor of the Barcelona program at the University of Calgary, and professor and Head of Graduate Studies at the Barcelona Institute of Architecture (BIArch). She is a PhD candidate at the ETSAB-UPC, BarcelonaTech. Solà-Morales curated the exhibition,Susana Solano. Proyectosat the ICO Foundation in Madrid has co-edited the bookPlans and Projects, printed by the Barcelona City Hall. As a researcher, she worked at the Center for Urban Development Studies (CUDS) at Harvard University. Her theoretical work explores the industrial production within housing and its repercussions on informal housing.

Exercise: The Sagrada Família in modern-day Barcelona· Conference ·Architectural Considerations on the Basilica of the Sagrada Familia· Juan de Dios Trias de Bes

Juan Trias de Bes(Barcelona, Spain, 1964) is an architect from the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB-UPC) 1991. He opened his professional studio, TdB Architects, in 1992 in Barcelona, where he maintains the activity of building and urban planning. In 2013 he obtained the qualification “cum laude” for his doctoral thesis “Material Architectures” at the ETSAB. He authorises institutional works, such as the Academy of Medical Sciences headquarters, the Grífols Laboratories headquarters, the ESADE University in Sant Cugat, and the Natura Bissè headquarters and factory. In rehabilitation, he credits interventions such as the Hotel Mandarin, the modernist Burés House or the restoration of Palau Moxò. In research, he is a member of the Technological Innovation Laboratory (LITEIS) of the UIC Barcelona, where he directs the Research Department “hARQware Chair”. In teaching, he is responsible for the Architectural Design area of the UIC School of Architecture in Barcelona. In humanities, he is a Member of the Royal European Academy of Doctors, a Founder of the Catalan Society of Architecture and Health, a Member of the Research Advisory Council of the Antonio Gaudí Study Center and the Board of Trustees of the Foundation of the Construction Board of the Temple of the Sagrada Família.

Exercise: Management Centre of La Garrotxa Volcanic Zone Natural Park· Conferència ·La Garrotxa: terra aspra, terra trencada, terra de volcans· Francesc Xavier Puig i Oliveras

Francesc Xavier Puig i Oliveras(Girona, Spain, 1965) is an agronomist from the Higher Technical School of Agricultural Engineers of the Polytechnic University of Valencia. Since 1992, he has been part of the technical team of the Departments responsible for the environment of the Catalan Government, where he has developed his professional career, mainly in the planning and management of protected natural areas, assessment of environmental impact and urban planning. From 1996 to 2012, he taught as an associate professor of environmental impact assessment, attached to the Ecology area of the Department of Environmental Sciences of the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Girona. Since 2002 he has been Director of the Natural Park of the Garrotxa Volcanic Zone.

In this edition, we offer, as a novelty, the opportunity to talk with the architecture teams invited to the Open Program 2024 under the theme of sharing.

Participants will be able to exchange withCarles Oliver Barcelóabout his experience in environmentally friendly collective housing in the Balearic Islands, with a member of theLacol architects’ cooperativein Barcelona who has demonstrated the viability of other ways of living by sharing, and with the studio French winner of the2021 Pritzker Prize,Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal, whose architectural practice is governed by the maxim of never demolish, eliminate or replace, always add, transform and reuse.