2025 Specialty – Urban Design and City Science / José M. Ezquiaga
Cover by students Chauhan, Kordjanbaklou, Jamdar, Peppa Specialty Leader: José María Ezquiaga Professor: Gemma Peribañez TRANSFORMING RURAL LAND IN THE METROPOLITAN MOSAIC OF MADRID: CHALLENGES OF URBAN EXPANSION General Plan – Students Chauhan, Kordjanbaklou, Jamdar, Peppa Urban design and housing development are currently facing a profound crisis. Between tight budgets, political pressures, […]
2025 Workshop – Qualities of inhabitation for the 21st Century / Anne Lacaton
Cover image by MCH class Workshop Leader: Anne Lacaton Date: 03rd to 5th of Nov. The MCH25 Lacaton workshop tried to frame and discuss what the conditions for a good quality of living in the city were. Cities were expected to provide exceptional quality of life, offering a wide range of facilities, proximities, and pleasures, […]
2025 Workshop – From modernist ruins to advanced naturalized neighbourhood’s / Juan Herreros
Cover image by students Ahn, González, Hernández, Peppa Workshop Leader: Juan Herreros Workshop Assistant: Pedro Pitarch Date: 17th to 23Th of Oct. Image by students Chauhan, Izquierdo, Kaloudis, Maestre The city, a utopia in perpetual reconstruction, is today undermined by its own worst ambitions: ruthless gentrification, the erosion of identities, growing inequality, and […]
2025 Workshop – UR BAN – RU RAL / Jan De Vylder
Cover image by MCH students Workshop Leader: Jan De Vylder Workshop Assistant: Brittany Siegert Date: 29th of September to 3rd of October This workshop proposes a critical pause within the architectural discipline, an invitation to reclaim the fundamental act of questioning. Before projecting, organizing programs, or adopting theoretical positions, it becomes essential to briefly step […]
2025 Workshop – Learning from Tokyo / Momoyo Kaijima
Cover image by students Candano, Kordjanbaklou, Fatourou-sipsi, Molina Workshop Leader: Momoyo Kaijima Workshop Assistant: Alberto Nicolau Date: 1st to 5th of September THE ISSUE In major European cities, urban centers are under relentless real estate pressure, gradually pushing middle-class residents toward the outskirts. Cities like London and Paris experienced this trend decades ago, but […]
2025 Specialty – Low Resources and Emergency Housing / Elena Giral
Cover by students Begino, Fatourou-Sipsi, Izquierdo, Nimmala Specialty Leader – Elena Giral The main objective of the seminar was to be thought-provoking and to encourage students to question their role as architects in the contemporary global context. It sought to go beyond regular architecture and urban practice by promoting a different perspective, one that […]
2025 Specialty – Sociology, Economy and Politics / Daniel Sorando
Villa San Luis Chile – Research by student Luis Molina Specialty Leader – Daniel Sorando The Sociology, Economics, and Politics specialty provides students with an interdisciplinary framework to critically address the complexities of collective housing and its role in shaping contemporary cities. By examining these three variables, students are encouraged to understand the mechanisms […]
2025 Workshop – Domestic Fragments / Elli Mosayebi
Cover image by Ahn, Azzez, Fatourou-Sipsi, Jamadar Workshop Leader: Elli Mosayebi Workshop Assistant: Alvaro Martín Fidalgo Date: 14th to 18th of July The workshop explores the main challenges of contemporary housing production through three fundamental questions. The first concerns innovation in housing, highlighting how architectural practice has often evolved slowly and conservatively. The dominance […]
2025 Specialty – Construction and Technology / Ignacio Fernández Solla
Cover image by students Begino, Fatourou-Sipsi, Hernández, Jamadar, kordjanbaklou Specialty Leader – Ignacio Fernández Solla Team – Archie Campbell / Diego García- Setién / David Castro The specialty of construction and technology allows us to understand the building as an organism composed of interrelated systems. Advances in industrialization have facilitated the analysis and […]
2025 Specialty – Leadership, processes and entrepreneurship / Sacha Menz
Cover image visit ETH Zürich Specialty Leader: Sacha Menz Specialty professor: Axel Paulus Specialty Assistant: Dario Toppan Our course offers a detailed and guided journey through all stages of the design and construction process, with a special focus on developing the key competencies of consultants, as well as the responsibilities and roles of all […]
