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The University of Puerto Rico (UPR) School of Architecture celebrated its 45th anniversary with the publication of (in)forma volumes 7 & 8.

 Last semester our exhibition series was highlighted by WAI architecture think tank, while this academic year we will be exhibiting the work of architectural photographers Francisco Vando, Max Toro, and Ivonne Marcial.

 Our upcoming lecture series features Patrick Schumacher, Brett Steele, Giancarlo Mazzanti, Cristián Undurraga, Benedetta Tagliabue, Moshen Mostafavi, Felipe Correa, Rodolfo Machado, Jorge Silvetti, Nader Tehrani and Eric Goldemberg.

 For the third straight year we will co-organize an exchange of lecturers with Tulane University.  Andrés Mignucci will visit New Orleans this Fall while Scott Bernard will come to San Juan in the Spring. The initiative is sponsored by Orval Sifontes’ Fundación Pro-Arq.

 Profs. Jorge Lizardi-Pollock, Carlos García-Moreira and Dean Francisco Javier Rodríguez, AIA presented the book Ambivalent Spaces: Memory and Oblivion in Modern Social Architecture in Berlin. The book was a collaboration between UPR’s CIUDAD urban think tank and Humboldt University’s Max Weber center.

 Volume 6 of our journal (in)forma 6 was selected by the Bienal Iberoamericana de Arquitectura y Urbanismo in Cádiz, Spain.

 We hosted an international symposium titled “Energy: Policy, Technology and Design” together with the UPR Law School and the faculty of Natural Sciences.

Students Angel Vidro and Michael Quiñones won the Third Place in an international competition organized by Suckerpunchdaily for a robotic building.

Student Néstor Lebrón won an Honorable Mention in an international competition to rethink New York’s Waterfront.  The work was exhibited in the Museum of the City of New York.

The proposal to rethink San Juan’s Bay in 2050 submitted by the School’s Competition Studio was selected by the IAAC (Barcelona) for its yearly publication.

Fred Díaz y Claudia Cintrón won AIA-PR Chapter students awards.

Thomas Marvel (MArch Harvard GSD), Cristina Cardalda (MArch Harvard GSD), Andrés Mignucci (MArch MIT), Raphael Osuna (MArch UPenn), and Yazmin Crespo (MArch Harvard GSD) have joined our School’s Design Faculty.

Federico Bares (MAUD Harvard GSD) from La Plata, Argentina will continue to serve as Visiting Professor.

Prof. Darwin Marrero designed a Pro-Arq publication on Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan, PR.

This summer we offered six international programs in Corsica, Barcelona, Mexico, Cartagena, New York and Sao Paulo.

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Dean Francisco Javier Rodriguez and Professor Sotirios Kotoulas are organizing the symposium The Education of an Architect Hedjuk and Cooper Union forty years later, to be held on May 2011 at the School of Architecture.

Professor Elio Martinez Joffre, director of Taller Comunitario, and architect  Fernando Pla are developing  together with Omega Engineer AIA vice president Jaime Sobrino and a selected group of students the Ricky Martin Foundation project.

Professor Manuel Bermudez is conducting a joint design studio at the Pedro Enrique Urena University in the Dominican Republic. This joint effort will result in an exhibition on the cities in the Caribbean and will include design studio projects already developed in Havana, New Orleans, and Cartagena.

Professors Anna Georas and Manuel Bermudez coordinated the  Monserrate Studio together with architect Winka Dubbeldam and Ferda Kolatan from University of Pennsylvania and architect Julio Salcedo from the City College of New York. The  community based urban project was sponsored by Interlink.

Dean Francisco Javier Rodriguez and Prof. Darwin Marrero recently published the book Arquitectura Contemporanea en Puerto Rico 1993-2010

Prof. Jorge Lizardi organized the symposium Vivir y pensar la comunidad moderna, historias y memorias de la vivienda social,  which will result into a publication on the development of social housing in the 20th century.

Prof. Lilliana Ramos Collado was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in order to develop a Masters Program on the History of art in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean at the Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe.

Professors Jorge Ramirez Buxeda, Manuel Bermudez, Pedro Cardona, Darwin Marrero, Francisco Rodriguez, Carlos Garcia, and Universidad Politecnica professor Ivonne Marcial conducted the design charrette Ciudades del Futuro (Cities of the Future) wich  took place at the Colegio de Arquitectos y Arquitectos Paisajistas de Puerto Rico.  The project was a collaboration between University of Puerto Rico, Universidad Politecnica, and the Colegio de Arquitectos.

For the fourth consecutive year the School of Architecture will participate in the Stanford Studio project under the leadership and coordination of professor Humberto Cavallin. 

Professors Javier Isado and Edgardo Arroyo will be developing the Solar Decathlon together with the Elisava School of Architecture in Barcelona.

Professors Carlos Garcia and Carlos Perez are finalists in the GET Competition sponsored by the Galeria Nacional/Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena.

Dean Francisco Javier Rodriguez presented the lecture Three Short Stories without an ending at Tulane University. The lecture focused on the architectural context in Puerto Rico.

Professor Javier Isado was part of the symposium on digital narratives in the Dominican Republic.  The conference was organized by Unibe’s professor Marcos Barinas and will result into a publication.

Professors Crisitna Algaze and Brenda Martinez are conducting the LEED sustainability studio at the School of Architecture.   

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The Universtiy of Puerto Rico (UPR) School of Architecture celebrated its 45th anniversary with a keynote lecture by AV Editor Luis Fernández Galiano.

Design Intelligence included the UPR School of Architecture in its 2011 Best Architecture Schools in America as one of five “unexpected options.”

The School of Architecture will co-host an interdisciplinary Symposium titled “Energy: Technology, Policy and Planning.”

In collaboration with the Fundación Pro-Arq, the UPR will edit a publication on Hiram Bithorn Stadium, a San Juan Modernist icon.

Renowned photographer David Lachapelle gave a lecture sponsored by the Museum of Contemporary Arts (MAC), where Prof. Lilliana Ramos Collado, Ph.D. is Head Curator.

Prof. JRC Davis (Tulane) and Nixa Ramírez (UW-Milwaukee) have joined the faculty as Adjunct design Professors.

For the 6th straight year, the UPR is participating in the AEC Global Teamwork studio, organized by Prof. Renate Fruchter at Stanford University.  The studio is locally coordinated by Prof. Humberto Cavallín, Ph.D. and his CIDI Reaserch Center.

The UPR School’s 2009 Solar Decathlon entry (CASH) received an Honor Award in the College of Architects and Landscape Architects of Puerto Rico (CAAPPR in Spanish) Bienal.

Prof. Nathaniel Fúster won the Premio Nacional de Arquitectura (CAAPPR’s National Architecture Prize).

Dean Francisco Javier Rodríguez, AIA, offered a lecture at Oklahoma State University and attended the DRL reviews at the AA in London. This semester he will be lecturing at Georgia Tech.

Prof. José Javier Toro will lecture at Tulane University this semester.

Profs. Marco Trevisani and Carlos-García Moreira attended the final reviews at Texas Tech University.

Prof. Jorge Lizardi-Pollock, Ph.D. will present his new book on Modernist Social Housing at the Humbolt University’s Georg Simmel Center in Berlin.

Prof. Javier Isado edited the 5th edition of the School’s magazine (in)forma, dedicated to Digital Narratives, and was selected to present it at the Bienal Iberoamericana de Diseño in Spain and a symposioum at NYU.

Prof. Darwin Marrero edited the 6th edition of (in)forma on Hypertourism and presented it at UNIBE’s Tourism symposium in the Dominican Republic. It will also be presented at Tulane, Panama, Curaçao and Costa Rica.

Profs. Oscar Marty and Darwin Marrero are offering a Graduate Joint Studio together with Georgia Tech’s Prof. Ellen Dunham-Jones.

The UPR School of Architecture is working on a joint graduate degree with Barcelona’s ELISAVA.

The work of Profs. Jorge Ramírez-Buxeda, JRC Davis and Francisco Javier Rodríguez, Alumni Segundo Cardona and Miguel Calzada, and students Claudia Cintrón and Fred Díaz was recognized during the 2011 AIA-PR Chapter Awards Ceremony.

The work of Profs. José Javier Toro, Nathaniel Fúster, Francisco Gutiérrez, Carlos García-Moreira, Jorge Lizardi-Pollock and Francisco Javier Rodríguez, Alumni Segundo Cardona, Rafael Blanco and Miguel Calzada was recognized during the 2011 CAAPPR Bienal.

The Competition Studio students earned five Finalists and one Merit Award in International competitions in Moscow, Taiwan, Paris and New York. One of the projects was included in a publication by the IAAC in Barcelona.

This semester’s lecture series includes Cameron Sinclair, Felipe González (Colombia), Cruz García (WAI), Javier Sánchez (Mexico), Judith Kinnard, Mark Burry (New Zealand), Alan Balfour (Georgia Tech), Machado-Silvetti (Boston), Kieran-Timberlake (Philadelphia), Val Warke (Cornell) and Thom Mayne (Morphosis)

The School of Architecture reached an agreement for a summer program with Sao Paulo’s Escola da Cidade. It will be the seventh summer option along with Cartagena, Barcelona, Corsica, Mexico, New York and Havana.

Our staff visited the ie University in Spain and is currently working on a collaboration agreement between the two schools.

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Professor Edgardo Arroyo‘s Second Year Studio participated with a group proposal for 2012 Park(ing)Day.

Professor Andrea Bauzá was part of a design collective that earned an Honorable Mention representing the US at the Venice Biennale

Dean Francisco Javier Rodríguez was a moderator at AULA’s symposium in Albuquerque, New Mexico (UNM).

Contemporary Architecture in Puerto Rico 1993-2010, a book designed and edited by Dean Francisco Javier Rodríguez and Professor Darwin Marrero-Carrero was selected for the Bienal Iberoamericana de Diseño (BID12) in Madrid, Spain

The UPR hosted the premiere of “Unfinished Spaces”, a Sundance documentary about the Arts Schools in Havana, Cuba

Associate Dean Mayra Jiménez represented the UPR in Cádiz, where our journal (in)forma 6 was selected for the Bienal Iberoamericana de Arquitectura.

Professor Manuel Bermúdez graduate city studio will travel to Panamá, where they will research Old Panama City as part of a 3-year effort to document colonial cities in the Caribbean that includes Cartagena, Havana, New Orleans, Santo Domingo and Old San Juan

ACSA Distinguished Professor Enrique Vivoni, PhD curated an exhibit showcasing the six summer studios he led in Corsica documenting over 100 houses, churches and tombs.

The UPR School of Architecture is engaging municipal authorities to explore collaborative studios on the city. Following the successful studios dedicated to Fajardo, the graduate studio led by Professors Thomas Marvel and Cristina Cardalda will continue to work with the Municipality of Bayamón.

Professors Jorge Lizardi-Pollock, PhD, Manuel Bermúdez and Dean Francisco Javier Rodríguez presented the book Ambivalent Spaces: Memory and Oblivion in Modern Social Architecture, at the Colegio de Arquitectos (CAAPPR).

Natalia Rey (MArch 12) won the Best Urban Design Thesis Award from the Colegio de Arquitectos (CAAPPR) and the Jaime Cobas Thesis Award.

The work of Professor Andrés Mignucci was highlighted on ENTORNO Magazine. He is currently working on a book documenting the PR Supreme Court Building.

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The UPR School of Architecture organized and co-hosted a Symposium titled Education of an Architect – 40 years later – John Hedjuk & the Cooper Union.  The Symposium celebrated the particular point of view and legacy of Hedjuk as Dean of the Cooper Union. The debates instigated a discourse on the evolution of architectural pedagogy from the first publication of Education of an Architect and the 1971 MoMA exhibition to the present. The guest speakers were Lebbeus Woods, Val Warke, Lance Jay Brown, David Gersten, Diane Lewis, Michael Kwartler, David Shapiro, Zubin Singh, Jim Williamson and Guido Zuliani.  The panels were moderated by Sotirios Kotoulas, Javier de Jesus and Francisco Javier Rodriguez.

In collaboration with the AIA-PR, the UPR released a publication on Contemporary Architecture in Puerto Rico: 1993-2010. The book was edited by Dean Francisco Javier Rodríguez, AIA and Prof. Darwin Marrero.

The UPR School of Architecture is celebrating its 45th anniversary. As part of the occasion, the School’s auditorium will be named after its founder, Jesús Eduardo Amaral (B.Acrh Cornell, 1951).

The UPR School of Architecture received a $100,000 grant to fund the installation of 100 solar panels that will save thousands of dollars on the electricity bill as well as over 100,000lbs of carbon emissions.  Together with other sustainable measures implemented by Profs. Crisitna Algaze, LEED AP, and Brenda Martínez, LEED AP, this project will allow the school to surpass the requirements for a LEED certification under the Existing Building Category.

Prof. Mayra Jiménez-Montano has been named Associate Dean, while Humberto Cavallín, Ph.D. and Prof. Anna Georas will direct the Undergraduate and Graduate programs respectively.

The Community Design Studio, directed by Prof. Elio Martínez-Joffre, is collaborating with the Ricky Martin Foundation to design a center for abused children in the municipality of Loíza.  The project is slated for construction in 2012.

For the 5th contiguous year the UPR participated of the AEC Global Teamwork studio, organized by Prof. Renate Fruchter at Stanford University.  The studio is locally coordinated by Prof. Humberto Cavallín, Ph.D.  Rebecca Diaz, and her team, won the Native Award Challenge, because of the sensitive use of local resources in their design project. This honor was awarded by Swinerton Incorporated.

The UPR School’s 2009 Solar Decathlon entry (CASH) was selected for the Ibero American Design Biennial (BID10) in Madrid, where it received the Design Development Prize.

Prof. Fernando Abruña, FAIA, received the Henry Klumb Award, the Puerto Rico College of Architects (CAAPPR) highest distinction for a practitioner.

The new General Studies Building for the UPR-Río Piedras campus designed by Prof. José Javier Toro, of the firm Toro Ferrer Architects, received AIA awards in both Florida and Puerto Rico and was recently published in Architectural Record.

Dean Francisco Javier Rodríguez, AIA, offered a lecture at Tulane University titled Three Short Stories Without an Ending.  He also received a FIPI grant to conduct research on the history of architectural pedagogy and was selected to participate on the Ibero American Design Biennial (BID10) in Madrid under the Industrial Design category.

Prof. Jorge Lizardi, Ph.D. finished his new book offering a critical view of public housing endeavors during the twentieth century titled Vivir y pensar la comunidad moderna. Together with Prof. Manuel Bermúdez, he is also facilitating a Graduate Studio project documenting Caribbean cities including Havana, Santo Domingo, Cartagena and San Juan.

Prof. Javier Isado edited the 5th edition of the School’s magazine (in)forma, dedicated to Digital Narratives, while Prof. Darwin Marrero edited the 6th edition on Hypertourism.

Profs. Fernando Lugo and Maria Rossi are offering a Graduate Joint Studio together with Oklahoma State University’s Profs. Awilda Rodríguez and Paolo Sanza.  Last year, Prof. Anna Georas offered a Graduate Joint Studio with PENN Design (W.Dubbeldam, F.Kolatan, R.Snooks) and the City College of New York (J. Salcedo), while Prof. Jorge Ramírez-Buxeda conducted a Joint Studio with the Pratt Institute (A. Barker).

The UPR School of Architecture is now offering a joint MArch-Juris Doctor degree with the UPR Law School, and is currently working on a joint MArch-MBA degree with the UPR Graduate School of Business Administration.

The work of Profs. Pedro Cardona, Jorge Ramírez-Buxeda, Nataniel Fúster, Eugenio Ramírez, Ernesto Rodríguez and Francisco Gutiérrez was recognized during the 2010 AIA-PR Chapter Awards Ceremony.

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