Rem Koolhaas in #CambioDeClima: ‘The challenge of architecture is to understand the rural world’
Today was begun ‘Architecture: Climate Change’., the fourth version of the International Congress organized by the Architecture and Society Foundation in Pamplona, Spain the inaugural session was by architect Rem Koolhaas, who after making a geopolitical analysis of the European situation, called on architects to stop ignoring the rural world as a field of operation:
We think of methodologies for a view which sooner or later we will have to take charge.
Koolhaas recalled that cities only account for 2% of the planet’s surface. “we have to look beyond, we have focused too much on the development of urban environment, forgetting field a bit. We are beginning to study it, and although there is knowledge, it is out of our radars, “he said.
The founder of OMA and author of works such as CCTV Headquarters or the Prada Foundation in Milan said:
the rural world exists in our lives, not as reality but rather as a myth [...] the field is changing even faster than the cities.
the Dutch architect said the challenges facing the rural world for architecture, but also for the digital age, “will bring consequences, some tremendous”. He said he did not face these challenges is not the way. “Being sentimental will anchor us to the past, we will do no harm.” The future is said, to intervene in “bare spaces, semi abandoned, sparsely populated, sometimes poorly connected”.
Recalling that “our profession has to do with the design but also with politics, “Koolhaas said:
the architecture does not have to be related only with the beauty and aesthetics, but rather with the political action [...] to me have never interested me both forms and being able to intervene in society.
on the other hand, the architect noted another trend, according to which increasingly large robotic industrial spaces are designed, no longer thought in people if not in mechanized processes
this edition of the Congress is entitled “Architecture: Climate Change”., the axis will reflect on the changing trends that are transforming the way we understand and practice architecture with the aim of contributing to a more sustainable world.
Other architects who give lectures and round tables in the Baluarte-Palacio de Congresos and auditorium of Pamplona are Louisa Hutton, Jean-Philippe Vassal, Iñaki Abalos, Renata Sentkiewicz, Dietmar Eberle or Winy Maas.
PREVIOUS MEETINGS
the next meeting is a continuation of the path taken in 2010 with the first International Congress of Architecture, which, biennial appointment that was republished in 2012 and 2014 to become a reference was also held in Pamplona international as a space for reflection on the direction taken by the profession following the economic crisis.
in previous editions, the discussion focused on the necessary austerity in recent years, solidarity based on the aspects that shares the profession to overcome the crisis and the proposal to renounce the superfluous and claim what is necessary in the discipline. those three previous appointments have brought together the best international representation of architecture, including plurals and diverse voices from five continents.
in 2010, the meeting was attended by three Pritzker prize, Renzo Piano, Jacques Herzog and Glenn Murcutt. In 2012 the event was inaugurated by Norman Foster and included the participation of two other Pritzker, Rafael Moneo and Eduardo Souto de Moura awards. And 2014 brought together figures such as Dominique Perrault or also Pritzker prize, Alvaro Siza.
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Architecture and Society Foundation was founded in 2008 Hand Francisco Mangado with the aim of bringing architecture to the public as an element that determines our life in society.
with a clear cultural vocation and analytical and proven national and international projection, Architecture and society Foundation opens architecture to other disciplines to better respond to social concerns that we live in our time as sustainable development, international cooperation and integrated planning.
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