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Vicente Guallart is the Chief Architect of Barcelona City Council since July 2011. He was born in Valencia in 1963. He opened his studio in Barcelona in 1992. He was co-founder of the Institute of Advanced Architecture (IAAC) and director from 2003 to 2011. He was director of the Master of Advanced Architecture since 2001 until 2011, co-organized by IAAC and UPC School. == Work == He works at the confluence of architecture, nature and technologies. Some of his more relevant projects are the Denia Mountain (reconstruction of an old quarry, in an environment that hold and old Arab castle, selected for the Venice Biennale 2004), 3 ports in the North of Taiwan that will improve the tourism in the island (winners of 2 international competitions), or the Sharing Tower in the neighbourhood of la Torre (Valencia). He spent part of his time with research and educational projects as former director of the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IaaC), in Barcelona, that holds an international postgraduate program on Architecture and Urbanism working in many scales “from Bits to geography”. In 2000 he co-directed with MIT’s Media Lab and another research Center, the Media House Project, the prototype of an informational house, based for the first time, in distributed computation. He is author of the master Plan of the project Sociópolis, a housing project in Valencia that allows the urban development and the protection of the agriculture environment. He coordinates a group of international architects that will build different equipments and housing projects in this neighbourhood. This project was shown in the Valencia Biennale, or the Architekturzentrum in Vienna. He is co-author of the Metapolis Dictionary of Advanced Architecture (Actar), HiperCatalonia or Media House Project. The Korean publishing house DD dedicates the monograph “Intelligent realities” to his work. Actar publishing house is preparing his new book “Media, Mountains and Architecture”. He has given lectures in different Universities and Cities around the world as Princeton University, Upenn, Architectural Association, UCLA, MIT, Space (Seoul), Woodbury University, Taipei and others. His work has been exhibit in the Biennale di Venezia in 2000 (in the Arsenale, with the group Metapolis), 2004 (in the Arsenale with the Denia Mountain Project), 2008 (in Arsenale with Hyperhabitat in collaboration with IAAC and CBA's MIT), 2010 (in the Sapnish Pavilion with the Fab Lab House) and 2012 (in the Spanish pavilion, as chief architect of Barcelona, with Portes de Collserola and City Protocol). Sharin Tower was selected for the exhibition "On Site: New Spanish Arechitecture" in 2006 at MOMA in New York City. The American Institute of Architects organized a solo exhibition in Whasington in 2010 under the title "Geologics". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vicente Guallart」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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