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Collective Architecture is a network of people and collectives interested in particpatory construction of urban surroundings. The web offeres a instrumental mark for the collaboration of different types of projects and iniciatives. This website is a tool where one can register themselves as a user. If you are interesting in knowing more about us and ways in which you can particpate in our current projects, you can also meet us in person by signing up at: the third net encounter which will take place between the 19th and 25th of July, 2010 in Pasaia, Gipuzkoa. If you certain you will attend the third encounter you can access the registration from here. I copy of the program itinerary may be downloaded here.
Paula Fernández, intern for the York International Internship award from York University in Toronto, Canada is collaborating with Women Who Build here in Madrid and assisting us with fundemental tasks that include re-structuring our website. Expect an important change as we will be creating a blog, as part of a supplement for the website which will be interactive and offer more up to date news articles. Women Who Build would like to extend their hand and say thank you Paula! and thank you York University!
Solar Decathlon "B" Pavillion
Basurama partcipated in Solar Decathlon, Madrid 2010 a macroevent sustained by solar energy but unsustainable by defintion, held in the new expansion of del Rey next to the river.
During two days Basurama worked on building their low-tech B Pavillion ( with the help of 70 Colombian students from PEI). The "B" Pavillion fed off the left overs from the high-tech Pavillions, a competition that took place on the other side of the river and had partcipants from different Arquiteture Universities around the world.
Two workshops were held during public hours they were based on, furniture construction and innovative inventions and knick knacks.
Madrid holds the first European edition of the Solar Decathlon competition . The competition originated in the USA in 2002 when the look to create a house that could self sufficiently power energy.
The aim to advance knowledge on industrialized and sustainable homes, with a particular
emphasis on high efficiency and energy self-sufficiency.
Out of 800 candidates only 17 teams were able to build a protoype on the Madrid Rio grounds. Including five Spanish teams: Institute for advanced arquitectureI,CEU Cardenal Herrera University, and Universities in Seville, Valladolid and Politec of Cataluña.
The competition will wrap up Sunday June 27th, where the winning team that progressively collected the most points ( 1,000 being the maximum) will win first prize.
It
is open to the public until Sunday July 27th by the Manzanares river in
Madrid Rio next to the Puente del Rey
2011 Alzemiers International Congress, that will take place next year (2011) The year of Alzehimeres, will be held in Madrid during a International Congress devouted to this issue.
We plea that all architects who have worked or collaborated in projects relating to residences or centres that house individuals suffering from this disease to get in touch with Isabel Navarro: imnavarro@telefonica.net As part of the organization for the congress, those interested may have the possibilty of appearing in a publication, exhibit their work and partcipate in the congress. The photograph on the left is the Salamanca Centre for Alzehimeres, designed by Isabel Navarro, architect and co-founder of Women Who Build.
Architect Kazuyo Sejima, and her partner Ryue Nishizawa, members of firm SANAA,
were awarded with the 2010 Pritzker Prize noted as the: " Nobel Prize" of Architecture.
In the judges words, they have been awarded with this extremely important prize " for a kind of architecture that is delicate yet powerful and stimulating. These ingenious designs possesses precision and flow yet uncalculated (not overtly calculated) and the creation of structures that interact in a satisfactory manner within its own context and the activities that capture them. Thus, creating a rich experimental sensation of an architectural language, very singular in nature were a collaborative process is born and great and numerous constructed buildings are concieved, meanwhile making the promise for new ones". The Pritzker prize will be presented to Sanaa during a ceremony that will take place at Ellis Island, in New York (USA), next May 17th, 2010.
A City called Spain The exhibition will be on display in Athens and opened this past 20th of May. The exhibition offers a recompliation of singnificant examples of contemporary Spanish architecture, that reflect the execeptional time of its production and its variation. Manuel Blanco professor of the Superior School of Technical Architecture in the Politech University of Madrid, is the organizer and designer of this exhibition. An exhibition that reflects that journey of Spanish architecture during the first decade of this century, displaying 80 projects by 70 studios and the work of more than 100 architects, which takes into account the rich urban diveristy of Spain and the quality of its recent architectonic production.
Good Architecture + Social Commitment + Innovation = A desorbiant budget? Unfortunately this is not a mathematical formula, the British Organization Architecture for Humanity, has proved otherwise. For this reason they have be awarded the IIDA Pioneers in Design Award prize for a fabolous 10 year journey. This NGO originally founded in New York by English architect Cameron Sinclair and journalist Kate Stohr, decided to put there interests and proffesional careers into practice by developing an organization that channeled their desire and motivation to make a social contribution to the world.
"La Ciudad Viva" is a project of the Housing Department (Consejería de Vivienda y Ordenación del Territorio ) of Junta de Andalusia, with the following line of work: Understanding urban and territorial politics as public functions, as services to citizenship, and with sustainability criterium as basic parameters.
Last month of July, we celebrated in Quito an International Congress named “La Ciudad Viva como URBS” trying to combine a theorertical debate with our real experiences (Cooperation Programs and Restoration of Historical Centres and Areas in Andalusia) as well as those which have been done in an independent way. That is to say, the presentation of Practical Experiences with an urban scale and with an integrity degree.
Web: www.laciudadviva.org
Vicente Guallart is the innovator for the eco-neighbourhood Sociópolis project, which will form part of the exhibition Hot! New Design from Spain, to be displayed in the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), in the city of Baltimore.
Sociopólis is supported by IVVSA the Valencian Generalitat in la Torre a neighbourhood in the Valencian capital. The exhibition will display a model of the sociopolis neighbourhood as way of introducing the fusion between innovative architecture and the scenic intergration of the growing fields of Valencia.
More then 30 arial photographs that capture the natural space of Doñana were taken by Spanish photographer Héctor Garrido. Photographs that along with other IT applications, demonstrate the search for an explanation as to why nature has such forms and how they compare to the classical theory of Euclides. The exhibition titled " The fractals and marshes of Doñana, produced by Seville House of Science and the Biological Station of Doñana, both institutions belonging to CSIC, will make there way to The Natural Park of Aiguamolls de l’Empordá“, in Girona, were they can be seen next 30th of June.
MARCH 8th, 2010 at 6pm the Exhibition WOMEN WHO BUILD-SPAIN-LEBANON-ITALY AND THE NETHERLANDS was inaugurated in The House of Culture in the City Council of Tres Cantos (Madrid).
It exhibited 64 projects by different women architects from Spain, Lebanon, Italy and the Netherlands. Prior to the inauguartion, several architects and politicans gave a small lecturer, shortly after a run down of all the exhibition paneles was made. The exhibition intends to establish a emotional tie between the spectator and the architecture presented. In the search for the beauty of spaces architecture has contributed to society, proposing a reflection on the importance of a harmonous relationship between men and their surrounding, was the train of thought behind this imaginary journey, through the poetry of built spaces, a vital journey. A journey that is continuously shifting between reason and emotion, between technicalities and poetry, between intuition and shape, stopping at the places that together form part of this itinerary
Comisarias: Ana Estirado Gorría y Cristina García-Rosales, arquitectas
History repeats itself. In spite of the advancements made by women in the second wave, an orchestration is produced similar to how feminism had been labelled as a way to give blame to all the unfortunate things that women encounter. Worst of all: Not having a man. The ghost of a bitter solitud. Susan Faludi vividly reconstructs a discussion in her work " Reaction". The war that has not been declared againist the modern women (1991). We have moved forward, but we remain restless with the fact that 90% of the people who have stopped looking for work during this crisis are women. Is it still possible to have a newer version of mystical femeninity? (Celia Amorós) http://www.elpais.com/articulo/portada/Dar/nombre/problema/tiene/nombre/elpepuculbab/
"BuBble".
TEMPORARY SHELTER, Coruña (2009). Architecture by, Patricia Muñiz and Luciano
G. Alfaya “mmasa arquitectos”
with the collaboration of Cipriano Chas. Photographs, Santos-Díez.
“BuBble” is a prototype for a temporary shelter that is transportable,
easy to assemble and unassemble, has a height of 4 2m and is equipped with
water and electricity for the basic functions of the bathroom and kitchen.
Pavillion for the Serpent Gallery, Hyde Park, London - (2009). The Pavillion. Designed by female architect Kazuyo Sejima, is being built in the London park. Made by alumnium that floates between trees, these sheets of aluminum curve and expand between the park and the sky. Its apperance changes with the climate, and integrates with its surroundings. It also serves as a sheter, were people can make use of the space to relax or read.
Vleuterweide Library, Utrecht - Holand (2009). Vera Yanovshtchinsky female architect, formed part of our exhibition titled " Building from the inside" and collaborated with BV arquitects, to design this space. (Photographs Stijn Poelstra ). Situated in the foyer of the cultural campus of “Vleuterweide”. The space is intended for different extracurricular and cultural activities and is a centre for information accessible to all university students.
Another project by Zaha Hadid. The sculpture park in the state of Michigan, USA was created to exhibit modern and contemporary art at a surface of more than 1,700 2 metre. It will also be the home for the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum to be designed by female Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid.
The Pavillion of Spain in the Shanghái 20 expo was designed by female architect Benedetta Tagliabue. For this project, Tagliabue an icon greatly influenced not only by Spanish culture but also by the Chinese culture : Introduces "The wicker basket". A better city, a better life, the building will extend itself to a plaza, a plaza that is for the city much like a patio is for a house. A place to breathe, to relax, to hold celebrations but at the same time an articulated space.
Zaha Hadid Architects designed the ' Magic Jesolo' a shopping centre and office complex in the city of Jesolo in Italy. Situated in the west part of the Roma Destra street were outdoor spaces are dedicated to public green areas and parking use.
Like the petals of a flower, Volumes that describes the center are spaced like rose petals, creating a centric space, a covered square, that represents the main distribution core. The Hotel, as the last petal close the perspective and thanks to its shape offers the panoramic view through the Venice Lagoon.
The retail and congress centre, dialogs with the precious territorial environment, thanks to its sinuosity and long entrances that allow natural light and natural environment to dip through the petals-buildings,to offer a perfect observation pointof the the Lagoon.
We visited Toronto, Canada in November 2009, thanks to an invitation by York University proffesors Shelley Hornstein and Adrian Schubert. We returned home fascinated by such innovative architecture, in a city that mixes daily life with futuristic high tech designs. Will we be returining to Canada in the future? In the photo, the Ontario College of Art & Design ( OCAD) and the expansion of the Royal Ontario Museum ( ROM) both in the city of Toronto.
Type the sky an original alphabet created by Lisa Rienerman, As part of photographs taken of buildings and then cut out to form part of this "special alphabet". The compliation of these photographs are from the many cities she came to encounter and the first was in a patio in Barcelona that came to form the letter Q.
PREVIOUS CALLS
MATILDE UCELAY MAORTÚA, the first woman who finished architecture studies in Spain, died November 19th 2008.
Rest in peace.
Just
one is missing and all is desolate
Alphonse de Lamartin
Exhibition in Arquerías of Nuevos Ministerios
Madrid: SPAIN, US, THE CITIES Paseo de la Castellana, 67, 28071 MADRID
Under the title “Us, the cities,” this montage which represented Spain in the Bienal of Venice 2006, join 32 works and designs of 21 offices, combined with original messages projected on 55 video screens with the reflections of 100 women about their cities.
The exhibition not only presents the words and images of women architects and town planners, but also invites to do so, to different representatives of urban professions as firewomen, women taxi drivers, newspaper sellers; women managers; women from different groups as immigrants, ecological groups and neighbourhood associations; or urban tribes as ·pijos”, skaters, “okupas” o gotics
"Spain presents a pavilion with a feminine face, as the gender of its own name and the generic name of its cities, in which women transform themselves in spokeswomen of their works, of their companion ´s works and of their own lifes.
Gender
Perspective of cities and architecture begin to spread all over the world,
explained
the event organizers, among them we can point Manuel Blanco, Professor of
Madrid University.
EXHIBITION in the Arcades of the Ministry of Labour of Madrid ·
To Inhabit the Present: Housing in Spain: society, city, technology and resources
A panoramic vision of Contemporary housing in Spain, good examples of good architecture andgood practices. December-January 2007
“To inhabit the present” it is a exhibition produced by the Spanish Ministry of Housing, which raises a panoramic vision of contemporary housing in Spain, trying to understand concepts comprehensible with the definition our housing and cities: sustainable, healthful and in harmony with the environment.
THE EFFORTS OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN SPAIN TO OBTAIN A DWELLING, MEAN 64,3% OF THIEIR INCOME
According of the second period of three months in 2006 data of The Youth Observatory of Housing in Spain (OBJOVI), published by the Spanish Youth Council, a young person should have dedicated the 64,3% of his salary to buy a free housing. Its important to mark that among the provinces with most efforts in obtaining a dwelling, are Vizcaya (82,4%), Málaga (79,9%), Madrid (79,6%), Barcelona (79,5%) and Guipúzcoa (78,5%). In the opposite extreme, with a inferior average cost, very much under the whole media of young population in Spain, we can .point Teruel (33,7%), Ciudad Real (37,2%), Cáceres (38,2%), Lérida (38,2%) and Badajoz (39,4%)
Source: Spanish Youth Council C/ Montera, 24 6º Planta 28013 Madrid
FEMALE ACTIVITY VALUATION IS STILL -IN SPAIN- 21 POINTS UNDER MASCULINE ACTIVITY
CC.OO report on PGE 2007, points up that women progressively participate more in labour activities, and that their incorporation to the professional market, during the recent last years, has been very important. Anyway, female activity valuation (47,9%) is placed, during the 3rd last period of three months of 2006, 21 percentage points under masculine one (69,1%), while women unemployment valuation (11,5%) is 5 points over masculine (6,4%). In accordance to qualitative differences, women (37,2%) suffer more than men (32,2%) contractual temporality, as well as partial time contracts (21% in opposition to 4,2%). Women also receive less salary than men, not only because they work in less productive works and in inferior labour categories, but also because they suffer salary discrimination. “Around half of the salary differences (15 percentage points) can be attributed to salary discriminations”, affirms CC.OO
Source: Revista Trabajadora / c. Fernández de la Hoz, 12, 3ª planta /28010 Madrid e-mail: trabajadora@ccoo.es http://www.ccoo.es/mujeres
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NEW BOOK ABOUT E1027 ELEEN GREY´S HOUSE
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Muhammad Yunus POWER PEOPLE BANKER
MICRO CREDITS AND THE BATTLE AGAINST POWERNESS IN THE WOLD
In 1983, against bankers and authorities of his Government advices, professor Yunus founded Grameen, a bank dedicated to supply minuscule loans for survival of poor people.Muuhamad Yunus (Bengalí: Muhammod Iunus) and his "Grameen Bank received the Nobel Peace Prize 2006 because of his fight to obtain a just economy for poor classes. The amount of the prize (1,1 million euros) will be destined to continue his work.
German-Spanish Company CONTEXT ENERGY with experience in installation of solar energy , (stand Gea, Bioculture) La Coruña, Bilbao, Barcelona, Valencia,
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SINTESIS EDITORIAL has been making -since its foundation- an important effort to give the necessary status to gender studies in the formation field, regulated
or not. In this catalogue you can fiend titles as “Women History”, “Spanish Women in Plastic Arts”, Feminism and Philosophy”, “Gender and Globalization”,
“Women Space and Society”, “Women in the teaching of Social Sciences”, etc. sintesis Editorial has translated the International Encyclopaedia of Women, which has been supervised by The Institute of Feminist Studies of UCM, an has an adaptation to the Spanish talking market, with the inclusion of openings directed to this idiomatic Area, written by prestigious specialists.To ask for information or buy books: SINTESIS EDITORIALVallehermoso, 34-1º / 28015 MADRID Telf: 00 34 91 593 20 98 / Fax: 91 445 86 96 http://www.sintesis.com
Our colleague, the architect Carmen Espegel Alonso, has obtained the First Prize MILKA BLIKNAKOV” in its V th Edition,
because of her book “HEROINAS DEL ESPACIO” This prize belongs to the Poliytecnique University of Virgina (EEUU).These are the observations made by the Jury: “Carmen ´s book is a brilliant theoretical and historical synthesis based in her investigation published in severallanguage as well as a meritorious investigation in original archives. The text has been recognized by the Jury as an enormous effort which is a real help to reorder and re-write Modern Architectonical History of XX th Century. The third part of the book consists in a theoretical and general vision of women roll development from traditional society to the beginning of European Modernity. The other two thirds are monograph analysis of the work done by the following women architects: Eileen Gray (1878-1976), Lilly Reich (1885-1947), Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897-2000), Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999). Though one can think that all we must know about them is already written, Carmen Espegel´s analysis revels new aspects of their work, seen in the context of their contemporaneous production. The Jury recommends this book for its translation into English language. There is no other text with these approaches to the analysis profundity in the subject and no other one known could be easily admitted as a scholar book of Modern Architecture History. Easy to read an with a provocative thought full of excellent and original questions.”
The architect Carmen Espegel, professor of Madrid School of Architecture, whose doctoral thesis was written on the emblematic house -Eleen Grey´s E1027- published recently her book “Heroins of Space”, in which she makes a route on women architects of early XX century, on their lifes and buildings.
ANNA CASTELLI FERRIERI Died on 27st of June, 2006.
Ske was one of the most recognized designers in the world of the Italian industry.She studied architecture in Milan Polytechnical Institute. She began her work in Franco Albini ´s office. After designing the central building of KARTELL (1966), she began to work in this company. In Kartell she obtained recognition by her vital roll in the introduction of plastic in furniture market. Director of Design Department, she worked in Kartell as collaborator with important designers like Achille CASTIGLIONI, Joe COLOMBO, Richard SAPPER and Marco ZANUSO. Her designs included the innovating use of new materials, forms and great architectonic exactitude. She obtained several design prizes, including the important COMPASSO D'ORO. In her own words: “It is not certain that what is useful is beautiful. What is beautiful, is useful. Beauty can improve people ´s way of life and their thoughts.”
Only three of every ten new students, are women. Polytechnical University,Madrid.
Seven of each ten students registered in the 2005-2006 term in Madrid Polytechnical are men. These data come from "Project Demand", a study of the "Vicerrectorado of Academic Order and Planning Strategic of Madrid Polytechnical University", designed to know the average of students who accede to this University. In spite of the present majority distribution of women in Spanish society, the report reveals that pupils still are predominantly masculine (73.9% are men opposed to 26.1% women) -The girls have better qualifications. However, the girls are those who add a superior average note. For example, the percentage of men notes are 6.8%, whereas the women ´s one are 9.1%. The average of sexes in the Superior Technical School of Architecture is 53.3% (women) and in the Agricultural Technical Engineering University School is 51.3%. In these cases the proportion of women surpasses the one of men.
Book: Architecture and Gender. Author: Monica Cevedio.Icaria Publishing, Barcelona 2003. The world as we nowadays know it, probably would be very different if women and men had coexisted in equality during the last past centuries. In this book, Mónica Cevedio studies the consequences of cancellation of feminine participation in artistic creations, in the development of our economic system and, mainly, in architecture. This book proposes us to reflect on the point of view whereupon we all watch and create.
The 29th of May 2006, was the delivery of the National Prizes of Architecture 2004 in the Galleries of the Housing Ministry in Madrid.
The prizes were divided in several modalities: ARCHITECTURE, TOWN PLANNING AND QUALITY OF HOUSING. All of them were granted “to those architects whose excellent and continued contribution, -working in Spain- valued with objective criteria, have emphasized social, economic, aesthetic and technological aspects of architecture”. The call has granted the most important prize-THE NATIONAL OF ARCHITECTURE- for the first time, to the first woman architect titled in Spain: Matilde Ucelay. It was retired by his son- Javier Ruiz Castillo- who made a brief semblanza of his mother: a professional, humble and simple woman who worked all her life without considering it something exceptional. It was her vocation and desire. And her way of being in life. She never wanted prizes nor awards. Although, without any doubt, she deserved them.
The son of Matilde Ucelay Maórtua, receives the prize by
the hands of the Minister of Housing.
SPANISH NATIONAL PRIZE OF ARCHITECTURE 2004
MATILDE UCELAY MAÓRTUA
February
7th , 2006. Joined
the “Spanish National Prize of Architecture 2004” Jury, they have
resolved to award this important prize to Mrs Matilde Ucelay Maórtua
The Jury considered and valued the professional development of Matilde Ucelay who was the first woman titled in Architecture in Spain.Born in 1912, she studied her Primary Studies in the ”Instituto Escuela”, inheritor of the Republican “Institución Libre de Enseñanza” and entered the School of Architecture of Madrid University, in 1931. She finished her studies in June 1936. Her colleagues gave her an homage for being the first woman who obtained this title in Spain. To this homage assisted the Republican Ministry of Government, Amós Salvador.
She was purged by a Professional Court due to her republican and liberal affiliation, not allowing her to work in her profession, for five years, and not allowing her either to have confidence charges for the rest of her life.
The Jury has considered the professional development of this first woman architect in Spain, who -in despite of prohibitions and difficulties- maintained a continued and professional activity, designing buildings, specially housing, among which, we can point up “Casa Oswald” in “Puerta de Hierro “, Madrid, ”Casa Benítez” in Lugo, others in Canary Islands, and Turner and Hispano-Argentina libraries in Madrid.As many pioneer women who have opened different and new ways in Arts and Sciences fields, Matilde Ucelay also did it in a particular and difficult one, as Architecture is
CANDIDACY FOR THE NATIONAL PRIZE OF ARCHITECTUREWomen Who Build Association, through the initiative of Anne Le Maignan (www.generourban.org) and with the collaboration of Javier Ruiz-Castillo (her nephew) and Miguel Botella (her son), displayed the official candidacy of the first architect woman in Spain -Matilde Ucelay- for the Spanish National Prize of Architecture, promoted by the Spanish Ministry of Housing.
JANE JACOBS
Author of "Death and Life of Great American Cities", died the 25st of April, 2006 at the age of 89.
Her priorities were inclined towards communities with diversity of people, types of transport, architecture and commerce.
Jacobs criticized the New City Planners, and wrote: “they want to have alive centers in the places they develop. And I have seen in their plans and in the places they build, that they do not seem to have a sense of anatomy. They have designed them as if they were commercial centers. They don´t manage the connection”.
All who read Jacob´s books are infected by her enthusiasm, her love to cities and her celebration to daily life. She articulated her ideas on the design of great cities, thought -not from theories and masterful plans- but from careful observations of daily life. Her ideas are well known by planners, architects and activists everywhere.
J.J. had no formal training in town-planning or either in architecture. In fact, this deficiency is often considered as the secret of its wisdom and innovation.
A SPANISH DESIGN FOR the MONUMENT OF TSUNAMI
The women architects Ana Somoza and Juana Canet
Two women Spanish architects adjudged the project of the construction of a Memorial which Thailand will dedicate to thousand of victims caused by tsunami, happened in December 2004. The winners of the international aid summoned by the Thailander Government, are the chiefs of Disc Architecture Office, located in the capital of Spain. The failure of the international jury was made public in the Palace of Government, with the attendance of members of the Executive, diplomatic body and the architects who arrived to the final phase. 680 projects of 47 countries were displayed, 320 passed the first selection, and others arrived to end, designed by different offices of Spain, Finland, the United States, China and Australia. The project displayed by the two Spanish young women,whose title is "The Mountains of Memories", is based on four Buddhist metallic and glassed structures that remember estupas. The Memorial will be built in the Kao Lak National Park, located near the beach with the same name, in the southwest coast area, which was the most devastated area by tsunami on 26th of December
TV PROGRAM THE ADVENTURE KNOWLEDGE. WOMEN AND TOWN PLANNING
The past 7th of March, and because the occasion of Women Day, it was shown in the 2nd chanell of TVE a Program on " Women Architects". In this program they took part, among others, the City Planning Women Group and Women Who Build Association.
O.N.G.D. - PEACE and DEVELOPMENT
LABOR GLOBALIZACIÓN - DISCOVERING a WORLD OF INEQUALITIES
We are starting the project: "Labor Globalización: discovering a World of Inequalities ", thanks the financing of the Excmo. Madrid City council.
In this proposal we approach the Globalización subjet from the labour world perspective, displaying an analysis on the effects it has for childhood and women.
We propose the accomplishment of an EXHIBITION, during one week (throughout ten thematic panels and an explanatory video). We count in addition, with a DIDACTIC UNIT you can ask for, which proposes differents actions.Contact: 902,21,144,94 or sensibilizacion@pazydesarrollo.org
Pilar Pineda Zamorano Coordinator of Education
ACTIONS: Economic realities in impoverished
countries We want to approach different labors realities we can find in our world, analyzing the labor situation of women and
childhood.
We will develop theese actions in four sessions centered in:
1. Work World-wide reality.
2. Women in work surroundings.
3. Infantile work.
4. Towards a change of situations.
WOMEN ARCHITECTS ANNA BOFILL and ZAIDA MUXÍ VINDICATE an URBANISM WITH WOMAN PERSPECTIVE
Within the framework of the encounter "Days of Urbanism and Gender", set up in Tenerife (Canary Islands), women exposed the incongruences of spaces and
services thought by men, in spite of being used mainly by women. "We, women, need a different concept of citizenship and also need to make decisions on
the environment design", declared Anna.Bofill, because " it is different to glide with a pencil that to conceive it as a vital experience",The conferences was opened
by the advisor of the Youth Area, Education and Women of Tenerife Town Hall, Josefa García, who stressed the idea of the necessity to introduce gender
prespective in Town Planning. Since, until now, in spite taht women represent more than 50 % of population, she said, "security nor accessibility has been not considered ". Zaida Muxí praised a train station designed by A. Bofill because it fulfills "one of the principles of the security, that is to see and to be seen.
VIRTUAL EXHIBITION OF EUROPEAN ARCHITECTS Organized by ARVHA
VIRTUAL EXHIBITION ; Architects for change / Women Architects / Society for Black Architects www.diversecity-architects.com
URBAN DEBATES CLUB
WORK INTRASFERIBLE PATERNITY PERMISSION, A NECESSARY STEP TOWARDS EQUALITY
Last 21 st of December was debated in Spanish Congress the Equality Law.
In this debate we can find the presentation of two amendments to this Law, so to obtain work paternity permission of 13 days right now, and four weeks in 2015. Men for Equality Forum www.ahige.org
The Exhibition BUILDING IN PARITY (Andalusian Women Institute) has been exhibit in Langreo´s House of Women (Asturias, Spain) coinciding with the Encounter “Gender and Townplanning) last month of September 2006.
NEW
CITIES WITH WOMEN VOICES 
Spain
exhibits, in Venice Bienal of Architecture, last urban tendencies.
“Us, the cities” is the installation title that Spain presents in the Xth Venice Bienal of Architecture,
which opened last friday 9th of September, with the following general theme: “Cities, architecture and
society”, with the participation of 30 countries n the list of
well kwon women we can point Cordoba Mayoress, Rosa Aguilar; the
writer and National Library Manageress, Rosa Regás; the actress Carmen Maura, the journalist Maruja Torres; the architects Matilde
Ucelay and Elia Gutiérrez
Mozo; the Manageress of the last edition of Venice Bienal; and the
art
gallerists Juana de Mordó,Soledad Lorenzo, Oliva Arauna & Helga
de Alvear. (And even a member of Women who Build Association, we add).
and José Guirao, Manager of “La Casa Encendida”, one of the most active Cultural Centre of Spain. The sonorous montage, -in English and Spanish- lasts over 180 minutes. What does the spectator see while listening to those meditations? The Spanish Pavilion exhibitED photographs and models of public and private buildings appeared in recent years and that have achieved a conciliation of what we call “author constructions” with those mere “historic inheritances” known all over the world. Attending to the Commissary, they have looked for urban micro cosmos which have been given answers to social necessities in this country.
MARIA ZAMBRANO CENTER
Conference: THE CITIES WITHOUT TIME Day: 31 th May, 2006, 18.00 to 20.00 Hours.
A fragment journey by a trapped city. In charge of: CRISTINA GARCÍA ROSALES (Women Who Wild)
“Resaw time and space, weave them and unweave them, lead them back and to try to rethink among all a city of routes, of encounters, experiences and coexistence…”
WOMEN PERSPECTIVE / EL PAÏS 16th April, 2006
Spanish Women Architects live their best moment
There are more architectonical projects with women signature every day. Spanish professional women are becoming visible.
Official buildings, theaters, museums, buildings and housing take their seal. They win prizes and have international recognition.
In this article of EL PAÍS newspapaer appear some of them with their works and their opinions:
- Mamen Domingo: "The Footbridge of the Fórum is a complex work, very engineerish”.
- Beth Galí: “Now I feel safer projecting, before I had many ghosts”.
- Maria José Aranguren: “Working at the site is the most exciting of our profession”.
- Benedetta Tagliabue: “In architecture I feel still a girl, an adolescent…”
- Blanca Lleó: “There is not a "before" and an "after"of the design of Sanchinarro”.
- Ángela Gaceía de Paredes: “I like to work in three stages: project, working in the site and competitions”.
- Fuensanta Nieto: The private housing in Spain are awfull”.
PHOTO Young and shining women. Cristina Diaz Moreno, Izaskun Chinchilla and M. Auxiliadora Gálvez (left yo rigth.), in the Conception Area (Madrid).
A NEW PLATFORM WILL AGGLUTINATE
The VOICES OF The SCIENTIFIC WOMEN OF ALL EUROPE
[ Date: 2006-03-08 ]
To support and to attend the active women in science is not a particularly new phenomenon. In fact, there are many organizations and networks in all Europe who have this assignment. Nevertheless, if it is wanted that the voices of the scientists are listened in an European level, these networks must work together, and display their necessities and looks in a concise and coordinated way.
The Technological Platform of European Scientific Women (EPWS) is exactly what is going to do. The platform tries to contribute in an structural bond between the scientists and the political people in charge. "We have advanced, but still there is much to do. We must be very conscious how to raise the question constantly [ of women in science ] and show that womwn scientists have voice ", declares the Generak Secretary of EPWS, Maren Jochimsen.
please visit: http://www.epws.org
For more information on European Women in Science , please visit: http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/science-society/page_en.cfm?id=3197
"NO MORE CARS- FOR AN HABITABLE MADRID" PLATFORM
Sustainable & Mobility Forum of Madrid Community.
Sunday, 25th of June, 12.00a.m Callao - > Sol - Pza. of Villa - > Madrid.
THE CREATIVE PROCESS
LECTURE 22th of May, 2006 Cruz López Viso, architect
Pablo Picasso Art School - La Coruña C/Los Pelamios, s/nº -15001 - La Coruña
A HOUSE WITHIN NATURE
Cruz López Viso,
architect Pablo
Picasso Art School - La Coruña Monday, 20th
February 2006, 17:00.
INTERNATIONAL
CONGRESS IN ATHENS: WOMEN AND MEN IN THE SPACES OF THE EVERYDAY
Athens,
11th ans 12th of november, 2005
Cristina García-Rosales and Ana Estirado Gorría have participated in the International Congress of Athens in “Women Who Build” name, exposing two communications. The British architect Angela Brady and other women architects of the National School of Architecture of Athens, also took part in this interesting Congress.
BOWNETWERK, NEATHERLAND WOMEN ASSOCIATION
The past month of October the Neatherland group of women architects came to visit us to Madrid. (http://www.bouwnetwerk.net/english.php) called bouwnetwerk. We had dinner with them in the centric and traditional “Gijón Coffee” where we planned activities in common. One of them is to take in 2006 to Holland (Ámsterdam or Utrech), our Exhibition BUILDING FROM the INTERIOR. This alive exhibition would become richer- in this occasion- with new projects of imaginative European women who are developing new experiences in the field of housing, urban space and city.
CASA BARCELONA PROJECT: THE ADAPTATION OF HOUSING TO THE USER
If
all the people are different, why all the houses are the same?
If all the people change, why don't houses change?
If the climatic elements are different, why houses look so much alike?
Under the umbrella of Construmat 2005, Casa Barcelona Project represents a pioneer space where accredited architects and materials makers join together to advance in the application of the I+D+i on housing.
Exhibition
at the Gran Vía M2 area, Central Rambla, between pavilions 1 and 2
Round table: 15th April 2005, 19:00. Gran Vía M2 area. Limited capacity,
invitation is indispensable (get them at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, Parq
of Montjuic)More information: www.construmat.com
EXHIBITION
OF SEVEN PROJECTS:
The perfectible façade (Ferrater y Paricio)
The wall kitchen (Ferrater y Paricio)
The green façade (Pich-Aguilera)
The furniture sanitaries (Chipperfield)
The versatily sheets (Sarrablo)
The "terrazo" technical floor
The "brico-aplacados" (Sarrablo)
ROUND TABLE: Casa Barcelona: about the adaptation
to people and places
Participants: Glenn Murcutt (Pritzker 2002) and Carlos
Jiménez (architect). Chairman: Luis Fernández Galiano
(architect)
