Vivimos en un mundo en constante mutación. Ya sean conflictos políticos, desigualdades sociales, desastres ecológicos o pandemias; el planeta y la humanidad afrontan un continuo estado de transformación y necesaria adaptación. En la VII edición del Festival arquia – comisariada por Gonzalo Herrero Delicado – se ha examinado colectivamente cómo la arquitectura emergente de España y Portugal está afrontando estos desafíos. Una oportunidad para reflexionar sobre aquellas prácticas que están respondiendo con riesgo e innovación, generando una nueva radicalidad en arquitectura.
El festival tuvo lugar los días 21 y 22 de octubre con un amplio programa de debates, conversaciones y presentaciones con los arquitectos y estudios seleccionados en el programa arquia/próxima, así como otros invitados entre los que se incluyen Anupama Kundoo, Carme Pinós y Peter Cook. La plataforma virtual que acogió el festival, diseñada por Space Popular e inspirada en la ciudad de Barcelona, también sirvió como marco para acoger actividades paralelas como galerías de los programas arquia/próxima y arquia/becas, y un nuevo documental dirigido por Javier Peña que nos acerca a la arquitectura más radical de Barcelona.
The VI edition had 1183 registered projects and 675 participating architects. Iñaki Carnicero was the curator of this edition, and the members of the jury were: Héctor Fernández Elorza, representative of the Central Zone, Iñigo García Odiaga de Vaumm, representative of the Northern Zone, María González García de Sol 89, representative of the Southern Zone, Montserrat NoguésTeixidor, Arquia Foundation trustee, Anna Puigjaner Barberà de Maio, representative of the Levante Zone. Pilar Díaz from Paisaje Transversal was the representative of the participants chosen by the nearby architects who met the requirements for participation in this call.
The motto 'RELEVANT PRACTICES', promotes reflection on the paradox between recognition and success of Spanish architecture international repercussions, and the low volume of production in recent years.
This V edition has 1653 registered projects and 675 participating architects. The curator of this edition is Alberto Veiga, and the members of the jury are: Eugeni Bach, Carlos Gómez Agustí, Jesús Irisarri, Eva Morales and Víctor Navarro. José María Sánchez García has been the representative of the participants chosen by the nearby architects who fulfilled the requirements to participate in this call.
Under the motto 'IMPERFECT FUTURE' this edition aims at reflecting on the profession with resistance and without melancholy
In this fourth edition there have been 670 new registrations and 870 participating architects.
The jury includes Eva Franch, general curator Emilio Tuñón, Toni Gironès, Izaskun Chinchilla, Luis Úrculo and Andrés Jaque has catalogued 120 works and has selected 29 works that show
projects that architecturally build a vindication of the historical, critical, ecological and social through a management of capital and architectural, environmental and human surpluses.
In the 2012-2013 IV edition, the arquia/next award, consisting of €15,000 has been awarded to: Analogical Smart Cities Paradise Lost, Monu//Bench Project, From Olympic Games to Urban Games y Social Alphabets / Alphabet Cities of the PKMN group that, with a large dose of creativity, rigour and humour, both on a methodological and formal level, represents fundamental social and architectural values at the entrepreneurial level: the city's democratisation and the construction of social links and collective spaces capable of blurring economic, social or class differences. The PKMN project, always built from the outside, takes as a reference what for others is the "third person" of the architecture: the user.
In this third edition there have been registered 2841 works and 991 architects
The jury consisting of Francisco Cabrera, Adriana Cantís (curator). Ricardo Devesa, José María Ezquiaga, Eva Franch, José Morales, Carlos Quintáns, Rogelio Ruiz and Martha Thorne has catalogued 120 works and selected 24 works that show new 'roles' of the young architects with whom they are developing their work, looking for new formats, either through commissions or self-commissioning, new group or collective collaboration formulas, social activism and citizen participation, action urbanism, new media applied to architecture, as well as a new sensibility towards what is built.
In the 2008-2009 II edition, the arquia/next award, consisting of €15,000 has been awarded to the work called Inteligencia Colectiva 2.0 of the ZOOHAUS group. The jury highlighted it as a complete and complex example of NEW FORMATS, especially in its way of working: a group of groups, and in its support: web. A teamwork proposal that develops a networked research and dissemination project, an open and participatory database, based on the analysis and mapping of prototypes and construction details, is highly valued. The realization as a generator of new processes is pointed out, a true transforming format.
In the II edition 2008-2009 of the arquia/next biennial there were registered 1939 realizations and 286 architects. It should be noted that a greater participation has been detected than in the previous call, with really significant figures despite the times when the call was made.
The jury consisting of Carlos Quintans as general curator and by the scientific committee composed of Fernando Diaz Pines, Felix Arranz, Francisco Cifuentes, Santiago Cirugeda, Javier Mozas andRicardo Sanchez Lampreave wanted to show in the 128 catalogued works and in the other 24 that have been chosen those facets in which the young architects are developing their work and the different formulas that have been sought, either through competitions, commissions or self-commissioning and new collaboration formulas and social activism that have appeared with greater intensity in recent years.
In the 2008-2009 III Edition, the arquia/next award, consisting of €15,000 has been awarded to the work called 'Comedor Escolar Tipo' by LA PANADERIA (Rubén Alonso, Eva Morales and David Canavate).
The jury highlighted it as a rigorous project in which the conditions of these school premises are analysed and in which a proposal of minimums is offered with a high dose of sensitivity and good sense, offering hope in the face of the new conditions that society is experiencing
In the 2006-2007 I edition of the arquia/next biennial were registered 769 realizations and 286 architects. The jury formed by Félix Arranz as general curator, Marta Cervelló, Sara de Giles, Patxi Mangado, Carmen Pinós, Emilio Tuñón and the sociologist José Miguel Iribas chose the 128 catalogued projects and the 28 selected projects whose selection criteria were the following:
The 128 catalogued projects sought to be representative of the projects presented, taking into account the area in which they are located, that is, to reflect the diversity of architectural practice and its ways of proceeding from a geographical point of view. The best and greatest achievements were not highlighted, but rather an attempt was made to show a panorama (which by definition is long) of the architecture being produced by architects with less than 10 years of qualifications, always from the point of view of quality.
The 28 selected were awarded for the quality of their achievements, at the level of project, execution and originality.
In the first 2006-2007 edition, the arquia/next award, endowed with €15,000, was awarded to the work called ECO-BOULEVARD IN VALLECAS' EXTENSION, by authors Ecosistema Urbano (Belinda Tato, José Luis Vallejo and Diego García Setién), the jury highlighted the usefulness, usefulness, convenience and benefit of the project, and whose environmental and sustainability criteria underlie all the determinations of the same, as well as social exchange promotion.
