This article was written by our director Carmen Mendoza-Arroyo and first appeared in Spanish in The Conversation. Crises caused by natural disasters or situations of conflict are always a challenge…
A Conversation with Verónica Sanchez Carrera Verónica Sánchez Carrera is an architect and independent researcher. She has been working with various organizations in the Humanitarian Aid field and is an…
Non-formal housing in El Ermitaño in the Independencia district of Lima/ Peru Kathrin Golda-Pongratz (Augsburg, 1971) is an architect, urban planner, and professor at the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture….
In this guest contribution, our professor Apen Ruiz reflects on the current COVID-19 crisis from a feminist perspective and explains how feminist pedagogies have allowed her to reframe this situation…
This is the main conclusion drawn from a study by the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture on the process of urban reconstruction in the Barcelona neighbourhood of San Cosme since…
In October, guest professor Gonzalo Lizarralde visited to teach the seminar “Unnatural Disasters – Controversies in Low-Cost Housing and Post-Disaster Reconstruction”. During the seminar, our students explored the connections between social injustices,…
This week we welcome our new students for the 2019-20 term. Our new class, as all of our students, have very diverse backgrounds and come from many different countries. As…
Today is World Refugee Day. We are currently witnessing the highest levels of displacement on record with 68.5 million forcibly displaced people worldwide, according to the UNHCR. Among them are…
On 29 May we celebrated the 10th anniversary of our Master of International Cooperation and Emergency Sustainable Architecture. More than 200 students from close to fifty countries around the world have…
Our Master is turning 10 and out of all the amazing moments, memorable events and milestones, we picked a few highlights for you. Our Partners Since starting our Master, the Universitat…
