Our director Carmen Mendoza Arroyo speaks at a roundtable discussion ‘Superblocks – Towards a new Urban Model’ Public health has always been one of the major drivers of urban change….
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The Humanitarian Shelter & Settlements workshop is an important component of our Master’s program. The course explores how international agencies respond to displacement crisis for sudden natural disasters and draws…
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…