Tonight our guest lecturer and IaaC Founder Vicente Guallart, invited as part of the Fall Lecture Series 2015, inspired the audience with his lecture: The City as a Metropolis of Neighborhoods.

Vicente Guallart is the former chief architect of the city of Barcelona, and founder of Guallart Architects (1993) and the Institute of Advanced Architecture in Catalunya (2001). Guallart is a pioneer of the interaction between nature, technology, urban planning and architecture. Innovative hybrid projects include Sociópolis (Valencia, Spain): a housing project where 1000 year old canals water a hi-tech sociopolis, and Sharing Blocks (Gandia, Spain): A student residence which melds with social housing for senior citizens with a civic and social centre for the town council. He was also the first General Director of Urban Habitat, a new department encompassing the areas of Environment, Infrastructures, Urban Planning, and Information Technologies. Guallart has won numerous awards for his innovative and collaborative work.

In case you couldn’t join us, the video is now available online on IaaC YouTube Channel:

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