Participants Pack

We are proud to release the Participants Pack for easa011_deCOASTruction.

The 31st annual European Architecture Students Assembly will be held in Cadiz (Spain) from July 23rd to August 7th, 2011. This document provides the required information for students of architecture interested in taking part in the event.

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PARTICIPANTS PACK (mirror)

APPLICATION FORM (mirror)

If you have any doubts, please don’t hesitate to contact your country’s National Contacts. They will be happy to answer your questions.

EASAday

The easaDAY was a simultaneous event taking place in more than 40 European countries on 28th January, 2011.

The first edition of this event consisted on an informative evening composed of lectures / exhibitions, depending on the country, and a party. In this page you will find some of the pictures taken all around Europe on that evening.

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Tutorpack

We are proud to release the TutorPack for easa011_deCOASTruction.

The 31st annual European Architecture Students Assembly will be held in Cadiz (Spain) from July 23rd to August 7th, 2011. This document provides the required information for students and young professionals alike to propose workshops to be realized during the assembly.

There are sections on Cadiz that cover its history, culture and architectural context, which, although not essential when developing a workshop proposal, we feel will inform a well rounded approach. They provide a basic introduction to the host cities and country, but are by no means a definitive guide. We have attempted to suggest further sources to provide additional information.

The later sections deal directly with workshops and should be considered essential reading for any prospective tutor.

The last section has all the specific dates and information needed to submit proposals.

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deCOASTruction symposium

The symposium carried out in Valencia on Thursday 16th of December tried to give an exhaustive vision of the issue set out for easa011. In this way, five lecturers were invited. Each one from one of the Spanish regions by the Mediterranean arch. The small differences between the problems from one region to another, the different points of view, approaches, and alternatives have offered to the attendees a global vision and sketched out future ways in order to be able to work as architects but with a complete respect for our environment and our coasts. And, however, this brief symposium has been just a short advance of the great brain-storm that easa011 will give us.

The symposium started with Fernando Gaja i Díaz’s intervention. He showed us the reality of “tsunami urbanization” in the Valencian State in the last decades. His intervention, which was analytic and critic, showed several tips and graphics very enlightening. Many of these were just “approaches or reality estimations”. Because as Gaja said: “the Valencian authorities do not provide with these kind of studies”. He continued asking out the most important question for the Valencian urbanism nowadays: “What are we going to do with all that huge amount of empty dwellings? To conclude he insisted in the idea that it is necessary, before trying to give solutions, to know and quantified the problem if we want to be effectives.

The next intervention was Javier Castellano Pulido and Tomás García Píriz one. They presented for the first time their investigation project called: “Predictive architecture. Preventive strategies in the Andalusian coast”. Javier and Tomás offered us with a conceptual vision of the coast problem, first in a global planetary scale, then in a more focus one in Andalusian coast. Their analysis objective is to unravel the own “dynamics” of the elements, which are not natural objects from the coast, to find out later connections with de urban-architectural development. Those elements have not to be necessary a construction, because they showed us the evolution of some agricultural crops during the history as well as the evolution and transformation of some land-art pieces. They finalized with several specific proposals designed for architectural competitions related with the coast. We could see a clear intention to put on practice and formalized all this ideas and investigations in a very visual and attractive way.

Then, Nicola Colannino set out “The Catalan case”. This Italian architect is doing his Doctoral thesis in Catalonia Technical College (UPC), tutored by Josep Roca Cladera, Director of the “Centro de Política del suelo y Valoraciones” of the UPC. His intervention showed us an amazing number of measurements, tips, and graphics take them with the last technological systems in aerial Photogrammetry. This information showed the improvements and advances in urban development measurement techniques, which were missed two lectures before by professor Gaja. Actually it was really interesting to have an external and completely rigorous and objective vision.

After lunch, it was Juan Antonio Sánchez Morales turn with his lecture: “The coast of Murcia, coitus interruptus”. Juan Antonio analyzed without great details the urban evolution and tourism effects in Murcia. After this short introduction, he started the main part of his intervention, he explained in what consists the “urban object” called “Resorts” which are invading not only the coast but all the territory of Murcia. To describe them, he used two promotional videos made by Resort companies themselves, as well as some homemade video made by himself walking through one of this Resorts. We could see less than 5 people in the street in a 1.400.000 m2 complex. There was an interesting debate after this lecture.

Finally, Manuel Cabellos completed the journey with his lecture: “The tourism spring in the Balearic Islands: Tension between destruction and construction”. Mr Manuel showed an exhaustive analysis and exhibition of the urban evolution in the Islands since Antique age till our days. He manifested the clear relationship between urbanism and policy, in fact he told each event as a kind of battle between authorities, promoters and conservative associations in Mallorca. He established that the urban information has to be interpreted in a completely different way if we talk about a continental area or an island complex, because of the claustrophobic feelings in the second one. Also, it was curious to see the completely different urban model between Menorca, much more respectful and rich, and the rest.

easaDAY

The easaDAY is a new incorporation to the list of EASA events taking place in 2011, a Europe-wide event promoting next summer’s assembly: easa011. The event will consist on an exhibition-party taking place in every European country and constitutes the best opportunity to get in touch with your National Contacts, that will answer to all your questions in relation to how to participate in easa011.

The date for the easaDAY will be Friday 28th January 2011 and this website will announce very soon all the places and times where the event will take place in your countries.

INCM010

From 6th until 14th November INCM010 took place in Copenhagen and nearly a hundred members of EASA gathered to discuss about the past and the future of the Network.

Regarding the past, the easa007 organisers attended the meeting and released the final report book with all the information about workshops, lectures and other events that took place in Elefsina in 2007. As well the INCM009 meeting was reviewed by two of its organisers and easa010 results were presented talking about the precedents, the event itself and its legacy.

Future events also had an important presence in the discussions. easa011 was reviewed and some topics were discussed with all the NC network. easa012, after two complete days of discussions, was decided to go to Helsinki. incm011 will be held in Baku, being the first EASA event to take place in Azerbaijan ever.

As well, during the Copenhagen meeting, we attended a series of lectures related to architecture and the host city. This is the list of lecturers:

· Sven Felding, head of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture
· Solveig Nielsen from CPHX
· Birgitte Kortegaard + Marie Blædel from Osram House
· Jes Vagnby, architect of Roskilde Festival
· Kenneth Balfelt, artist
· Rune Boserup from COBE
· Oliver Schulze from Gehl Architects
· Martin Keiding, editor of the monthly magazine Arkitektur.dk
· Søren Nielsen, partner of Vandkunsten

The discussions were very productive and some agreements were made on creating an easanetwork webpage, creating the NC figure for students coming from other continents and other issues.

Having said all this, the easa011 organising team wants to thank the incm010 organisers and everyone involved in the event.

easa011 presentation and deCOASTruction symposium

The easa011 organizers will be making a presentation on the next year’s European Architecture Students Assembly at the ETSAM on 29th October. The presentation is intended to show the attendees what the event will be about and to spread the news among young students interested in getting involved for the event.

As well on 16th December, a symposium organized by EASA Spain will be held at the ETSAV of the Polytechnic University of Valencia. Five lecturers have been invited to present the state of the Spanish Mediterranean coast analyzing it and discussing solutions towards the last decades’ massive construction effect.

easa011 featured in 'Diario de Cadiz'

Diario de Cadiz has recently published a brief article about next summer’s Assembly in Spain. easa011 will constitute one of the major events of the summer of 2011 in Madrid and Cadiz, and will receive a high visibility thanks to the collaboration of public bodies as the ‘Cadiz city council’.

As well, easa011 has recently appeared on a number of Spanish blogs and web pages related to the field of architecture.

Promotional Poster

The new promotional poster is now available to download. Follow the link to get it.

EASA010 Manchester

On the 31st of July 2010 400 of Architecture from 40+ countries around Europe and beyond will converge on Manchester for the 30th Annual European Architecture Students Assembly. easa010 will be the first time since EASA’s creation in Liverpool, in 1981, that an Assembly will be held on these shores.

Following in the footsteps of previous Summer Assemblies easa010 will blend three decades of EASA tradition with innovations and surprises and the Mancunian spirit.

The Assembly, as ever, centres around workshops producing work as investigation of the Assembly’s theme – this year Identity. There will be world class lectures by leading thinkers in fields related to Architecture, design, urbanism and more.

Working closely with civic authorities easa010 will be coming to the people.  Throughout the assembly specially arranged events will allow public access and interaction with the most creative and exciting for-student-by-student event of its kind and scale in the world.  The Assembly culminates in a city wide exhibition of workshop output and public engagement.

How to get involved?

As participant: If you study architecture in any of the Spanish architecture schools, you can participate in the design competition  we have opened. The EASA Spanish team  counts with 20 places and the candidates with the 20 most interesting proposals, will attend EASA010 in Manchester. To find the competition guidelines follow this link.

As tutor: If you are an architecture student or young professional and you are interested in organizing a workshop attended by some of the most brilliant students of architecture from all over Europe, we encourage you to submit a workshop proposal and, in case it is selected, to participate as tutor in EASA010. Follow these links to find the tutorpack, application form and more information.

For any further questions, don’t hesitate to contact us at easaspain@gmail.com