Keynote Speakers

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ART, ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN
Bologna, Italy, 25-27 June 2014

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Estanislau Roca Blanch

Degree in architecture (1973), PhD (1993) with “Cum Laude” qualification, unanimously. He currently teaches at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona (ETSAB), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain. He is Professor of urban planning and design at the Department of Urbanism and Regional Planning. In 2011 he received the Quality Award in Teaching. He is the author of “Montjuic, the mountain of the city” (1995) and of many other books. He also works as a consultant and urban planner and public space designer for public administrations, mainly in Spain. He won the First prize in the competition for the architectural and urban development of the City of Justice in Barcelona (2002) and l’Hospitalet de Llobregat, awarded with the 2010 RIBA Award and the 2010 World Architecture Festival Award - Civic and community, in collaboration with David Chipperfield and b720 Architecture. Triennial Award for the best research in Science of Architecture “Lluis Domenech i Muntaner” (1996), by the Catalan Studies Institute. Medal of Honor of the international prize “Europa nostra” (1995) for the intervention in the vaults of the Roman circus in Tarragona.

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Miquel Marti

Bachelor with Honours at Sciences Po Paris (1999), Postgraduate Master in Urban Planning and Design at the Polytechnic University of Catalunya (2003), Ph.D. in Urbanism by the Polytechnic University of Catalunya (2004). He is professor at the Department of Urbanism and Urban Planning (DUOT) of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain. Between 2005 and 2009 he was Member of the Educational Board of the European Consortium in Urbanism (constituted by the Technological University of Delft, the Polytechnic University of Catalunya, the Catholic University of Leuven and the University Institute of Architecture in Venice). His research and teaching activities are related to contemporary public and collective space experiences (design, management, policies and significance). He developed his work at Tongji University (Shanghai) and University of Tokyo (February – July 2010), Harvard University. (January / July – August 2004) and Brown University, USA (August 1998 – November 1998).

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Hendrik Tieben

Architect, urban designer, and Associate Professor at the School of Architecture of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He received his architectural education in Germany, Italy and Switzerland. In his doctoral dissertation at ETH Zurich he studied the relationship of architecture, history, memory and identity in context of the German reunification. At CUHK, Professor Tieben teaches urban design, theory and criticism. His research focuses on issues of rapid urbanization, urban regeneration, heritage, and identity. He is a Founding Member and Academic Advisor of the Hong Kong Institute of Urban Design, a registered architect in Germany (AKNW), and has practiced in Europe and Asia. At CUHK, he is the director of the MSc in Urban Design Program. In his current research, Professor Tieben focuses on urban transformation, heritage and identity in Hong Kong and Macau.

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Darko Radović

He is a Professor of Architecture and Urban design at Keio University, and Visiting Professor at United Nations University IAS. He has taught, researched and practised architecture and urbanism in Europe, Australia and Asia, and held senior academic positions at the University of Belgrade, University of Melbourne, University of Tokyo, United Nations University and Keio University (current). His interests are at the intersections between environmental and cultural sustainability, measurable and non-measurable qualities of architectural and urban space, complex interface conditions between public - private realms. Since 2011, at Keio he heads a major international, interdisciplinary research project Measuring the non-Measurable, which focuses at the finest qualitative nuances of spatial experience – at scales ranging from broadest urban to smallest architectural details. He has published in English, Serbo-Croatian, Japanese, Korean and Thai. Darko’s books include “Green City” (2005, Routledge/UNSW Press; with Low, Gleeson, Green); “Urbophilia” (2007, University of Belgrade, PAPS); “Cross-Cultural Urban Design” (2007, Routledge, with Bull, Boontharm, Parin); “Another Tokyo” (2008, University of Tokyo, ichii Shobou); “eco-urbanity” (2009, Routledge); and the “Measuring the non-Measurable” research edition (Tokyo: flick Studio and IKI), including: “small Tokyo” (2011, ed. with Boontharm), “The Split Case: Density, Intensity, Resilience” (2012; ed. with Boontharm, Kuma, Grgić); “Intensities in Ten Cities” (ed., 2013), “Tokyo dérive: In Search of Urban Intensities” (ed., 2013), “Subjectivity in Explorations of the Urban: the Scream, the Shadow and the Mirror” (2014), and “In the Search of Urban Quality” (with Boontharm, 2014).

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Miriam Roure Parera

She is a research fellow at MIT’s Senseable City Lab, an architect interested in the creative application of technology within the built environment. Miriam holds degrees from Harvard University (MArchII) and Cornell University (BArch). In 2009, she joined the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam, where she worked as part of their creative think tank division, on projects that demanded applied architectural thinking, within and beyond built form. At Harvard, she explored the overlaps between design and technology, which led her to intern at Continuum Innovation in 2012 and to organize the first Harvard xDesign Conference in 2013.

Miriam’s work has been published in A+U, FRAME, Harvard Publications, Dezeen, Archinect and other online platforms. She has received several awards including the Goldwin Sans Medal at Cornell, Dean’s List, and Full Scholarship by the Polytechnic University of Catalunya. Miriam has been an architecture guest critic at MIT, BAC, Cornell and Harvard University.