Dean’s Lecture Series 2015 – Vicente Guallart



Vicente Guallart
Former Chief Architect, City of Barcelona
‘The self-sufficient city: Envisioning the habitat of the future.’

Tuesday, 13 October 2015
B117 Theatre, Melbourne School of Design

In the final Melbourne School of Design Dean’s Lecture for 2015, Vicente Guallart will outline a blueprint for a world built around cities and their renewed capabilities to become productive again, a vision grounded on a data analysis of cities and their behaviours. Based on the premise of his recently-released book of the same name, the lecture will explore Guallart’s thesis that the self-sufficient city promotes ideas and projects for transforming the urban habitat based on principles of local self-sufficiency and global connectivity.

From connected metropolises, eco neighbourhoods, self-sufficient buildings, and intelligent homes, it is a discussion of future urban habitats in light of the social, cultural and technological changes in which we are currently immersed.

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 SociĂłpolis (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.

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